tmccarthy
@teemccarthy.bsky.social
A Long Island native, a lover of Jesus, a lifelong servant of teens, a mega fan of their ridiculously funny & random humor, an avid reader, a music explorer, a curse word aficionado, and a 💔confronter of Christo-fascism, 💙 INFP, she/her
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@teemccarthy.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) | Playing For Change | Song Around the World
YouTube video by Playing For Change
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“He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.”
Deuteronomy 10:18 NIV
Deuteronomy 10:18 NIV
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I can’t explain how delighted I am with words, but a picture might…😁😎💞
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I can’t explain how delighted I am with words, but a picture might…😁😎💞
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Don’t forget their votes for Gabbard!
contrarian.substack.com/p/its-time-f... Worst Political Oxymoron: “Moderate Republicans” in Congress are as real as unicorns. ..quislings such as Cassidy voted to confirm RFK, Ernst and Tillis gave thumbs up to Hegseth, and Collins and Murkowski confirmed Bondi.
The "Powerful" who Cowered in 2025
It’s time for the lists!
contrarian.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Don’t forget their votes for Gabbard!
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Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it.
Here’s how to use it.
Rx Inspector: ProPublica’s New Tool Provides Drug Info the FDA Won’t
We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like.
Here’s how to use it.
Here’s how to use it.
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NYT: “Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship”
This was never just about illegal immigration. We are all living in Stephen Miller’s racist fever dream. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
This was never just about illegal immigration. We are all living in Stephen Miller’s racist fever dream. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NYT: “Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship”
This was never just about illegal immigration. We are all living in Stephen Miller’s racist fever dream. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
This was never just about illegal immigration. We are all living in Stephen Miller’s racist fever dream. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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WATCH — @pabloreports.bsky.social : “Do you think you could beat JD Vance in a head to head race for president as polling suggests?”
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “Listen, these polls 3 years out are what they are… but let the record show: I would stomp him.” ‼️
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “Listen, these polls 3 years out are what they are… but let the record show: I would stomp him.” ‼️
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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One thing is clear this morning…MTG is a horrible human being, and she has a shit-load of company. Along with protecting our immigrant brothers and sisters, we have to make sure this oppression against our trans siblings doesn’t stand either. 🤢💔🤢
What is HR 3492 and will it ban trans healthcare nationally?
The US House will vote on bill HR 3492 later today, here's how the law could ban trans youth care nationally.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
One thing is clear this morning…MTG is a horrible human being, and she has a shit-load of company. Along with protecting our immigrant brothers and sisters, we have to make sure this oppression against our trans siblings doesn’t stand either. 🤢💔🤢
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A Texas widow received an immigration approval letter for her husband months after he was killed in an ICE facility shooting. The letter would have allowed him to pursue a visa or green card, arriving only after his death. (NBC-DFW5)
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A Texas widow received an immigration approval letter for her husband months after he was killed in an ICE facility shooting. The letter would have allowed him to pursue a visa or green card, arriving only after his death. (NBC-DFW5)
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I just watched his “speech”. I’m so glad I waited to raise my blood pressure until now. Otherwise, I would have been up all night. Two random things jumped out: 1.) “His cadence and tone sounds like Hitler.” And
2.) Thank God for sanity checks on Bluesky. I don’t know what I’d do without you.💞
2.) Thank God for sanity checks on Bluesky. I don’t know what I’d do without you.💞
I consider myself a fairly patient person, but I can't listen to another second of this ridiculous, wheezing idiot. I'm done. Nothing he is saying aligns with anything that is really happening in the real world.
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I just watched his “speech”. I’m so glad I waited to raise my blood pressure until now. Otherwise, I would have been up all night. Two random things jumped out: 1.) “His cadence and tone sounds like Hitler.” And
2.) Thank God for sanity checks on Bluesky. I don’t know what I’d do without you.💞
2.) Thank God for sanity checks on Bluesky. I don’t know what I’d do without you.💞
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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Many thanks to Delano Massey at Axios for this very cool profile www.axios.com/2025/12/13/j...
Joy Reid's next act: building her own media empire
"They don't protect us," she said of legacy media organizations. "We have to build our own."
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Many thanks to Delano Massey at Axios for this very cool profile www.axios.com/2025/12/13/j...
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American Doc back from Gaza to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “I did not see a ceasefire. I cared for patients with new shrapnel & gunshot injuries daily.”
Full: substack.com/@teamzeteo/n...
Full: substack.com/@teamzeteo/n...
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
American Doc back from Gaza to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social : “I did not see a ceasefire. I cared for patients with new shrapnel & gunshot injuries daily.”
Full: substack.com/@teamzeteo/n...
Full: substack.com/@teamzeteo/n...
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Creative tactic from @bostonindivisible.bsky.social and friends! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
Boston rebels against Trump immigration policies with an ‘ICE Tea Party’ - The Boston Globe
They dumped ice into Boston Harbor, a moment of dramatic irony Tuesday on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Creative tactic from @bostonindivisible.bsky.social and friends! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...
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NYT reports U.S. heating costs are expected to rise 9.2% this winter, pushing the average household’s heating bill to nearly $1,000, as electricity and natural gas prices climb and federal heating assistance has been cut.
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
NYT reports U.S. heating costs are expected to rise 9.2% this winter, pushing the average household’s heating bill to nearly $1,000, as electricity and natural gas prices climb and federal heating assistance has been cut.
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NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
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NEW: As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.
Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statem...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NEW: As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.
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NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social, photography by Brian Otieno
My very first response: “Are you fucking kidding me?!?”
Cliche response, I know but still… Are you fucking kidding me?!?
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHETERNALSCREAM…!!!
Cliche response, I know but still… Are you fucking kidding me?!?
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHETERNALSCREAM…!!!
COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven't done it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
RICK SCOTT: Why didn't Democrats fix it?
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My very first response: “Are you fucking kidding me?!?”
Cliche response, I know but still… Are you fucking kidding me?!?
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHETERNALSCREAM…!!!
Cliche response, I know but still… Are you fucking kidding me?!?
ARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHETERNALSCREAM…!!!
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday and there’s a lot to know about what the stakes are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Jack Smith Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee
Making sense of the circus
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday and there’s a lot to know about what the stakes are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Here we are again.
We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.
www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...