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Maureen O’Connell (oldWobbly)

@oldwobbly.bsky.social

Retired film editor, traveler, political junkie, book lover, leftist, sometime artist, trade unionist, atheist, and ocean gazer.

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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

24.07.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ronnie Dugger, Crusading Texas Journalist, Dies at 95

Ronnie Dugger, Crusading Texas Journalist, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

08.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.

03.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 2477    🔁 781    💬 69    📌 26
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Indivisible Santa Cruz County General Meeting · Indivisible Santa Cruz County ## Join us for our next in person meeting to discuss our upcoming actions and plans for the next few months. * To attend in person please sign up for the 7:00pm shift. * To attend the livestream ple...

I'm attending Indivisible Santa Cruz County's event, “Indivisible Santa Cruz County General Meeting” - sign up now to jo www.mobilize.us/indivisibles...

19.04.2025 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oops. “These”, not “they”.

25.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy, at least. There’s that. They incompetents and liars never seem to think in action/consequence terms: “what if I get caught?”.

25.03.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Hands Off! Indivisible Santa Cruz County Fights Back · Hands Off **Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them.** Santa Cruz is fighting back! They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services...

If you live in the area, and can’t make it to Scaramento, come to the locsl protest:
mobilize.us/s/hvho7x

25.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Media Obscure Message of Oscar-Winning Documentary No Other Land In reporting on its historic Oscar win, many publications avoided describing No Other Land in detail, or relied on the passive voice to obscure its specifics.

Media, why are you so timid? Tip-toeing around reviewing this brilliant documentary: fair.org/home/media-o...

07.03.2025 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Art of The Deal
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie The Art of The Deal

Jonathan Pie is back!

22.02.2025 23:38 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I might have watched it had he ridden in on the back of the QAnon shaman.

21.01.2025 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

21.01.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The New York Times (@nytimes) on Threads Here is the letter signed by more than 75 Nobel laureates urging that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not be confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Intelligent people needed to speak up, and did! www.threads.net/@nytimes/pos...

11.12.2024 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

19.11.2024 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hilarious!

19.11.2024 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disgusting

17.11.2024 03:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

😂🤣

17.11.2024 03:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Many people think that as you get older, you care less about politics. But it’s not true.

You start thinking a lot more about the kind of world you want to leave behind. You want it to be better than the one you were born into.

We all have a personal legacy in mind. Mine is to outlive Trumpism.

15.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 47809    🔁 4847    💬 1617    📌 310
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Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candi...

"President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs"
www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

15.11.2024 17:08 — 👍 984    🔁 334    💬 68    📌 37

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