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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Franklin Graham doesn’t believe Trump can tell the difference between a doctor and Jesus.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“We can’t take care of everyone.” #poem #poetry
A poem entitled “Everyone” 

Everyone
by Kathryn Hyde

“We can’t take care of Everyone.” 
       I’m paraphrasing. That’s not what he said.
“It’s not possible to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of the individual things.”
       So, I was wrong. It’s not Everyone.
       It’s specific people. 
       It’s the children;
       It’s the poor;
       It’s the elderly. 
They’re the ones. 
We can’t take care of them.
We can’t take care of Everyone.


If I scroll back,
       there’s a woman,
              staring out a window,
                     hair floating in zero gravity.
She’s looking at the world.
       The whole world.
       Everyone.
Surely there are people looking back.    
       Surely, some.
       At least Someone. 
If she wanted, she could block out the whole world with her palm pressed flat on that pane of glass. Everyone.


“We’re fighting wars.”
       That’s his reason.
       Not against Everyone.
       It’s specific people.
They’re the ones. 
We’re taking care of them.
So, we can’t take care of Everyone.
We’re fighting wars.


Actually, I misspoke earlier.
       She’s not in zero gravity. 
       It doesn’t exist. 
No matter how far we travel, we are subject to the pull of every other object. It’s inescapable. As far as we can go, could go, will go, we will always be tugged. 
All matter exerts gravity. 
       The moon,
              the sun,
                      the Earth,
                            every rock,
                            every tree,
                            every bird,
                            every person,
                            Everyone.

This poem is unfolding in a pattern I have to abandon. His words should go right here,

but all I can focus on is the image of that fiery hot capsule in a terrifying plummet back toward Earth. Streaking downward until three parachutes mercifully open, just before splashdown. 
Back to us, to Everyone.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Absolutely devastating
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I can't imagine being one of the people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris today. To know that I am responsible for all this? To know that I did this to the world? I wish they would have cared about something bigger than themselves.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fantastic piece
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Jane M from Central Mass. @janiac246.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Is it true that Todd Blanche is in the Epstein files and that is the reason he refuses to release more files?
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Robert Mueller didn’t die, death just got Robert Muellered.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Uplifting with delightful phrasing www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
These comments are why Al Gore gave us the internet
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Tapper? Tapper?
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
i feel like this instagram reel gets truer every day
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ALVIRA, the BASTARD of the Dark 🇮🇪 🍉 @alkalinecollective.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Girl are you Air Force One because all of a sudden I'm extremely interested in you despite your issues
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Otto Burr @mikeall.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
❄️ Snowflakes all the way down ❄️
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/01/2026
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Snowflakes
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Don Jr, Kushner, Thiel, & Vance meeting to decide how to divvy up South America
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Now they have a place to send all the migrants they’re rounding up
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio's right-wing exile grifters stand ready to bankrupt Venezuela and steal everything they can prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
prospect.org
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Things will escalate. He will want mandatory military service from our sons.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Something I don't think folks have fully clocked is the degree to which just about everyone under the age of 45 in any natsecs adjacent space to the left of groypers is flatly saying "this is illegal as shit, that's all there is to it"
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This thread is why our ancestors created the internet
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The real heroes are the adult children home for the holidays, making their parents watch 60 minutes & look at the redacted Epstein files 🦸🏽‍♂️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏿
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/12/2025
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
MAGAZINER: Will you thank Mr Brown for his service to our country? NOEM: Thank you Mr Brown M: Now what explanation can there be for locking up his wife for months when she has committed no crime other than writing a couple bad checks for $80 NOEM: It's not my job to pick which laws get enforced
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Angelic Princess @angelicimouto.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Worth noting: French Hill's Central #Arkansas district is slightly less Republican (R+8) than the district in Tennessee where a progressive Democrat had a single-digit loss last night (R+10). Steve Womack's NWA district is R+13. #arpx www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
politico.com
Despite loss, Democrats overperformed in bright red Tennessee House race
Aftyn Behn is on pace to significantly outperform Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nashville area district Tuesday night.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
8 out of 56 signees of the Declaration of Independence were foreign-born. (14%) 7 of the 39 signees of the Constitution were immigrants. (18%) 100% of the rest were the sons or grandsons of immigrants.
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Lord help me, read Andy McCarthy. www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-in...
If this happened as described in the Post report, it was, at best, a war crime under federal law. I say “at best” because, as regular readers know, I believe the attacks on these suspected drug boats — without congressional authorization, under circumstances in which the boat operators pose no military threat to the United States, and given that narcotics trafficking is defined in federal law as a crime rather than as terrorist activity, much less an act or war — are lawless and therefore that the killings are not legitimate under the law or armed conflict. (See my Saturday column, with links to prior posts on this subject.)
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
So, maybe try speaking out publicly? People will treat you how you allow them to treat you.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
Nathan for you still
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Every word of this Chris Jones ad is perfect. My cynical heart is filled with hope 💜
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Chris Jones @jonesforar.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our story is about childhood, freedom, affordability, and what kind of Arkansas we want to build next. Families deserve the confidence to dream again. That’s what this race is about. Watch the video and join us at buff.ly/BdL6Qho #ChrisJonesForCongress #NextArkansas #BiggerTable #BrighterFuture
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 13/11/2025
The ruling class is dumb and we let them take everything we make and live lives of disgusting opulence and cruelty We need socialism immediately
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exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social @exhaustedoptimist.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I want every journalist and pundit ready to hold Vance & Johnson’s feet to the fire when the files are released. You didn’t know? How? You didn’t question? You had everything at your disposal to find the truth. We can’t have leaders that are poor a judges of character to this degree. We cannot.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/11/2025
"Like most, I eat pizza every single day. I’m too busy to sit down and eat it as a meal, so into my pockets it goes, even if that means my car keys are always covered in tomato sauce, my wallet is filled with pepperoni, and my iPhone’s charging port is clogged with mozzarella."
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Reviews of New Food: Little Caesars’ Crazy Puffs
As we all know, the worst part about eating pizza is how the cheese gets stuck to the insides of your pockets. I can’t tell you how many good pairs...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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