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@cptbeefalo.bsky.social
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Airing my cranial laundry in the nicer part of the global commons. #NeverTrump #BLM 🇺🇦🌊 LTS Bowl ‘22 🏆 #SFB13 Semis #SFB14 Quarters #SFB15

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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Opinion | Disillusionomics: the US economy isn’t serving gen Z - The Guardian Fantastic quick read and insight into a generation struggling, much as we Gen X did only perhaps even more, how to adapt to an economic world that seems to care about us less & less.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Terrible article title. A woman TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO PAY FOR CARING FOR HER MOTHER WITH CANCER helped NK hackers to give them a US presence. She even THANKED THE FBI FOR GETTING HER OUT. Wealth inequality/high medical costs are bad for everything and everyone. apple.news/ANte7gOcUSjG...
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North Korean hackers ran a ‘laptop farm’ out of Arizona woman’s home — PCWorld
The FBI investigated a US woman who helped hackers pose as remote workers, sending secrets and millions of dollars to North Korean agents. Staff Writer, PCWorld | Jul 28, 2025 7:41 am PDT In 1925, an ...
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“the Trump administration believes workers in the country illegally can be replaced with lower-income Americans who are now required to work to access health insurance benefits, under the recently signed Republican spending bill.” This was the fools’ plan all along. 🤦‍♂️ apple.news/Ax14O9WDuSGi...
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This construction project was on time and on budget. Then came ICE. — Reuters
Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile...
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Wonderfully written. apple.news/AhfFzLZxyTTq...
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Heritage founder Edwin Feulner’s death reminds us, every time hell mourns, a devil gets their horns — Advocate
Opinion: Death does not redeem the irredeemable, as Feulner leaves a legacy of hate, oppression, exclusion, and silence, writes John Casey.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Destructive capitalism is destructive, no matter the industry. Ban the practice. apple.news/APiPGTdwsSIC...
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The Landlord Gutting America’s Hospitals — Mother Jones
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“SCOTUS ruled in April that challenges to removal under the law must be brought in the federal judicial districts where detainees are being held.” 🤦‍♂️ Nothing like giving fascists an oppo to stack the deck. Sue wherever they move you. Not home of detainee, where dmg is. apple.news/AQuZpXrSHTHi...
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Appeals court weighs Trump's use of wartime law to deport Venezuelans — Reuters
A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on Monday in what is likely to be a decisive lawsuit over whether President Donald Trump's administration can use an 18th-century law to speed up deportati...
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is a very dangerous advancement. Remember the outcry at making a registry of gun owners? Now they are making one (WITH A TON OF GOVT DATA - SSN, taxes, political donations, social media, etc) akin to China’s surveillance state. apple.news/A59liantqSam...
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Opinion | Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans — Guardian US
Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Crazy just how much of our current problems can be traced to awful decisions made/opinions formed/generational harm from the late 70s/80s. I’d ask what was in the water back then but… 🤦‍♂️ This current dip in prison pop is fantastic, as the sociological discussions 🤯 apple.news/A3svUs6tYR1K...
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America’s Prison Population Is in Serious Decline — The Atlantic
Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We hear that immigrants are "freeloaders," yet they're being arrested at their workplaces. We hear that immigrants "just need to follow the law," but when they attempt to, they're rounded up at courthouses. Hello?
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“It’s almost like they don’t care if you live or die” 🚫 It’s like they don’t care if you live or die. ✅ Fixed it. 😡🤬 apple.news/AcSrUW735SdK...
