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Randi Shepard Bauer

@becauseicare4u.bsky.social
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I believe there is nothing more important than building relationships and support systems and connecting with other people.

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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 13h
In January, is is the bill I want to see first. If you agree, call or write to your house rep and senators. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Here’s what the Democrats’ first bill should be if they win Congress
This edition of “Opinions” from Eric Schmeltzer asks if Democrats win Congress in November, what’s the first bill they should introduce?
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 23h
A long article, but it’s a great plan!! newrepublic.com/article/2161...
newrepublic.com
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Eisenhower warned of diverting the nation’s tax dollars to war at the expense of the people.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour
The man telling the New York Times he’s sorry he supported Trump is the same man telling his brother last week that white Americans are the real victims.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A lot of good points. He was 'the change' we needed 10 years ago.
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The Truth About Trump's State of the Union | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Wow! That really sums it up!!
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Cabinet Apocalypse
A News Review in an Imagined Conversation
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
youtu.be/2fS0HCRnSIE?... This says it. Worth watching
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HE'S DONE! Trump's nightmare CRASH may be how it ends: Melber has facts on the implosion, midterms
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
NOT LOOKING FORWARD to hearing the lies of a weak insecure man only interested in unlimited power and in squeezing every corrupt dollar out of the presidency that he can cram into his pockets.
newrepublic.com
The Real State of the Union: Millions of Americans Are Just Disgusted
Yes, we’re angry about what Donald Trump is doing to our country. But even more than that, we’re heartsick over the countless ways in which he is destroying this nation.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“You can see it in the opening and closing ceremonies, where the athletes from most nations all look kind of alike, but the American team comes in all the hues of our multi-racial country.”
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Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it.
Sports have always been political — it's just a question of who's speaking out.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... “People enforcing the law do not wear masks. And people wearing masks who trespass, assault, batter, and kill are not enforcing the law. They are violating it.”
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Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The seven Democratic representatives who voted yes to approve ICE funding were: Tom Suozzi (New York) Henry Cuellar (Texas) Don Davis (North Carolina) Laura Gillen (New York) Jared Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Washington) VOTE THESE GUYS OUT!!!!!
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is a great watch! Carney has proposed a great idea for a new world order. youtube.com/shorts/txmXB...
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The President Does Not Appear to Be Mentally Competent
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Nothing better states the current situation regarding world order than this! Please read it
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January 19, 2026
Late last night, Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour posted on social media that the staff of the U.S.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Here’s a warning to the Republicans: if you continue to allow this man to perpetrate war against his own people with impunity through the actions of ICE, you will be remembered as cowards and hypocrites.” -Paul Krugman ….
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Watch this, wrestling fans!!!!
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Being Liberal (@beingliberal)
This is surreal… just 10 years ago we lived in an alternate reality in which John Cena could record this… WTF has happened to US?
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This just proves that the plan (of Trump, and apparently Fox News) is to get people to act violently so Trump can declare the insurrection act.
newrepublic.com
Fox Airs Shockingly Deceptive Edit on Minneapolis Amid ICE Takeover
Fox News is changing the words of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, as ICE continues to violently crack down on residents there.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“After Minneapolis, Maduro’s lies are being repeated: in American English, by American authorities.” “Maduro used to claim that his opponents were part of a plot led by Trump. Now Trump can claim that his opponents are part of a plot led by Maduro.”
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Maduro in Minneapolis
Murderous Lies
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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The Mad Stamp Collector
Our Foreign Policy as Fable
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“(T)he attack on Powell and Good’s murder are part of the same story: Trump and his minions have zero tolerance for dissent. No matter who you are, if you stand up to them they will try to ruin your life any way they can, up to and including shooting you in the face.”
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Trump is Venezuelifying the United States
Cross him and his minions will try to destroy you — whoever you are
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I find this extremely hopeful, if only we had the bold world leaders to carry it out.
optimistdaily.com
Investing in planetary health could unlock $20 trillion a year by 2070, says UN report
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=px0r... I sure hope he’s right, because change isn’t going to happen until Republican lawmakers reach their limit. They can band together to protect themselves, and all of the rest of us as well.
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1 MIN AGO: Trump Declares Emergency Powers as Republicans Push Back | George Will
YouTube video by US Capitol Unmasked
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
substack.com/@ellenmitche...
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Disgusted (@ellenmitchell2)
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“ Over Trump’s first year in power, the price of cocaine in the United States has dropped steeply, the one price Trump has reduced.” -David Frum, The Atlantic
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Is the media waking up?
