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Mary Ruffin Hanbury

@mrhanbury.bsky.social
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Wife, mother, preservationist, Virginian, business owner, Aquarius, author, singer, voracious reader, gardener, occasional cook, animal adopter, “tweets” are mine alone

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Doris “Dorie” Miller was born on this day in 1919 in Waco, Texas. Because of his heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbor, he became the first African American recipient of the Navy Cross. His bravery spurred civil rights activists to push to desegregate the U.S. military. /1
Dorie Miller wearing his Navy Cross in May 1942. Miller’s extraordinary valor during the attack on Pearl Harbor forced a reluctant Navy to award him the Navy Cross. However, the myths and structural segregation that relegated Miller to the Messman Branch persisted after Dec. 7, 1941. Miller’s actions gave civil rights activists an undeniable symbol to fight for institutional equality. It took a coordinated campaign by activist networks to force the government’s hand. While the Navy tried to compartmentalize Miller’s award as an isolated exception — even keeping his rank restricted to the mess deck — the activist momentum could not be stopped. His visibility forced the Navy to begin opening up general service training to Black sailors and commissioning Black officers. Ultimately, the public discourse surrounding Miller’s valor laid the foundation for President Truman’s Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948. Photo credit: Naval History and Heritage Command.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“If you’re going to mail your ballot, you better do it right away,” he said. “Don’t wait.” www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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‘Mail early’: Election officials urge voters to return ballots ASAP to avoid potential Postal Service delays
Postal Service cutbacks could lead to more ballots being rejected.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Column by Philip Kennicott: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to live-stream the execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will implicate the U.S. military in a spectacle degrading to its reputation worldwide.
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Column | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executions
As most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
From @theathletic.com: What makes a man mythical? How does one become iconic? Mike Ditka, who was an NFL champion as a player and coach, was an American legend. Nobody ever symbolized toughness better, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/3WhV9jm
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Mike Ditka, Hall of Fame tight end and legendary Chicago Bears coach, dies at 86
Ditka, who was an NFL champion as a player and coach, became the most visible coach in America.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Arlington County sued to stop Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, citing inadequate environmental review. Even a monument to presidential grandeur apparently has to face the terrifying concept of permits. #TrumpArch
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GingerSpice💙 @thedesertginger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pete Whiskeybreath has cone up with an exclusive "Dept of War" clothing line Glorifying war and violence is now what they want our military to be about. Not protecting us from enemies, but being the aggressors
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump exempts NPRA oil exploration from NEPA #TheHill
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Trump exempts NPRA oil exploration from NEPA
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump said he would start paying for the political TV ads himself, but the White House clarified that he won’t pay back the federal government for what’s already been spent. About $11.5 million had already been spent airing the ads as of midday Tuesday, October 6th.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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✨𝕊𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕒 - Teh-REDACT-all✨📎 @samiamnurnot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas... So a new Yale study just dropped- Not only would switching to Medicare For All save 114,000 lives annually, but it would save us collectively over 1 Trillion dollars annually. Why haven't we switched? 75% of sitting congress members take money from Pharma. 🤬
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NEWS: New Study Confirms Medicare for All Would Save 114,000 Lives and more than $1 Trillion a Year » Senator Bernie Sanders
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement after Yale University rese...
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like the old saying "birds of a feather 🪶 flock together"....
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks to SCAD and SESAH for a great conference
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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shields up, San Diego!
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A MONTHS-LONG data breach? And all that testosterone was powerless to stop it ?!?!?!?!?!?
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pete Hegseth was a DUI hire.
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vote for Woody!!! gardenandgun.com/good-dog-pho...
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Kolchak @kolchak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Absolute fucking clown show. www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-out...
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JD Vance Outed as Source of ‘Threat’ to National Security
The vice president himself was behind one of the stories the White House deemed a security risk.
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Politico @politico.com · 24/09/2026
OpenAI model breaches Australian government websites
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OpenAI model breaches Australian government websites
