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kmccartan

@kmccartan.bsky.social
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Mother, grandmother, former nun, lawyer, loves history, art, politics, and reading.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. 

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. 

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. 

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
After 5 years of failure, it is very odd to me that Putin still thinks that terrorism against Ukrainian civilians will compel Zelenskyy to capitulate. Putin obviously does not understand Ukrainians.
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Savonian Fella 🇫🇮 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @savonianfella.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Yesterday 🇫🇮 Finland summoned 🇷🇺 Russia's ambassador for talks in response to what it described as illegal threats, the Foreign Ministry posted on social media platform X. yle.fi/a/74-20228443
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: Late last night, a federal court overturned a restrictive New Hampshire voter registration law that could have disenfranchised thousands. We challenged this law in court and won, because these unnecessary laws don't safeguard our elections — they just make it harder for people to vote.
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Michael B Lehrhoff @mblehrhoff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Scott Bessent himself will be on new American Vichy currency, as a symbol of craven accommodation of fascism.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Pop Quiz: Locate the Actual Patriots...
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
When he’s right, he’s right.
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Antonia 🦋 🩵 💙🦋 Democratic Election Judge, Autism Awareness @antonia2024bsky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
You Texans better wise up at what’s at stake in Texas and all around the country. This nasty government here don’t care about you nor your family and kids !
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So, basically, we are paying his January 6 army to make another attempt to overturn the November election? Asking for the same members of society #USDemocracy
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: I think it’s pretty unbelievable that Gaza would not be mentioned once in the autopsy report. I think it was very clearly a major dynamic and a major thread that was happening in 2024. The fact that it’s not even addressed, I think, is a major oversight.
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Anthony Torino @torinoentertainer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Black folks been peacefully marching for decades No reparations White folks attack the capitol Get reparations What should black folks learn from this?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 21/05/2026
Hey Donnie! You will *never* be as loved by the nation as this man. Never.
Stephan Colbert at his show desk
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
ICYMI: Hawaii became the first in the nation to reduce the influence of corporations and dark money groups trying to shape the state's elections.
apnews.com
New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling
Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and
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Rio Tazewell @riotazewell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is anyone else getting tired of witnessing the most astoundingly blatant corruption in American history happening in plain sight and almost half the country cheering it on, overwhelmingly to their own detriment?
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Jay @drjayunbound.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I recently watched an interview where actor /comedian Martin Short, talking about his daughter who passed away, said: “She did the best she could until she couldn’t,” and described mental illness as often being a “terminal disease.” We need more compassionate honesty and conversations like this
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Let’s not forget conservatives don’t believe in reparations for slavery but they do for white sesitionist rioters against their own country/democracy… The end of true patriotism.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/05/2026
“Each of us here has a story of generational struggle. Amazon is trying to erase that.” Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
motherjones.com
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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New York Shitty @newyorkshitty.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If we manage to oust these ghouls I want Warren to be granted a special job/position that is doing this all the time. Give her an electronic megaphone, a cattle prod, you name it. Whatever she asks. Haunt them in their dreams, Liz!
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Debs Kaye @debskay2298.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So while people may have gotten a BIT bigger tax refund, I guarantee you IT WON'T cover the INCREASED costs of their HEALTHCARE, GAS bills, housing food etc. etc. etc.! Americans DON'T BUY into their SMOKESCREEN! LYING is ALL they DO!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026
WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
theguardian.com
Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz
There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us
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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Brazil has created the South Atlantic’s largest marine protected area, spanning about one million hectares. Supported by Conservation International, the reserve—roughly the size of Jamaica—aims to safeguard biodiversity, fisheries, and critical ocean ecosystems.
conservation.org
Brazil creates the South Atlantic's largest marine park | Conservation International
Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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R. A. Meenan (Sammie)(She/They) @zyearth.com · 12/04/2026
We need computer classes back. We need to teach people how to troubleshoot and how to type and how folders work. I am frequently shocked at how little people know about computers these days. This has "Back in my day" energy, but like... it's a necessary skill that we seem to have lost.
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Linda @sungirl819.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A true leader! Appointment this man as the Secretary of Defense!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 12/04/2026
Victor Wembanyama should invest in @thexylom.com, a nonprofit, independent, worker-led news outlet that covers the most pressing global health and environmental disparities, just saying: fundrazr.com/campaigns/su...

Point Made Basketball
@pointmadebball
Victor Wembanyama after being asked about his thoughts on the environment: 

“Of course, I care a lot about it, and I feel a certain guilt about polluting so much as someone who flies 41 times a season. 

But..I want to have an impact, and I want to counteract this negative carbon footprint through whatever impact I can, financially [or] socially, I want to have an impact for the future...Investing, yes, but not for profit.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until they hear about this fellow called Jesus.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So in just one week, you threatened to nuke 93million people in the Middle East. Then you didn’t. Your wife declares she didn’t know Epstein but she did. You sent your best team to negotiate a ceasefire while you and Rubio watched UFC. Then you endorsed Orban who lost? Am I missing something here?
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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 12/04/2026
"why does no one wanna go to the movie theater anymore" (source: www.reddit.com/r/Millennial...)
A digital recipt from a movie theater

1 adult ticket - $24.49
1 child ticket - $21.99
1 large popcorn - $10.99
1 nacho - 8.99
discount (nacho combo) - $2.00
one large root beer - $9.99
one small pepsi - $8.99
tax - $2.15
total - $87.59
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PoloPrincess MBA @horseplaygirl.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
katieporter.com
katieporter.com
Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
What California needs is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. Join our team today to help Katie Porter stand up to Donald Trump and lower costs for Californians.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
How the fuck is the president and Secretary of State at a UFC fight in Miami while war negotiations affecting the world economy are falling apart. And I know that MFer isn’t going to try to play golf tomorrow too.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens. The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
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Mara Surridge @marasurridge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I seriously don't understand this. Katie Porter is right there!
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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
image from inside Artemis II

text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
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Angie @angiespar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Once again the orange bully brings us to the brink of terror but then offers a two week truce History has already labeled him a disgrace, and he has proven yet again there is no low he can achieve as a human being. Two weeks of "truce" now to manipulate the markets
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is a madman.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 31/03/2026
“Bucha survived 33 days of russian occupation, terror, torture — 33 days of total evil. 600 murdered Ukrainian men and women. Russia called it staged. Russia always does this. Actually, all evil acts this way.” President Zelenskyy addressed the European leaders at the Bucha Summit.
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Charlie @sonofirving.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It'll be funny in history when despite Trumposhenko doing everything he possibly can to help Putin and it fails. Ukraine is becoming a light to the World, ya'll. Fighting for their life, Ukraine still finds time an resources to help her allies in the Mid east and EU w/ drones and expertise.
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