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Michele Dostert

@micheledostert.bsky.social
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Moved over from X. Mid-westerner. Slava Ukraina! Life-long Dem. Until we fix the right-wing propaganda hold on the populace, things will get rapidly worse.

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Internet cat with opinions… @im-just-sayin.bsky.social · 7h
This just proves the GOP’s a poorly run PR shop fronting for a ponzi scheme based on a mafia-style protection racket. It’s all about consuming as much oxygen as possible while stuffing as much wealth into their pockets as possible and facing as few consequences as possible. A klepto-khakistocracy…
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 8h
I took graduate-level seminars as a senior and made it through law school and I did the reading. But, brother, 30 years later and I'd simply walk into the sea if I had to work half this hard again. Everyone's trying to break higher education, but it's everything to an advanced society. Go students.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
You know what? He's absolutely right. I'll post screenshots of a few courses in the replies here.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?
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Sad Old Man Crying
ALT: Sad Old Man Crying
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 8h
An evergreen concept
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 8h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14h
The president is obese and lives off a diet of fast food.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12h
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23h
I stand with Jack👏👍
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12h
😂👇
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13h
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go For It Ladies.......
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 18h
👏👇
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 20h
It's insane that we would allow someone who orchestrated a coup to stay in office last time to run for president again knowing full well the only way he leaves peacefully next time is in a coffin
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol. 😂
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h
Seems like some version of this runs every day
Like many of her neighbors, Ms. Vuittonet had been worried about the streams of new immigrants coming across the Rio Grande during the Biden administration and had trusted that Mr. Trump would stop them. Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for "mass deportations now" during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades.
"I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers," Ms. Vuittonet said, sitting in the small coffee shop she runs from the back of an antique store.
She thought of her six children, who range from ages 6 to 12. "Of course I want the streets safe."
But when her brother was taken to an immigration detention center earlier this year, just days after a scheduled check-in with an immigration official, she said it felt like a punch to the gut.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h
That genuinely looks painful.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 17h
Fed watchdog on HQ renovation that became Trump/Powell flashpoint: “At no point during ​our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the US attorney general."
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Watchdog finds deficiencies but no Fed misconduct in Powell-era renovation project
The Federal Reserve's Inspector General on Wednesday said it found no grounds for a criminal referral or administrative misconduct tied to cost overruns in a US central bank renovation project that ha...
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16h
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 23h
If I was just on a flight where the co-pilot tried to murder the pilot (and maybe tried to crash the plane) … I’d walk home.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump said his GOP convention beat the NFL. Nielsen says the Seahawks-Patriots opener drew 25.1 million viewers. Trump’s speech drew about 3.3 million across three networks. Claiming victory after losing by roughly 21.8 million people takes a special kind of self delusion.
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My take from the Smith hearings: To be a GOP senator today, you have to be a lying piece-of-shit, who puts loyalty to party & our lying piece-of-shit president, above their oaths to the Constitution & their obligations to tell the truth & do what rights to the American people! Repost if U agree
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's official: Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from Bryon Noem.
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Kristi Noem files for divorce from Bryon Noem
The announcement of the separation comes six months after a bombshell tabloid photo leak of her husband, Bryon Noem.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bonds don't matter until they are all that matters...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'll take the under. Because come the F on
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shocked not shocked. Also, if you downloaded this app, I mean…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything’s fine
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahaha. Puh-leez
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generations. Several of them.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 29/09/2026
In case you were wondering where the america.gov AI chatbot stood on the matter: "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" "Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election."
Who won the 2020 presidential election?

Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The National Archives records 306 electoral votes for Biden and 232 for Donald J. Trump (270 needed to win).
Official FEC results list Biden with 81,268,924 popular votes (about 51.31%).
Sources: National Archives Electoral College 2020, FEC official 2020 presidential results (PDF).
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oops you did it again
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you go to Atlanta? Smith: No Did you meet Fani Willis? Smith: I’ve never met her. Did you go to the Atlanta Hawks game? Smith: I’ve never been to an Atlanta Hawks game. Perjury, dirtbag!!!
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt might actually be dumber than Tommy Tuberville.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. John Kennedy made an ass of himself at the Jack Smith hearing. He asked Smith if he believed in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny. He asked Smith about the disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. Smith remained polite while this asshat performed his reprehensible routine.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JACK SMITH IS AN AMERICAN HERO AND SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED BY HIS BRAVERY. 100 YEAR OLD CHUCKY GRASSHOLE IS STILL AN ASSHOLE.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026
Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
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Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If only it had been this way. Justice denied! 👇 👇 👇 👇
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