The disclosure comes as world leaders meet at the United Nations General Assembly this week to discuss topics including AI security.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Stewie Griffin: It's Fine, Everything's Fine
ALT: Stewie Griffin: It's Fine, Everything's Fine
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EQV Analytics @eqvanalytics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My NC ballot's mail odyssey has begun! I asked the nice lady behind the post office counter if she would please postmark it in front of me. "Sugar, I'd like to," she replied. "But we outta stamp pad ink right now." Not an auspicious beginning. Follow me for updates on my vote-by-mail adventure!
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Grateful to US Modernist for having us and for editing us so we sound good. Available wherever you get your Podcasts.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brace yourselves. I have found the most annoying thing on the Internet. Behold: fridge styling. Frankly I think we might as well let our AI overlords finish us off.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So which one of Kash’s friends trying to join the FBI had a bestiality conviction on his record?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Guest blogging for State Archives of NC ncarchives.wpcomstaging.com/2026/09/09/t...
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The Clubfoot and Harlow Canal: Using Archival Sources to Understand Places
This post was written by Mary Ruffin Hanbury, founding principal of Hanbury Preservation Consulting The Clubfoot and Harlow Canal is a roughly three-mile artificial channel across a peninsula that …
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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STOP Trump’s 250-foot-tall Arch
YouTube video by Home of the Brave
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Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Hitchcock made films today.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 04/09/2026
Pretty sure this is jail time for anyone involved but I defer to appropriations knowers.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congress is about to go on vacation, after accomplishing nothing since their last vacation.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just used social medial to announce that Trump will illegally break ground on the construction of Trump's 250-foot "triumphal arch" over the next two weeks, with no Congressional approval or funding. To the Courts we go!
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Joan (Knatcal) Danielson @jed28.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"MAGA Mike & the GOP House will take a MASSIVE FALL😡BREAK & NOT pass laws regarding the WAR in IRAN, data centers, the Epstein Files, the affordability crisis, or any of the litany of other issues burdening Americans right now." TNR 🚨🇺🇲📜⚖️ VOTE💙 #Pinks
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After 5-Week Vacation, House Suddenly Takes Off the Rest of September - NewsBreak
Republican House leadership has announced that the largest U.S. governing body will be taking a massive fall break, seriously cutting legislative calendar
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Signed more books today
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2026
The Nepali Army rescued more than 300 workers and residents trapped inside a hydropower tunnel after flooding hit the Rasuwa district. More than 100 others remain trapped.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
(forgetting the name of klondike bars) i'll have a cold pocket
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Harp is already at the center of a security clearance controversy after reportedly working in the White House for roughly a year without completing the routine clearance process. Now she’s using a cell phone in the Oval Office. Because of course.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll didn't just resign; he gave his resignation directly to Trump: "Donald Trump can't feign ignorance about the fact that people in the Pentagon think Pete Hegseth is running the place into the ground."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
People need to go to jail for this. Full stop.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates
Not even about mysterious medical equipment delivered to the senator’s Washington home
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I look forward to Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and JD Vance blaming each other for screwing up the Iran war.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yale President McInnis has been telling people that Yale has no choice but to negotiate a settlement with the Trump administration. This is a willful misreading of the law and as such, a lie. A resolution process is voluntary and legal scholars have been pushing back. 1/ abcnews.com/US/yale-face...
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Yale faces backlash for talks with the Justice Department regarding its admissions
Legal experts weigh in on Yale's decision to negotiate with the DOJ for a potential resolution over alleged race discrimination in their admissions processes.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Today, I’ll be signing an Executive Order changing the name Tim Hortons to John Barron’s.”
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Mary Ruffin Hanbury @mrhanbury.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nice location for fieldwork this week
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aric @aghastronaut.com · 28/08/2026
The Good News: There's a cure for career burnout. The Bad News:
Wall Street Journal article titled The New Cure for Career Burnout: Clown School.

It pictures a large group of people with clown noses staring at the camera.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
3 Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon over firings at military news outlet  #TheHill
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3 Stars and Stripes staffers sue Pentagon over firings at military news outlet 
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