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Mary T. McCarthy

@marymccarthy.bsky.social

Award-winning Journalist 📰|| Bestselling Author ✍️|| Miniaturist 🤏|| Candlemaker🕯️||Beachcombing Educator 🌊|| Queer Mom of 4🏳️‍🌈|| Go Birds! 🦅 Subscribe to my free articles: https://marytmccarthy.substack.com?r=pmgfp&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

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💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2h ago

It’s The Air Force’s Birthday 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Almost from the moment the Wright brothers found a way to soar with the birds, the military incorporated aeronautical pursuits into their missions. However, the Air Force did not become a separate branch of the Armed Forces until Sept 18, 1947.

1926 Hurricane hits Miami, killing 250 people 1939 William Joyce's (Lord Haw-Haw) first Nazi propaganda broadcast 1943 German occupiers liquidate the ghetto of Lida, Belarus, transporting the last remaining Jews to their murder at the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor 1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration 1957 US Western TV drama "Wagon Train" premieres 1964 TV sitcom series "The Addams Family," starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy, premieres on ABC and runs for two seasons 1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodles, packaging them in a waterproof polystyrene container 1975 American publishing heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst captured by FBl in San Francisco, California 1990 A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City 2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey, in the 2001 anthrax attacks 2018 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports a day after the US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods 2024 Tupperware Brands, maker of plastic kitchenware since 1948, files for bankruptcy in FL
Dr. Todd Arrington@btarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

"A republic, if you can keep it." ~Attributed to Benjamin Franklin 239 years ago today-9/17/1787-upon being asked if new US government would be a monarchy or a republic. The founders signed the Constitution OTD in 1787, so happy Constitution Day to all! Let's keep it. Image: National Archives.

Image: This color image shows the beginning of the U.S. Constitution, with the words "We the People" prominently featured.
ACLU@aclu.org · 23h ago

Happy Constitution Day! Celebrate by helping your friends and family brush up on their rights by getting a 10-pack of our pocket Constitutions. Plus get a free Constitution pin with the first 100 orders, today only! Shop now at aclu.org/merch_

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3d ago

District court judges across the country have been holding the line against Trump. These judges deserve appreciation — just as those who have enabled and collaborated with the regime deserve condemnation. All of these people are making moral choices. Democracy is a moral choice. Remember this.

Doc Baroque@roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 7d ago

First the Saudi nuclear deal. Then the 9/11 lies so fucking shameless the FDNY had to slap them down. Then he nods off while the names of the dead are being read. At this point the fake patriotism isn’t insulting. It’s fucking grotesque.

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💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s Patriot and National Day of Service and Remembrance The sky was a perfect blue and not a cloud in the sky It was also the day that nearly 3000 innocent people died in the terrorist attacks against America We honor their memory and the first responders who risked their lives on 9/11 😢🦊😢

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s National Teddy Bear 🧸 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting in Mississippi The Berryman cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt and the cub inspired New York store owner Morris Michtom. He created a new toy and even had a name in mind.

1901 Cornerstone is laid on the New York Stock Exchange building 1908 Orville Wright makes the first hour-long airplane flight, lasting 62 minutes and 15 seconds at Fort Myer, Virginia 1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) 1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWI! by Japanese planes 1956 Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" 1957 US President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar Black students from enrolling in white schools 1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine," in the US; it tops the charts in the US, UK, Australia, and three other countries 1986 New York City jury indicts Soviet United Nations employee Gennady Zakharov for spying 2018 CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in "The New Yorker" 2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 900,000, with the US having the most deaths at 190,589 2020 Donald Trump purposely downplays the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" 2021 US President Joe Bidenannounces widespread COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors, and large employers, affecting 100 million people
Mary T. McCarthy@marymccarthy.bsky.social · 2w ago

A queer family member gifted me a subscription to Ms. magazine when I was 12; it’s a big part of why I’m a lifelong journalist and feminist. And definitely why I’ve never checked any other prefix box except “Ms.” Thank you Gloria for your inspiration: rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

nytimes.com

Mary T. McCarthy@marymccarthy.bsky.social · 2w ago

A queer family member gifted me a subscription to Ms. magazine when I was 12; it’s a big part of why I’m a lifelong journalist and feminist. And definitely why I’ve never checked any other prefix box except “Ms.” Thank you Gloria for your inspiration: rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

nytimes.com

ACLU@aclu.org · 2w ago

Gloria Steinem was a social activist and feminist icon who spent decades advocating for civil rights and equality. As a trailblazing journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, her work brought national attention to critical issues including gender-based workplace discrimination and abortion rights.

Black graphic with an image and quote from Gloria Steinem, who lived from 1934 until 2026. Underneath the photo it reads "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Right after Trump cut down all of its rare Willow trees. He's not going to stop until he bulldozes the entire building like he said he would. I guess this is retribution for removing his name. Please stop letting him destroy everything good that's left #political

The Washington Sun Metro@washsunmetro.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Kennedy Center removed the famous “Blue” outdoor sculpture from its grounds on Wednesday. https://www.notus.org/metro/kennedy-center-removes-blue-beloved-sculpture-joel-shapiro-the-reach