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Roland Merullo

@rmerullo.bsky.social
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Author, Italophile, happy husband and father.

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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
For those naive souls who believe God spared Trump's life so he could make America great again, it might be wise to keep in mind that Hitler and Mussolini (3X) also survived assassination attempts. Maybe the takeaway is that surviving an assassination attempt is not actually a sign of God's love.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My accomplishment this week, Musk, is that I am retired and living on Social Security. I'm 71. I started working when I was 14 and have paid into Social Security since then. Your accomplishment this week was to hurt people all over the world and to make an ass of yourself. Nice going.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I've spent a lot of time in Italy. What's interesting is that every city and town has a Matteotti Street or a Matteotti Plaza. Giacomo Matteotti was the only legislator brave enough to standup to Mussolini. He was killed by thugs. You never, ever, find a street or square named after Mussolini.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025
Trump is a Russian stooge. Putin may as well written this himself. And any Republican in Congress who said they support our allies before, but are silent today over this, are worthless.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
see no truth hear no truth
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
SO FAR: 1. Freed Jan 6 criminals 2. Obliterated USAID 3. Gabbard put in THE most sensitive position 4. Selling Ukraine down the river (mister dealmaker giving away his two best cards right away.) 5. Consumer protection is gone 6. Dept of Education going 7. Horrible deal with Adams 8. Gaza absurdity
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
From the Poets & Writers Grants and Awards newsletter. I’d say they’re assholes and scammers, but folks who love to pay $27 to submit will start yelling at me. Anyway, y’all know how I feel about fees. Fuck everything about this. Never pay to play. Period. (via Becky Tuch)
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It must be hard as you near the end of your life, if you've spent all those years thinking: me, me, me, I'm the best, the greatest, no one else matters, I can do whatever I want and get away with it. Must be terrifying, no?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our latest Substack newsletter on lies and lying.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I like BlueSky for the political posts. Impossible not to think about politics in these terrible times. My daughter and I try to discuss the big life issues that bear on politics but also transcend them. This week we are discussing lies and liars. Check us out at Merullo.Substack.com.
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Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's a waste of breath to argue with Trump supporters. The only hope is that 5% of them will be directly effected in a negative way by one of his evil ideas and will then see the error of their ways. How much damage will be done in the meantime is the question. Project 2026.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Russia-Ukraine was was supposed to end 24 hours after Trump took office. I guess I missed it. Wow.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
1. Pardon of January 6 criminals 2. Withdrawal from the climate accords.. 3. Withdrawal from WHO 4. Unqualified Defense Secretary among others 5. Firing of Inspectors General 6. Cessation of foreign aid. 7. Ending of support for alternative energies 8. ICE raids, people deported in handcuffs
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When they came for the immigrants I didn't say anything because only my grandparents were immigrants. I was born here.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Daughter and I discuss Comfort Zone in our latest Substack. Merullo.Substack.com. It's called Hi Zan, Hi Pa and we try to avoid speaking directly about politics as I do that a lot here and on FB. But we go deep into subjects that bear on life now in the US (and elsewhere).
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Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Wow. Just wow. To read these words from David Maraniss. This is how bad things have gotten.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Jennifer Bennon @jennobenno.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Tough on crime. Ha! Soft on criminals.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
@criminalerin.bsky.social
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There is no better proof of cult membership than supporting or excusing the pardons of the January sixth criminals.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ok who do we invade first?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm in Italy and was speaking with an Italian friend yesterday. "How could Trump win?" he asked, incredulous. I said, "Why did so many Italians adore Mussolini?" "He gave them an illusion," my friend said. "They believed the illusion. And he created two enemies--the Jews and foreigners."
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Infroguration.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Check out our conversation about your life's big dreams (or lack thereof), today, Jan. 10th, Merullo.Substack.com
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Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
L.A. is burning. Trump is playing a flute tune about Greenland.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Familiar as I am with history, until now I never completely understood how millions of people could do the bidding of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Not that trump is any of those, but his supporters exhibit the same disregard for facts, kindness, empathy, and discernment. His word is law.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
In Italy, where I am now, you cannot find a single street named after Mussolini. But every city and town has a Matteotti Street or Square--named after the one person who had the courage to stand up to him in the legislature. I wonder if current American Republican legislators know that.
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@gloria🕊️🟧 @gloriaprosperi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
From @ennui365
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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I Feel for You
Empathy, compassion, and "idiot compassion"
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Why must the rich attack the programs that help the poor?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I'm less worried about the big 'promises' like mass deportation and tariffs, and more worried about the subtle things that will get no press coverage and that will further enable the rich and burden the poor and ruin the environment. Regulations matter. Government matters.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My late, brave mother, an army vet and physical therapist, volunteered to work in a polio clinic a thousand miles from home for a year at the height of the epidemic/outbreak. How I wish she were around. I'd put her face to face with RFK JR, that abject moron, and let her tell him some stories.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Did Hegseth really say that allowing gay people to serve in the military is part of a "Marxist agenda"? Is there a word stronger than 'weird' or 'absurd'?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
merullo.substack.com/api/v1/press...
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Old man with tools, sorting nails, not thinking about the incoming administration, the new Syrian government, a high-profile murder in Manhattan, or even, for a little while, the war in Ukraine.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
If the January 6th criminals are patriots, I'm the Messiah.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Assad is gone. This is what happens to dictators, eventually, though they all seem to think it never will.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Dictators think they will live forever, be in power forever, that none of their evil deeds will ever come back to haunt them. I hope Assad and his family like the weather in Moscow, and the conditions in the afterlife. I hope America's would-be dictators get the message.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Russia has suffered 700,000 killed or wounded so far in Putin's 'special military operation'. For what? For the ego of one little ugly guy. I worked in Kyiv and Donetsk years ago, vacationed in Crimea. Very sad.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
DeSantis being mentioned for Defense. I never thought I would see that as a positive step. But we are certifiably upside-down now.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Helps with the current….situation. One glass with dinner is the dose so far.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
'Right action' is something the Buddhists talk about. I want to spend the next years doing what I can in my circle, behaving well given my human limitations, helping where I can, changing what I can. I do not want to and will not spend them being disconsolate, afraid, silent, or unkind.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This is why my daughter Zanny and I started our Substack, Hi Zan, Hi Pa: From Carl Sagan, in “The Demon-Haunted World”. “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media." And why I like Bluesky
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