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Marianne O'Connor

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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23h
Mike Rogers Invested In Rent Hikes. Now He’s Running For Senate.
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Mike Rogers Invested In Rent Hikes. Now He’s Running For Senate.
The GOP Senate candidate holds up to $250,000 in Blackstone’s real estate trust while pitching an affordable-housing plan built around tax breaks for developers.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23h
What Would An El-Sayed Win Mean For American Zionism?
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What Would An El-Sayed Win Mean For American Zionism?
Pro-Israel Democrats oppose the Michigan Democrat’s views, yes. But they also fear his election would make them politically irrelevant.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Let Them Eat Cake (stop the charity to the top 1%)
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Let Them Eat Cake
“Let them eat cake.”
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sometimes the Lions and the Tigers need help from the Bears! 
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Republicans Have a Plan for Winning Elections: Make Voters Dumber It is a war on the Enlightenment itself.
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The Republicans Have a Plan for Winning Elections: Make Voters Dumber
The Republicans have a plan.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Using your local ballot drop box is best if you can swing it.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Using your local ballot drop box is best if you can swing it.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Short History of Protest
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A Short History of Protest
With Annie Leonard
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My Montreal niece, Désirée McGraw, wins reelection to the Quebec provincial assembly in a landslide. As a Liberal, she is still part of the opposition government but doing her part!
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Desiree McGraw wins her riding
YouTube video by TheSuburbanvideo
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why Californians Want a Billionaire Tax (but May Not Get One) Progressives take note.
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Why Californians Want a Billionaire Tax (but May Not Get One)
The Lesson here?
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some words of wisdom from our fearless leader at Indivisible Metro Detroit: NO on the Con-Con (constitutional convention); YES on Money Out of Politics, prop 2. And more!
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Rot at the Top
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The Rot at the Top
The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026
Doctors have been pleading with the FAA to modernize the mandated contents of emergency medical kits, whose requirements haven’t changed in more than two decades. But the FAA’s new proposal has left many in the medical community and some lawmakers stunned.
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A push to update airplane medical kits takes a surprise turn
Doctors asked for modern tools like EpiPens to be required. But the FAA’s proposal ignores an expert panel and instead aims to give airlines “flexibility.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/10/2026
We are LIVE with a Hands Off Our Vote special event in NYC, tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHa...
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Hands Off Our Vote: How We Can Protect Our Elections
YouTube video by Indivisible
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The emergence of shareholder capitalism
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The emergence of shareholder capitalism
Friends,
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do you plan to vote absentee, early in person or on voting day at the Michigan Midterm Election? Are you registered to vote? Need an absentee ballot? Want to volunteer? Has your polling place changed? It’s all at mi.gov/vote  @votingaccessforall.bsky.social @notpoliticians.bsky.social
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Voting early in the Midterm 2026 allows time to correct a ballot signature mismatch, postal delays (best to use your city’s drop box) and long waits on Nov 3. Make sure your registered, request a ballot and more at mi.gov/vote #voteearly #midterm2026 @votingaccessforall @notpoliticians.bsky.social
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
democracydocket.com
A few noncitizen votes are a scandal. But thousands of rejected ballots are business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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'Medicine to the Land': How Regenerative Agriculture Might Help Avert Disaster - Consumer Reports
As a concept, regenerative farming describes a better way of growing food. But seeing the term on a label is no guarantee.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goals Eat Guardrails for Breakfast
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Goals Eat Guardrails for Breakfast
How we should use this freakout moment over AI safety
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't lift up these two scholars enough. Robert Reich with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: "End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World"
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In Conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
And their new book “End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World”
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s hard to fathom.
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Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
YouTube video by politizane
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you prefer to vote in your living room? Early, in person? On Election Day? It doesn’t matter how you vote. Only that you do. Register to vote, order an absentee ballot and find polling location(s) at mi.gov/vote. #MichiganElections #BeAVoter #Indivisible.org #VAAC @notpoliticians.bsky.social
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bernie sums it up pretty well.
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Bernie Sanders: “People Are Sick and Tired of the Status Quo. People Want Change.”
Exclusive: Read the text of a major foreign-policy address delivered by the independent senator at Riverside Church.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am BACK! Let’s DO THIS!
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I am BACK! Let’s DO THIS!
