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Dr. Deb Pierce

@deborahcompass.bsky.social
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Worked hard for my PhD in Linguistics from Michigan. Retired international educator, now worn-out Dem volunteer who worked really hard to turn Florida blue. Childless dog lady without a dog.

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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's the number we saw at a gas station near Detroit's Metro Airport on Monday. That's $6/gallon for Regular. Eeeuuw.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just heard @kendallscudder.bsky.social on The @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social . He must have read This is Tte Plan by @benwikler.bsky.social ! It was a great segment. I just wish @nikkifried.bsky.social had read the book, too . . .
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@peterralexander.bsky.social , totally inappropriate for you to call the November Florida governor's election tonight on @theweeknightmsnbc.bsky.social . It's 75 days away, and way too close to call now in favor of the Dreadful Donalds. Show us Florida voters a little respect, please.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
He is such a slimy abuser.
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Sloan Ashton @ashton7sloan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Donald Trump feels inferior when a woman asks him a question. He hates women, and it’s been evident for decades. The way he berated and degraded Kristen Holmes, who works for CNN today, was just his latest attempt to look like a “big man.” In reality, he’s a weak, obnoxious creature.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
CNN has put out a statement defending its Senior White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes after Trump verbally attacked her in a White House briefing and has continued a vicious attack online with the WH Rapid Response account.
CNN
"Kristen Holmes is one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House. This afternoon, she did her job and asked the President of the United States a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people. Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press. We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms."
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Good for @maddow.bsky.social for covering the despicable treatment of Haitian immigrants by the dreadful T**** regime. Ankle bracelets? Really? We have completely lost our way, and I'm ashamed.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social is wrong when he says the people who voted for mass deportation in the 2024 election didn't understand what that would look like. I believe they knew it would mean deporting any and all Black and brown people, and that made them happy. Ugh. Wake up, Chris!
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Soooo cute!! 💙
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I'm attending Black Voters Matter's event, “All Roads Lead to the South Rally” - sign up now to join me! #BlackVotersMatter www.mobilize.us/blackvotersm...
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All Roads Lead to the South Rally · Black Voters Matter
All Roads Lead to the South. This national day of action — taking place on Saturday, May 16, 2026 — is intended to bring communities together through peaceful, nonpartisan civic engagement activities ...
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Best comment yet on the shooting at the WHCD tonight.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oh -- if only!! open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com
Zelenskyy Offers to be Temp US President While Trump Undergoes Psychiatric Evaluation
The Ukrainian called Trump's recent utterances "a cry for help."
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Liselle Baker @elles-bells.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“all states ‘shall’ submit their voter registration lists to the DHS's ‘SAVE’ voter purge program”
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Fair enough; i can go with that. Every time I see Talarico on screen, though, my antennae go off, sensing a white male evangelical capable of causing harm. At this early point, I just can't trust him. Maybe later.
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The SAVE America Act puts millions of American citizens, not undocumented immigrants, at risk of losing access to the ballot, all in the name of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Demand your senators keep it off the floor. #SaveActTaxesVoters
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
this is correct. credit to the dems who rode noem for filth in the hearings. more please.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
What could possibly go wtong?
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
OK, you have an excellent t point. But I've been running away from white male evangelicals my whole life (I'm from Wheaton, Illinois, home of Billy Graham's school, Wheaton College),and those dudes terrify me. They do not have my best interests at heart. Ever.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sigh. I defer to your greater knowledge here. I just really really wanted her to win, and I seriously do not trust white male evangelicals, ever. Ugh.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So you're confident that after getting told NO once again, Black women (the base of this party) will just fall in line and provide their enthusiastic support, one more time? Why should they do that?
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
He will have to do a stellar job of outreach to the party's base to keep them, and I don't think he can do that. And in the end, Republicans always vote for that R next to a candidate's name. Depending on them for help usually doesn't work.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think they're wrong, actually. It's a Republican state, and Republicans vote R, no matter what.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I don't think he will.
