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Retiredlibrarian

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Retired Midwest public librarian.

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chrgeomo.bsky.social @chrgeomo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rick Scott oversaw the biggest medicare fraud in history while leading a company in the private sector.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don’t sit this one out! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And these remakes always suck, because the good guys never win.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s easy to figure out. Telling rich people what they want to hear is attractive to rich patrons.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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쏨이시대 @missom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is very little "mass/mainstream" music culture now in the US, outside for some corners of pop ubiquity like Taylor Swift. It's all silo-ed and decentralized. Like the only way I heard of this song was through this tweet
explaining choose in Texas to a leftist okay so you need to understand that American country music had has a Sunni Shia split between Nashville and Austin
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25/09/2026
It is really, really, really hard to find any group of people who hates the countries they live in, its culture, and achievements as much and so viscerally as the far right.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people who underreacted to the racist smear campaigns and "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" signs and calling live human beings "poison to the blood of the country" are the least moral people among us second only to the people who actively voted for our oppression or worse.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The White House Press Corps should just boycott the White House and stop covering Trump in solidarity with their colleagues. He would wither without any media attention.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"he's not wrong that the GOP has a white supremacy problem and yet REFUSES TO ADMIT that the fundamental cause of white supremacy is other people being Black."
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2026
If you’ve ever dated an abuser, you recognize this language immediately
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 13/09/2026
This kind of wimpy-ass mindset is a big reason why we’re in this godawful mess. Republicans are literally turning the US into a fascist theocracy, while Democrats like Jeffries refuse to acknowledge reality and live in a fantasy world where they’re all “colleagues.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On Sept. 10, 2026, Trump led his followers in a public pledge to "cheat like hell" in the midterms. The New York Times didn't put that fact in a headline, instead sticking it in the 3rd paragraph of a story on Page 22 of its print edition.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There is zero reason for politicians to be talking about "trans issues" except as a result of a 100% bad faith campaign of bullying and bigotry and it is important to point that out whenever the topic is raised, or you grant bigots legitimacy they don't deserve. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-have-t...
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You Have to Call Bigots What They Are
Stop treating trans people’s rights as a legitimate issue to debate.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Only an immoral evil criminal fascist would deliberately start a trade war with Canada in order to destroy a very longstanding alliance and turn some of the nicest people on earth into an enemy out of spite. Glad to see Canadians fighting against the orange felon.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Because Republicans. They never did.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What a stone asshole. How about an extra year to be happily married, see their grandkids, travel, work in the garden? We aren’t made for the GNP. We are made to live.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: The House REJECTS a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court locked at 9 justices. Mwuhahahaha www.cbsnews.com/news/house-s...
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House rejects GOP constitutional amendment to limit Supreme Court to 9 justices
A GOP-proposed constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices failed in the House, coming up well short of the two-thirds majority needed.
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The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The paradox of tolerance. Racism is just another morally neutral "viewpoint" and how dare you suppress my "viewpoints"
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
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MG_JFReynolds🫘 @cessna120.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It turns out Trump's "Freedom Fuel" network is a crooked as he is. They stiffed the distributor for the gas they were selling, according to a law suit. The operators have a lot of prior legal action against them. Birds of a feather, and all that. [gift link: wapo.st/4qMtzGv]
Section from WaPo article that reads:

The Mansfield lawsuit, reported earlier by Politico, is the latest in a string of legal claims against the Kazmi brothers in recent years. They and their companies have been sued more than a dozen times for alleged financial misconduct, including fraud and unpaid debts. In several cases, they drew default judgments after failing to respond to the charges, court records show. In 2021, Shamikh Kazmi was accused of stealing more than $667,000 worth of fuel over 10 days from a supplier. Last November, a judge ordered him to repay the supplier in a default judgment.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To be fair, Trump’s dearest freedom is freedom from paying his bills.
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Investigations
Trump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn't paid for.
Mansfield Oil Company alleges in a lawsuit that a distributor never paid for gas that was supplied to some Freedom Fuel stations.
Today at 10:33 a.m. EDT
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
TBF, Johnson be got impeached only half as many times as Trump, so he is obviously mediocre.
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Caoimhín Ó Ceallacháin @jayden5445.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Turn the TV off until the end of the midterms. The political ads will overwhelm you & most of them are lies. Instead, register to vote. Download information on candidate & do your research. But most of all, vote! We need every vote for the survival of the planet. Oh, and in lieu of TV, read books!
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is the same person who shamed Kamala Harris for supposedly sleeping her way to success. She can take a seat and STFU.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"this edible ain't shit" two hours later:
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guyonknight.bsky.social @guyonknight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amazing how much more shit the media gave Biden for leaving Afghanistan than they give Trump for starting and losing a war with Iran
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The right's attempts to turn empathy into a negative have to be fought hard.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Economist covers from three months before Trump took office, and three months after.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
More proof that love for unborn babies in the prolife movement is mostly a proxy for some other right wing goal, like stepping on unchaste women. Real baby lovers would follow the evidence to what is best for them.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I opposed Trumpism during his first term when I thought it was a blip. Then I started supporting it when it looked like it was here to stay. Now that it's failing politically, I may start opposing it again.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The standard rule of administrative burdens: if you increase the time tax for doing something, you make it less likely that people will do it. That is what the Trump administration is trying to do with vaccines.
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dexfarkin.bsky.social @dexfarkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...
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Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh and thanks a lot to the members of Congress who considered this a reasonable compromise instead of defunding ICE
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......
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