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Struggling optimist/ Texan living in Costa Rica/mom/abuela/widow/hiker/joker/reader/napper/typo master #Kindness #Choice #Woke #Equality 🦋 heart means agree, not love or like 💙 🇺🇦 🕊️🇺🇸 🇨🇷💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏽

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · Dec 4

My ego is not my amigo.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 8h

This made me tear up

The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 13h

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The NYC contingent of @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social joined their fellow NYers in support of the #FirstAmendment and democracy @ #NoKings

Marchers were treated to - and joined in - a magnificent rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner on 7th Avenue (h/t Broadway’s Ken Jennings)
(Sound on!)
1/n

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 13h

This had to hurt

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

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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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 14h

Way to go Marble Falls 👏🏽👏🏿👏🏼

ps - i hope you had a piece of coconut ceam pie at Bluebonnet Cafe

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Dave 86-47 @bulldogdemocrat.bsky.social · 1d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

As a reminder, I put together a No Kings Day Playlist on Spotify to help keep you focused, encouraged, and positive, not just today but every day we fight against authoritarianism and for the people and place we love.

open.spotify.com/playlist/5n0...

John Pavlovitz's No Kings Day Playlist

open.spotify.com

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that Republican officials are having a debate about whether or not to condemn the Young Republicans Telegram chat says more about the party than even the chat does.

You support the evil which you are unwilling to condemn.

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

i thought Ezra Levin, one of the organizers of the No Kings gatherings, made such an important profound point yesterday. He said, "Our enemy here is not Trump, our enemy is fatalism and nihilism and cynicism."
Once you give up your power, the authoritarian wins.

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 1d

imagine the circumstances and conditions he survived and managed to learn to read and write

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody knows where to get their check!

Don’t forget to wear yellow.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 4d

👍🏽

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 4d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 4d

Eric, God does not need saving

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 5d

October 14 is a big day for . . On this day 😁

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 5d

Couldn’t pick a favorite segment, I love it all

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 7d

Critical cognitive issues when you don’t remember when you were President

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8d

THIS!! 👇👇

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 9d

Lots of eye rolling in Norway today along with the rest of the world

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 9d

Sure sign you don’t deserve it - campaign for it

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J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 9d

I guess he finished his mandated community service and . . wait for it . . ethics training

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 9d

Oh the optics . . .

J Carol 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @jcaroltx.bsky.social · 9d

Portland? That has to be a head scratcher even for Republicans. Honestly? Come on