Marcy

Wife | Mom | Misfit | And not either/or | passionate about others | suffers from foot in mouth disease too often

[Marcy @bgandbugs]

@KIRO7Seattle You're 9 days late posting this. Cal has been tearing it up in a rehab assignment at AAA Tacoma (Rainiers) for a week now. He'll return to the Mariners any time now.

[Marcy @bgandbugs]

@Halo_chains Our church started.packing bags full of "easy to prepare" items for kids who need a bridge of food over the weekends. (Free lunch is standard for our district but hunger invades over the weekend!) We all donate and the seniors pack the bags at their monthly luncheon.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

It is hard to name the kind of grief you feel as you watch the Christian movement that raised you continually justify the most vile things, all for the sake of power, influence, and money.

It’s hard to name the grief of knowing that there is nothing so vile they won’t justify.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

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[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Grateful to @SenJeffMerkley for allowing me time to explain the con job that Trump has pulled when it comes to "enforcing the law." As I say: "It's a total misdirection to blame the county when the Department of Homeland Security isn't even following the law that they passed."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.

You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

In Rep. Tony Gonzales, Republicans have a sexual predator in their midst who relentlessly pursued a married staffer which ultimately resulted in her suicide, and they refuse to do anything about it because they need his vote.

That is the 2026 Republican Party.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[Marcy @bgandbugs]

@1BethDutton Sun Cove?

[Marcy @bgandbugs]

The president (and his staff) reveals his true nature with this vile tweet. Offensive, inexcusable, and hateful.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If your child’s teacher were mentioned dozens of times in the Epstein files, you’d demand they be fired.

The presidency shouldn’t be exempt from that standard

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

I have learned over many years in office that politics ain’t beanbag.

But JD Vance’s attack and insult of my colleague, Tammy Duckworth, is low and beneath the dignity of a Vice President.

Senator Duckworth has never backed away from a fight, even with a Vice President. She has fought for and won a seat in the Senate where she fights for veterans, those with disabilities, and the people of our state.

J.D. Vance should focus on repairing the chaos his President has created, not on a Senator who has earned the respect of the Senate for her courage and effectiveness.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

In all my firearms training classes, spanning 20+ years, with law enforcement in the classes, plus Navy Seals, federal agents, sheriff deputies, special forces operators, Texas Supreme Court justices and more, spanning everything from pistols to rifles to long-range precision shooting, the #1 lesson every instructor taught us was, "YOU are responsible for every round that leaves the muzzle of your firearm."

Every member of law enforcement knows this. The ICE agent that shot Alex Pretti owns every round. And if he dispatched those rounds into a human being who was unarmed and did NOT pose an imminent threat of serious injury or death to other agents (since Pretti was on his knees, disarmed and being beaten in the face by other ICE agents), then the shooting of him was a legally unjustified shooting.

Literally every member of law enforcement knows this. They've all been trained with this principle. Every veteran knows this. The only people that don't know this are the low-information conservative influencers who really don't know much at all about firearms, combat or law. They've probably never trained with law enforcement or soldiers. I have. For years. I know what they're taught on this point, and they all know, 100%, this was a bad shooting. Trying to cover it up and say it was Alex's fault only makes people seem more uninformed and irrational.

Federal law enforcement agents do NOT have free reign to shoot anyone they want. They are required to follow the law. Yet now, under Trump, there is no rule of law, and ICE functions as a violent gang that seems willing to massacre anyone, for any reason, while wearing masks to protect their identities and prevent accountability, even though they are supposed to be working for the people of America. That's not acceptable. This escalation cycle of violence that's costing American lives must be halted. Removing illegals from America is an important action, but there are better and more effective ways to do it that don't require shooting and killing Americans in the streets of America's cities.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: A letter from Alex Pretti’s Final Nursing Student:

“I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.

Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.

It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.

Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.

Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.

Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”

[Marcy @bgandbugs]

This is horrid to watch but we cannot look away from what ICE is doing to people.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

He was filming.

He got pepper sprayed.

He was trying to crawl away.

They DRAGGED him into the fray, disarmed him.

Put him on his knees, and shot him in the head.

He never once reached for his gun.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

He was filming.

He got pepper sprayed.

He was trying to crawl away.

They DRAGGED him into the fray, disarmed him.

Put him on his knees, and shot him in the head.

He never once reached for his gun.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The worst of us are killing the best of us.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Five stories from just the last 24 hours:

1. Minnesota police chief says ICE has been unconstitutionally stopping & pulling guns on *his own* off-duty officers who are brown/black.

2. The Social Security Administration referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

3. Canada struck a historic trade deal with China, declaring them more "predictable" than the U.S., then its PM warned of a rupture with the U.S. and the "end of the rules-based international order."

4. Trump quietly pardoned a slew of more white collar criminals, almost all of whom were convicted of fraud.

5. NYTimes released an editorial documenting how Trump has made $1.4 billion (with a "b") dollars off the presidency in his first year in office -- just on the publicly documented trades and transactions.

That's legitimately 24 hours of news, and it's just scratching the surface.

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

Unhinged.