Marcus Mauney
Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
- Reposted by Marcus Mauneygo off jack white
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyOn this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyBreaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
- Reposted by Marcus Mauney"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash" ... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyFinneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyNEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
- Primary her bootlicking ass too then.
- “Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyOnce again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyMamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
- Really disappointed to add Stephen Lawhead, previously one of my favorite authors, to the growing list of bootlickers trying to profit off American fascism.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyHey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Marcus Mauney👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneySwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Marcus MauneySo weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
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- Reposted by Marcus MauneyPerfection
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyName them shame them
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- Reposted by Marcus MauneyReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyWhatever this is, it’s Not Good. This is a drastic step and obviously not meant to alert CIA Director Ratcliffe, rather to alert us. Given Wyden’s interest in privacy and surveillance and what’s going on around the country, I’d wager a bit of money that the CIA has been doing domestic things.
- Reposted by Marcus Mauneyone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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- Reposted by Marcus MauneyThe little smirk he quickly hides after "for what?" tells you absolutely everything you need to know about everyone involved.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyLost in all the other news today . . . More than 1,500 active-duty troops from Alaska & North Carolina had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend. Gift link => archive.ph/js8AQ
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyYES.
- Reposted by Marcus Mauney"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyIt’s time to start blaming all Republicans not just Trump. Trump could not do anything without them.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyUK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- I don't know how it happened. I don't know why it happened. But my Discover feed keeps dropping me into Big Brother BlueSky. No more. Please no more.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyTrump regularly berates journalists in front of large groups of people,they won’t even stand up for a colleague. Of course they don’t have the best interest of the American people at heart
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyThey’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyI keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.
- Reposted by Marcus Mauneyi don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyThis woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyAmerica, you have done some silly things recently, but failing to elect this man is right up there.
- Reposted by Marcus Mauneyit's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it
- This is a Federal agent for the United States government and according to the Trump regime and their followers if this person comes up to you screaming things you are to comply with what they say without question and if you don't you're a terrorist and they are allowed to murder you in the street.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyWhen animals like hedgehogs, pangolins and potato bugs (AKA rolly pollies or sow bugs) curl up into a defensive little ball it's called "Conglobation." Because they roll up into a cute little globe. In related news, here's an Armadillo Projection map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadil...
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyCasar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
- Reposted by Marcus Mauney🚨 There are corgis at the Pro Bowl 🚨
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyMSNBC broadcasts body cam footage of the FBI raid at the Fulton County elections office
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyAn honest review of the movie Melania.
- I just think its so awesome that the folks at @podsaveamerica.crooked.com and numerous other outlets want to make X/Twitter their primary social media hub. I guess just white knuckling it hoping the Europeans don't shut down the CSAM factory because you like to post there.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyIn 1977 NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft, including a CD with the song Johnny B. Goode, on a mission to study the solar system & beyond. The extraterrestrials who open it will get another CD every month from Columbia House at full price and be hounded for life by intergalactic debt collectors.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyKinda wild that these people are just in charge of things isn’t it
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyIf many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
- The perfect example of the whiplash we all live in nowadays. "The President may be a violent rapist and serial killer." "Oh look, a breakdown of Seattle's draft."
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyEmployees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation. #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News
- Reposted by Marcus Mauney🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyI like how the picture choice makes it look like he’s hearing the news
- Reposted by Marcus MauneyAOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.
- Reposted by Marcus MauneySimply incredible
- Reposted by Marcus Mauneythis is a good one storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
