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Justin Karr Conley

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It’s pronounced Appa-LATCH-uh. NEA Staff Union. NEA Digital. Go Canes. Packers Shareholder #TeamLH WNCian. Every worker deserves a union. (he/him)

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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 9h
This man is addicted to fraud. He yearns to let private companies terrorize sick people. Reminder: A healthcare company he led pleaded guilty to 14 felonies for fraud. He walked away with over $350 million. This man should never be allowed to speak to issues related to healthcare.
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Jeremiah Johnson's Iconic Yes Nod
ALT: Jeremiah Johnson's Iconic Yes Nod
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Josh Stein @joshsteinnc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah across North Carolina: L’Shana Tova! May you have a happy, healthy, sweet, and peaceful new year.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 07/09/2026
Maybe don’t make your Labor Day post with AI? Even better, if you’re a politician, here’s a pro-tip… your Labor Day post that fails to mention unions or the working class is bad.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 28/08/2026
Renaming a lake most people have never visited has really brought down to cost of my groceries!
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 25/08/2026
Some voices tell you exactly where they come from. Dolly never sanded Appalachia out of hers. To me, her accent always sounded like home. She cared enough about our mountains to make sure generations of kids growing up there had books and with them bigger worlds within reach. This one hits close.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 24/08/2026
Whatley likes to cosplay being from NC.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/08/2026
If Garth Brooks shows up here in DC and just plays "We Shall Be Free" for 2 hours, I'd be happy as a pig in shit.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/08/2026
This is the logical outcome of Melania's robot, Linda McMahon calling it A1, and the chatbot tutors breaking COPPA to share the names, birth dates, family details, and conversations with kids.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 20/08/2026
So much for the innovations of free-market capitalism, lol! Let's keep the shitty internet so some service providers don’t have to compete.
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FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 20/08/2026
What the dumbfuckery is this nonsense? What an absurd statement that would be disqualifying for anyone previously.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 20/08/2026
Facts.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 20/08/2026
Facts. @ossoff.bsky.social knew a hit dog would holler and holler they have.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 20/08/2026
When you AI slop this hard it makes me question the legitimacy of the poll.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 19/08/2026
Def read this like the bear and the person were playing some FPS game, and the person said something to piss off the bear, so the bear called 911 to report an active shooter at their address.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 19/08/2026
It's unsettling to see an FBI vest and two non-uniformed friends hopping out of an SUV cattycorner to the dog park on S and 17th on your ride into work.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 08/08/2026
Imagine making good money playing sports and ending your legacy by being a washed-up culture war prop bullying people whose lives are already harder than yours ever had to be.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 08/08/2026
News sites be highlighting opinion pieces like they’re from regular people or some neutral expert, but the story about why hen houses need less security is written by the CEO of Fox Going to Steal Them Eggs Enterprises.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 08/08/2026
Ever see a friend ask for recommendations for some city or place you’ve visited and you simply don’t have it within you to respond: “Don’t.”
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 07/08/2026
Susan Collins’ next book title is “Courage when Convenient.”
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 05/08/2026
A lot of the “left vs. moderate” divide is consultant bullshit slapped onto messy voters after the fact. The class divide is real. Voters are complicated, contradictory, and a lot less clean than a sound bite. Respect them enough to stop treating them like a monolith.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 05/08/2026
Once you remove the money and consultants who get paid regardless of success, a lot of the “moderate vs. left” divide in Dem primaries starts to evaporate. Voters are not ideological blocs. They have contradictory views. The class divide is usually a lot more real than the political one.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 04/08/2026
Moderates keep punching left because it’s easier for them than punching up. Working people are getting crushed by rent, groceries, insurance, and corporate greed, and somehow, the biggest concern these political hacks and moderate candidates have is whether somebody gets called a socialist.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 03/08/2026
If you're leading a party apparatus, you as an individual should never be the story, let alone have your actions actively undermine the party you lead.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 02/08/2026
I’ve not been following the internet or the news, but has Jake Tapper said anything about Trump shitting himself or falling asleep on camera in meetings?
