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Beth McCarthy

@bethmccarthy4.bsky.social

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💙 70 year old 💙 forever democrat 💙retired healthcare professional 🩵 appalled by the trajectory our country is on.💙Let's protect our country in the interest of our youth.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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John Lehman 🇨🇦 @johnlehman.bsky.social · 1d

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Fight For Democracy and Freedom @fightfascism1.bsky.social · 1d

Fight like hell Y'all.
If we sit idly by, it will all be over.

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Beth McCarthy @bethmccarthy4.bsky.social · 1d

Tell him to pack up his shit and leave democracy alone. Your dream of a white America is fading quickly.

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 1d

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 1d

yet another treasonous far left media figure looking the other way as criminal antifa mobs loiter in the streets of our once great cities....

hefty white cat Seven looking away from a small crowd of people who are standing in the road for some reason

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 1d

Photo to go in the history books!!

(If they’re still allowed)
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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 1d

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

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SUFA-Indivisible @sufa-indivisible.bsky.social · 1d

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Beth McCarthy @bethmccarthy4.bsky.social · 1d

I am sick and tired of 91-year-old Chuck Grassley allowing these rude and despicable Cabinet members to scream and yell, losing their shit as they attack sitting Senators. There used to be something called decorum in the Senate and Congressional chambers. Now it is something like Jerry Springer.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Al GDad1x7 @gdad1x7.bsky.social · 1d

Something we can all agree upon

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d

“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

lataco.com/bayron-rovid...

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Beth McCarthy @bethmccarthy4.bsky.social · 1d

You, Senator Johnson, were not surveilled, call logs were looked into, not because you were a republican, but because you were complicit in trying to overturn a fair and legal election. Remember you hand delivered toe fake electorate? I remember, and you were lucky that they didn't surveil you.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

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The Emerging Shape of American Politics

Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 1d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Steve Starer @uncommonman1941.bsky.social · 2d

Here's three fucks to give

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Thomm53 @thomm53.bsky.social · 3d

100% THIS!

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Beth McCarthy @bethmccarthy4.bsky.social · 2d

The military in the streets combined with the well outfitted and well armed militia being amassed by Noemi, et al, to scare people, not to mention what it has done to tourism. This militia, I mean ICE agents, have proved they have no problem using violence against innocent people. I am very afraid.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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