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S. A. Marshall

@appalachianeditrix.bsky.social

(she/her) Peripatetic editor traveling among NC, VA & WV. Married to my soulmate for 34 years. Retired unschooling mom, writer, doodler, amateur cruciverbalist. Inveterate spewer of profanity and sarcasm. Striving for joy in dark times. Vive la résistance!

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Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

19.10.2025 01:17 — 👍 13306    🔁 4690    💬 1177    📌 647

Stay classy, Donald.

19.10.2025 02:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

James Comey handed the 2016 election to Donald Trump by announcing a sham investigation against his opponent, causing people to forget the "Access Hollywood" tape & doubt Clinton's honesty.

Today, Trump thanked Comey by corruptly indicting him. To Donald, loyalty & gratitude are one-way streets.

26.09.2025 00:33 — 👍 2909    🔁 751    💬 136    📌 34

I recently resubscribed to WaPo *only* because I wanted to have access to Karen Attiah’s articles. Karen is an exceptional journalist and educator who is passionate about good journalism, telling the truth about history and the current state of the world, and educating people about racism.

15.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

Here's how to support my work:

I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social.

The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

15.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 3258    🔁 891    💬 12    📌 37

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.

‘tragos’ = goat

‘aeidein’ = to sing

So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”

Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

15.09.2025 15:17 — 👍 2901    🔁 590    💬 52    📌 61

This is a wonderful article, so beautifully written! Thank you for writing it. I came in contact with people of this mindset when I was a homeschooling mom, and I have been deeply troubled by it ever since. The amount of damage this man and others like him have done is incalculable. 😕

28.08.2025 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.

A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.

Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.

Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave.

See the letter below…🧵

27.08.2025 01:25 — 👍 575    🔁 249    💬 14    📌 17

Just for the record, “orange wanktrumpet” is NOT Scots for “President of Europe”, someone was lying to you

27.08.2025 01:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

18.08.2025 23:08 — 👍 36697    🔁 11470    💬 1308    📌 507

Imagine your family member about to be disappeared and someone yelling at you about some files and that your family member’s disappearance is a “distraction”.

11.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 183    🔁 32    💬 7    📌 1

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

11.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 13170    🔁 3936    💬 441    📌 227
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

10.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 6383    🔁 4786    💬 71    📌 128
2025 Ballot – The Dragon Award

I'm delighted and honored to be up for a Dragon Award in the category of Best Alternative History Novel. To see all the nominees and vote for your favorite in all the categories, click here: awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/ Voting requires free registration. Winners will be announced at Dragon Con.

09.08.2025 22:16 — 👍 243    🔁 22    💬 6    📌 1

Stay classy, Junior.

08.08.2025 03:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I second this! This is an excellent class. #WeMove2025

06.08.2025 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

DEMAND
A
TOWN
HALL
THEY
HAVE
FREE
TIME
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

22.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 121    🔁 46    💬 2    📌 0
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Republicans will do or say ANYTHING not to release the Epstein files.

22.07.2025 20:22 — 👍 162    🔁 36    💬 19    📌 5

This is absolutely disgraceful.

22.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Donated and shared. Good luck! 😘

22.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
22.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

Must-read reportage on ICE tactics in Sacramento:

“volunteers were escorting a man from his hearing when ICE officers swooped in, pulling up their masks to hide their faces and forcefully snatching the man out of the grasp of the women…” 1/2

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

18.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 129    🔁 72    💬 5    📌 3
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

18.07.2025 14:43 — 👍 21717    🔁 6062    💬 379    📌 256

So their appointment of an inclusion advisor was merely performative. :-( That is infuriating. So say nothing of a tremendous wasted opportunity to benefit from your knowledge, expertise, and creativity.

18.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It appears that the United States is going to celebrate its Semiquincentennial Anniversary by burning itself to the ground and then salting the earth. Glory!

03.07.2025 16:16 — 👍 8205    🔁 1612    💬 270    📌 58

Many of the same people trying to convince you that Trump didn't actually mean the racist things he definitely said are trying to convince you that Mamdani definitely meant the thing he never actually said.

30.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 484    🔁 123    💬 5    📌 7
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

30.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Supreme Court lifts limits on Trump deporting migrants to countries not their own The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations.

MY GOD. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

23.06.2025 21:09 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

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