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Randy Cauthen

@cauthen.bsky.social
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Rhetorician, Mets fan (it builds character), and Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1h
I’m pretty worried about ICE/CBP going blue-flu to ratfuck the next Dem administration tbh. I don’t really think there’s a good counter to them doing malicious compliance and stopping even normal enforcement, then going “sorry, we had to let that child predator go, due to woke” to sympathetic media
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19h
Jim Bakker, the TV preacher brought down by sex and financial scandals, has died at 86. He and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, built a televangelism empire that ended in a spectacular collapse of greed, scandal, and excess.
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Everything is Final Fantasy @finalfantasypod.bsky.social · 9h
Trump: “I hope Iran kills millions of Americans” Trump audience: *Huge cheers* Media: “How Dems need to tone down the rhetoric heading into the midterms”
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 5h
He said it. They cheered. Don’t ever let them rewrite that. #SheShed
Graphic with white text on a dark background reading: “Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities. Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed. Not any Muslim. Trump. A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 19h
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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JacqueBlue @jacqueblue.bsky.social · 17h
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Becky J, 💙 💙 💙 @norcal208.bsky.social · 17h
Bat shit crazy youtu.be/8RcNBYPxEIk?...
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Listen to This Batsh*t-Crazy Trump Interview With TIME
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump & Hegseth are traitors to the United States and the Free World
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Glada @elems.bsky.social · 19h
Trump needs to be removed from office. We must #VoteOutGOP #Trump sycophants and never let them forget their actions and inactions- Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally
Trump made the remarks during a rambling speech in which he said gas prices would be lower soon, touted his ouster of Venezuela’s dictator, and made attacks on news outlets.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote about what Democrats should do with power if they do well in November "The people have made it clear they want fighters, so next year will be a time for fighting."
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What Democrats should do with power
Democrats need to get ready to play hardball.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t really know when it happened exactly but Republicans have turned just basic kindness upside down. We all know what kindness is and we all know what a jerk looks like. At some point, Republicans decided being a huge asshole was preferred and kindness was bad.
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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"it's been an honor to decimate this institution and make a shitload of money i don't deserve"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You knew the elections were fixed in Brazil. In less than 24 hours it is proved. www.rawstory.com/brazil-26780...
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Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: report
Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the n...
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Mary Lotts @marylotts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Benefits like: All the art sucks now, all the writing sucks now, every website and app runs like shit, every search engine is broken, the environment is being poisoned, jobs are being lost, and all your creative output and also photos of your family are being feasted on like carrion.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We need to destroy the world, in order to enshittify the world. Makes sense
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m going to guess this challenge will play very well in Texas
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing that Trumpism has made clear over and over again is that the global far right understands itself to be in a ideological alliance the helps itself across borders, and the center and left largely do not.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“President Trump hasn’t failed to deliver at all. The economy is booming.”🤔 They’re really just gonna try to lie their way through it. Bold move!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate
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Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump threatens to withhold federal funding from Ohio if they vote blue in November. 😂 VOTE BLUE anyway 💙
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So you make him and the gop kill it. Pass good stuff that people want and make it explicit that the only thing standing between us and paradise is the gop
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is literally the difference between Saruman and Gandalf. Tolkien is very clear about the necessity to go out into the world and yap with strangers, preferably while smoking and drinking.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting over there. She's a housewife but she's very good. She got a natural instinct for business. She perhaps knows more than I do but I don't think so"
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mississippians are paying more at the grocery store and more at the pump. Cindy Hyde-Smith has had her chance to stand up for working families. Instead, she’s handed over Congress’ authority and left us to foot the bill. That’s not Mississippi first, that's Mississippi last.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 03/10/2026
Alaska, we can win this.
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Deeann @deeann926.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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im2bz2p2day.bsky.social @im2bz2p2day.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/10/2026
The reason that all this happened is because too many Americans thinks it’s cool and funny to be ignorant assholes. It’s not funny.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026
I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!
Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"creative" is an interesting choice of words here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
The extraordinary move — holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.F.’s primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The world must stop equating wealth with knowledge, wealth with wisdom, wealth with sainthood, or to any other redeeming quality.
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is our 51st wedding anniversary! Franni’s been my life partner from the time we met freshman year of college to this day. We’ve grown up together. She’s the best girlfriend, wife, mother, grandma, and friend. Thanks, honey. Here’s to another 51!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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