Sign in

Mary Nasca

@mnasca.bsky.social
2.7K followers 916 following 9.8K posts

She/her Believes that people should have autonomy over their bodies. Believes in social justice, equality & equity for all. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Believes no one should be disappeared to a foreign country or concentration camp.

PostsRepliesMedia
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 4h
Google: I wonder what mind-altering drugs are given to a patient in a coma on life support. 🤔
Types of Medications Given on Life
Support
• Vasopressors: These are intravenous (IV)
drugs-such as norepinephrine or dopamine-used as a form of cardiovascular life support to artificially raise and maintain safe blood pressure.
LHSC +2
• Sedatives and Analgesics: Drugs like propofol, midazolam, or fentanyl keep patients comfortable, suppress pain, or induce a medically managed coma so they can tolerate mechanical ventilation tubes.
ICUsteps
• Paralytics: Neuromuscular blocking agents are sometimes used short-term to completely stop muscle movement, allowing the ventilator to fully control breathing during severe respiratory distress.
• Comfort and Palliative Medications: If life support is withdrawn for end-of-life care, medications like morphine (for pain and breathlessness) and lorazepam (for anxiety) are given to ensure the patient remains peaceful and pain-free.
www.mariecurie.org....
000
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 5h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike
At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’
0129
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h
"editorial independence": if everyone thought freely they'd agree with me, you're free to do so too "don't politicize": my views are normal, so taking a different view is being political, don't do that "intellectual diversity": censor ideas I dislike, lower your standards to promote ideas I like
211731
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h
Martín Soto spent more than eight months in ICE detention after helping organize the Delaney Hall hunger strike — and last night, he finally walked free. Today at 11 am, we’ll talk about what his release teaches us about the power of sustained community organizing, youtube.com/live/0p1sXFH...
youtube.com
ICE Held Him for 8 Months. Last Night, Martín Soto Walked Free.
👉 HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE ACTIVIST IN 2027, our new workshop coming ...
14812
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 8h
Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
citizen.org
Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen
5209119
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h
Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:
arstechnica.com
Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
1222574
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
49566832473
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 6h
I'm joining @meeks.house.gov in Queens for a shadow hearing focused on how House Democrats are fighting to protect our democracy. Watch live:
youtube.com
Shadow Hearing: Queens, NY – Election Security and Voting Rights
YouTube video by Rep. Joe Morelle
06218
Reposted by Mary Nasca
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 6h
"Jose" is working in Delano CA. "My partner and I are loading the boxes of grapes that the workers have already picked on to the truck. My hands hurt a lot from lifting so many boxes onto the truck all day. We have to load them quickly because so many are coming in." #WeFeedYou
Swampers stocking grapes that were freshly picked onto the truck
17541142
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5h
2 in 3 Americans support Medicare for All, according to a new KFF poll. The American people are tired of our broken, for-profit healthcare system. Every American deserves a guaranteed insurance card from birth till death as a human right.
109226
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5h
"Actual reproductive capacities are a meaningful, personal issue… What reproductive capacities your body was 'designed' to have is meaningless metaphysics leveraged for socially conservative ends. It is one thing to discuss gametes, and it is another to define personhood by them."
liberalcurrents.com
Concede Nothing
Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.
0307
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5h
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
38783339
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h
Do you know what's more dangerous than an
undocumented immigrant in America who gets up at 4am to go to work?
A sitting president who casually mentions we should just let a foreign power obliterate two
American cities filled with millions of people all because he doesn't like how they tend to vote.
11885294
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h
14 years of GOP presidents & 12 of unified GOP Congress in the 21st century. Not once did we get masthead editorials like 👇, let alone op-eds, Substacks, podcasts & Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias & co. about how The Republicans must do an Abundance of Popularism, let alone basic competent government.
16217
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
nytimes.com
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools
When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.
69135
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 4h
This is specifically about trans kids, but IMO applies to all kids: bsky.app/profile/catv...
0222
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
252854751
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 5h
today, the fuel clock for diesel hit $50 billion- businesses and consumers have since March spent $50 billion more on diesel compared to the same time last year. adding gasoline's $78.46 billion, the tally is $128.6 billion more spent on fuel vs a year ago.
516079
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 5h
I still haven’t gotten over this cruel and inhumane “shadow docket” ruling from last week. How many people will be removed to a third country or die by the time SCOTUS rules on this case? @sifill.bsky.social sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
The gratuitous cruelty of this order cannot possibly be regarded as anything even vaguely adjacent to any sane notion of justice.
Imagine living in the U.S. since you were a child for 30 or 40 years. From one day to the next you are picked up by ICE (perhaps pursuant to a ""Kavanaugh stop." After months in a detention facility you are loaded on a plane and dropped off in a country on a continent you have never even visited before.
The population there speaks a different language. You know no one in this new country. You have no passport so you cannot travel to any other country. You cannot return to the United States, where your father, your wife, your children, your friends reside. You have no money. No documents. No phone.
If you are a deportee with a criminal record in the U.S., even if you have served your full sentence, you may be transported immediately to a maximum-security prison in this new country, with no hope of release.
000
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19h
If a guard yanks clothes off a trans woman–to satisfy his curiosity or to mock her–cis women are in danger too. I'm cis. I was misgendered most of my life. In public bathrooms, women screamed for cops. I was almost fag-bashed twice. Abusing any woman opens that door. We're all in this together.
420065
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h
I witnessed the Pinochet regime’s fall. It offers hope – and a warning – for the US | Ariel Dorfman
theguardian.com
I witnessed the Pinochet regime’s fall. It offers hope – and a warning – for the US | Ariel Dorfman
November’s midterms bring parallels with a moment in October 1988. But Pinochet’s exit wasn’t the end of his influence
07130
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h
Foreclosures are climbing: the number of homes repossessed surged 42% from a year ago. Lenders repossessed 5,794 properties out of 40,277 foreclosure filings in August. That’s up 22% from July and 42% from August 2025. www.attomdata.com/news/market-...
