Mary Nasca

Why are we doing this? What will this accomplish? Tell us why. Explain to us how this will make us safer, our lives better.

Why?? 2/2

When you are trained as a community organizer, you are challenged to articulate your why. As in, why you are in the work. Deep and authentic organizing work is predicated on deeply understanding your own reasons for engaging in it.

So my question right now is — why? 1/2

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Might I suggest that the U.S. Congress publicly debate, deliberate, and vote on going to war beforehand.

You know, as required by the U.S. Constitution.

In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative."

Shirer, The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, 242

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Meanwhile, the slaughter at sea continues.

No telling what a military that engages in a months long killing spree outside the law might do.

The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records

Still waiting to see if there's a time when the views Murdoch airs in WSJ affect the coverage he oversees on Fox.

Bc Murdoch could change public opinion pretty quickly...

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

Trump administration's embattled FDA vaccine chief is leaving for the second time The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.

During his tenure Vinay Prasad
-Tried to block review of mRNA flu vaccine
-Demanded a sham-controlled trial for promising immunotherapy for huntingtons raising ethical concerns for patients.
-Imposed new warnings & study requirements for some biotech drugs and vaccines
apnews.com/article/vina...

It continues to astonish me that more newsrooms are not laser-focused on getting to the bottom of this story. Yes, I realize there’s now a massive multi-country war and elective energy crisis to deal with

This story is quite possibly at the heart of the Epstein case and why the president and his loyalists are going so far to suppress and distract from the files

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

(Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

just so people know, this photo is from 10 months ago and it's the DC gas station that's just always expensive

Last July. Art of the Deal.

Construction Contracts Awarded for ICE Detention Facilities in Maryland and Arizona The federal government awarded renovation contracts Sunday for two warehouses — in Maryland and Arizona — as the government races to expand its detention network.

The federal government awarded contracts Sunday to renovate two warehouses, each designed to hold 1,500 people, into immigration detention and processing facilities in Maryland and Arizona, according to contract records. The Maryland facility is scheduled for completion by May.

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

And you’re a fool to be worried about how you’ll be able to afford to heat your home. Or drive to work.

A reflection on International Women’s Day Today I am thinking of women who will never be.

Today, International Women’s Day, I am thinking of girls who will never become women. And the callousness of men who hold great power but very little care.

How we will never be safe unless we have world leaders who hold safety as a core value. I mourn these girls.
open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

Anyone who believed this was not paying attention.

Post Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table. 4:19 PM • Mar 8, 2026 CEverybody can reply 276 reposts 699 quotes 685 likes 36 saves 184 ① 975 685

This is an irresponsible, misleading post that misrepresents what Leavitt said. There's enough awful stuff happening. Don't confuse people.

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

The footage shows that at one point an MPD officer asks Jackson and the DOGE lawyer if the USIP building is owned by the General Services Administration (which typically deals with the federal government’s real estate). “It’s a private building, and that’s why we need MPD,” Jackson says.

BREAKING: US will order nonessential diplomats and families to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran escalates retaliation, officials say

Another day of interest on the tariffs Trump collected and refuses to give back. American consumers paid the tariffs, American taxpayers pay the interest on Trump holding onto the money as long as possible. Every day the bill goes up.

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

I was asked by Jake Tapper if my push to deny Trump funding for his illegal war with Iran was a failure to "support our troops".

My answer: refusing to repeat the mistakes of the past - sending soldiers to die in pointless Middle East wars - is how we support our troops