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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her)

@mecm.bsky.social
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Content design/strategy, information architecture. Feminist. #BlackLivesMatter. #Baltimore. Civic tech, #a11y, vintage stuff, powerlifting. Kinda salty.

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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
jfc, no, you should not show up at an in-person job interview with iced coffee! And, no, it's not even really about performative corporate bs social norms. You don't show up with iced coffee at a job interview for the same reasons you don't show up with a beverage at a wedding or a funeral.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hell - I've known for years that fascists take over (and take credit for the smooth function of) systems built by the liberal democracies that spawn them before driving them into the ground. I never considered that the GOP is, ultimately, also one of those systems.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just as a note—ICE was showing up at schools in Maryland this week for the first couple of days of school.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Well, like all part-time vintage/antique sellers, when I determined that I had a day to myself today, it seemed like a good time for sourcing, despite the fact that I have plenty of items to list already. First up, an estate sale near home where everything was ancient.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/07/2026
Peculiar reporter’s notebook detail: I reached out to a lot — like, a LOT — of evangelical professors/scholars for this piece. Southern Baptist seminaries, evangelical schools, etc. Few responded. Almost none wanted to talk about interpretations of Matthew 25 — which wasn’t true of other scholars.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I want to believe in the power of Etsy witches, but logic dictates that if they were really effective, the top google search would be "why did my dick fall off?"
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hi peeps, back on my vintage selling bullshit. I have a piece here that I could do a significantly better deal on if someone was able to pick it up from me locally or even if you wanted delivery within about 50 miles of my home in Baltimore. marycmvintage.etsy.com/listing/4528...
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tech worker waving hands wildly here: Even if the abundant problems we know about AI tools and these companies in particular weren't true, we would STILL have abundant evidence of the fact that tech companies not only don't tell us how their products work, but actively LIE about it.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.
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Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24: an analysis of population-based mortality data
Our findings provide the first robust national-level evidence, albeit observational, that high HPV vaccination coverage is associated with a substantial reduction in cervical cancer deaths. This is sh...
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Folks, most of the new followers you get on here are going to be bot accounts--even if you don't follow back, you should block them. Passively allowing them tells your algorithm that this is the type of follower you want and it will send more your way.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We had professional photos taken of Grant Beagle by Tina with Barkyard Studios here in Baltimore. These are the images we decided we wanted prints of and they perfectly reflect our little old man’s personality.
Grant Beagle with his nose to the ground tracking a good scentGrant Beagle facing the camera with a happy expression and his tongue outGrant Beagle staring intently at the camera with his head cocked with curiosity
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Please pay attention to this--the rest of us may be subjected to it soon.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/06/2026
The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#Baltimore folks: I will be bringing my vintage business to a flea market at the Catonsville Senior Center this Saturday, May 16, 9-1 It won’t all be strictly vintage but you can consider it all retro flavored. Some examples of what I will have:
A box showing different pieces of porcelain, including small blue and white teapots and a plate with berries on it
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My god, will clothing brands PLEASE stop forcing me to do your little sizing wizard and give me a size chart. I am curvy, pear shaped and muscular. Your little wizard is not going to be accurate based on just my height, weight, age and your general photo of my body type. But, I know my measurements.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We need a Carrie Nation for white collar corruption.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 13/03/2026
Reposting this 🧵 because it’s clear that if one sale is canceled or denied, ICE will pivot and search for an alternative. Keep vigilant.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: 
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. 
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. 
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. 
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 05/03/2026
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
And, you know, if you work for a known evil company or have ever used the excuse "no ethical consumption under capitalism" to make a wasteful purchase or to not spend a little more money to buy locally, maybe you should not be weighing in on what the average army grunt should be doing.
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World IA Day Philadelphia @wiadphilly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
For WIAD Philadelphia, @mecm.bsky.social will illustrate how an IA project can help deeply siloed organizations clarify and align priorities. She'll take us through a case study with the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. www.eventbrite.com/e/world-ia-d...
The graphic is a flyer for World IA Day Philadelphia. It says Meet our speakers. Mary Carroll-Mason, Sr. Content Strategist, Publicis Sapient. The talk title is Action Expresses Priorities: Information Architecture as an expression of organizational priorities. The event will be on March 7th, 2026 at Think Company, 1315 Walnut St. 2nd Floor. Tickets available on Eventbrite. There is a small professional headshot of Mary, she has red glasses and it smiling widely at the camera.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!
Table of Contents 

