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Stephanie Marrone

@smarrone.bsky.social
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Retired from teaching and NPS. Enjoying life with husband and dog in SC. Happy gramma. Trying to believe that my small actions will contribute to a revolution of love.

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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I'm attending Fight the Trump Takeover's event, “National Mobilization & Planning Call: Fight the Trump Takeover” - sign up now to j www.mobilize.us/fightthetrum...
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National Mobilization & Planning Call: Fight the Trump Takeover · Fight the Trump Takeover
The Texas House Democrats are denying quorum to stop the Trump takeover of our state and block his attempt to rig the 2026 midterm elections. But Trump isn’t stopping in Texas. He’s targeting Missouri...
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Take on the Billionaires: Labor Day 2025” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Take on the Billionaires: Labor Day 2025 · May Day Strong
The billionaires are waging a war on working people—and on May Day, international workers’ day, hundreds of thousands of us stood together and stood strong, fighting for public schools over private pr...
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
contrarian.substack.com/p/300000-bla... Important detail about the dismantling of govt agencies!
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300,000 Black women left the labor force. That's not good for America.
The financial success—or failure—of Black women can have significant consequences.
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This piece about the heroic KBJ gives me hope. “She understands her role is not just to write for history (today’s dissents become future majority opinions) but to sound the alarm, to rouse the public.” Yay Jennifer Rubin and The Contrarian! @contrariannews.org
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Undaunted in calling out the worst Supreme Court in modern times
KBJ won’t allow accept its pretense of impartiality
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Good crowd in Columbia, SC. #nokings
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Unseen victories of the resistance. open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... Great thinker and great writer! This is a thoughtful hopeful piece.
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Unseen victories of the resistance.
May 8, 2025
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Fascism and the English language
The words we use matter. So let's say what's actually happening.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Profiles in courage and cowardice open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... Courage is contagious!
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Profiles in courage and cowardice
April 8, 2025
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fortunate Son — Now and Then open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Dan Rather gives me hope
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Fortunate Son — Now and Then
A Reason To Smile
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 06/04/2025
I taught a US citizenship class to South Sudanese refugees in Nebraska, 2006-2007. Fleeing civil war, they worked arduous jobs at a meat packing plant. Many had no literacy in any language. But they studied hard for a citizenship exam which many native-born Americans would not be able to pass.
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Beverly @bevdonaquixote.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Here's why they are dismantling the FDA, NIH, and CDC
An honest answer to an honest question
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Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The SAVE Act is a poll tax. Over 69 million women would have to get new IDs to vote under the SAVE Act—all of which, except military IDs, cost money. As @mcclellan.house.gov explained, whether it’s $1,000 or 1¢, no one should have to pay to vote.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/michaelp... Really great explanation of how we’re currently in a period similar to the time when there was backlash to Reconstruction and the South set up Jim Crow and the KKK was empowered to terrorize Blacks.
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America’s Second “Redemption”
The accelerating MAGA assault on democratic freedoms echoes America’s first “Redemption,” a backlash to Reconstruction after the Civil War. Understanding the historical parallels—long marches for free...
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0... Great article about how the KKK was brought to its knees, in part, thanks to a fearless journalist. Also, the book Fever in the Heartland is an excellent deeper dive into this.
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 20/02/2025
"If we have faith, hope, and love, we can pass it on. If we work together, pray and stand together, we can create a new heaven and ease life for each other." #TheaBowman #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #LoveEachOther
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/02/2025
Another fiery exchange from Judge Reyes in the trans military case:
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/02/2025
He didn't say that. And if he did, he didn’t mean it. And if he did mean it, you didn’t understand. And if you did, it’s not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse.
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
apple.news/Am5rISRHMQ3i... Tax dollars for Trump propaganda. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse!
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Trump Admin. Spends Big Taxpayer Money on Ads Thanking Trump — Rolling Stone
Amid mass firings and a supposed hunt for waste, Trump officials are now burning your money on anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly praise the president
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Good crowd for the 50501 Protest in Columbia SC today!
