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Mrs TexPat

@mlroff.bsky.social
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Texas expat living in and loving the UK for 20+ years, with my great British husband. I’m blue all thru and yes, I vote D. No dm’s please. No MAGAs, this is a respectable joint at 🦋!

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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Makes one wonder about the “lost” shipment of F 35 parts.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Seriously, access is useless unless you use it to insist on accountability! Man up, guys!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Trump and Epstein Reading Room exhibit opened in Dallas with 3.5 million pages of the DOJ Epstein documents printed and bound into 3,437 volumes. The exhibit runs from Sept. 8-11.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The guy who abuses his family will be working for the people? Uh huh, it doesn’t work that way. A violent man isn’t motivated to do the right thing. How did people get so stupid?
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Disgusting, and beneath the office of President.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Michelle Obama came up too but I’m not worthy to step into those shoes.
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Okay Then Stephanie Tanner: How Rude
ALT: Okay Then Stephanie Tanner: How Rude
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2026
Angel S. Rampersad Michael Swinton Tyler J. Feehan Isabella Gonzales Gabriel Edwards John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Benjamin Pennington Jeffrey O’Brien Robert Marzan Nicole Amor Declan Coady Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Stop lying.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Peter Brooks in The Times.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A nonstop grift machine with a spineless GOP.
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kashwitna.bsky.social @kashwitna.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fucking amazing isn’t it!
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
History shows Democrats are better on the economy! 21 measures, 72 years, one answer. Republicans held the White House eight years longer.
72 YEARS OF THE U.S. ECONOMY DEMOCRATS VS REPUBLICANS
Completed presidencies, Eisenhower through Biden.

DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
Jobs added per month
197,800
67,000
Total jobs added
76.0M
32.2M
Manufacturing jobs
+5.0M
-8.4M
Unemployment rate,
avg change per presidency
-2.4 pts
+2.2 pts
Real GDP growth per year
3.6%
2.5%
Real GDP per person, growth per year
2.5%
1.3%
Industrial production, growth per year
3.6%
1.3%
Real consumer spending per person, growth per year
2.5%
1.8%
After -tax corporate profits, growth per year
7.9%
6.4%
Recessions that began
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10
U.S. stock total return per year
13.7%
9.0%
Republicans held the White House eight years longer. Democrats still added about 2.4 times as many jobs.
Blinder and Watson found a large, statistically significant growth gap between Democratic and Republican presidencies in their historical sample, though much of it traced to factors not clearly under presidential control. Sources: BLS, BEA and Federal Reserve, via FRED. Corporate profits are BEA after-tax profits without IVA and CCAdj. Recessions follow the NBER chronology. Stock returns are S&P 500 with dividends reinvested, NYU Stern historical returns. Democrats held the White House 384 months, Republicans 480. Terms run January to January. Growth rates are annualised.
Laguna Beach Democratic Club72 YEARS OF THE U.S. ECONOMY DEMOCRATS VS REPUBLICANS
Ten plain measures. Same 72 years. Same answer.

DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
Jobs at private businesses grew each year by
2.5%
0.9%
Total hours Americans worked grew each year by
2.1%
0.4%
Adults 25 to 54 with a job, share went up or down by
+16.7 pts
-1.7 pts
Hours in a factory work week went up or down by
+3.1 hrs
-3.5 hrs
Money businesses invested grew each year by
5.7%
1.7%
Money spent building new homes grew each year by
4.0%
1.5%
What the average person owns grew each year by
3.1%
2.1%
Americans out of work,
the number changed each year by
- 5.3%
+8.0%
Time the country spent stuck in a recession
3.7%
20.6%
The yearly deficit, compared to the size of the economy
2.5%
3.2%
Republicans held the White House eight years longer. They still spent 99 months stuck in a recession. Democrats spent 14.
Blinder and Watson found a large, statistically significant growth gap between Democratic and Republican presidencies, though much of it traced to factors no president clearly controls.
Sources: BLS, BEA, Federal Reserve, NBER and U.S. Treasury, via FRED. Completed presidencies, Eisenhower through Biden. Democrats held the White House 384 months, Republicans 480. Terms run January to January. Dollars are inflation adjusted. In the last three rows, lower is better.
Laguna Beach Democratic Club
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Who knew the party that worships a bully would be such snowflakes?
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Republicans do things TO people, not FOR people.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This thread…top marks!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just rake-stepping all the way down.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ernest Rudbeckia
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wow! The genuine G.O.A.T.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“We’ve got a party that is fighting for fraud and a party that is fighting against fraud." — JD Vance
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
All the best people.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
ok DC vibe check walk, 2nd annual trump's birthday edition 🧵
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 20/05/2026
A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 12/05/2026
“We have watched those with power and privilege manipulate the system, shielding themselves from accountability while survivors have suffered in silence.” ~ Lauren Hersh Survivors were silenced. The powerful protected their own. Keep talking about Epstein files. Survivors deserve truth. #SheShed
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
🔥 WOW — ex Knoxville REPUBLICAN state House Rep Eddie Mannis: “The special session being called by @GovBillLee is shameful and absurd… should offend every Tennessean… they are afraid of the midterm results…. shameful, anti-democratic, a betrayal of the public trust…” @marshablackburn
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is powerful 💪🏾 🔥 Absolute fire from Gary Chambers.
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/04/2026
The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...
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Kathryn Edwards @klouw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It’s a sign of our times that these completely valid questions feel rhetorical.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ah springtime.
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
These goddamn Trump's.. All just Take Take Take
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Barbara Rybolt 🐸 @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#aproudablue #Resist #VoterSuppression Did you know the second part of the “Save” bill is where the real danger is to anyone seeking to vote in 2026 & beyond? Let Politics Girl explain it to you. Suffice it to say if the Feds get hold of your voting records expect to be purged from rolls. Listen ⬇️⬇️
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Todd Blanche replacing Bondi is not a good thing.
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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Dear SCOTUS, If you strike down birthright citizenship, please make it retroactive. Thanks, America 🇺🇸
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
He reeks of desperation.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 Million protesters yesterday at #NoKings. No police beaten with flag poles. No fire extinguishers thrown at other humans. No vandalism or theft. No racist flags. No zip ties. No death threats. No pipe bombs. No poop smeared on walls. That's what happens when mature, civilized people protest.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/03/2026
h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
100% correct.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
That’s about as lopsided of a poll result as possible in this age of polarization
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Reprehensible.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This encapsulates all that is so wrong about Trump and the spineless traitors who still support him.
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Appalling and totally predictable.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
¶1 of CBS story on how six people died in a poorly defended tactical operations center says it relies on people w/"direct knowledge," which could be people who responded. But then ¶11 reveals, no, they were onsite and also knew the warnings had been coming too late to respond all week.
The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, three U.S. military officials with direct knowledge of Iran's attack told CBS News.

The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, three U.S. military officials with direct knowledge of Iran's attack told CBS News.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Perfect.
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Annette ☮️ (annettebeebe.bsky.social) 💙 @annettebeebe.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@annettebeebe.bsky.social Ty @thisdudeabides.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @carlyja22.bsky.social @oldfashionednuts.bsky.social @lms2025.bsky.social @sedahr.bsky.social @plmnh.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social
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Mrs TexPat @mlroff.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Disgusting Epstein Class privilege.
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reality check 🤔😕😢 @realitycheck.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis" "we are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump... Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework" Yep
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