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Mary Pezzulo

@marypezzulo.bsky.social
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I write about the Gospel, politics, gardening, Christianity, spiritual abuse, neurodivergence and social justice. 🏳️‍🌈

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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 4h
So let me get this straight. If people are drinking at a party and one of them drunkenly gets in his car and runs over an incapacitated partygoer, it's vehicular homicide. But if they're drinking and one of them rapes an incapacitated partygoer, oh hey, he was drinking so it wasn't his fault?
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 4h
Another way I know that Jimmy's boy has been by for a visit, besides the Where's Waldo of the WD-40, is that I keep finding random objects wrapped up with duct tape like mummies. He likes to wrap things in duct tape while Adrienne reads to him.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 4h
Me: get the the WD-40 from under the coffee table and put it back in the drawer so people don't think we're hillbillies. Adrienne: But I'm young! I have to preserve my youthfulness by not doing menial tasks!
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 4h
Attention Ohio! You have until TUESDAY to register to vote! Tuesday! substack.com/@marypezzulo...
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An Important Reminder for my Ohio Readers
(And the rest of you can play along too)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Endless corruption.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h
Diplomacy for private profit: More corruption in plain view. The Kushner/Witkoff talks with Russia nominally about ending the war in Ukraine are actually about a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives linked to Kushner and Witkoff. The deal, which is
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9h
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10h
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 10h
10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 10h
Toledoans are tired of paying more because Washington is caught up in corruption and expensive foreign wars.   They want a leader who will be a voice for hardworking Ohioans – I’m in this fight for them.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 22h
Loooooooong line out the door for tonight’s sold-out event with Heather Cox Richardson, me, and 700+ Iowans.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you, uh, Bill Kristol.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 21h
The flag of the Great State of GOOD LORD, VIRGINIA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? One of the twins from the New Jersey and New York flags has lost her mind and stabbed the king in the middle of his drag performance! She didn’t even finish putting her dress on first!
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Just for Fun, Let’s Roast the State Flags (Part Five)
Virginia goes off the deep end, Wisconsin is adorable, and boy howdy I play way too many video games.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year, the after school geography club had the grumpy third and fourth graders, and that was okay. Today, I had the first and second graders who were cute as buttons and danced along with the dance demonstration. This is gonna be a FANTASTIC year!
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do not understand the pro-death-penalty fanatics. Not the people who say "unfortunately it's unrealistic that we should never execute anyone," who are wrong but I see were they're coming from. The ones who are ANGRY and OFFENDED that someone they don't know may not be executed.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The flag of the Great State, excuse me I mean the COMMONWEALTH, of Pennsylvania, portrays the three things that everyone thinks of first when I say the name “Pennsylvania:” eagles, angry horses, and a boat sailing past an abandoned sled.
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Just For Fun, Let’s Roast the State Flags (part four)
Video games, burgees, and the return of those twins from New Jersey. Oh my!
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"May God smite me with that curse! And may I never recover!"
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's an alternate universe where Donald Trump had loving and supportive parents and grew up to be a silly, moderately well-to-do landlord with a pleasant husband and none of this ever happened.
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SOME D*MN RANDO @mcprando.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm from Missouri & I approve this message.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That fun eccentric Catholic antique and secondhand bric-a-brac shop downtown has a guillotine. It's a life-sized prop guillotine from a short film somebody made in Steubenville about the Martyrs of Compiègne. It's not for sale, it's just on display. It's... well, it's something.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I had the fleeting thought that maybe the reason why his foundation never matches the rest of his hand, is he complains about the bruising and Natalie Harp takes out her own makeup bag and paints some of her own foundation on it.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Adrienne just came in and said "I like how [jimmy's boy] and the little girl across the street are playing tennis while riding on scooters."
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The flag of the Great State of Missouri has bears on it, and that goes a long way in my book. They are not the fierce grumpy bear of the California flag. They are portly and plump bears, peaceably sharing the yellow belt. The Michigan moose could learn from them...
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Just for Fun, Let’s Roast the State Flags (part 3)
I don’t know why so many of these flags are blue...
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And if there's another thing I've learned: intellect is a tricky thing. It's entirely possible to be really clever and savvy with computers and a total goober in every other way.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: when a billionaire techbro confidently asserts "this is the future, this new technology will fundamentally change our lives in XYZ way, it's gonna be awesome," it's no the future, it's not going to be XYZ, and it's not awesome.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 30/09/2026
The US Senate on Wednesday appeared set to block legislation requiring state utility regulators to consider whether data centers and other large electricity users should bear the incremental costs of power infrastructure built to serve them, as voting continued.
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US Senate set to block bill to address data center costs
The ​US Senate ‌on Wednesday appeared set ​to block legislation ​requiring state utility ⁠regulators ​to consider whether ​data centers and other large ​electricity ​users should bear ‌the ⁠incremental costs of power infrastructure ​built ​to ⁠serve them, ​as voting ​continued.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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KittyAKAJody @kittywestmeow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us tomorrow for our regular drop that, apparently, coincides with my birthday. Happy to spend it with my friends and some early a.m. activism! @indivisiblewestsidela.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @bocksam.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social #VoteEarly
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West LA Freeway Brigade · Indivisible Westside Los Angeles
Come join local activists from Indivisible Westside LA as we give commuters the morning anti-fascism boost they need! Remind our fellow Angelenos that we're standing up against this out-of-control reg...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "I'm thrilled to welcome you to the great White House, where I spend a lot of time fixing it and making it better. It was falling down. I refuse to say the White House was a dump, but it was in bad shape."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Three more tankers were just struck in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s Iran war drags on. Now a Republican senator in a battleground seat who voted against pulling U.S. forces out is trying to explain away his vote.
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Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote
As fuel costs climbed and commercial ships again came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted blamed Iran, Russia, and congressional Democrats after voting against an order to pull U....
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Agatha Frame @agathaframe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins' out-of-state PAC is spending big bucks to buy her another six years to do the oligarchs' bidding. Posting this convo between @troyjackson207.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social, with the good people here at Bluesky at my big sis's request. www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...
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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour
YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now that phase one of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity & brevity. Here’s Tulsa’s Black Wall Street.
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Black Wall Street, Narrated by Kahlil Greene
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30, 2026
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations, conservative Catholics! Dudebro hates you and he's in charge now.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you owe a woman 5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 01/10/2026
10/1 Absentee ballots are on their way to the 64,000 Maine voters who requested them, and early in-person voting starts in Maine on Monday #maine #MEpolitics
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In which Politico asks the obvious question: is Bridge Colby actually a Russian stooge? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said he regretted nominating three Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, .. according to a Time Magazine interview. ".. What can I do? .. I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often."
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
5 million people, including an estimated 1 million children, have lost access to food because of Trump. Instead of a ballroom, an arch, or a war, we could be making sure people don’t go hungry. 

