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@msmaureen.bsky.social
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Today: mosaic artist, cat-lover, hiker, kayaker, guide at local historic site Past lives: history, civics, social justice teacher, nonprofit leader. Substack: maureenbcostello.substack.com

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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And this is why he shouldn’t be president.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ooh, is that a promise?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump: Everything you learned not to do in kindergarten.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And, boy, what we're doing to those numbers!
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He’s growing tone deaf isn’t he?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a beautiful jacket.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So the strait is open and ships are coming through, but they have no money because their money comes from oil ... going through the Hormuz Strait. Got it.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to this book, but found the historical evidence sufficient. This piece looks at a newly identified descendant who (to me) resembles both TJ and his daughter Martha. Sorry it's behind a paywall. The New Yorker doesn't have a gift option. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson
Scientists have new proof that Thomas Jefferson had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And arming Jefferson and Lincoln with shoulder-fired missiles.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That’s the ticket! Trump Says His Contested Arch Would House Drones and Snipers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Probably first time I've seen a work of history compared to Absalom, Absalom!
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They have a Senior Editor for Insane Reframing. You can see his work every day.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Because AI will kill us first? E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Equally true: Canada is not a US state.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why is he being interviewed by Draco Malfoy?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have never thought about and have no intention of ever thinking about it.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Me neither.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's a tacit admission that the Rs no longer represent a variety of interests and ideas, and the MSM has stopped pretending, without naming what they've become. The Dems are still the messy, complicated big-tent group that aims for the middle to keep everyone inside. That may be changing.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AI + Fossil Fuel. Let's destroy the planet even faster, shall we? Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country newrepublic.com/post/214111/... via @newrepublic.com
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What could possibly explain this?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What the pool now reflects is a fatal combo of incompetence, venality, and dishonesty. “'It’s like asking the museum guard to restore a painting in the Met,' said Charles Birnbaum, the president of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a nonprofit that has sued unsuccessfully to stop the work."
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How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
He’s got a friend in the cannabis biz?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If that got applause I’m really concerned for these people.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
By what measure!? How do these people listen to this crackpot?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looks like ICE doesn't even do minimal vetting before hiring and arming agents. apnews.com/article/ice-... Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ona Judge Didn't Run Away From a House open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Ona Judge Didn't Run Away From a House
She ran away from George Washington. The new exhibit on Independence Mall would rather you not think about that.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Is it coming from our strategic petroleum reserves?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Because the Reconstruction amendments were, you know, motivated by racial justice.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026
The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.
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The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
- Thomas rebukes the majority for relying on a "feudal" practice (ignoring the larger common law context) and then relies solely on cherry-picked sources from the 19th century. - Kavanaugh talks about a living constitution adopting to circumstances but doesn't apply that to 2A. - Alito's an elitist
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Jackson's concurrence marshals facts to rebuke Thomas's dissent, showing that knowing history beats imagining it. Read the majority opinion too. It traces the English common law, the practice in the early Republic, and the Congressional understanding during the debate for the 14th Amendment.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A nod to professional historians from Justice Jackson!
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
2/You'd think that justices who can look forward to decades in the job might feel just a tiny bit compelled to keep abreast of historical interpretations. Or at least hire clerks who do.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1/ Birthright citizenship affirmed. Whew. But not 9-0, which is horrifying. I've read the opinion and now on Jackson's concurrence and noticing historians cited. Roberts cites works prior to 1965. Jackson, cites recent work -- Isabel Wilkerson's Caste, and David Blight's Frederick Douglass book.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm a guide at Monticello and sometimes get teary these days too.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
They know how to create life!?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Uh, isn't this how Jim Crow, literacy tests and poll taxes were justified? Not to mention red-lining and about a 1,001 other actions?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
So should we expect literacy tests to reappear?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I dug deep and read the list: Ayn Rand's definition of capitalism? No thanks. Also fascinating: Lots of attention to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln in early grades. Later grades get to read MacArthur's Farewell Address and Thatcher's eulogy of Reagan. But nada about Texas' own LBJ.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is a list of works I would have enjoyed reading. I'm a 71-year-old white woman. 'Nuf said.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not fair to community theater.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My head has exploded so many times ...
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
When he says "rigged" I think he means there are rules.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hallelujah!
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
When this is all over, every federal judge who stood up to him should get the Medal of Freedom and a ticker tape parade. Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Freezes Efforts to Create $1.8 Billion Fund www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Freezes Efforts to Create $1.8 Billion Fund
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Wouldn’t he have to actually fund it then?
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Golf calls.
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msmaureen.bsky.social @msmaureen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Same here. I love that feeling of casting my vote and having my say. Not sure I’ll ever feel the same walking out of the polling place.
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