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Film noir. Loud guitars. Cats, dogs, but not for dinner. Occasionally overqualified, by the looks of it. 30 years on air. Gave it up to travel. Was once in the same room as David Bowie. Next time I'm coming back as a handsome billionaire. Indie left.

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · Jan 6

I'm gonna share this as a public service. Also, because I want to come back to it when I've got time.
Screw the mainstream.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Dec 31

Here are 15 newsletters I subscribe to:

Citation Needed
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
Emptywheel
Letters from an American
Off Message
Platformer
Popular Information
Public Notice
Punchbowl
Status
The Downballot
The Liberal by Tom Watson
The Message Box
Today’s Edition Newsletter
Weekend Reading

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 4h

😂

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 4h

Embarrassing doesn't begin to describe Taco

yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 4h

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 4h

Free advice

Natty🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🏐🏈🐕🐴📎 @grillnatty.bsky.social · 1d

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 5h

He won't be lonely, that's for sure

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 5h

I hope the Portland Frog is the trendy costume for Halloween

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7h

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 5h

The "unifying" president speaks

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20h

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 5h

Wisdom

yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 5h

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 6h

Looks like Kristi Noem is hands on? 🙁

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE GOONS shot and killed a family dog in Texas and then fled the scene.

ICE agents shot and killed a family dog in Texas and then fled the scene.

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 6h

In case you need a reason to get off tiktok, which will unquestionably become right wing propaganda once it gets sold to trump's pals

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 6h

These people are so out of touch with regular folk like you and me

Sahara Stevens ❤️🇺🇸 @sahara-stevens.bsky.social · 6h

Did Mike Johnson really say that Social Security is ruining the lives of Americans?

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 6h

Should there be a heaven, I would hope that the standards would exclude this guy from being allowed in

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 6h

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound. I may be in heaven now as we fly Air Force One

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 7h

That could be an explosion of nuclear proportions!

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 7h

The trouble with capitalism is that it's run by criminals

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

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.

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 7h

There's no question he's lighting matches all over the place, hoping for an inferno

Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 7h

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 7h

He's protecting his people from up there, making sure the perimeter is secure 😁🤙

mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 14h

Trump by numbers

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 14h

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 15h

Wow

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 15h

😁 True

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20h

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone talking about this??

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 16h

I'm fairly certain now that the US government is now an auction house.

Sold Ray GIF

ALT: Sold Ray GIF

media.tenor.com

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 18h

An indication that everything is upside down and ass backwards is when MTG....makes sense?

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I've been in the Capitol, and there's two things I couldn't find this week: I couldn't find anywhere the Epstein files and also couldn't find the Republican plan to fix the absolutely destroyed health insurance industry."

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 18h

😎

Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 1d

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 1d

I tried an online cognitive test because I had no idea what it was about.

Happy to report I aced it (its really quite easy).

Anyway. I oughta be president.

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 1d

Thankfully, he does have his clothes

Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you Annette! 🙏😊💙

A protest sign saying
The Emperor has no Clues

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mrcairo77x.bsky.social @mrcairo77x.bsky.social · 1d

I'm antifascist

I'm "radical" like that

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