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Mary Ranta

@maredog1125.bsky.social
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Mother, grandmother, sister, friend. Disability rights are human rights. Abortion care is health care.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2026
Horrified Guests Begin Gagging As Dinner Host Reveals They’ve Been Eating USDA Beef theonion.com/horrified-guests-begin…
Horrified Guests Begin Gagging As Dinner Host Reveals They’ve Been Eating USDA Beef
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@MohanadElshieky

Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Who doesn't love a snappy comeback? #November3rdWe8647
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In fiery meeting, military families confront Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...
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In fiery meeting, military families confront Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln
Family members of sailors and Marines challenged Navy leaders on Thursday night over their concerns about mental health, supply shortages and water contamination aboard the aircraft carrier on a recor...
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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump card
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That picture…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/07/2026
Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/06/2026
Just before market open, very nice
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: "No one — and I mean no one — has the right to sit in judgment of who's American enough."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: "We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent. To ring our hands in despair. To wait for someone else to fix the problem. Y'all, hope is all we have. Because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change…"
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is why they didn't record it.
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Neil Vigdor @gettingviggy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The roller coaster, one of the oldest in the country, was idle last summer but it is set to reopen on Memorial Day weekend after a major restoration. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...
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Playland’s Dragon Coaster, Nearing 100, Roars Back From Its Slumber
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2026
Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/05/2026
I keep telling y’all, he’s never leaving. The symbolism here is crazy work! A glowing golden shield protecting the White House like a king’s palace. Satellites, missiles, crosses, heavenly light from the sky, all centered around one man who sees himself as the seat of devine power.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Look folks I agree this is in bad taste but I don't think Lindsey should be indicted for it as he's merely threatening the President of the United States with an extremely unpleasant time for both of them
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Good breakdown of the background and bottom line: "If you paid 2023 federal income taxes in the state of Connecticut, $3 out of every $100 you paid is now set aside for reimbursing people who a committee of people allied with the president decide were treated unfairly by government actions."
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Lol and 😔
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Where we are in a nutshell.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Holy shit this hellspawned post is actually real I just confirmed it
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 27/04/2026
This is Tango. She wants you to know this isn't what it looks like. Doesn't know what else it could be yet, but she's working on that. 12/10 obviously innocent (IG: eyes_on_tango)
a labrador puppy with red fur and a braided collar is sitting upright between a gray sofa and a dark coffee table. the dog has one front paw on the side of the table, and her mouth is clamped on the table’s corner. she has just noticed that she’s being watched, and her eyes are frozen in panic while she tries to play it cool. her back feet are tucked in front of her, touching at the hocks and then splaying out.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/04/2026
Weird that they would fire the navy secretary who’s been overseeing a war we’ve won at least five times.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
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The Times Of America @timesofamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Who Died And Made The Pope The Boss Of The Catholic Church, Anyway?
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If there was a really a fair and balanced corporate media - the reporters would be following up all Catholic Churches in America who denied Biden communion or shunned him any way for his support for abortion rights - after how Vance has attacked the Pope.
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Biden was denied communion at Catholic church in South Carolina | CNN Politics
Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
> @adamscochran.bsky.social
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/04/2026
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I can't believe there was a group photo and I somehow missed it. Congrats to everyone in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula who made it in the photo.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
the defense secretary who was plucked off a couch at fox news is arguing about jesus with the fucking POPE in case you’re wondering how things are going
Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees.
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration's calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is "entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ."
[photo of Pope Leo with this caption]
Pope Leo, during the Holy Thursday Mass in Rome, said the Christian mission had often been "distorted by a desire for domination." Vincenzo Livieri/Reuters
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please stop forgetting how elections work i beg of you @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
...God DAMN this is good.
You people said both sides were the same. So why does every measurable thing now feel more punitive, more expensive, more cruel?

Kamala was the available off-ramp from catastrophe, and many people rejected that off-ramp because they preferred to feel righteous rather than be responsible. And for an entire year, these dishonest grifters used every available lie in the book.

Kamala was a cop. Kamala was a fraud. Kamala was “basically Trump.” Both sides were the same.

This was repeated, endlessly, with the confidence of people who believed their words existed in a vacuum. As though posting were a private act. As though saying something publicly, over and over again, had no effect on the people who saw it. And now, in the aftermath, those same people retreat into a series of convenient fictions.

