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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What the actual fuck? Supreme Court just threw a stack of dynamite into a crowded theater.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I hope I get a chance to cast a vote for Jon Ossoff.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

American life, c. 2026: This emergency “Areas of Refuge” sign is posted at my *ballet studio.*

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sotomayor: "The one thing that does appear to be clear going forward is that chaos will follow." So much for your M.A. degree in Public Policy and Administration. That field is dead.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I just do not know who he thinks he's appealing to with this shit. is running to the right going great guns in D primaries right now? Analilia Mejia just got seated in the House! Mamdani won NY mayor! Fetterman is less popular among Ds than dogshit!

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We’re living through the final act of America’s First Republic. Trump is hosting this final season of USA Classic, the America we have known.

maryjaneosa.substack.com

America's Ongoing Suicide

Where's that damn light at the end of the tunnel?

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What’s the overlap between the Epstein files and the Panama Papers? 🤔 Asking for a friend…

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I come here every morning with one question on my mind: Is he dead yet? Yet another disappointing day.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Dahlia: The Epstein story is also the template …and the proof text for all that is happening … It is an ongoing road map for an administration …[to show] that they are rich and powerful and famous enough to be above the law, and wishes for the rest of us to ultimately learn and accept that fact.

slate.com

Pam Bondi’s Epstein Testimony Exposed the Whole Game

The Epstein files are related to the rest of the legal chaos we are experiencing.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In the Epstein class, there are two tiers: Those men with real accomplishments provide cover for the shady, endlessly greedy, and carelessly wealthy. But only the top-tier men have real freedom: to follow their desires and pursue grievances with abandon, & without real attachments or allegiances.

maryjaneosa.substack.com

If Jeffrey Epstein were Alive Today

He would go Nazi. And so would his friends.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

America First patriotism is a sham, a camouflage for chameleons whose commitments are to financial gain, social prestige, and power. The billionaires have no real attachments to any homeland or political ideology; Populism and Nationalism are games for them, and they gamble with the house money.

maryjaneosa.substack.com

If Jeffrey Epstein were Alive Today

He would go Nazi. And so would his friends.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Congress is just debating DHS operations *now*???? Nobody remembers how FEMA "underperformed" after it was ingested into DHS when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans? That was 2005. #politics #DHS #sociology

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The Department of Homeland Security Was Always a Bad Idea

DHS was a mess from Day One. Let political hacks hastily reorganize the government in response to a crisis. Sure, why not?

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"A mishmash of old and new, the DHS combined venerable government organizations like the US Coast Guard (1716) and baby orgs like the TSA (2001). But the most volatile unit added to this administrative grab bag was CBP (1924), a collection of cowboys operating under the cover of law." #politics

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The Department of Homeland Security Was Always a Bad Idea

DHS was a mess from Day One. Let political hacks hastily reorganize the government in response to a crisis. Sure, why not?

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Kudos to Ms Martinez & Atty Parente! Every step forward helps

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Why bother invoking the Insurrection Act, when you can occupy Blue cities with your masked, armed & angry paramilitary forces whenever you please? And demonstrate how you act "strongly" with impunity at the same time? Following the law is for sissies. /s

maryjaneosa.substack.com

Revising My Argument

I was wrong to think that the Insurrection Act would be a "red line." Does Trump really care about invoking the Act? Threatening to do so keeps the news cycle focused on him. And ICE is on the ground.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Landlord neglected building maintenance, & tired of tenant complaints, he tipped off DHS to undocumented residents in his building. What an asshole! Noem & Bovino got their social media content and everyone else had their civil rights trampled. Check this out:

chicago.suntimes.com

Building owner OK’d Trump administration’s raid of Chicago apartment complex, court records show

Federal officials claimed the area surrounding the building in South Shore was a hub for Venezuelan gangs, but new arrests reports show it was targeted in the jarring raid because “illegal aliens were...

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Start the day off with a smile 😃

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

WINE MOMS and CHILDLESS CAT LADIES UNITED If someone wants to make t-shirts, I’d buy one

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Without the humanities and social sciences there is no understanding humans and societies. We study &research to advance knowledge, prevent wars, plagues, & exploitation. OR quash humanities & Soc sci: make (avoidable) mistakes at every step, increase human suffering & and shorten life spans.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Chicago stands with our sister Twin Cities to the north. “I can’t help but see myself in Alex Pretti,” said Scott Mechanic, a local intensive care unit nurse. “This is a call to every health care worker, to every union member, to every American”

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Chicago Nurses, Veterans Grow Memorial For Alex Pretti Outside VA Hospital, Rally Against ICE

Chicago hospital workers and union members came together Tuesday after the killing of one of their own: Alex Pretti, an intensive-care nurse at a VA hospital, shot at least 10 times by federal agents ...

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The ICE occupation of Chicago, and now Minneapolis, prompts me to take a trip down memory lane to . . . Warsaw, Krakow, and Lublin in 1982 and 1983, during martial law in Poland. This feels familiar. maryjaneosa.substack.com/p/a-state-of...

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A State of War . . . by any other name

Why does the ICE occupation of Chicago and Minneapolis remind me of martial law in Poland? My trip down memory lane . . .

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I think this seems like something of a tipping point for centrist leaning Ds and for D leaning independents, and possibly for some people who don't pay a lot of attention to politics. there's not really the same level of fracturing on the right there was with, say, Jimmy Kimmel.

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

“There’s 15 ICE agents, and they shot her, like, because she wouldn’t open her car door,” one caller said. (NYT gift link.)

nytimes.com

Emergency Call Transcripts Record a Crisis Unfolding in Real Time

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Why doesn’t ICE violence achieve its goal of frightening people into submission? Why do ordinary citizens resist when the danger is obvious? Social movement scholars have studied this phenomenon. It’s called …

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The Protest-Repression Paradox

Tragedy and Its Discontents

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A courageous artist has decorated the former Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital (across the street from us) that is in the process of demolition.

Building behind a construction fence with two alarmed looking faces spray painted on the 4th story facade

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Gonna forget about state repression for a couple of hours. Affirming my soul

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damnusernametaken.bsky.social @damnusernametaken.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

5 cars I've owned 1972 ford torino country squire w/351 Cleveland 75' chevy luv/mikado mini truck built for canyon racing 72' Lotus Europa built for autocross racing 84' Jeep wagoneer Brougham 78 mazda rx3

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Senator Padilla Walks Out On GOP Lies, Starbucks Workers Form A Blockade Against Corporate Greed, and Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns—Signaling Massive Victories For The Resistance See it all here:

dworkinsubstack.com

Senator Padilla Walks Out On GOP Lies, Starbucks Workers Form A Blockade Against Corporate Greed, and Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns—Signaling Massive Victories For The Resistance

Turning the tide

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

“How do you ask the public to trust that science on infant formula when another part of the agency is being forced to publish false information?” CDC has flatlined. I look to YLE for guidance through the medical misinformation minefield.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

One of CDC’s final blows. And what it means for you.

Where to find trusted health information now?

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Here is an email from my sister: "I just came home from the grocery store, and the cashier in training did not know what a beet was and had to ask her supervisor. Shit you not. But, yeah, let's worry about DEI in schools."

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Maryjane Osa @mjosaphd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Does this mean Chicagoans with whistles beat ICE thugs with guns? My guess is a combo: ICE is relentlessly tracked & abuses documented by the citizenry + they realized they’d lose in Appeals court so Judge Ellis’ order restricting teargas & requiring insignia would be enforced We The People win

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