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 29/07/2026
It's incredibly fitting and deeply telling when people use AI to create an image or video of a problem that exists mostly in their own imagination.
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Speaking of Great Ideas, This is the Greatest Idea of 2026, nay, the Greatest Idea of the Decade! - WE WANT AN IMAX HERE: www.popville.com/2026/07/imax...
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Speaking of Great Ideas, This is the Greatest Idea of 2026, nay, the Greatest Idea of the Decade! - PoPville
3426 Connecticut Ave, NW Credit to Gbenga Ajilore: "D.C. needs to turn the Uptown into a IMAX 70MM equipped theater." Hell yes, 100% brilliant idea: And speaking of great ideas, I'll put one forward m...
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Vulcan As A Motherfucker. 🤘🏻🖖🏻
This is a second alternate version with text added. star trek lower decks fan art illustration of T'Lyn. she's leaning against something (off screen), wearing sunglasses, has purple eye shadow - as is vulcan tradition, multiple piercings in her ear, 2 rings, a starfleet delta and a vulcan hand symbol. She has the lesbian slit cut in her eyebrow. she's wearing a blue choker, and two necklaces. one is a simple silver chain. the other is Khan's makeshift broken starfleet necklace from the OG "Wrath of Khan." she's wearing a punk wristband and black opal ring. on her right arm is the vulcan script for "live long and prosper" and on her left arm is the vulcan script for "peace and long life." both are obscured by the pose. her blue tank top has the letters "IDIC." the decal is worn and faded. the background is purple to match her eyeshadow. The yellow text says "Compassion Is The Radicalism of Our Time."
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/07/2026
These people are not serious, nor do they care about the problems 99% of you and your neighbors are dealing with. This entire administration and those who support they have only changed laws to benefit Trump's family financially and their corporate donors who already had vast amounts of wealth.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/07/2026
As long as I get Mike and Tripp calling our games I won't mind...
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 09/07/2026
Solidarity!
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...
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From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 26/06/2026
Corporations should not profit from essential human needs. Every person deserves access to the things they need not only to survive, but to live a meaningful and dignified life.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 25/06/2026
How come the only Democrats I’ve seen upset about DSA candidates winning primaries are folks who make a living from elections/politics whether the Democrats win or lose?
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It takes serious guts to be this vulnerable, and I hope in exchange for her honesty, my friend Rocio and ALL our friends and colleagues at ProPublica can get the fair contract we need, especially when it comes to wages:
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/06/2026
Their business model for the last 600 years is bribe politicians, steal our resources, enclose the commons and then rent-seek and charge a toll for the privilege of using the value we created to begin with.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 14/06/2026
Things you read after you show up to the airport 5 1/2 hours early to make sure you don’t miss Game 5. But you’re sitting at the airport bar 25 hours before puck drop because in your excitement you forgot today was Saturday.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Elon Musk recently said he wants "to make Star Trek real," and I guess there are some Star Trek storylines with racist pogroms
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 05/06/2026
The AI bubble will burst. We don’t need to decimate the health of our communities racing to the bottom.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 05/06/2026
One thing I've come to believe deeply as a union organizer and union leader: There is no such thing as instant gratification organizing. A lot of people burn themselves out because they think if a union, campaign, or movement isn't transforming overnight, they're failing. That's a fantasy.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/05/2026
Maybe the real DNC 2024 Autopsy report are all the friends we made along the way.
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 21/05/2026
NC’s “Right to Work” constitutional amendment is redundant political theater for a few reasons…
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Justin Karr Conley @justinconley.com · 08/05/2026
You call an unsportsmanlike on Rod… during thr playoffs… get fucked.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...
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(1901) Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address To Congress
In January 1901, at the beginning of a new century, George H. White was ending his term as a Congressman from North Carolina’s Second Congressional District. Realizing that he was bringing to a close ...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.
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