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Uncle David, Fella of Oz (🇺🇸) @dosnoe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You know what’s really messed up about the shenanigans at the polls in Texas? Now I can’t even trust that Rep Crockett lost “fair and square.” Yeah I know, Texas chose the white man why am I surprised, that’s not my point here. Any election related tomfoolery casts DOUBT on the process!
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Why are Black women *always* told to wait and figure out what else to do while white men move forward?!
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How is he going to win Texas without Black women?
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
That Texas Supreme Court ruling is just disgusting, on so many levels. Paxton doesn't want to run against a strong Black woman. Plus he also wants to divide the Dems as much as he can.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
RJ, I absolutely 💯 agree with you. He needs to suffer, and for a long time, for what he's done to this nation and to the rule of law. 😡 BTW, I like your creativity in designing appropriate punishment.
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping others, murdered by a man who has dedicated his life to hurting others.
A PHOTO OF ALEX PRETTI
WITH THE WORDS:
MURDERED FOR STANDING 
UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/12/2025
Today is the deadline to release the Epstein files. The DOJ is refusing to comply. This is about justice for survivors and holding participants and co-conspirators accountable. The Epstein Files Act is the law, not a suggestion. Release the files. Immediately.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
It's the guns.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.
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paws4justice.bsky.social @paws4justice.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Another mass shooting—this time at Brown University. When Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban was in place, mass shooting deaths dropped by 43%. After George W. Bush and Republicans let it expire, deaths skyrocketed by 239%. It’s the guns. No more thoughts and prayers.” They don’t stop bullets.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"The problem is the guns . . . " Absolutely!
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MKSongbird @mksongbird.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
High school shooting survivor (now Brown University survivor) Mia Tretta is amazing: "All gun violence is 100% preventable." And she's absolutely 💯 right. #BrownStrong #GunReformNow
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
#AbolishICE
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025
The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Man, I'm so worried about this country that I signed up for voter registration. Did it for PRESIDENT Obama in '08. Gonna wear a Halloween costume or goofy hat, break the ice. I'm BEGGING you, PLEASE GET INVOLVED. We are in deep fuckin shit, people.
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Evelyn "Cheeky Ginger" @cheekyginger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If America dies, her epitaph will read, "They wanted whiteness more than they wanted a country." No wonder so many of you still socialize with your GOP families and friends: you think they sort of have a point. You tell Black people to set race aside while clinging desperately to it yourselves.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I'm so proud of my hometown of #Chicago tonight! Folks are standing up and fighting back against the T**** regime and DHS, as we can see on MSNBC. If we still lived there (instead of in red SW Florida), I would absolutely be down on Michigan Avenue tonight.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I keep yelling at the TV that South Shore is Black, but no one seems to hear me. No one reports those were primarily Black residents who were harmed. #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Rachel points out the CBP dudes aren't trained as military, so they're essentially cosplaying as military. Playing dress-up, just like their boss, the puppy killer Kristi Noem.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com just showed video of horrid CBP agents in Desert Storm fatigues walking down State Street carrying assault weapons. It made me physically ill, and furious. They don't belong there; they say Lake Michigan is our border with Canada. #CBPOutOfChicago #AbolishICE
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
My alleged Rep. Vern Buchanan (FL-16) hasn't held a Town Hall since September 2019. He avoids his constituents at all costs, and he's certainly not going to turn over a new leaf now -- especially since he no longer lives in our district.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: #AbolishICE. open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@crockett.house.gov is *awesome* on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social , laying out exactly why we all need to support the Democrats' position during the #TrumpShutdown. This is gonna hurt all of us, because the Rs are pulling $1 trillion out of the Healthcare ecosystem.
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Dr. Deb Pierce @deborahcompass.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
@aoc.bsky.social is absolutely 💯 right tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social . The T**** regime is indeed weaker than they look, and they are completely relying on our complying in advance. I just wish The University of Michigan understood this vital point. #UMichAlum
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