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@groopaloop.bsky.social
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Sustainability engagement, energy data, environmental humanitarian, engaged citizen, St. Louis sports fan. St. Olaf College and UW-Madison. I want to say thoughts are my own, but we're all a patchwork of those we've learned from, so are they really?

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 23h
Some basic facts: Real wages were going UP under Biden. They're going down under Trump. Inflation was coming down under Biden. It's going up under Trump. Biden supported our allies. Trump betrays them. And yet there are still people that think Biden was worse than Trump. It's mind-boggling.
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I wish I could make every single American see, read, understand, and grasp this fact. We're way behind the rest of the developed world in so many things that matter... and the things that we are actually #1 in are ... bad.
WHAT AMERICA
THINKS IT'S #1 AT     ACTUAL RANKING
Healthcare            Last among wealthy nations
Happiness             24th
Education             26th
Life expectancy       46th
Free press            57th
Climate               57th
Social mobility       27th
Income equality       Last in the Western world

WHAT AMERICA IS ACTUALLY #1 AT
- Imprisoning people
- Gun deaths
- School shootings
- Drug deaths
- Medical bankruptcy
- Wealth inequality (wealthy nations)
- Maternal mortality (wealthy nations)
- Child poverty (wealthy nations)
- Believing it's #1
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KalariTheCynicalWitch @kalarigamerchic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I refuse to come back and argue with the blame Democrats crowd anymore. They are willfully ignorant and my energy is too precious to repeat that a party without a majority can only do so much. They need to waste the energy of the Klan-kin instead. Ask them why they blindly follow conservative rot.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man, remember when the media collectively insisted we didn't actually see this happen with our own eyes?
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That's Montgomery Clift, Honey @magatzapper.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
John Roberts’ legacy.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Being a good person, and being okay with what we are turning into, are mutually exclusive.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Paul Champ @paulchamplaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is disturbing to read that some are planning pro-Palestine protests today, on October 7. The Oct 7th atrocities by Hamas were evil and antisemitic, with the obvious goal of provoking disproportionate attacks on Palestinians. Today should only be about mourning Jewish lives.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Well, there's certainly nothing Orwellian or anti-competitive about this.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. Image: Universal History Archive/Getty Images.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sitting at a desk and wearing a suit. He holds a paper in his right hand and appears to be speaking into a microphone that sits on the desk.
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holdmybooks @holdmybooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Others praised the candidate’s authenticity and commitment to working-class issues." Where are the "Democrats have abandoned the WC" progressives?? He's a cis het WM with labor ties. He was the guy who was pushed when Nazi tats dropped out.
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Troy Jackson is scrambling to defeat Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Time is not on his side
Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson is racing against time in his bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith, under oath, in public, finally! "Proof beyond a reasonable doubt." that Trump committed serious crimes. His kicker: he'd prosecute a former president on the same facts whether Republican or Democrat. #USDemocracy newrepublic.com/post/215971/...
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Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt
The former special counsel testified he would prosecute anyone, regardless of political party, based on the evidence he found about Donald Trump.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should be the next Speaker of the House. Jeffries was hand-picked protégé of the most effective House Speaker of my life Nancy Pelosi, who biographers note, governed with an Iron Fist tucked into a Gucci glove. Speaker Jeffries. Say it aloud. Speaker Jeffries.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If Schumer or Jeffries or Hochul or any other NY Dem attended an event with Donald Trump like this and said this quote the DSA would light DNC headquarters on fire.
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All you had to do was to vote for the stiff guy from Tennessee to continue the peace and prosperity of the 1990s. But no. Motherfuckers had to be motherfuckers. And Nader was a narcissistic piece of shit whose sell-by date was way before that.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
so the president and the vice president got on stage last night, did some blood and soil fascism, and told their supporters to cheat to win the midterms
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The US has a dark history of unaccountability.
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This fact also completely defangs any argument about “job creators.” Job creation means nothing when the jobs being created don’t lead to any reasonable standard of living.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...)
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 01/09/2026
I’m so old I remember when people told me it was silly to be concerned about Trump subverting the midterm elections, because states control elections and it would be illegal for the feds to interfere. How’s that one holding up?
