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Carl Dershem

@carldershem.bsky.social

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Retired - now working primarily as a writer and musician. Books on Amazon, and working hard to improve my skills. I have my first million words done, and I'm working to be better. Playing music locally, and active in the Union. BKA practitioner.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

Cover of Merriam-Webster's All Caps dictionary, a red background with a white circle and text for people who are mad.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 6m

Cookie is a good name for a cat. 😸

Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 17m

Serial murder.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 3h

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 34m

Whippersnapper. 😜

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 47m

Trump’s second term has seen an unprecedented weaponization of National Guard deployments. So far, he’s targeted five Democratic-led cities across the country, and has threatened more.

📍Check out our new tracker to learn where things stand: bit.ly/42WhfJ0

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 2h

What Governor Whitmer has ACCOMPLISHED in Michigan is EXACTLY why we need MORE bad ass Governors like Mickie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger to join her in the fight. These women kick ass and Virginia and New Jersey can vote for them on November 4th!

PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 3h

What Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been able to accomplish in Michigan is so hopeful for the future of this country…
youtube.com/shorts/ShVj5...

Wait... some GOOD NEWS?

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

youtube.com

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 53m

All of these companies should be forever associated with destroying the White House.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2h

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 1h

The 'charity' being the Trump Presidential Library Fund.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · Sep 16

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries realists of a larger reality."
-Ursula K. Le Guin

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 2h

Three really good shows on that list. ☹️

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20h

This is the administration claiming to strip “waste and fraud” from the government

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Trump is head of the DOJ and demanding we pay him $230 million because, though guilty, he forced DOJ to drop the case, and now he is AGAIN a pathetic, whiney VICTIM. L

Every Republican needs to speak up or be asked about this by media. The grifter is grifting.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20h

we are at nearly at peak inflation level numbers on people seeing the economy as "getting worse"

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 20h

NEW Economist/YouGov
% of U.S. adult citizens saying they think that overall, the economy is getting better | worse...
At the start of Donald Trump's second term 19% | 37%
Now 19% | 53%
today.yougov.com/economy/arti...

A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Is the U.S. economy getting better or worse?."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Overall, do you think the economy is getting better or worse? (% of U.S. adult citizens)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown. Data for Sept. 26 - Nov. 14, 2020 is among registered voters only."

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 5h

Funneling money to their backers, instead of helping the people.

Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 1d

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth

Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500

www.bloomberg.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 20h

The West Wing is now just the Wing.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 5h

www.instagram.com/reel/DP6V3OX...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10h

It's weird that Republicans still want Hillary Clinton locked up for "running a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor," yet when Trump & Epstein actually ran a child sex ring out of Mar-a-Lago, they don't see the problem.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23h

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23h

Social Security is NOT a handout.

It is a benefit earned with every paycheck, and it must be protected and expanded, not cut, privatized, or means-tested.

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Carl Dershem @carldershem.bsky.social · 23h

A very popular one, it seems.

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