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Carter Sanders

@carter-sanders.bsky.social
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Software guy. Enthusiastic theatergoer. Student of Spanish. Interested in US history and politics. Fascism resister.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow. Tucker Carlson is courting the neo-Nazi vote.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absent from this very long article is an important question: why aren't the parents who gave their infant e-coli-tainted raw goat's milk from a shady vendor getting called in by family services for parental neglect and child abuse?
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The right-wing justices are starting to feel some heat. Alito, Roberts, and especially Thomas have all repeatedly failed to recuse themselves, when appropriate. Alito never would have done this a few years ago. He must understand that a change is coming, and SCOTUS reform is a real possibility.
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US Supreme Court's Alito won't participate in climate case involving oil companies
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in ​an upcoming case involving a bid by oil companies to scuttle ‌a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for helping fuel climate change, a co...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is how you do it! We need more journalists like Jim DeFede grilling the Republicans who take credit for things that they voted against. Wake up, South Miami. You're getting played.
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She Voted NO Then Took The Money #exposed
YouTube video by Isaiah Martin
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's nice to see James Talarico successfully courting black voters in Texas. Keep it up! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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James Talarico, Seeking Black Votes in Texas Senate Rate, Wins Crucial Endorsement (Gift Article)
The Congressional Black Caucus’s political wing backed James Talarico, who defeated a Black opponent in the primary. He faces Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general, in November.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Our World In Data site is great for understanding things like measles cases rates. Here's a graph of US measles cases/yr in the last 10yrs. You can use settings to switch between a linear and log graph, as needed. Conclusion: current rate is very bad in the 10yrs context, but not for 100yrs.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ok, I'm putting a stake in the ground: When Trump finally leaves office, I think it will be before the end of his term, and I predict all three major stock market indices will bump up at least 1.3% over the following five business days. Let's call it the mad king exit dividend. What do you think?
AI image of Donald Trump depicted as a drooling, deranged, and unhealthy-looking figure with a scepter, crown, and ermine cape.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This lying, unrepentant murderer of aid workers should be tried at the Hague for war crimes.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is a classic Trump supporter fallacy: many assume that any business doing well right now is *because* of Trump's policies, rather than *in spite of* them. Same for the stock market. And they really, really don't want to see the receipts.
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The Trump effect on our business, in excruciating detail
YouTube video by Farming While Beige
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The national debt just hit 40 trillion ($119K per person), and the bond market rates hit a nineteen-year high a few days ago. And the bond market isn't buying Scott Bessent's robbing Peter to pay Paul bullshit. This is bad.
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Why Treasury Secretary Bessent's moves to calm the bond market haven't worked so far
Interest rates rebounded Thursday despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Trump administration is canceling another offshore wind project and is paying a premium to the contract holder to invest in natural gas instead. This will increase utility power costs, and it is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing to address anthropogenic climate change.
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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases (Gift Article)
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I don't think any two consecutive holders of an office have ever had a greater difference in their level of class than Obama vs. Trump.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is what governing on behalf of the people looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New York City becomes first in the US to ban deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Fascism depends on outrage fatigue. Don't let the bastards grind you down. Or, as Margaret once wrote: "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum".
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Republicans are always going on about dead people voting. Wonder if Mitch McConnell will be one of them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“You can significantly politicize the federal workforce by firing them, and then loosening the standards and restrictions on which you bring people in...” www.notus.org/agencies/dog...
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DOGE Is Officially Ending. Agencies Are Hiring Again.
The government is even encouraging agencies to bring more services in-house.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026
Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The seriousness of this threat can't be overstated. Four out of five Supreme Court justices, including the Chief Justice, just ignored the plain text of the Constitution to fulfill the wishes of a wannabe dictator. We're literally one SCOTUS Justice seat away from fascism.
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‘Unhinged and racist’: Hayes EVISCERATES Trump’s birthright argument
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“If you zoom in on the guitarist’s sunglasses you can see a crowd of less than a dozen people… the organizers appear to have recently deleted that image.” 😬 🕶️
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This was surprising, but good for them! www.them.us/story/daught...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Live Up to Their Name by Rejecting Ban on Trans Women
“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else.”
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The likely motivation for a douchebag like Dr. Mercola who's gotten rich on medical disinformation switching sides is that a large portion of his total addressable market of rubes read about enough dead babies to change their minds. The data was clear decades ago.
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Sunnieskye @sunnieskye.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Heather Cox Richardson has been posting vids that celebrate the American spirit via our past. They’re called 250 to 250, and I love watching them! This one is about Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, and why he performed the blazing rendition of our anthem. TIL he was a paratrooper in our armed services.