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Grumpy Auntie 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩵 🟦💙 @1technodiva.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Donald Trump did not send his son-in-law to build a bridge. He sent him to set a fire, and when Jeffries would not hand over the match, Trump’s people lit the fire. martindvasquez.substack.com/p/trump-sent...
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BREAKING: Trump Sent Kushner to Cut a Deal With Jeffries, Jeffries Said No Deal, So Kushner Leaked Their Meeting to The New York Times
The private sit-down between the House Democratic leader and Trump’s son-in-law looks less like bipartisan diplomacy and more like a White House plot against a midterm wipeout.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Don’t look away from this. Looking away from what’s happening here on US soil & pretending to care about something across the world is EXACTLY how we got here. There is no “both sides” or “l voted my conscience“ in 2024 that will excuse what some of y’all helped usher in.
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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The most damaging political idea I've seen in my lifetime is the idea that government should be run like a business
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This news can also be found at www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... if, like me, you don't have a WaPo subscription. It's quite easy to just do a *tiny bit* of exploring and find out that folks dragging the future SOTH are straight-up lying about him.
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With increasing enthusiasm, Democrats are embracing need for Supreme Court reforms
In Democratic politics, the conversation has shifted rapidly from how, not whether, to overhaul the existing high court.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 5 Simpsons lines I've uttered most off the top of my head 1. Not with THAT attitude. 2. Go banana! 3. Everything's coming up Milhouse! 4. I was saying Boo-urns... 5. Weaseling out of things is important to learn! It's what separates us from the animals...except the weasel.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
25% of arguments on here seem to involve one person making an observation about a group and somebody else taking it to be a professed belief and attacking them for it. The two agreed to begin with, but now they're fighting while talking past each other, each assuming the other is in "that group."
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They are NOT "conservatives." STOP calling them "conservatives." They are extremists. They are reactionaries. They are right wingers. "Conservatives," they are NOT. So friggin' stop using that word. Not for SCOTUS justices. Not for elected reps. Not for maga voters. Not for Fox News. STOP doing it.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're pissed at Jefferies for meeting with Kushner, but you're not pissed at Mamdani for meeting 2x with Trump, or AOC for openly meeting with MAHA folks, or AES for preparing to go on Jesse Watters' show on Fox....something, something, "pot, kettle," something, something.....
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not a single lie told.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 22/08/2026
Obama tried in 2009 but was blocked by Republicans and when he got federal funding for regional high speed rail, Republican governors refused the money as part of McConnell's "one-term presidency" strategy.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I do recall a boar's head lunchmeat recall, but also that it was detected fairly early and the FDA did its job, and we didn't have weekly new outbreaks caused by incompetence and deregulation.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 16/08/2026
Ignoring the science won’t stop the consequences. 🌎 #SheShed
Black meme with bold white and yellow text reading: “I don’t believe in climate change.” Below it: “Buddy, it’s not a horoscope. The planet doesn’t need your belief to heat up.”
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
did too many people of non-white ethnicities vote for Trump? Yes. BUT WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE MAJORITY! They can stop this ANY time they want. And they don't.
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Ice is for curling and cold drinks @groopaloop.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In almost every other administration, this would have been a near-presidency-ending scandal. Here, we get this and the Core of Engineers adjusting a dam level so Vance and his family can have a pleasant boating day, and not a peep because of everything else that so much worse.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
Sailors and Marines are facing a mental health crisis after months at sea with no end in sight to Trump’s illegal war. Meanwhile, Hegseth is pushing dangerous, unauthorized flyovers as “morale boosters.” Want to boost morale? End this war.
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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you’re old enough to remember when the Republican Party didn’t think we were fucking idiots, it’s time to schedule your colonoscopy and/or funeral
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piker is really, really toxic and Democrats and *especially* DSA folks need to internalize this now before he says something that crosses the moral event horizon.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 06/08/2026
"stealing an election" Oh neat so even when they win they say the election was almost stolen. Weird how they never believe their enemy gets a vote.
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 06/08/2026
Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone. Seriously, if we can't nail Fat Satan for money laundering, treason, war crimes and raping children, what the actual fuck are laws for?
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The only more obviously racist policy would be only installing whites only water fountains
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
People who encouraged Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the 2024 primaries also helped depress turnout in the general election. Ask me how I know. Signed, A Poll Worker
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