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the United States Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant and how to express them: aclusc.org/immigration
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Know Your Rights: Immigration
En españolRegardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the United States Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant and how to express them. For more
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 16/02/2025
"Maybe I am not making big changes in the world, but if I somehow helped or encouraged someone along the journey, then I have done what I am called to do." #TheaBowman #LoveEachOther
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/02/2025
Knowledge is power…
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Proud of these fearless NPS folks at Grand Canyon
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 16/02/2025
Let’s be extremely clear about what is happening at USAID: The President is letting the wealthiest individual on the planet tear apart an organization that provides MEDICINE and FOOD to the poorest children on Earth.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"That's what democracy is all about" - Elon Musk, unelected US official and Nazi oligarch🤡
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Trump’s biggest corruption yet open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Robert Reich again explains the unexplainable
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Trump’s biggest corruption yet
Friends,
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.nteu.org/media-center... My union is very busy these days
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CFPB Shutdown Violates Separation of Powers, NTEU Says in New Lawsuit
By ordering employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work, the administration has unlawfully trampled the power of Congress to create a federal agency that it deemed necessary to ...
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
www.smifsc.com/news/twfm-02... So proud of my church
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This Week from Mitch — St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church
I hope and pray that you are well. It has been a busy few weeks for me. First, we had the build-up to our parish weekend at Kanuga and our parish-wide day of service. It went great, and I want to than...
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The authoritarians & oligarchs benefit from us blaming eachother for the massive wealthy inequality in this country. Blame the corrupt billionaires, mega corporations, and big money in politics. Not your neighbor.
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... More brilliance from Paul Krugman pkrugman.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip
The war on science is turning deadly
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Robin Resists @robinresists.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
SC is full of roads that need repaired. SC ranks 42 in education. SC “misplaced” $1.8 billion. SC’s maternal mortality rate is higher than the national average. SC ranks in the top 10 for women murdered by men. The list goes on. SC has way more to worry about than banning DEI. #scpol
Statement by S.C. House Republican Caucus working to end DEI in S.C.
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Autogolpe open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Brilliant piece! Don’t give up! Time for all of us to throw sand in the gears of the autogolpe!
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What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
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Stephanie Marrone @smarrone.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
www.govexec.com/workforce/20... www.govexec.com/workforce/20... Proud of my union
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Union chief: It’s not just a threat to federal employees
COMMENTARY | "Either we fight for our federal workforce now...or we will suffer the consequences of a government ill-equipped to protect and deliver for the taxpaying citizens of our nation," writes D...
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Please treat yourself for 4 min 25 secs. Watch the video created by NPS interns w/ images from National Parks & Maya Angelou reciting “And Still I Rise”. May her words wash over you & give you strength. This may not be available online much longer. www.nps.gov/subjects/nps...
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Black History Month - NPS Commemorations and Celebrations (U.S. National Park Service)
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 05/02/2025
Jesus wept (Jn 11:35). #PrayForAmerica
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/02/2025
Ignore the media headlines reporting that freezing federal spending or shuttering federal agencies “raise questions” or “push boundaries.” It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.
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Breaking the Law
Just weeks in, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/02/2025
The US Interior Department unveiled a suite of orders aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump's agenda to maximize domestic energy and minerals production and slash red tape reut.rs/4hpyuaS
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US Interior Department takes first steps to carry out Trump energy agenda
The U.S. Interior Department on Monday unveiled a suite of orders aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump's agenda to maximize domestic energy and minerals production and slash red tape.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/02/2025
NEW: Musk’s OPM claims the collective bargaining agreements governing remote work are null and void in the latest OPM Memo 1/
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 02/02/2025
One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/02/2025
NEW: I'm hearing from federal employees that they're being told to file a FOIA request if they want their employee records. Meaning they've been locked out of their records and have to file a Freedom of Information Act Request to get them. If you got this email, please contact me. Signal in bio.
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