This President’s priorities are shameful.
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Changes to SNAP benefits begin Oct. 1 for millions of Americans: What to know
Major changes are coming on Oct. 1 for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food assistance.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Ahead of a pivotal midterm election defined by concerns around surging rent and gas prices, student debt is emerging as an affordability issue some voters say is being overlooked.
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Soaring Student Loan Bills Add to Voters’ Affordability Squeeze
More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Drop Site: LAT is running a paid Israeli government tourism campaign featuring a map that completely erases the occupied Palestinian Territories. The sponsored content, labeled "Paid Program" and produced by the paper's branded content arm, LA Times Studios, is titled "Israel: Land of Creation,"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Enten: "Congratulations to Ken Paxton. You are the least popular Texas Senate GOP nominee this century. No one was even in the negative, and you're at -16."
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’ve announced our largest investment yet to fight child poverty through ENOUGH Initiative grants Every state dollar has leveraged four more from state agencies and philanthropic partners, with over $360 million deployed so far to lift up Maryland's kids – and we're not slowing down.
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UPDATE: $32M to fight child poverty in Md. announced by Gov. Moore at Frederick park
At Hill Street Park in Frederick, Gov. Wes Moore announced $32 million for fighting child poverty in 13 counties across Maryland on Wednesday.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, by far the state’s largest provider of privatized Medicare plans, is ending all but one of its existing options, which are used primarily by seniors.
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Blue Cross and other insurers eliminate Medicare plans for 320K Minnesotans
HealthPartners, Medica and UnitedHealthcare also overhauling their plans for 2027 amid a tumultuous Medicare Advantage market.
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