20220541155
Reposted by Mary Nasca
FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New York City just had its safest first 9 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 19.8%, and major crime overall is down nearly 7%.
611926
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
1131442627
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
261218404
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 5h
You are naive. This has been going on since women were admitted to formerly male colleges and universities. bsky.app/profile/mnas...
000
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h
It‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy.
281130245
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h
Dream team
312435
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19h
Deeply Distressed US Loans Rise to Highest Level Since Pandemic, JPMorgan Says www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Deeply Distressed US Loans Rise to Highest Level Since Pandemic, JPMorgan Says
The deeply distressed tail of the leveraged loan universe has grown to levels not seen since the beginning of the pandemic, with technology the single biggest sector under pressure.
922864
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19h
I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.
272077504
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
motherjones.com
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
60577402
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 19h
Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.
47436
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/10/2026
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
democracynow.org
Ebola Death Toll in DRC Tops 4,000; Trump USAID Cuts Fuel Outbreak
We go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the site of the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Health authorities believe the outbreak first began in January but was not detected until May,...
18755
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 23h
This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.
57875457
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 6h
Especially in light of the fact that one of Vought's daughters from his first marriage has cystic fibrosis. "“We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Mary Vought wrote in her 2021 post." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
010
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 06/10/2026
International Observers from OSCE have been invited to see our elections for more than 20 years -- and allowed us to demonstrate to the world our free and fair elections. Why does the Trump Administration not want the world to see how we vote in America? #holdfast #corruption
9238116
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 6h
You said it was no different. I agree that both are money-grabbing schemes. But there is a great difference when that money is being used to direct policy, which is happening with Trump.
100
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
The WHCA "handed Trump the ability to name his own propagandists as the deputized representatives for the entire American media. This isn’t state control of the media, exactly. But you can see Pravda and Sputnik from the front porch."
lnk.thebulwark.com
The Propagandist in the Press Pool
From “covering” Trump to covering FOR Trump.
212123
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h
Police routinely failing to investigate ‘revenge porn’ reports, research shows
theguardian.com
Police routinely failing to investigate ‘revenge porn’ reports, research shows
Lawyers launch super-complaint after gathering evidence suggesting officers frequently dismiss image-based abuse Police forces are routinely failing to investigate complaints about the circulation of image-based abuse, previously known as “revenge pornography”, according to research that has triggered a super-complaint over the way such crimes are handled. Lawyers have gathered evidence from 100 people who reported intimate images being shared online without their consent. Their research suggests that image-based abuse is still frequently dismissed or not recognised as criminal offending, despite being described by the former prime minister Keir Starmer as a national emergency. Continue reading...
710235
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11h
20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.
11466128
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h
It’s notable how many anti-trans activists who claim their actions are motivated by a desire to “protect women,” are currently attacking Jane Doe and defending the men who she says assaulted her. It’s almost like “protecting women” never had anything to do with it.
9624106
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
3992258
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
In honor of Banned Books Week, a reminder that Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges called book banning an excuse to "cover up history": "History is sacred—that none of us should have the right to change or alter history in any way.”
motherjones.com
Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as "ridiculous" attempts to "cover up history"
"The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it's happening in the world."
322072
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h
I was tortured because I’m a Somali woman who dared to speak out | Sadia Moalim Ali
theguardian.com
I was tortured because I’m a Somali woman who dared to speak out | Sadia Moalim Ali
I was sentenced to three years in jail for insulting government institutions. Now I am free, I will carry on fighting for the women I met in prison, writes Sadia Moalim Ali
23417
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 10h
Russia is pursuing a deliberate strategy of terror. Trying to make daily life impossible for Ukrainians who want to live in peace. To protect people and infrastructure, Europe is stepping up. Others must step up their support too. link.europa.eu/wVRbcN
1726369
Reposted by Mary Nasca
The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h
A ‘Godzilla-level’ El Niño is causing extreme weather conditions around the world – put your questions to our environment writers
theguardian.com
A ‘Godzilla-level’ El Niño is causing extreme weather conditions around the world – put your questions to our environment writers
Guardian journalists Jonathan Watts and Gabrielle Canon will be online from 4pm BST (11am EDT) today to answer your El Niño questions.
53116
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10h
A must see! This is catchy! Pennsylvania has recorded 1000 measles cases+deaths RFK Jr spreads misinformation on vaccines. This is a pivotal time in our country. If our votes didn’t matter, they wouldn’t work so hard to intimidate us. “Time for the Midterms” youtu.be/ayWiE_gL9mU #pinks
youtu.be
2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
716489
Reposted by Mary Nasca
NPR @npr.org · 10h
Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is. n.pr/4j8TVAE
n.pr
'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills
Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.
5138469
Mary Nasca @mnasca.bsky.social · 8h
Let it be the first of many. celestemdavis.substack.com/p/im-so-sorr...
celestemdavis.substack.com
I’m so sorry, but none of your solutions for fraternity reform are going to work
Fraternities are not failing at their purpose; they are succeeding perfectly.
001
Reposted by Mary Nasca
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h
Utah combed its voter rolls and found only 27 confirmed noncitizens out of more than 2 million registered voters. Of those 27 noncitizens, only 13 had cast a ballot since 2018. But as the state’s Republican elections chief said, that’s not what Trump wanted to hear: demdock.com/4ejGo5Q
A quote text graphic with a red state outline. The quote says, "They don’t want to know that things are going well, because it goes against a narrative that is being pounded relentlessly of mass fraud or ineligible people voting." The attribution reads, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R).
6303108