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John Stodder Jr.

@johnstodder.bsky.social
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
People power
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If you follow the Becerra for Governor page on Threads, the site is unfollowing you and won’t let you follow. Also true if you’re following @xavierbecerra.bsky.social supporter and fan sites.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
But @jaketapper.bsky.social won’t embarrass himself by mentioning it on @CNN.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"Both" is the baked-in answer. Trump can't win this war. It's domestic political suicide & global economic sabotage to continue it. But the closure of the Straits has scarcely begun to exert its real effects. Gas will go MUCH higher. There will be food shortages. Even if peace breaks out tomorrow.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Why is it necessary to speculate without evidence that Democrats will let you down? Is it ever going to be possible for those on the left to take our own side in a fight?
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The left disingenuously uses the age issue, hoping to clear out Dems, especially Black Dems, from what they perceive are "safe seats" that should be turned over to hard-core leftists. They feel the left should be entitled to occupy safe seats as the purported "base" of the Dems (a false perception.)
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Deborah Teramis Christian 🌈 🎲 🇺🇦 @teramis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
These tea leaves aren't hard to read. :( Krugman on Trump's communications over the last 48 hrs or so: "from the Strait of Hormuz not being our problem to we will commit massive war crimes, presumably...And then finished it up with glory be to God. GOD in caps." It's 25th Amendment time.
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Donald Trump Isn't Sounding Like Himself
And that's terrifying
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/11/2025
MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.
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Not a Moderate Democrat @gottastory.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
One can hope SiriusXM does the right thing. No excuses for defending pedophiles.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#ResistanceUnited Pictured below are two of the people who caused ACA premiums to soar. "At least 75% of the premium increases ... is because they're losing the advanced premium tax credit. ... It's because of who was elected to Congress and the presidency.” www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
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Az's healthcare premiums set to soar on 2026 online marketplace
Arizona insurance officials are warning that those who buy healthcare coverage on the federal Affordable Care Act online marketplace should prepare for sticker shock when they purchase a plan next yea...
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
You sound jealous of him.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Why?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is 100% correct. NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“The homegrowns are next.” - Donald Trump, 04/14/25 We’ve been warned. #MAGAKidnappers
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
My son lives in Downtown LA. He says there are no serious protests or evidence of violence. The scariest thing for he and his roommates is the massive ICE and LAPD presence that looks like “occupation.”
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nothing. The National Guard is not the enemy.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/05/2025
Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Donald Trump is spewing outrageous lies about a “white genocide” in South Africa — alleged mass killings of white Afrikaner farmers. Trump is equating post-apartheid land redistribution with race war. Elon Musk, a native of South Africa and fellow white supremacist, feeds Trump the lies; Trump…
People from the first group of white South Africans granted refugee status for being deemed “victims of racial discrimination” under Trump's refugee plan, check in for a connecting flight, at Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, May 12, 2025.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/05/2025
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2025
Duckworth on if she's open to voting to confirm Mike Waltz: "I think everybody on that Signal chain needs to be fired ... he's failing up ... I'm not open to voting for him, no, because he's already demonstrated he's incapable of doing the most basic thing, which is handling classified information."
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
And then he got the celebrity treatment from Stephen A Smith.
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Rapunzel @corapunzel.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Trump's interview with Terry Moran yesterday where the fascist man baby told one outrageous lie after another and then had a total shit fit when Moran called him out on his whopper about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's non-existent MS-13 tattoo should be all over the news today. Haven't heard anything.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Nuzzi is what my grandmother would’ve called an “adventuress.”
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
But China is not calling Trump. The phone is not ringing. They will wait him out, and force him to do what his spox swears he won't do. In public. They will twist the knife. No "off-ramps," sorry. Trump's "never admit you were wrong" rule will be broken in the worst way.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Wait. What the actual fuck?!? Are we dead yet?
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Vance is resorting to the oldest Jim Crow trick in the book: accusing advocates for justice and due process of being “(N-word) lovers.”
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Bessent is among the worst at hiding his dismay about Trump's moronic policies. Marco Rubio looks like a corpse when he talks now, but the Treasury Secretary looks like he's 2 seconds from shrieking, "You're right, it's total shit, but what can I do? He's threatening me, Larry!"
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The right position is blame both. We've learned our Constitution is anything but tight. It is not a guardrail, not if congressional majorities decide to step back and let the Executive Branch take power away from them. Fortunately, the GOP's passivity is illegal and can be challenged in court.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Plus Paul, Weiss and Jeff Bezos.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s going to result in plants being built here that will not employ humans. So your “working man’s friend” pose is bullshit.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Et tu, WSJ?
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Your timing is ridiculously bad.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It means "Republicans are always good for the economy." 🤪
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 01/04/2025
I know what proper security protocols look like—this isn’t it. NSA Mike Waltz using Signal for war planning & now we learn he uses his personal Gmail for official biz? That’s not just reckless-it’s lazy. These aren’t rookie mistakes-they’re dangerous, deliberate choices. That ego is out of control.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Do you have any science to back up your elevation of Gaza to the levels of immigration and inflation as reasons why the D’s lost? Certainly the left’s false & reckless “genocide Joe” campaign hurt. Are you looking for a gold star?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/03/2025
Billionaires raked in record profits under Biden, but pushed hard for Trump—now they’ve lost billions. Here’s why they wanted Trump: 📌Tax cuts & deregulation 📌Worker exploitation 📌Keep the poor desperate 📌Racism as a weapon 📌Favor authoritarian control They wanted domination, not just profit.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Thom Tillis casting the deciding vote to confirm Hegseth, and his shameful silence yesterday, should be a major issue in the 2026 NC Senate race.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you’re a @GOP who can’t stand up for Hegseth in his time of utter failure and humiliation, Musk will destroy your career no matter how much money it takes.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
And any Republican critical of Pete Hegseth’s drunken mismanagement of national security will be primaried. And Democrats will be arrested. Jeffrey Goldberg is a dead man walking. Republicans will go to the mat for their DUI “warfighter.”
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
How about let’s be serious? Admire them both. But MAGA beats a Democratic Party led by Bernie & AOC 60-40 or worse.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
MAGA can’t believe their luck that the left is this dumb. But don’t get too excited, Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Left is the ultimate gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
You mean like Jill Stein? Sounds like a great plan to make MAGA even more powerful. Was the entire Left dropped on their head?
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
There is no Democratic 'messaging of capitulation.' It's notable that you provide no link to any such 'messaging.' The continual slander of the Democratic party with false accusations is a big favor to Trump now, and in 2026. It's this year's "genocide Joe."
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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John Stodder Jr. @johnstodder.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Why should the Democratic Party care about how it is perceived in a poll now? Of course their members dislike them -- we lost! The "fight" thing is seriously overrated. America wants to hear from Trump and Musk's victims, not from Democratic spokespersons. The Dems' time is coming, but not now.
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