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Jimi Hendrix’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” Live at Woodstock, Narrated by Justice Brown
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/06/2026
A woman in Alberta had an unexpected run-in with a grizzly bear while walking her dog in the Canadian Rockies on Wednesday. She captured the entire encounter on video. trib.al/0nlH3Hj
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A Close Call With an Alberta Grizzly Bear, Recorded in Its Entirety
A woman in Alberta, Canada, recorded the bear as it circled her and her dog near a campsite and lodge.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Pro-fascist juries accelerate fascism. As described in the reporting, only the man who shot and wounded an ICE agent seems to have committed a real felony. A bunch of bootlicking Texan jurors rubber-stamped a slew of trumped-up felonies, including carpooling, like good little fascists.
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Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth continues his purge of the military’s senior ranks, as General Chris “C. D.” Donahue, widely seen as one of the Army’s rising stars, will step down, Nancy A. Youssef and Missy Ryan report.
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Another Top General Is Out at the Pentagon
C. D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tulsi Gabbard was easily the dumbest and most gullible DNI this country has ever had. When she was a girl, she fell for a cult hook, line, and sinker. Then for her Dad's evangelical bullshit, then Putin's propaganda, and then for the Trumpism cult. She's been a dimwitted rube her whole life.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If Kamala Harris had talked like this, she would have had a much better chance of winning.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Obviously, the Boogeyman Antifa organization has agents trained in algae-based terrorism. It couldn't just be that Trump's sleazy no-bid pool contractor buddy is incompetent. Or that the laws of physics and well-understood algae phenomena are at play.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In the first Trump administration, there were a few empty checkboxes on the fascist scorecard. One was regarding women as brood mares for the state, not full citizens. With the Dobbs decision and MAGA tradwives arguing to undo the 19th amendment, we can check that box, too.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ten years ago, I never thought I'd see the day when the US Secretary of Defense was unwelcome at D-Day anniversary celebrations. The Trump administration has done unprecedented damage to our alliances. share.google/y7U3NIIPh3v0...
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Residents of French village say US defense chief Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday marked the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings with a visit to Normandy, but did not attend the international ceremony hosted in Langrune-...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
TW ⚠️— NPR shares video of an Israeli double tap, bombing Medics who responded after they bombed a family
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One thing that makes most Democrats better people than most Republicans is that we call out our bad apples. DWS screwed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary. She is corrupted by payday loan industry & AIPAC campaign contributions. And she wants to take a historically black seat. I hope that she loses.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Has Hegseth finished that “investigation” of what happened on the bombing of the elementary school where all those kids are killed? Americans talked about My Lai for years. Decades. Now nothing seems to matter anymore and we just move on. When do we get the findings from that?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.
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The Real Cost of War
Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I don't believe Jill Biden's claim at all. We'll never know just how pivotal her influence was in Joe Biden's terrible decision to run, but I suspect she bears at least 25% of the blame, and I bet she could have stopped it. He was so obviously clueless in this Juneteenth video two weeks earlier.
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Biden appears to freeze during Juneteenth celebrations at the White House
YouTube video by The Telegraph
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If there was ever any doubt in your mind that the Republican voters as a group are rotten to their core, if you thought their support of Trump was an anomaly, or that most of their souls hadn't withered away, the most odious, corrupt AG in US history just pulled 64% in a Republican primary.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Do you know what you *don't* see in this picture? The brand. I've noticed that in the last two iterations of Teslas, the brand has become less and less prominent. I don't think that I've ever seen any other car manufacturer do this in my lifetime.
Back end of a sleek, black electric sedan. No brand name is visible.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/05/2026
"Our allies have earned their place among us. If it weren’t for them, more American combat veterans would be buried in Arlington, and more Gold Star families would be enduring the unimaginable today."
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This Memorial Day, Remember the Afghans Who Saved American Lives
We dishonor the fallen if we forget what they fought for.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My decision to buy a plug-in hybrid seventeen months ago seemed like it might be an extravagance at the time. Today, not so much. The average price of premium gas where I live is $6.62. I just did an electric-only 54-mile round trip for $2.84 plus whatever tiny amount I paid to charge at home.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Trump has never sued any of the many people who’ve called him a pedophile because, clearly, a lawyer has explained (1) how discovery works; and (2) how truth is an absolute defense in a defamation action.
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Carter Sanders @carter-sanders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This is a perfect example of a civil rights violation that we Democrats need to vigorously prosecute when we retake power. Sheriff Weeks should be charged by the DOJ, as should bootlicking Judge Katerina Moore, who set the bail at 2 million dollars.
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He Was Jailed Over a Charlie Kirk Post. The Sheriff Now Owes Him $835,000.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/05/2026
Elim Chan is the first woman to be named music director of the San Francisco Symphony, one of the nation’s top orchestras. “When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” she said in an interview. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”
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Elim Chan Becomes First Female Music Director of San Francisco Symphony
Elim Chan has been named the symphony’s next music director. She joins a small field of female conductors at American orchestras, as San Francisco rebuilds after Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...
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