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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
AIPAC's Super PAC spent a record-setting $30 MILLION in Michigan's Senate primary to try to stop Abdul El-Sayed. Now they're spending AGAIN to boost his GOP opponent. We must show them that organized people will always beat organized money.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He will take credit for it anyway. But if there is any serious* blowback or repercussion he will disavow it completely. *serious as in, it’s finally the straw that broke the camel’s back for a number of the GOP to either pressure resignation(haha) or vote for impeachment (again, haha).
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zero.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I felt that comment IN MY BONES. Disgusting doesn’t adequately capture the depravity.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 06/10/2026
a clear and present danger, inviting attacks on our Nation. This isn’t political, this is and always has been a hostile domestic enemy, such an enemy of the Constitution must be defeated.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is the way.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I paid more than double what I borrowed and still had essentially the same balance after 20 years. And that’s when school was actually more “affordable.”
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i graduated law school in 1999 with $60k debt. The loans paid full tuition & books at state college. I got $300/mo from my parents and that covered my share of the rent with 1 other roommate. My kid’s school costs $215 per credit hour for in state undergrad, almost $900/hr out of state. Crazy.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s soooo much more expensive now. I have friends with a Kid in dental school that say they expect him to graduate with $500k in debt. And he’s going to a state school in the Midwest, not even a big name college.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This includes hammering the fact that Jr.’s wedding was financed by a Russian hack. Stop playing by “normal rules” dens and play the dirty ball that is being thrown at them since 2015.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He’s gonna run and the MAGA folk will elect him if we don’t put the hammer down on corruption. Full scale prosecution of Trump, his corrupt cabinet, overturn Citizen United, et. al.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop with the “we have to returns to political norms” that Biden tried. I get it. He was old school. But you can’t fight fascism with both hands tied behind your back. Call it what it is, loudly, and frequently.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
100% agree. The only ones I am tolerating are the ones the voted for him that are now feeling the personal pain. & then I say “this is what you wanted.” They say I’m mean, & I say I’m okay with that because this is what you voted for. Sit with it. Marinate in it. I’ve moved on. (Read French Kiss)
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe. We watched that game on multi-view & I didn’t see the commercial, but it’s a def possibility.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I first saw that commmercial during ESPN’s coverage of Hou vs. UCF, so it made sense. I saw it today again on YouTube’s Sunday Ticket coverage of Eagles v. Rams. And I’m in FL, for reference. They are terrified. Good.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank Citizens United, FWIW.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I posted in another thread that while watching Hou vs UCF yesterday, Paxtons’s soon to be ex-wife had a commercial saying you have to push the whole party across the line, hold the line. Same commercial was on YouTube broadcast of the Eagles vs Rams. I’m in FL. That tells me they are terrified.
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Mister Rogers Bot @misterrogersbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Real strength has to do with helping others.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
*now. There really needs to be an edit button. Lolz
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But as a first in my family college kid, I didn’t fully understand how the interest would accrue to the point that I was never, ever, going to be able to pay off the full balance. Thankfully, my kid doesn’t have that problem with scholarship, etc, but idk how poor kids can go to college. Disgusting
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When my loans were forgiven in 2021, I had a remaining balance of $59k. Hubs remaining balance was $47k. So yeah. I’m grateful for the education & the fact I met my husband in school. But the way the system runs really puts people in a terrible situation. I always intended to repay the loans. 4/
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I paid the private Sallie Mae loan off after 10 years at $275/ months. I paid 500/mo for almost 20 years. Husband did the same with his $100k+ in loans, same period, until COVID hit. As govt employees we finally qualified for forgiveness. I paid over $120k in that 20 years on $60k principal. 3/
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That was higher than other first years in our rural town. Only option to not pay $1200/mo was forebearance. I pushed the loans off for 3 yrs until I could make payments. By then, my loan total was way over $100k. They finally offered a consolidation program with 30 year repayment schedule. 2/
