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Claire Cloutier

@clairecloutier.bsky.social
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Writer and observer. Trying to make sense of it all.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
ICYMI — Dr Oz wants you to work longer to cover for the trillions they just handed to the ultra wealthy (as they pretend to care about the debt) www.rawstory.com/oz-seniors-w...
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"I hadn’t fully grasped how much the idea of a better future sustained me – how it made life more livable, hardship more bearable and creativity possible." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone
I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Newsom warned the DealBook attendees that the US was tipping into authoritarianism. “Some of you are probably fine with it,” Newsom said. “.. state capitalism, crony capitalism .. A lot of you are doing extraordinarily well.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings Boston
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Ed Markey to #NoKings Boston: "This is Boston. We do not coronate--we liberate."
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Elizabeth Warren speaks at #NoKings Boston
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
@cityofsalemma.bsky.social Just FYI we are experiencing greenish tap water at our home. Not sure if this is a city issue or not, but wanted to report it. Called the water dept but no one answered.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We are in the foothills of a solar-wind-battery civilisation. This is our best chance of avoiding catastrophe. But it threatens the profits of fossil fuel companies & nations - so these are pouring money into right-wing populism to stop the transition. This seems to me the biggest story in politics.
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Gloria is here! @gloriasin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Oh is he King or President Vought now? Who knew!
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."
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‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
NEW: Impeach Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cabinet officials can be impeached, and I explain why House Democrats should move to do so in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/41447... ***Appreciate kick-ass journalism? Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com ***
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
New ads going up across Washington, D.C.
New ads going up across Washington,
D.C.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
FEDWATCH: Job losses in manufacturing are averaging 15K/month “across categories such as metals, auto parts, electronics, minerals, and furniture, which are subject to high tariffs. .. “.. affected by ICE raids .. causing layoffs at [electric] plants .. a negative trend building” in the economy.
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BrianSky @briancervino.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Text readers of the world, unite and takeover
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Rob of Ages @jokester.firexiv.com · 01/09/2025
I hate taking 5 mins to watch some talking head on a tik tok style vid tell me something I could have read in 30 seconds had he typed it out instead and gotten to the gd point.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen. I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Public health has played the biggest role in improving both the length and quality of life in our nation. The CDC has led efforts to eradicate smallpox, increase access to lifesaving vaccinations and significantly reduce smoking rates. No longer. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"Schumer should accept defeat here. He should stop trying to recruit anyone to run against Platner. He should give everyone in the Democratic coalition a fair and unspoiled test of left-populist appeal." Agreed, @brianbeutler.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/graham-pla...
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Graham Platner And The Perils Of Infighting
Chuck Schumer should bow out and let this guy cook.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Do they have editorial meetings where they plan out how to pretend Trump has more power than he actually has in an attempt to manifest that into being, or do they just do it by instinct, misleading readers because they’ve fully internalized the idea that distorting reality is how to be “unbiased”?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
CHICAGO…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/08/2025
President Trump is using our tax dollars to pay for his unwarranted deployment of military troops to D.C. in a blatant attempt to expand his power. We’re fighting back.
Red text: "President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to DC costs taxpayers roughly 1 million dollars per day. Source: The Intercept." Black background. Red border. Red ACLU logo.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/08/2025
"A generation of young people now know Trumpism as a normal aspect of American political life. And many others have found a pleasure in the new politics on offer that the old world of Obamas and McCains could never give them." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
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Let It Burn: What an Immigration Raid on Washington Firefighters Can Teach Us About MAGA Fascism
MAGA is not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
ABC: “Eye-popping 38% increase in wholesale vegetable prices… immigration raids across 🇺🇸 could be impacting workers…” We’re all paying for Trump’s tariffs and cruel immigration policies. An own goal. This is our Brexit. abcnews.go.com/Business/tar...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
B of A: Data-center electricity demand is contributing to the jump in your electric bill — a 5.8% increase in electricity prices year-on-year, more than double the overall CPI increase of 2.7%. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“We’re going to have prices down- I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.” ~Donald Trump open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Will Work for Food
The price of groceries
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The crazy thing is I think 98 percent of Americans have no idea what is happening right now. Maybe 99 percent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2025
the White House press corps has a big laugh at the banter between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend
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Sue Ryan @sueryan66bskysocia.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The WH press pool is a joke.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This Is Exactly What Has Been Done….
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Can something positive please happen today to redeem this week!? LOL
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers. What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Happened to the Women of #MeToo?
Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
it is crazy that the USA has been put in a position whereby vaccine recommendations for fall vaccines and eligibility are not yet clearly delineated creating a mess of confusion for insurers, clinicians and the public. Excellent from @kkjetelina.bsky.social
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What’s the plan for fall vaccines? If you're confused, you're not alone.
The dominoes have stalled, which can turn out to be a big problem.
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
People who think more frequent Medicaid renewals are a good idea are people who have never experienced the Medicaid renewal "process" 😒
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New data from the FBI: Murder fell 15% in 2024, the fastest drop ever recorded & violent/property crime rates fell to levels not seen since the 1960s. Murder returned to pre-COVID levels in 2024 & is may be the lowest level ever recorded in 2025. jasher.substack.com/p/murder-off...
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Murder Officially Plunged in 2024
That and more takeaways from the FBI's 2024 Reported Crime in the Nation report.
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Reports of rising prices have heated up in last two weeks. $PG $WMT $TGT $HSY @cnbc.com @wsj.com @yahoofinance.com @reuters.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/07/2025
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Claire Cloutier @clairecloutier.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Question: Does a piece of new information qualify as "making news" if it comes out in a podcast or a video but is never translated into print??
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Gaza is starving. Gaza is being internationally starved. When people go to the few places where food is being distributed, the IDF mows them down. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza
A joint statement warns that their colleagues and the people they serve in Gaza are "wasting away" and urges governments to take action.
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AnnM @toepicktrips.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Went through 1000+ family photos today from the 70s to now. It is absolutely true that you were way hotter in your 20s than you thought at the time. So if you're young and reading this, stop nitpicking yourself and embrace your hotness. You ARE 🔥🔥🔥!
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