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Marsha

@staunchginger.bsky.social

Freelance writer, journalist, and editor. I lean…forward.

417 Followers  |  125 Following  |  36 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.5687

Latest posts by staunchginger.bsky.social on Bluesky

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

25.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 47552    🔁 14336    💬 524    📌 604

This is becoming a very long January.

16.01.2026 04:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Naughty or nice? A visit from Krampus has been a Bavarian and alpine tradition for centuries. It's still catching on in North America.

My latest story on Substack.

14.12.2025 22:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It takes a village to raise a Christmas tree - Gig Harbor Now The city of Gig Harbor's Christmas tree has roots at Joint Base Lewis McChord and in a community's desire to celebrate the holiday.

My latest story is about a city’s Christmas tree tradition.

09.12.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To create is human Keep the day job if you must, but don't forget to play. Connecting with our creative self is just as important as any other thing that we do.

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04.12.2025 23:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Washington Way program aims to make corrections centers healthier for everyone - Gig Harbor Now The old way resulted in chronic health problems for staff and worse outcomes for inmates. The Washington Corrections Center for Women is trying a new way.
29.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Carving in their footsteps Alaska Native Dylan Sanidad is helping to keep the tradtions of his people alive as a totem pole carver, and mask dancer.

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27.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s nothing quite like a reading nook. It took letting go of a few things to make room for it, but I now have a chair, pretty foot rest, small table, lamp, and cozy blanket set up in my room. After a long work day, I’m now ready to reeeelaxxxx.

15.11.2025 02:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WSMAG.NET | Mastering a Unique Art | Featured, People & Places | November 12, 2025 | WestSound Magazine He just sold the most challenging piece he's ever created, and the awards are stacking up for Gig Harbor scratchboard artist Steve Hammond.

My latest story for WestSound Magazine.

15.11.2025 00:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New program helps incarcerated women get ink un-done - Gig Harbor Now The tattoo removal program at the Washington Corrections Center for Women helps remove traumatic symbols, thanks to Lissé Medical Aesthetics of Gig Harbor.

My latest story for Gig Harbor Now.

16.10.2025 03:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Thriving Generation group aims to get families to put their phones down - Gig Harbor Now Thriving Generation, a newly formed group, hosts a campaign kickoff on Oct. 10 and hopes families will participate in a phone-free weekend in November.

A local group called Thriving Generation, organized by educators, faith leaders and medical professionals, is trying to encourage kids to put down their phones and interact IRL.

A campaign kickoff event is scheduled for Oct. 10 at Gateway Park.
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01.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 32125    🔁 15435    💬 646    📌 726
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Katharine Graham’s father bought The Washington Post in 1933. These 7 principles have basically been the bedrock of journalism, and still are for many. But, I wonder what she and her father would think of that paper now?

19.03.2025 01:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A refugees memories of Voice of America. What Trump is doing is monstrous.

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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

19.02.2025 22:04 — 👍 32309    🔁 15140    💬 1122    📌 1858

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.

But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

16.02.2025 03:04 — 👍 23474    🔁 3901    💬 721    📌 188

Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

16.02.2025 23:11 — 👍 15538    🔁 2866    💬 240    📌 107
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

07.02.2025 19:47 — 👍 27017    🔁 11559    💬 702    📌 790

Feel kind of like I did on 9/11. Am I supposed to write, and work, while the country is under attack? Except this time I’m not in an office, surrounded by co-workers feeling the same emotions. God help us all.

05.02.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you are looking for a good coming-of-age memoir that explores the many intricacies of family heritage, pain, and triumph, Both Sides of Then, by Jennifer Griffith delivers.

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Jan. 4, 1925: Italy's Fascist regime gives police prefects orders to close down opposition newspapers and clubs, a day after PM Benito Mussolini vowed to rule as a dictator. Over the next few days officers aided by Blackshirt militia will raid hundreds of houses and offices. 1/2

04.01.2025 17:44 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 3

Goals for 2025: Remain staunch. Make it count.

02.01.2025 23:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

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Doing well and doing good are more synergistic than many corporations think. It's not either/or...It's both/and.

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Ringing in the New Year hits differently this year.

22.12.2024 01:16 — 👍 27806    🔁 6140    💬 235    📌 104
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The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.

ICYMI.

19.12.2024 13:12 — 👍 2077    🔁 940    💬 104    📌 163

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