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Kim Scarpelli

@mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social
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Just a political junkie from the NW Chicago Burbs

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20h
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Kim Scarpelli @mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social · 12h
Back in June he was retweeting racist shit from the John Birch Society, so no big surprise that he'd do this.
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Jay W @jaydeedouble.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Are these the weirdos and beardos that Hegseth was talking about not wanting?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel should focus on shutting up and going away.
NBC: Rahm Emanuel says Democrats should focus on ethics reforms rather than impeaching Trump
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tapafi.bsky.social @tapafi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Elise Jordan's report on Michigan voters illustrates perfectly why America is screwed. Can't support El-Sayed because she supports Israel. Have fun supporting Israel while you're pushing your grocery cart down the street because you couldn't afford your home. #idiots
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sorry, this is just total BS. Obama was not trying to destroy the rule of law in the US and the international order that kept us safe from World War II until 2025. He was not shoveling money into his own pockets. He was not murdering our neighbors. This bothsidesing shows utter moral bankruptcy.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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aka Uncle Cracker @unclecracker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Rand Paul: “THAT DAMN FAUCI!”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At one of this Nazi rallies today, the orange felon encouraged Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego whilst his cult cheered him on for that treasonous statement. I’ll say it again, he belongs in a jail cell, not in the bulldozed White House. To hell with everyone who gave this monster power.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another fight over who controls the nation’s purse strings. The White House announced that it plans to cancel $810 million in spending already approved by Congress, using a rarely used maneuver known as a “pocket rescission.”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could we finish bumblefucking our way through the war in Iran before we start one with Cuba? Thanks
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascist republicans in the Senate were seen instructing/influencing Moscow Mitch McConnell on how to vote because he’s cognitively unable to make decisions on his own as he continues to suffer from extremely poor health. It should be illegal to hold a Senate seat hostage.
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Ido Amir @idoamir.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This SCOTUS of TRAITORS is looking for ways to kill American democracy without the American people realizing it. They won't rule to end democracy in obvious cases. They're afraid to do that. They kill it with rulings they think Americans won't understand.
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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ding @ding1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is the opening paragraph of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that the six MAGA justices just overruled, to their everlasting shame: www.headsupnews.org/i/203459883/...
This case implicates two fundamental rights that protect Americans from government overreach: the right to privacy and the right to vote. In the past year, several federal agencies have joined forces to create a centralized federal database that contains the private information of United States citizens, including Social Security numbers, citizenship status, and other sensitive data. But decades ago, Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank. And the record in this case shows that the federal agencies that created this database knew that the database violates those statutory protections. The agencies were scrambling to comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification. So they haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable. Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information. All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Susan @smocarski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Listen up, you Republican cowards - if Sue Gordon can get herself on TV to defend democracy after open heart surgery and with stitches in her forehead, you can fucking get your shit together and do your job!!
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Mr. Mackey: No Excuses in South Park
ALT: Mr. Mackey: No Excuses in South Park
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Kim Scarpelli @mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm sure this was just an innocent mistake. /s
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
on this day in 1957 President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR, to enforce desegregation and keep white supremacists out of the way. as opposed to our current President who uses military for corrupt purposes and to enforce inequality.
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Kim Scarpelli @mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WTF?!?!
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Kim Scarpelli @mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I still think Trump is stupid, and it's the people who surround him (Project 2025, I'm looking at you) that have implemented some of his worst policies while he rage-tweeted & slept on camera.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
9/ That cafe meeting, Kao asserted, was just one episode in a sprawling pay-to-play operation in Congress. He and his close associates donated nearly $900K to dozens of politicians, allowing Navatek to establish operations in half a dozen states with $40M+ a year in government funds.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
4/ To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sends an initial $150K to the pro-Collins super PAC (1820 PAC) using a shell company. Reed knows Kao is behind the donation. “Very smart,” he says in an email viewed by ProPublica.
Emails Between Martin Kao and Scott Reed, Discussing Contributions to the Susan Collins Super PAC, 1820 PAC

“Hi Scott: Had a chance to discuss 1820 with my CFO and attorney last night. They are suggesting setting up a separate new LLC to make the donations. Name of new LLC: Society of Young Women Scientists and Engineers.

In my personal real estate investments, we often use LLCs that can be set up to "facilitate" transactions. They are super vague and very difficult to get any background info on. Totally legal and typically used in real estate transactions to conceal the identity of buyer/seller. Wanted to get your thoughts/concerns.”
— email from Martin Kao to Scott Reed, Nov. 22, 2019

“Very smart and glad your counsel understands. Thanks for doing this.”
— email from Scott Reed to Martin Kao, Nov. 22, 2019

“Great! We will proceed on getting this set up ASAP. Have a nice weekend.”
— email from Martin Kao to Scott Reed, Nov. 22, 2019
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Kim Scarpelli @mrsroperskaftan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If the Republicans lose the midterms it'll be because John Thune refused to allow a scheme that would have disenfranchised legitimate voters." FIFY.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Someone tell Trump that the teens are in reach, he'll be so excited!
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🌋Interesting Times Fan🌪 @ryangunther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@InternetHippo

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Iwant2Believe @almostlorelai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Paid for by our tax dollars 🤬
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE-Gestapo killers shot and injured a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas whilst he was doing his job. I’ll say it again, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, billionaires yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top. As a result, a billionaire media company closely allied with the president will soon own one of its closest rivals, including some of the nation’s critical news outlets. Saudi Arabia will co-own those outlets, too.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
guy who’s been repeatedly hit in the head and completely lost his memory and higher cognition: How could Governor Newsom DO this???
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21/09/2026
If only there was a federal agency that could stop monopolizing media mergers.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh by the way while the president was distracting everyone the fucking studio conglomerate mega-merger went through. That means CNN is owned by Ai sycophant Larry Ellison and his son David both known Maga ass lickers. If it couldnt be trusted before it really cant now www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Paramount wins Warner Bros takeover after settling states, union lawsuits
The settlement includes the creation of independent editorial boards ‌for CNN and CBS, and a $30 million penalty per film for any shortfall against Paramount's pledge to release 30 movies annually.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You would have thought RFK Jr. would have spoken out against the destruction of his uncle’s memorial. But, apparently, he doesn’t use his position to protect his own family—just hurt ours.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His brain is completely broken. What the actual fuck is this nonsense
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A new report from independent investigators appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council says there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes during two strikes in Iran in February.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the day Biden left office, inflation was down to 2.9%, gas was $3.12 a gallon, and diesel was $3.63. Now inflation is 3.4%, gas $4.44 and diesel is $6.40 because of tariffs and the Iran war.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
youtube.com
This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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Alex R Olivas Jr @alexolivas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m pretty sure the time period MAGA believes America was “great”, America also trusted science. Was it just the racism and misogyny they thought was so great?
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Rick and Tired @sameastheold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The constitution is just another piece of paper if nobody upholds it.
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