Six Weeks to the Mid-Terms
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What to plan for in the U.S. if you’re a foreign leader?
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What to plan for in the U.S. if you’re a foreign leader?
Here’s what I’m hearing
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excited to be headed to Detroit on Sunday.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Phillippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"You're playing Russian roulette on whether they think you're Haitian or Venezuelan." Rev. Al Sharpton on why Vote Safe is putting trained veterans, clergy and neighbors at the polls in GA, MI, NC and OH. No voter should have to prove they belong.
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Celebrating new Taylor music? Don’t mind if we do. (But seriously, COVID-19 cases are up, go ahead and get that vax). #vaccines #TaylorSwift #PatientZero
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Chicago helps Detroit!
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Turning MI Blue, Part 1
YouTube video by Jim Czuprynski
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The First American Bill to Ban Superintelligent AI Is Here
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The First American Bill to Ban Superintelligent AI Is Here
Today, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act in Congress: the first American bill to propose banning the developmen...
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Michigan, Choose Your Own Voting Adventure
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Michigan, Choose Your Own Voting Adventure
Mail it. Drop it. Vote early. Show up on Election Day. Michigan gives you options, choose your fighter.
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Without a valid ID, it’s hard for the formerly incarcerated to get an apartment, a job or medical help – making it easier for them to return to prison. SB 603 ensures they leave with a proper ID. Urge your Michigan senator to approve this empowering bill. #Indivisible.org #VAAC
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Students, join Bernie & Abdul @6:15 pm on Zoom
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Students for Abdul with Bernie Sanders and Abdul El-Sayed. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Bernie and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and help launch Students for Abdul, the student movement to send Abdul to the U.S. Senate
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are over 120K Flock cameras surveying us in the US right now. If you want to fight back against the state of mass ALPR surveillance please sign up for the ACLU’s excellent “Get the Flock Out” toolkit! Because mass surveillance doesn’t make us safe—investing in our communities does!
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 More Than 25,000 People Were Sent to Third Countries Reuters reports more than 25,000 migrants have been removed to countries that are not their own since 2025. Now a federal appeals court says the policy violated due-process protections. www.reuters.com/world/us-ap... #HumanRights
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
"They sent me a paper that said I got first- and second-stage black lung. That ought to be enough, or do you have to be dead?”
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Sickened coal miners plead for their black lung benefits as cases surge
"Do you have to be dead?"
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
As Trump administration officials are attempting to deport 1 million people a year, ICE is erasing immigrants with deportation orders from an online database, leaving families and lawyers in the dark as they try to find out where someone has been taken. wapo.st/3VogfME
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez is the third DoorDash driver known to have been shot by ICE, but the company has remained silent — and complicit. Delete your DoorDash app and account until they take decisive action to protect their drivers from ICE.
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Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on ICE raids, H.R. 9720, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Joy Ann tells it like it is!
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Waj and Joy Ann Reid Piss Off Everybody
A recording from Joy-Ann Reid and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Harris and Nessel Back Abdul El-Sayed as Michigan Democrats Close Ranks We need the vote to be "too big to rig."
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Harris and Nessel Back Abdul El-Sayed as Michigan Democrats Close Ranks
Harris in Detroit. Nessel on the record. A notable day in Michigan politics.
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A prayer!!
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The 10 Commandments (for Cleaning Up After Trump)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s hard to rebuild your life after you’ve been incarcerated. Senate Bill 603 makes it easier by ensuring the incarcerated receive a valid ID before they’re released. A current ID is critical to getting a job, housing and more. Urge your state senator to approve this bill. #Indivisible.org #VAAC
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Evil is Rampant in the World. . .And America May Actually Be the Answer
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Evil is Rampant in the World. . .And America May Actually Be the Answer
“Evil” is not a word you often see or hear in the legacy media.
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Indivisible Metro Detroit @indivisiblemetrod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People should be counted in the district they live in. SB 537 would count incarcerated people at their prison address, not their home address, allowing redistricting to weaken their community. Urge your Michigan senator to vote NO on this unfair bill. #Indivisible.org #VAAC
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Marianne O'Connor @mfoconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Trump Dividend Checks Have Already Gone Out. Just Not to You.
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The Trump Dividend Checks Have Already Gone Out. Just Not to You.
Here are some things to remember while you’re waiting for that $5,000 the president is promising.
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