“My vote didn’t matter.” Then what, exactly, did your voice matter for?

Why spend months speaking if speech is inert? Why post if posting does nothing? Why argue, persuade, signal, and perform if none of it carries consequence? You do not get to believe in influence when it flatters you and deny it when it implicates you.

“I was taking a stand.” Against what? The available reality?

Elections are not moral thought experiments. You are not grading the candidates on a curve for personal satisfaction. You are selecting between outcomes. Real ones. Material ones. The kind that determine whether people can afford groceries, whether rights are enforced, whether the state is actively hostile to its own citizens.

You did not reject Kamala Harris in favor of a better option. You rejected her in favor of nothing. And “nothing,” as it turns out, votes.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/04/2026
Donald Trump attended the Supreme Court hearing today. @petridishes.bsky.social imagines his thoughts during the oral arguments: “I am a big fan of the law. I like the faint, wheezing sound it makes as I trample on it, and the mountains of litigation that result.”
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I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way
Can’t a president go watch his justices?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump attending today’s birthright citizenship arguments at SCOTUS is such a transparent attempt to intimidate the justices. But it just makes him look WEAK and PATHETIC. Trump reeks of desperation.
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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“It’s a new world; it’s the same Constitution”
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
With oil prices spiking again over the weekend, we are due for another late Sunday/early Monday post from Trump about significant progress with the “peace talks.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This. This is what happens when you let the @nytimes.com and Bari Weiss make decisions about what "news" should be.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
ICYMI: The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?
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Trump State Dept. Accused of ‘Largest Fee Fraud in History’ of US Immigration System | Common Dreams
An immigration researcher at the Cato Institute found that the Trump administration is "raking in billions of dollars in
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The thing about dementia? A total lack of filter will keep manifesting.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Oil is heading to $200 a barrel and our troops are now deploying to the Middle East while Congress vacations and Trump plays golf for his 110th golf day out of the pathetic 425 days he's been in office. He is barely even mailing it in at this point...who pays? Just us losers who aren't billionaires.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Families across the country are emptying out retirement funds, putting off home repairs, and going without groceries just to afford healthcare. This shouldn’t happen in the richest country in the world. @AFTHealthcare.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/03/21/n...
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When health insurance costs $2,500 per month, families make tough choices
A self-employed couple already had to dip into retirement savings for health costs. Now, they are skipping vacations and canceling streaming to afford health insurance.
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Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
An ex ICE lawyer says deploying ICE at TSA checkpoints "forces the public to submit to a criminal checkpoint system if they wish to exercise their freedom of travel. At best, this forces Americans to accept the kind of ...systems" used in the Soviet Union. David Kligerman ow.ly/BlfA50YxQ3x
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So we're invading after the market closes on Friday? Is that what I'm gathering here?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026
"This weekend, Senate Republicans thrashed about like rotting, mildly electrocuted trout as they attempted to pass the SAVE America Act — a bill that would disenfranchise millions of Americans in the name of preventing voter fraud that doesn’t exist." — @nberlat.bsky.social
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The SAVE America Act could backfire bigly on MAGA
It's a half-baked attempt at election rigging.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Damn, Gerry Baker. 👀
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026
less than three months out from the World Cup, Trump touts the presence of ICE agents at airports and says they're "very fertile territory" for arresting foreigners
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I can confirm that people who are already exhausted and scared of going through TSA and flying right now, people who have just been told to wait in a line for 4+ hours, are absolutely furious to see ICE agents—a stark reminder of who exactly is to blame for this situation
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Mary Ranta @maredog1125.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’m curious what the TSA union thinks about ICE coming to “help”. If TSA was on strike ICE would be considered scabs.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/03/2026
Unpaid TSA workers, huge spring-break crowds—yet again, the GOP and Trump administration have been caught without a plan to address a crisis of their own making.
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What exactly will ICE do at airports? No one seems to know.
The partial government shutdown and spring break crowds have created a nightmare for travelers—and the GOP.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/03/2026
Donald Trump is eyeing military intervention in Cuba, seeking business opportunities more than regime change, administration officials tell Vivian Salama and Sarah Fitzpatrick.
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Trump’s Eye Is Already on Cuba
“Regime change is lined up,” awaiting the president’s signal, according to one administration official.
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