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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I agree and I’m old white woman.

DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think good, fair fights in primaries are needed and should be celebrated. But this kind of tearing apart each other is not. Different places need different kinds of candidates. Honestly, I am fed up with the infighting.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m pro rein in Trump, anti election deniers, anti scumbag abusers and pro stop the billionaires from killing us. So I don’t give a damn where you are on the center to left spectrum. I really don’t f-ing care.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know representatives shouldn’t just be able to not show up for work but isn’t it advantageous to Dems for McConnell to be a non-vote right now? I say, let him stay away.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I wonder if any of the media outlets will apologize to David Hearn for allowing Trump officials to defame him about the reflecting pool, especially knowing this administration’s track record of lying.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Smart. Why let Rand Paul entrap him?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Barbs? You meant to say middle school bully insults . Good god, haven’t you “journalists” embarrassed yourselves enough yet?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yes I agree. However, I may be not as optimistic. The amount of control in the hands of so few makes the chances of democracy survival anywhere very uncertain, even if we have temporary reprieves.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m not financially able to give big but I will be donating monthly to her campaign. It’s not just that I disagree with his policy positions, but like Trump, he is a liar. And time after time his staff has said to me “the congressman has no position on this.” What? Took lessons from Mike Johnson.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Don’t Dems in Congress still use the seniority system for chairmanships and ranking members? Maybe if that went away a few of these would stop seeing value in hanging in there if their power were to be reduced.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The right went crazy when 13 soldiers were killed when we left Afghanistan. Maybe mistakes were made but Biden faced an impossible situation that was set up by Trump. But they are saying absolutely nothing about the deaths from the Iran War. Once again they don’t give it sh$t about our military.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Their goto is always a form of “I haven’t had time see or read”, in others words “I see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing”. I mean isn’t it their job to know? And yet not one journalist will actually ask them that.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I take them out of my salads even. (Me, random person replying)

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I know it’s easy to make fun of MAGA voters. But I give you Fetterman and Platner. Oh and I fell for Sinema despite warnings in AZ Dem circles.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why is it that the pic of the woman judge is chosen rather than her much worse male counterparts? Sometimes the left irks me.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

But Trump’s nominees never answer questions, they just bluster snd deflect.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Lindsey Graham’s death should be a lesson to all politicians. He was barely pronounced dead before speculation about senate leadership, who his successor will be, and of course the fate of the voting suppression bill. You simply are NOT as important as you think you are. Do the right thing.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Has Mitch spoken to Scott about Lindsey?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Vietnam War ended once middle class boys had to sign up for the draft lottery and college deferments no longer would exempt them.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham’s eyes lighting up on AF One with Trump at the thought of a war with Iran, at the thought of killing thousands if not millions still sickens me. Please spare me “don’t talk ill of the dead”.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There is no winning with these folks. So why try?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There have been people in my life, very close to me, who did not deserve praise after their death nor did they deserve my silence.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not sure how. Another one will take his place. Trumpism is not just an old persons illness.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The U.S. is out of the World Cup. Time for ICE Gestapo to start their terror again.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

But do we have a State Department anymore?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It says something about politics that a not so small number of politicians are actual scumbags.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wondering how the Deep State caused the U.S. Soccer team to lose.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Stop it. He addressed his supporters. The rest of us are vermin.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Still waiting for that 1950s style “Have you no shame?” moment.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Or go to a baseball game!“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball… But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.” (Field of Dreams of course)

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yep figured that out once I looked at the whole thread. Apologies

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I understand that but I was not confident that this court would reaffirm that. Though I was wrong about that I wasn’t far off.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Occasionally (very occasionally) I check X where I’ve tailored my algorithm to the degree possible. It is sometimes more pleasant because there is a reality check on that site as to where our energies really need to be spent, and it’s not tearing each other down.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Early 2000s my (late)husband and I had a debate. I was a math teacher and he had taught social studies. I said STEM was the most critical for the next gen. He argued to ignore the central importance of civics and history would be a grave mistake. Yep you were right George.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

And we wonder why millions could vote for Trump? This is why.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Trump’s kids are not “anchor babies” (and wow do I hate that description.) They were born to an American citizen father. They would have been citizens even had they been born abroad. They derived citizenship through him. It is frustrating to accuse MAGA of being ignorant and then we post false info.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Im going to say it. Sometimes the DSA folks come off elitist and preachy.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The confederacy with its white patriarchal ideologies never went away. I knew that as a kid of the 60s and 70s. You can try to legislate fairness but the deeply embedded hatreds are generationally passed on. I keep saying we are in deep trouble. Well, we are.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Im not here to analyze every ruling. My point was simple. Judicial review, especially whether the court was the arbiter of constitutionality, was not explicit in Article 3. Marshall made it explicit.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Well Marshall was a federalist himself and so cunningly used that case to make the judiciary a co-equal branch and the final arbiter of constitutionality and of course increase his own political power. Sometimes I just think we venerate made-up constructs.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When he said said he didn’t care about Americans’ finances.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Is it worth remembering that this country was founded with rights being given only to white male landowners and on the backs of slaves and the genocide of the indigenous? If we are not going to go forward with justice and equity and a deference to the “common man” then why should I celebrate July 4?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also whether the Constitution is a living document depends on whether you’re talking about the 2nd or the 14th amendment for some of the justices.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Based on most of the rulings of the SC it seems to me that with a few exceptions they do not see a role for Congress. It seems they feel power rests in either the states or the presidency. Clear examples are campaign finance reform, industry regulation and environmental laws—all dead.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Apologize that my comment came off snarky. It angers me that this guy is afforded all the financial, leave, and mental health care that so many in this country don’t get. Depression is a real illness but he is so privileged. Again apologies.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are you under the impression all jobs give sick leave?

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It’s time to relook at Marbury v Madison. Essentially the Supreme Court gave the Supreme Court the job of judicial review. The Constitution is really not so clear that this is the role intended by the Constitution. Just saying.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ok I know what I’m about to say doesn’t speak to your post. But I was just reading “Goodnight Moon” to my granddaughter and laughed because the phone in the book is unrecognizable to anyone born in the last 20 years. Time marches on and things change. Anyway my apologies for the off-topic thought.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I believe there is a chance the Supreme Court will uphold birthright citizenship but with the caveat that people here on temporary visas or are here without authorization will not be eligible.

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DPettit @depcasa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely I agree, well partly anyway. The damage has been done. I mean that’s their intent—to make us distrust our institutions. However I’m still not tethered to the polls.

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