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
The press is starting to speak out. Thank you to MSNow’s Chris Jansing for just telling the goddamn truth.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Take a second to sign this
act.winwithoutwar.org
Tell Congress: Defund ICE
We refuse a status quo where masked federal agents can murder with impunity.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“We should be clear about what is happening. American fascism is on the march, and anyone who balks at saying that clearly, who makes excuses and pretends that Trump and the people he brought in aren’t monsters, is deeply unpatriotic… (see comments)
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“Let me be blunt: This is what happens when over 77 million Americans vote for such a lawless, reckless man, some 89 million choose to stay home, and John Roberts’ Supreme Court supermajority hands him near-total immunity….”
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Snapshot: A Deeply Appalling Press Conference
It's worse than I thought. Trump plans to "run" Venezuela and does not pretend he cares about anything beyond taking the oil.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
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NO U.S. Occupation In Venezuela
Trump keeps telling us that he’s going to stop endless wars and lower costs. Now, he’s spending taxpayer dollars to invade Venezuela, capture its President, Nicolás Maduro, and declare that the US wil...
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
OMFG!!! 😩
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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I like the idea that we should stop trying to pull the Supreme Court back from the precipice where it has settled, and be willing to push it off the edge. Read and circulate far and wide.
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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Worried about our national security?
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Donald Trump, Security Threat
The call is coming from inside the White House
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The dark turn of America’s prosperity started with Reagan, and is culminating in the shit show we have today.
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Young Americans Want a Reboot: Can They Build a Majority Big Enough to Overrule Big Money?
Expect a fight for healthcare access, debt relief, affordable housing, and a living wage that doesn’t require two full-time jobs…
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
WTF OMFG!!!! While I was asleep last night in Europe…
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December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
“Witkoff, Kushner, and Dmitriev designed their (Ukrainian peace) plan to bypass U.S. national security officials and create opportunities for U.S. businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to develop energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic.” 😳 -Heather Cox Richardson
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“…We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
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November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
„(T) his carnival barker who will say anything to try and manipulate people and pump himself up—repeats these same lies over and over, no matter how ridiculous they sound and how untethered from reality they are. This is all that Trump knows how to do.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/refusing-t...
americaamerica.news
Refusing to Buy Trump's Economic Lies
His increasingly transparent BS isn’t working as Americans struggle to make ends meet
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“…the net worth of the top 0.1% of households in the U.S. reached $23.3 trillion this year, while the bottom 50% hold $4.2 trillion. Campo-Flores outlined a world in which the “ultrarich” are living in luxury and increasingly sealed off from everyday people.”
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November 16, 2025
On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Posted by Political Witch on Substack
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
substack.com/@scottdegrof...
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Scott D (@scottdegroff)
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Seems pretty straightforward (and hopefully effective). Gotta love it!! substack.com/@jennifercan...
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Jennifer Canter (@jennifercanter)
Thank you to Rep Yassamin Ansari for this act of total badassery 🤩
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Now, if everybody would do what she did…. substack.com/@thedingodav...
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UPDATE: A born and bred Republican turns into a Democrat after actually doing the research.
This lady isn't MAGA, she was just duped. And she admits it, and advises others to do the research too!
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“With a president as unscrupulous as Trump, we need a precedent against imposing tariffs ON THE BASIS OF OBVIOUSLY FALSE CLAIMS OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY.”
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Trump Tariff Trouble
His doublethink may be too much even for the supine Supremes
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Lies are being told, big ones, gigantic ones, to generate some sense that the country is under attack — not by another country, but by its own cities. "There is nothing, in Portland, or any other city, or anywhere else in our country, that justifies the use of the word “war.”"… Timothy Snyder
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The push for more ICE officers has led to lowered recruiting standards, meaning there are now agents in the field who reportedly have criminal backgrounds, haven’t met the physical requirements, and who have failed drug tests.
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There’s only one party eager to starve people, and it isn’t the Democrats.
dailykos.com
The poor should starve, says Trump administration
Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will expire at the end of the month, impacting as many as 42 million people —16 million of them children.� And if you’re thinking that ...
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Trump's Reckless Threats With Our Troops www.americaamerica.news/p/trumps-rec...
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Trump's Reckless Threats With Our Troops
Got a Minute or Two? Mad Hattery and Other Outrages...in Japan
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
An Important Watch!! I cried. You’ll know when…
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When we say No Kings, we mean Freedom (video)
My speech in Cincinnati for the No Kings rally of October 17th
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Randi Shepard Bauer @becauseicare4u.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Trump DOJ Says It Will “Monitor” Polls in Blue States This Election “This faux concern about “election integrity” is rich coming from a president who can’t even admit that he lost an election fairly, and who has openly mused about breaking the law to run for a third term.”
newrepublic.com
Trump DOJ Says It Will “Monitor” Polls in Blue States This Election
The Justice Department made an alarming announcement about its plans for special elections this November.
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