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ….. 3

STATEMENT OF INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE …. 1

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT.… 3

ARGUMENT….. 4

I. WESTERN TRADITION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SUPPORT BIRTHRIGHT
CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE IT RECOGNIZES THE EQUAL DIGNITY OF EVERY HUMAN PERSON …. 4 

A. To Dismantle The Principle Of Birthright Citizenship Would Undermine Both The Legal And Moral Foundations of American Society …. 4

B. Birthright Citizenship Is Consistent With The Church's Fundamental Teaching Regarding Every Human Person's Inherent Dignity …. 7

C. Birthright Citizenship Is Consistent With The Catholic Teaching Of Subsidiarity …. 9

II. THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IS IMMORAL …. 12

A. Ending Birthright Citizenship Denies The Innate Dignity And Freedom Of The Person …. 12

B. Ending Birthright Citizenship Inflicts Harm On Vulnerable People …. 13

C. Ending Birthright Citizenship Weakens and Threatens The Family …. 17

CONCLUSION …. 19
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
oh, hey, everyone, I'm gonna be speaking at World IA Day in Philadelphia in a few weeks and registration is open now! If you want a preview of my talk, the BlueSky Plain Language version is: How IA Decisions Helped a Super Siloed Division of a Federal Research Agency Figure Out Who They Are...
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The corrupt high priest. It is all very biblical, is it not?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/02/2026
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
you can help stock some Minneapolis street medics treating folks injured at protests
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
while I think this is 50-50 possible to be just a bad faith way to try to counter the reporting, I absolutely encounter this IRL--folks who refuse to believe a verifiable fact because it is counter to whatever their AI says, and treating the AI like it is a source itself.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
the real lesson to take away from this is that this administration will back down with pushback--so don't roll over. Make noise, find allies. Not a single thing they do is actually "popular" in the specifics. Make them have to actively defend every inch.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
yeah, this seems like I would have guessed. glad there's data!
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Maybe it's silly of me but it has been genuinely surprising to me to see how morally vacuous and cowardly, as well as servile, the average conservative seems to actually be, despite their big talk.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This whole thing is amazing but this part really sings.
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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is what you get when large numbers of people are indoctrinated (including at their churches) with authoritarianism. There’s no moral center, only what avoids punishment and is beneficial for self. It sabotages the development of any mature moral reasoning.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
jaderemedy • 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Republicans are in favor of having a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government unless you have a gun to defend yourself from a tyrannical government
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
solidarity forever
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23/01/2026
Arresting clergy at a protest is the regime taking the bait
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
they are weak. finish them
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/01/2026
i don't want the unpopular geriatric rapist criminal president to start world war 3
that annoying standing up guy meme. yeah from the famous drawing. i don't even care anymore
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Mary Carroll-Mason (she/her) @mecm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
So this is an unusual thing in case someone has a Lenox Spice Village collector in their life and hasn’t yet bought a holiday gift. I have a set of 7 of the 1992 coffee mugs from that collection now available on my Etsy account, on sale through tomorrow. www.etsy.com/listing/4424...
7 Lenox Spice Village porcelain coffee mugs in various colors
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/12/2025
I reiterate: any design thing by Trump (or Big Balls) is just ripping down something that previously worked and replacing it with something less accessible to Americans (and thus illegal under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act)
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/12/2025
This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
A tweet from Big Balls, linking to techforce.gov reads: Our first website using the new America Design System! Building a framework for beautiful, performant, secure and inexpensive websites to be very easy to build in Government.
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