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Monica Stone

@monicasmoments.bsky.social
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Wife | Mother | Democrat | GenX | Introvert | Maine → Massachusetts (Go BC!) → Long Island Cooking is my love language.

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Monica Stone @monicasmoments.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Powerful reminder. “If our viral moment contributes anything to the ongoing cultural conversation about how we judge what we see online, I hope it reminds us to be more comfortable saying, “I don’t know the whole story.” The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression.” …
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026
Oh do listen
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If I could sum up why I’m not a Republican in one quote…
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how it’s done.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes exactly. It just did this! It’s not speculation or future-tripping. It happened!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about
ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.
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Monica Stone @monicasmoments.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026
I think guys in my basic demographic pretty consistently underestimate how much right-wing dudes hate women.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's vital for pro-democracy voices to emphasize that it's the entire Republican Party – not just Trump – that is screwing up our country. Tattoo Trumpism on every GOP candidate. Don't let them slither away.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The overriding motivation of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of the American people.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“.. Inflation has wiped out all wage gains since April (and March was close). .. Credit card debt is at a record high, savings is the lowest in years, and personal loan use is up. Consumption is almost certainly going to slow.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If the media is going to insist that politicians denounce their supporters who make extremist statements, I have a suggestion for someone a bit more important than a Twitch streamer.
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Denouncing Extremists
One of the media's favorite activities is demanding that Democratic politicians denounce individuals on their side who have made extreme statements. This is a pattern that stretches back to the 1992 ...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The administration has provided zero evidence that these are drug traffickers, and even if they were, there are legal processes for their arrest and trial. What we DO know is that the administration has stopped pursuing actual drug cases to go after immigrants instead.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.
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Ryan Evans @ryanevans.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The people who are putting our servicemembers and country at risk are those who ground our readiness down to the bone with an unwise and unsuccessful war. Not the people reporting on it.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This. The whole thread.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Put simply -- either Democrats hold Republicans accountable for this mess when they retake Congress, or voters will blame Democrats for it down the line.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Speaker of the House routinely deflects questions about the president who is in his own party by saying he hadn't heard that particular comment, but every single Democratic candidate is expected to denounce a Twitch streamer?
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
shorter trump: we're reducing tariffs to reduce the price you pay for ordinary stuff 🤔
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ahhh now it makes sense. 😉
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For all the GOPs who actually think Dems are saying Harp & Trump are fucking, they're not. We can clear that up. They're saying she's his emotional support blanket. He's a praise & sycophancy junkie on his last legs. And he needs the heroin of fangirls 24/7. And that's Natalie.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/08/2026
The courts keep striking down various Trump bids to block renewable energy, but billions of dollars in economic development are getting squandered in the meantime. It ought to be a bigger story.
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The Pentagon's wind farm blockade is over — for now
A federal judge issued yet another blow to Trump’s war on wind, ruling that the Defense Department must resume its review of onshore wind permit…
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Monica Stone @monicasmoments.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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Man crawling under boots near fence
Alt: Clip from one of my favorite movies. Man crawling on the ground near a fence until he stops at some boots. 🤣
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/07/2026
Republicans are trying to make the news cycle about anything other than Donald Trump and his incredibly unpopular domestic and foreign policy agenda. That’s why they set up this Fauci hearing. And everyone is taking the bait
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You want to know why too many people don't respect the media? It's because the media doesn't respect itself. We're all embarrassed for you. Have some fucking dignity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh, so the suspect was a white guy then.
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
substack.com/@linttrapofh... #mepolitics
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Michael J. Socolow (@linttrapofhistory)
I think @Amy Fried is 100% right on this. I always thought the most-effective way to go after Collins is to call her “D.C. Susan” and emphasize 30 years in Washington, D.C., where she got married to a...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/07/2026
I wonder where people get their optimism that a Democratic establishment that is currently devoting most of its energy to slandering & destroying leftist challengers is going to pivot, in the event of a big Dem victory, to imposing serious accountability on Republicans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Every Democrat needs to be screaming this.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It really is that simple: there's no reason for an agency tasked with "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" to function as a gestapo that invades neighborhoods and shoots people. Why do they have military weapons and use military tactics? They're supposed to be paperwork clerks.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a variation of the "but does he really *mean* what he says" navel-gazing. It ultimately doesn't matter who a public official really is in private or what they secretly believe. It's what they actually do with their power that matters.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.
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m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Why can't white Americans assimilate into our multicultural democracy???
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is actually the perfect distillation of the fascist mindset of tech oligarchs—they want working people to blame immigrants and people of color, so we don’t unite against the oligarchs.
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