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I financed my education with subsidized & unsubsidized federal loans & one Sallie Mae loan In the 90s. Very little scholarship $. $14k after undergrad & $60k after law school. 10 yr repayment was $1200/mo. My first job out of law school was $26k per year. $1500/month after taxes. 1/
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kirk Cousins is unbelievable if he’s not being pressured. And Crosby is always a BEAST.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Coaching decision & a smile/joke doesn’t hack it. It’s journalistic malpractice if they don’t press him on it in the post game presser.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Squeezed it out but damn, poor Thornton. 💔
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maybe I should have complained about DL earlier. Back to back sacks. lol
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This game is killing me. Put Kingsley out there. I’m all for accountability. But the point has been made. You’re risking 15. Enough. Fine him. Make him run gassers at the next practice. There HAS to be another way at this point. OL is leaking like a sieve. Meanwhile Cousins is having tea most plays
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Update: I have now seen this commercial played during the Eagles/Rams game on YouTube…. 👀
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Honestly, the next dem admin really needs to push through the ICC ratification & explicitly state in the ratification document that the Rome Statute is compatible with the Constitutio.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jan 6 was a trial run. Now they know what won’t work. And the thought of that terrifies me.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been saying since Trump 1.0 that if Nixon had the current crop of sycophant “legislators” in power, he would have never resigned or been impeached. And Joe they are finally saying that out loud. It boggles the mind. Every single one of these assholes needs to be fully investigated.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Another commercial was about how things in Texas are more expensive, so need to vote republican. It takes a special person to look at the fact Texas has been red for 30 years, Ra control the presidency, the House & Senate but blame the other party for current high inflation & prices.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m watching the Houston v UCF game. Most notable commercial: Paxton’s soon to be ex-wife saying "Either we hold every R seat or we hand the future of Texas to the other team. Let's hold the line, together." That tells me there’s a good chance he loses. They’re terrified. Good.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s pathalogical. All these sycophants deserve to burn in hell for eternit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m willing to bet his staffers conjured this up & he didn’t take the time to verify any of it at all. Kind of like the partners litigating a big case, depending on the associate to put together the facts. Big mistake. Huge. And he should pay for it.
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Julia Roberts: Big Mistake. Big. Huge.
ALT: Julia Roberts: Big Mistake. Big. Huge.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 13 year old boy in me said the same thing. 🤣
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How scared are Missouri Republicans about their anti-abortion amendment not passing in November? They are running commercials that don’t even mention the amendment will ban abortion… because they know we already gave women the constitutional right to abortion. VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 3.  
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is what happens when emotional white men are given positions they are not qualified to hold. He was given the position because of his gender & race, paired with fealty to Trump & the unnamed benefactor that paid his debts (still think it’s Crowe). New, conflicting reasoning arrives b4 2028.
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B̵̪͕̝̜̆̒ȧ̴̱̥͓͠d̸̯̤͓́̎Ẹ̷̗͚̠͊͂̈̈́x̶̠̏̔̈́a̶͎̰͇̳͐̆͗́m̶̢̀ṕ̷͚̬̒̊l̷͠ͅe̵̝̯͙͛M̸̡͗̌͋ǎ̶̢̠̻̀͑͑ṋ̷̑̇̊͜ @badexampleman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Things are terrible, but you are not. You are wonderful. You are loved. You are needed. Never doubt that.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sean Duffy: “I have a hard time believing in the government anymore.” Rachel Campos-Duffy: “We don't trust the government.” Katie Miller: “I'm still distrustful of the government.” Plot twist: They ARE the government.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exactly. And the funny/tragic part is my mom told me that joke, and then lamented that “I waited too long to have kids.” I won’t say how old I was, but I was under 35. And for me? I was in no way shape or form able or ready to “properly” rear a child before the age I had them.
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Honest to god it’s like all the oligarchs & tech bros sat in a room & watched Greed with Michael Douglas & when he gave the speech saying “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good:” They did this.
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Pointing Leonardo Di Caprio
ALT: Pointing Leonardo Di Caprio
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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I deleted my last post bc, I DO NOT want to manifest things about what G**gle may or may not do to do the bidding of Master.
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