Maurie Manning
@mauriejmanning.bsky.social
#KidLit Illustrator and Author who is now writing scary novels. Mother, Feminist, Atheist, Skeptic, Enemy of Disinformation, Science Lover, Gamer, Kid and Animal Mom.
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Come on, Liberals. You're disappointing me big time. Stop sharing doctored photos. Mis/disinformation is the job of the far-right. Our job is to share the truth. #TylerRobinson
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3K words deeper into FADE this weekend. The glass child is cracking, the Mob’s hungry… and Lydia just learned which breaks first. #WritingCommunity #AmDrafting #YA #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #DarkFiction #Dystopian
🍁 FREEBIE ALERT! Meet Otto — leaf cruncher, sweater model, and official mascot of fall coziness. This digital image is FREE for all patrons (including free-level Patrons) to use in their handmade crafts, but only until August 31. www.patreon.com/mosdigitalpe... #freebie #dogs #illustration
What if the new Superman movie actually taught MAGA that being "Woke" is just being kind and empathetic, and that Fox News has been hatemongering on Christlike behavior all along?
The people who used to call themselves the "Moral Majority" did this. Guess they don't even need to pretend anymore.
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.
You can always count on The New York Times to minimize the scale and impact of protest. Yesterday's 2000+ No Kings actions smashed records for the most demonstrations in a single day. So the Times decided to publish a horseshit map of just a handful of "confirmed locations." We're not fooled.
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
Come on. How many of you needed Elon Musk to tell you Trump was on Epstein's list? Sheesh!
at times like these I am reminded of my commitment to keep saying that lying should be politically and socially costly
In Man Up, Cynthia Miller-Idriss is revealing how an epidemic of misogyny—both online and off—and a patriarchal backlash are driving an exponential rise in mass and far-right violence. She also offers essential strategies that all of us can use to fight the rising tide of violence.
Jacob Ware@jacobware.bsky.social · last yr.This will be an essential work from @milleridriss.bsky.social and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Can't wait to dive in! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Just read the full Atlantic article about the Houthi group chat. One part that stuck with me is when they say “God Bless” and send prayer emojis to each other after killing 53 people who they considered enemies because they killed others in the name of their God.
Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last yr.Thanks to Steve Jobs and Gorilla Glass, factories in America are now ramping up to make affordable windows, made from panes thinner than a credit card, that can: * save Americans $25 billion / year * withstand a 2x4 shot out of a cannon (gift link) www.wsj.com/business/cor...
Okay. So it's obvious Rubio is not happy. This is what a man looks like when he removes his spine.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoGLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
Americans are with Ukraine. Who the hell is Donald Trump?
a blue and yellow heart with the words we stand with ukraine written on it
ALT: a blue and yellow heart with the words we stand with ukraine written on it
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Trump yelled at Zelenskyy, interrupted him, told him to stop talking, knocked him on the shoulder at one point. Zelenskyy came back at him, tried to interrupt back. By the end, Zelenskyy was sullen in his seat and Trump was red in the face, yelling about Obama and Hunter Biden.
Jesus, Trump and JD Vance playing bad cop-bad cop with Zelensky is stomach churning here.
New in PN: MAGA's Orwellian notion of "free speech" "What MAGA celebrates as 'free speech' is typically rightwing propaganda. While this alienates America from our allies, it perfectly aligns the administration with autocratic regimes in places like Russia."
MAGA's Orwellian notion of "free speech"
They only value it insofar as it advances authoritarianism.
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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies
80 years ago today: Marines raise the flag on Iwo Jima. We in the pro-democracy camp fight for the America that won World War II, and for the America that after the war worked to further advance the American idea. We know what side we would have been on 80 years ago, and what side we're on today.
If anyone would like to weigh in on Hillsdale College's "National Opinion Survey" on #CriticalRaceTheory #CTR #DEI #BLM #Atheist -- Here's the link to let 'em know what you think! info.hillsdale.edu/crt-survey/?...
Hillsdale College National Opinion Survey
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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
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![Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 16 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below:
"1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither [Partial]
4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
13. [Partial], abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
14. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
15. [Partial], and destroyed the lives of our people.
16. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [Partial]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b3psimnw5xxta2n4h5qzxu55/bafkreifschk5h5rhi7ezooza77xgc5hzxi62up3eoqqift5btkt7kui4li)
