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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 8h

A core value of today's Republican party is that there should be no accountability for people who help you get re-elected.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 10h

My postcard messages to my representatives.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 17h

He does have the magic touch when it comes to bankrupting businesses.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 17h

Think about what Trump's team has closed at the CDC. Easy to understand his priorities. "Entire divisions have been shuttered, including teams that worked on smoking, sexual violence, child abuse and falls among older adults.”

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fall garden looks very different. Brochure says Dragon's Breath will get 32 inches high in optimal conditions. We must be super optimal because the plants are over three feet tall. Yard definitely needs haying.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Republicans want to make it impossibly difficult for people to vote. I have a different proposal. If you can answer this one question truthfully, you are welcome to vote. The one question — "What happened in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2021? Here is a hint.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Republicans just cannot stop the malfeasance. It is part of their character.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing you can say about Trump is that he is guilty of everything from adultery to war crimes.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am the Government’s AI chatbot and I am here to help.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All you need to know about the morally bankrupt Republican Party. Need further confirmation, check out the Jack Smith hearing.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am sincerely hoping that we can figure out once again how to be excited about doing things together. www.crystalcoast.me/moretolifeth...

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More to life than greed

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having a grifter in charge of the American economy was never a good idea. His record shows at least 10 failed business ventures while filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six times. Those who ignored his financial record to shake things up, well how do like our shaken-up economy? Not so much I suspect.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You cannot get any more Republican than these two who voted against ending the war and then went home and hope the voters will believe they want the war ended. It is always wise to watch what this generation of Republicans say and measure it against what they do.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This president for most of his two terms seemed to have a preternatural understanding of how to twist the press & the public to believe his narratives about the world; now he’s living in such a fantasy world that his greatest power has been effectively neutralized. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...

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Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency (Gift Article)

Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was looking for articles on the "welcome" trump got at the UT-Texas game and I happened on this. Remember this is a Texas newspaper. Another sign that MAGA is crumbling before our eyes. The scales are coming off some folks' eyes.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The man is deranged. "US president Donald Trump has said he has rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the strait of Hormuz within a week and resume nuclear talks in return for the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Trump rejects Iran’s seven-day peace deal to reopen strait of Hormuz

US president is said to expect renewed strikes after midterms

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Peace should be our plan, and the payment of our debts, improvement of our constitutions and extension of agriculture our principal objects,” Jefferson wrote, sharing his thoughts about that year’s constitutional convention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An attic view in early spring 2002 of one part of my mother's gardens. My wife and I had just taken them over. My mother was 92 and stopped actively gardening a few years earlier. We hauled away trailer loads of trimmings.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If the refineries keep diesel production going at full throttle, they would rapidly run out of places to store it and have to reduce production. This is a complicated market. Using a sledgehammer to ban exports would likely have unintended consequences. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

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"Not such a great idea": How banning diesel exports to lower prices could backfire

Some senators and governors are calling on the Trump administration to temporarily ban diesel exports to boost domestic supply. Experts say it might not work as well as they hope.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The mobile motel that we used for three months in the summer of 1970 on our Alaska trip. This is somewhere on the Alcan Highway, just before we left Alaska. Snow was falling on the upper levels of the mountains by the time we left in late August. We did make it back in time for our senior year.

Dodge Powerwagon with camper top and beds, our kitchen was on the tailgate. That's a much younger me (56 years younger) behind the truck. I am wearing my Strike button from the previous spring when we closed down Harvard.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A favorite sunset capturing the sun in the wheel house of the Captain Phillips at Clyde Phillips Seafood between the bridges at Swansboro.

Peaceful water of Bogue Sound with the Captain Phillips shrimp boat docked at Clyde Phillips Seafood. The sunset is visible through the wheel house.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my favorite shots of a pileated woodpecker at the coast. We actually heard one morning not long ago here at our Piedmont home. You ever get a good look at pileated, you should be easy to convince that they are related to dinosaurs.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Take that RFK Jr. We got our COVID and Flu shots. Your pseudo-science belongs in the trash can, and you deserve to be impeached for contributing to death from measles. A technician told us that the only reason to split the MMR into three shots is so big drug companies can make more money

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tabby cats on guard. Leaves are changing. It will be a cool night for Friday night football. It remains dry here.

Left to right, Goose, Jester, and Merlin.

Cooler weather on the way but no significant rain.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now if we could just make him invisible as well as silent, we would have something we all could work with for a while.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just the first poll to show his support under 30%. Over 7 in 10 Americans disapprove of his handling of the economy. Now would be a good time to start impeaching his henchmen until we have him isolated. Hegseth should be the first impeached.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Lack of investment in the cities where our tech lords live reveals a stark reality about how this wealth benefits a select few at the expense of all others. Silicon Valley's greatest cultural institution is the two-million-sq ft Westfield Valley Fair shopping mall" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians (Gift Article)

The center of the tech industry is culturally barren because wealthy executives have no interest in communities outside their fiefs.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This blithering idiot is on the verge of starting World War III and the Republican led House of Representatives decided to take a vacation. They need to be permanently out to pasture. Trump should be in jail. Clip is from USA Today.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

RFK Jr. is an especially heinous criminal using his office to push views that kill people including children. He should be charged with murder.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Kennedy Center is a line in the sand. He crosses it at his own peril.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Certainly a team of people who will understand the problems that most of non-Rolex wearing people face.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“I’ll tell you what. The power of this office is crazy. I could have banned fishing and driven Johnny right the hell out of business.”

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Impeach Hegseth, he is a war criminal. He must not escape accountability for his actions.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please listen to Heather Cox Richardson. If you feel overwhelmed by the fire hose of news, please take the time for this latest chat from HCR. It is an exceptional explantation of where we are and also provides the perspective needed to keep fighting for our country. www.youtube.com/live/M6Px859...

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Politics Chat, September 17, 2026

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"44% of all U.S. adults say the press has become less free during the 2nd Trump administration. Only 15% of Republicans think the press is less free." Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits. Pew Center, September 15, 2026. That 15% is clueless. Republicans value their guns the most.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"As of last week, 104 laws have been enacted in the current Congress, putting it on pace for fewer than any of its predecessors since the Civil War." The WSJ

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mike Johnson, worst ever House Speaker, is sending our representatives home where the Republicans will surely hide. Why not let them work for their paycheck & healthcare? Let them vote, govern, & uphold their oath of office, not run every time there is a difficult vote. We pay them to work not run.

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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"By early afternoon Wednesday, according to De Haan’s tracking of real-time data, a gallon of regular had jumped by 30 cents from the day before in Lawrence County, Ohio. The disruption to the global energy market has come largely as a result of retaliation by Iran and its proxies." wapo.st/4AixfnC

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Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come

The forecast of economic impacts beyond November’s midterms contrast with the Trump administration’s optimistic messaging.

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