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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 7h

Wow! I’m pleasantly surprised!

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Legal Weed 4 SC 🌱 @legalweed4sc.bsky.social · 12h

Columbia, SC, march to the governor's mansion! #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 10h

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

Coast Guard Reportedly Spent $172 Million On Private Jets For Kristi Noem’s Use

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

www.forbes.com

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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 21h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Holy City Sinner @holycitysinner.com · 13h

More Than 1,300 Animals Overwhelm Berkeley and Charleston Sheltering System holycitysinner.com/lifestyle/mo...

More Than 1,300 Animals Overwhelm Berkeley and Charleston Sheltering System

Charleston Animal Society is sounding the alarm: both its Main Campus in North Charleston and its Berkeley Campus in Moncks Corner are beyond capacity, with more than 1,300 animals currently in the or...

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 9h

They are literally taking away contraception from women.

FYI…there are 14 counties in SC that do not have an obgyn.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Since @jkbjournalist.bsky.social hasn't posted this here yet:
"Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with, a former top Florida prosecutor who worked on his sweetheart plea deal, new docs show." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2008 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

www.miamiherald.com

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 10h

Hahahahahaha! I like ur CAVA bag!

eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 10h

Beautiful!!!

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Holy City Sinner @holycitysinner.com · 10h

SC residents face rising health insurance rates as shutdown impacts subsidies abcnews4.com/newsletter-d...

SC residents face rising health insurance rates as shutdown impacts subsidies

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a governm,ent program funding

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 12h

Makes me wonder why the ppl at DOT is attracted to Schumer and Jeffries in a dress…

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 13h

25 days for working in a gun store and not knowing it was a real gun? Unbelievable

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15h

Profiles in Cowardice. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 14h

Any word about this from Graham? Scott? Mace?🦗🦗🦗

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 14h

Sign of the day…

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 18h

Good for him to speak out! He’s braver than the GOP Congress!

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 1d

But she says it with a giant cross on…doesn’t that mean we should believe her? 🙄

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 1d

Again, I’m baffled by the lack of knowledge the Speaker has about what’s going on in the country.

eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 1d

When I don’t go to work I don’t get paid…too bad Johnson doesn’t understand this concept.

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eightmjc.bsky.social @eightmjc.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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