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Margot Durkin

@mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social
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Retired independent school head. Former teacher. Historian. Beach person. Cancer survivor. Schnauzer parent. Bridge player. LOTA. Forever young Salve Regina girl. Aging preppy style. Reader. Traveler. Democrat. Hilderbabe. Please no direct messages.

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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just got an RX drug renewed. Astonishingly, it had not been reduced by 1500% as Trump declared. The cost was actually up. Is it possible that the President was just making stuff up???????
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Apparently so. You’d think this was the first time.
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Dangerous
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Don’t let Kristi Noem’s incompetence distract you from Pete Hegseth’s incompetence.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The cost of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill keeps getting higher Medicaid and ACA assistance slashed by $1.1 TRILLION 11.8 million Americans losing healthcare coverage SNAP and crucial children’s services gutted But never fear, MAGA Elon will make out just fine We Won’t Get Over Losing Medicaid
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Let’s walk down memory lane: there was a time in this country when a president respected his oath of office. There was a time in this country when Congress did its job. There was a time in this country when the Constitution was respected above all, and court decisions were followed.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This morning I watched @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social interview Elon Musk. Frankly I was shocked at his limited vocabulary and juvenile speech patterns.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Also: Taco Chanel
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Pro tip: heads of nations should stay as far away from the Oval Office as possible. Why subject yourself to lies, propaganda, and humiliating bullying?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
Baldwin to RFK Jr: "Is funding for Alzheimer's research centers DEI? Because you're holding up $65m for 14 of those centers in 9 states, including UW Madison. Is funding for cancer centers DEI? Because you're holding up $47m in cancer center support grants at 9 cancer centers in 8 states."
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This is terrible.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hmmm
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/05/2025
Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high. The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
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Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits
Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Because weather only happens 9-5.
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lindsay berger sacks @lindsaybergersacks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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MsFitnes01 @msfitnes01.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
#HamasForceOne ✈️
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Everything he touches goes bankrupt.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 16/05/2025
Republicans are stealing health care from 13.7 million Americans to give trillions in tax handouts to billionaires. House Budget Committee Republicans only voted against this plan because they want to make it even crueler. Republicans still plan to bring it to the House floor next week.
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Republican Medicaid Cuts Will Kill People
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, on the Republican plan to slash $716 billion from Medicaid: “Republicans are stealing hea...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Not only unserious but truly sick.
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Nsignificannot @nsignificannot.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
www.politico.eu/article/emma... Macron is an actual leader. Not in it just for show or just for profit.
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Macron: EU readying new Russia sanctions ‘in coming days’
The president addressed numerous issues, including questions about France’s country’s nuclear arsenal, in a TV interview on Tuesday.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
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Phoenix Rising @62walterp.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Truth 👇👇
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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Truth is Stranger than Fiction The USA is issuing a very high-risk travel advisory for Venezuela, citing security forces detaining people without due process. Yes. Really. You can't make this up. travel.state.gov/content/trav...
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Venezuela Travel Advisory
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WIRED @wired.com · 12/05/2025
“Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won.” Experts say that the mass of scientists being forced out of the EPA will slow down any future regulation of chemicals.
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The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals
Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This Air Force One coverage shows how the media “both sides’s” Trump’s corruption—criticism is the “problem” of Dems and crunchy “good government” losers alone. How about a headline like: “No GOP Senator Objects to Trump Accepting Half-Billion-Dollar Bribe”? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...
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Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight
Of course a foreign government would love to give the US president a plane....
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Maybe Putin could give him a dacha on the Black Sea and he could move there.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 12/05/2025
America: where you need a license to cut hair, but not to be Surgeon General.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2025
Rep. Menendez: "They had over 20 armed ICE HSI officers, they were heavily armed, their faces were covered, and they wearing no identification. So this is who they chose to have come engage with the mayor of Newark and 3 elected members of the House of Representatives."
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If you think suspending Habeas Corpus "just for undocumented immigrants" is acceptable, remember that there would be NO HEARINGS and NO LEGAL RECOURSE for ANYONE detained in this way So all they have to do is CLAIM that YOU are an undocumented immigrant to DISAPPEAR YOU
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another one bites the dust. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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FEMA chief is fired
Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton told people he was terminated Thursday.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This is one of his biggest BS moves so far.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Habamus Papam
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Somehow, Trump has declared that we’re under numerous national emergencies from the Southern Border Emergency to the Energy Emergency, Trade Emergency, Public Lands Emergency, and Immigration Enforcement Emergency. Yet these crises seem so “urgent” that he finds time to golf every weekend. Odd.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Note well.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2025
Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 04/05/2025
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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NPR @npr.org · 01/05/2025
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
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Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Vanna White’s outfit tonight is a contender for worst ever. Who wears high heels with bell-bottom pajamas?
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HeckinJesslynn 🏳️‍⚧️ @heckinjesslynn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
As a scientist. Let me assure you, this will NOT be taken seriously by anyone with any credibility. Science is NOT carried out like this. They came to a conclusion based on bigotry and then filled in the blanks based on hate to fit their narrative This is another instance of how the HHS has fallen
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There is NO "aborted fetal debris" in vaccines. They're resurrecting one of the most innacurate and outdated lies to trigger people not only into not trusting vaccines, but to make them angry at those who produce them. The cells used to produce a select number of vaccines are grown in a lab.
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JoonyMoon @junefaver.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Attorney General of the United States gushing on camera that the President has saved two-thirds of the entire population of America from dying of a fentanyl overdose was a gut-churning lurch towards the absurd flattery lavished on personality-cult dictators by fawning subordinates.
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trum...
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Trump's False Claims about Gas, Egg Prices - FactCheck.org
Several times over the last week, President Donald Trump has assured Americans that the prices of eggs and gasoline are down significantly. But he has made false claims about the cost of both products...
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Margot Durkin @mrsdurkinmuses.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Everything old is new again.
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