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'A big mess': With prior authorizations and insurance denials, some patients run out of time — NBC News
Health insurers issue millions of denials every year, leaving many patients stuck in a convoluted appeals process, with little hope of meaningful policy change ahead.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10/06/2025
I know there’s serious news, but this? Too good not to share. Gavin Newsom’s office just posted a clip of EMPEROR PALPATINE reading Trump’s unhinged Truth Social rant about the L.A. protests. It’s trolling at its finest. The Force is strong with this one. 💀👑 #NoKings #FreedomToDissent
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
ICE went to raid a place and stopped traffic to do it. When ICE saw that the people stuck in their cars were recording them, they blasted everyone with tear gas. A young girl is in the hospital from it, and the man who is being interviewed his gf was taken even though she was born here.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Money coming from WH vs FEMA = ability to corruptly politically leverage aid “govs being encouraged to work together to respond to disasters… mutual aid agreements among states ... so that they can stand on their own two feet” = we’re not gonna help, fix it yourself apple.news/AJQKOKLN5Qqu...
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Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season — Reuters
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start
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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Oh look, worm-for-brains is doing anti-vax shit like he said he wouldn’t at his confirmation. Who could have seen this coming… 😡🤬😡 apple.news/AvGqZ592LQQi...
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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel — STAT
This is a breaking story. It will be updated
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2025
So much this…
Man holding a U.S. flag and a red banner that says, “Stop the deportation of veterans. If they fought here, they should stay here. Honor the promise.”
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Leveraged buyouts = destructive capitalism. No leveraged buyout with more than a minority of the money (like 10–20%) coming from loans should be legal. Would severely damage M&A activity, but would prevent these worst of abuses. apple.news/AuudwMGLpTcu...
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“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream — Vanity Fair
In her new book, Bad Company, journalist Megan Greenwell shows how the secretive industry has insinuated itself into average Americans’ lives.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Oh, Joni…
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This tech needs a Lucius Fox around to destroy it. It will only enable authoritarian actions. apple.news/AaUehRBziRou...
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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion — 404 Media
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Well said. apple.news/AL5O3ltTQRZ-...
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Opinion | A letter to sad Elon Musk, from America: 'Hey pal, sorry everybody was mean.' | Opinion — USA TODAY
Dear Elon: Hey, buddy. We hear you’re going through a bit of a rough patch lately.
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
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E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface — The Washington Post
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
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Nasrene MacDonald @nasrene41.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This #LauraK #Toryshill
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
THIS. The damage done by reelecting this moron will harm America for decades. apple.news/ABRFMjjZZRt-...
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Trump is killing the goose that laid America’s golden eggs — FORTUNE
U.S. competitiveness has always depended on its universities' openness to talent and commitment to research.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Budget chicanery & all the “benefits” cut in ‘28/29, AFTER he leaves office. Yet another sugar dump from a con man. He doesn’t care about millions who will lose coverage, the pain the bill will cause, bc he won’t be in charge then. 🤬 apple.news/A_VoYOf84Q6-...
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Opinion | Trump’s scheme to win the midterms hit a major snag — MSNBC
The conservative revolt over Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' threatens a major component of his bid to keep Congress in the GOP's hands next year.
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
Kekius Maximus & @elonmusk
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Please put "Never went to therapy" on my gravestone
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
GOP budget talks are breaking down because they can’t agree on legislation that starts killing their voters immediately or delays it until 2029, when a different president will take the fall for it. The impasse is over timing. Not the crime.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
WTF is wrong with this guy???!? 😳🤬 “He created Duck Dynasty an-“ “Good for him. NO.” Horrific idea. apple.news/AnH--NiHnRhO...
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Trump officials reportedly consider TV gameshow with US citizenship as prize — Guardian US
Homeland security department reviewing ‘out-of-the-box’ pitch in which immigrants would compete for citizenship
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
It was the worst of times, it was the dumbest of times. 🙄🤦‍♂️ TDazzle campaign incoming. 🤞 www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
A senior advisor to the President said they were considering suspending Habeus Corus, and it barely made a blip. How the fuck did we get here?
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This can't be legal. It has to stop!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2025
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.
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cptbeefalo @cptbeefalo.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I wish this statement weren’t as true as it is. That lack of empathy & foresight is what causes people like Trump to get elected.
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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The ACTUAL LAW that ALLOWS CONGRESS TO VISIT DETENTION/ICE CENTERS Congress should SUE ICE
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