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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 6h

Makes me feel old

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

Jordy: Republicans control every branch of government. Every day that passes with the gov shut down is another reminder that Trump and the GOP would rather protect pedos than ensure people have health care. Because once the government reopens, you know what’s coming—a vote on the Epstein files.

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 7h

I love watching this grow. I love adding contributors like Phang and Gill.

Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 7h

Terrible fucking idea

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50501 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 📎 @50501horrycounty.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe Mike Johnson will work for Argentina since we seem to have 20 billions to spend on Argentina’s bailout but not enough money to fund SNAP without cuts.

How is it that our taxes can be used for this?

What about America first ?!?

What is Argentina giving Trump- another fucking golf course?!

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 7h

He looks really bald

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 7h

Mass shooting:
2 dead and 3 injured in shooting at Truth Bar and Grill in Anderson, South Carolina.

Deceased identified as Calvin Chester Jr, and Roymad McDaniel. Ages not given.

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 10h

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 7h

2 wounded in shooting in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 7h

People love to bone

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9h

The U.S. Constitutional system, when adopted abroad, has always collapsed into dictatorship.

It’s why the State Department nation building efforts have always modeled parliamentary systems.

We may be at the “Admit it is broken at the core” stage.

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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 8h

This Tribe is taking on coal.

The Northern Cheyenne have a long history of defending their land from coal mining.

Now, they're showing how to make clean energy progress and developing solar infrastructure for their community.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 8h

2 wounded in shooting in Greenwood, South Carolina.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 10h

2 wounded in shooting in Stockton, California.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 10h

3 wounded in shooting in Waynesboro, Georgia.

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 9h

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14h

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 13h

1 dead and 1 injured in shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Linda Mack @trueblue77.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Birthday
AOC!Thank you
for all your hard
work!!🤩

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · Mar 11

Who agrees with AOC....

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 15h

2 wounded in shooting in Salinas, California.

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 1d

Respect the fact that in California this is being voted on by the people and not a state legislature elected by already gerrymandered districts!

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the day I went to Diane Keaton's house was what finally made me start a Substack.

My Day with Diane Keaton and Her Dogs

Think barking dogs in lieu of runaway lobsters

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 1d

They’re eating the dogs!

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Bob Carter @bobcat777.bsky.social · 1d

This is a problem

Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the inequality

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.