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marianryan.bsky.social
Writer & editor waylaid in Berlin. Granta, NYT Well, Women's Review of Books, Slate, Southern Humanities Review, others. Memoir-ish-in-progress: Autobiography of My Brother. Here be disabled folk.
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Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

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That these goons are gleeful about destroying the economy, the rule of law, the constitution, our alliances and much of the country's power (for starters) would be mind-boggling, but such is the narcissism whereby nothing can be more important or more respected than they are.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

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Somebody's got to start being able to see the bloody forest. I suggest Democrats in Congress take a swing at showing leadership on going Big Picture. The D word is not out of line.

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Is anyone saying the D word? It should be coming out of bullhorns on every street corner.

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Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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youtube.com/shorts/OfknC... Spoiler: It's not good.

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Do you love democracy? Living in a country that takes care of veterans? Do you love having a voice? The right to vote? The right to choose? Your social security? Do you love an LGBQTIA person? A woman? Disabled person? (Hello!) CALL YOUR REPS. Daily. They need to know we’re watching and uniting.

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Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

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BREAKING: In response to our motion, the court has forced the Trump administration to pause its abrupt freeze on foreign assistance funds. This order will allow organizations to continue life-saving health programs around the globe and save thousands of American jobs.

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bittersoutherner.com/feature/2025...

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Freezing Support to Democracy and Human Rights Activists Undermines US Interests www.justsecurity.org/107842/democ...

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President Trump’s slashing of US foreign aid sets back his influence and sends ominous signals abroad. @laurathornton.bsky.social looks at the impact and how a familiar scenario is playing out in the Republic of Georgia: www.justsecurity.org/107864/forei...

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www.ft.com/content/3e47...

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Chaos, harassment, and unpaid bills: Inside Elon Musk's war on USAID www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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$20 Workshop to Benefit Kerouac House This Sunday open.substack.com/pub/artoffla...

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Word has now gifted me AI called Copilot, which I keep reading as Complicit. 😅 If I can't succeed in turning it off I might have to finally end my Word relationship with new stuff.

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The mighty unelected billionaire and the Heritage Foundation are going after little fry Wikipedia editors if they don't like page contents. Pathetic, truly, but also Bad. www.404media.co/email/38ceb1...

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It's a big and scary question.

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Great livestream/podcast with tons of background info on the USAID crisis, the agency history, and implications of a shutdown. Thanks @lawfare.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V0Q...

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USAID helps make Americans safer and supports our foreign policy goals. It's not just being nice. Without it we will be in a more dangerous place. Tens of thousands domestically are also losing their jobs, which will have ripple effects in the economy. We need to fight. youtu.be/OIHJub72vuM?...

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“When women are free to make their own decisions about their lives and to follow our dreams, we are unstoppable. But when Roe v. Wade was overturned, a generation of young people lost that freedom.” — Cecile Richards

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I am in Germany crying this afternoon. That is all.

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I’m still thinking about this woman in Georgia—miscarrying and hemorrhaging ‘dinner plate-sized clots’—who, even after qualifying for an abortion, couldn’t skip the state’s 24-hour waiting period because she wasn’t close enough to dying. This is torture

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