Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 4hBodner endorsements: AFL-CIO Baucus Tester Forward Montana End Citizens United Montana Conservation Voters League of Conservation Voters Vote Vets The head of the MT Dem party for christsakes Should I go on? 000
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 4hBodner endorsements: AFL-CIO Baucus Tester Forward Montana End Citizens United Montana Conservation Voters League of Conservation Voters Vote Vets The head of the MT Dem party for christsakes Should I go on? 000
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 4hHey Jo! What about these oligarchs who have endorsed Bodner? AFL-CIO Baucus Tester Forward Montana End Citizens United Montana Conservation Voters League of Conservation Voters Vote Vets The head of the MT Dem party for christsakes Should I go on? 100
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 4hBodner endorsements: AFL-CIO Baucus Tester Forward Montana End Citizens United Montana Conservation Voters League of Conservation Voters Vote Vets The head of the MT Dem party for christsakes Should I go on? 100
Reposted by Randy CarpenterRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18hPretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history. 33968402281
Reposted by Randy CarpenterNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18hMy cross-exam for the new press secretary: If Kimberly Guilfoyle had to go over an alleged $100K ask, what about the president who made $2B in year one? Over $1B from crypto while 1M lost $3B on his meme coin ++ Gulf money & Kushner deals The grift is astronomical @ms.now👇 -TN 262107715
Reposted by Randy CarpenterRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18hTrump and Musk are doing everything they can to try and force Ukraine to surrender to Putin while Musk spends over $300 million to try and buy the midterm elections to maintain total power. The American government under Republicans are on the side of evil. Vote them out. 486100533954
Reposted by Randy CarpenterNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18hThe Trump White House and Hegseth Pentagon have been burrowing Musk more into the US national security architecture, along with other techno-fascist oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey. A Dem-led Congress should review and expose it, and with a future president undo as much as possible.ms.nowOpinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the PentagonA new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing. 819854
Reposted by Randy CarpenterNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20hCan’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.thedailybeast.comThe U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in WarsThe billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power. 952437822
Reposted by Randy CarpenterCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack. 6526791406
Reposted by Randy CarpenterBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Unprecedented corruption 6298123
Reposted by Randy CarpenterPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 14/10/2026This piece has a lot of other data, too, detailing how Trump and tech are trying to buy power despite their unpopularity. Take a look! 117149
Reposted by Randy CarpenterJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Dominance Politics, Elite Gatekeeping and Jon Ossoff talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/domin... 218322
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Who would be better for defeating MAGA and restoring democracy? 100
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 13/10/2026He would have won the Dem primary and lost in the general. Does that sound good to you? 200
Reposted by Randy CarpenterJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we 382105539
Reposted by Randy CarpenterElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas. 371957364
Reposted by Randy CarpenterNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump is openly siding with Putin, blaming Ukraine's self-defense rather than Russia's aggression for the war, and telling Ukraine to surrender. Worth calling it out every time. But hardly new. Ambushing Zelensky in DC, aping Russian propaganda, and insisting it's Ukraine's fault was March 2025.ms.nowTrump’s handling of Ukraine proves Russian propaganda is workingAs Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the 19th century, “the aggressor is always peace-loving. ... He would prefer to take over our country unopposed.” 1831989
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I just don't think we're gonna see any articles about "how free ponies went mainstream" anytime soon. 000
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I mean, if this is mission creep, bring it on. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/h...nytimes.comHow Free School Meals Went Mainstream (Published 2024)Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income. 110
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Even though we were poor, I never went without lunch at school growing up. But it really did suck when, surrounded by classmates, the lady punching lunch tickets gave me shit about my parents being behind in their payments and I wouldn't get another ticket until they got caught up. 110
Reposted by Randy CarpenterGus Orviston @orviston.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Note that he doesn't say this about the other President in the conflict. You know, the one that was the agressor. Trump wants a Ukrainian president that is willing to surrender to Putin, because he's on Putin's side. 25811
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026But I do recall my mother describing lunch time in her rural Iowa school during the depression (before the school lunch program) and how kids in one family having nothing but a box of popcorn to share with each other (and while most everyone was struggling, at least mom had farm food for lunch). 110
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I recall Stephen Ambrose saying that one of the most important things the WPA accomplished was providing hot lunches to students. I don't remember him claiming that that was mission creep. 110
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026How much mission creep has actually occurred in the past 50 years Tom? Can we agree that 1) kids learn better when they're not hungry and have a home, 2) schools could effectively provide free lunches, 3) other entities are better equipped to provide housing so schools should stay out of it? 100
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Landfill bound after a few months? What kind of shoes do you buy? I'm still wearing 3 year old running shoes (yeah, they last longer when you don't run in them but I don't think you're talking about running shoes anyway). 000
Reposted by Randy CarpenterCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press Secretary www.thebulwark.com/p/katie-zach...thebulwark.comThe Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press SecretaryKatie Zacharia is ready to defend Trump. The Constitution? Less so. 56665280
Reposted by Randy CarpenterJohn Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026has been true from day one, but always worth reminding: Russia bought an American president. and got the Republican Party and "conservative" movement as part of the deal. 1014565
Reposted by Randy CarpenterRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Is insider trading an official act? Asking for a Chief Justice. 9467110
Reposted by Randy CarpenterRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US. 47296283253
Reposted by Randy CarpenterBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unprecedented corruption 1831493
Reposted by Randy CarpenterMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.nytimes.comKaroline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network. 1591965512
Reposted by Randy CarpenterWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This kind of talk has always seemed to impress certain segments of the political class, but now that he’s imploding, they look like gullible suckers. He’s just a lout, nothing more. He insults people because he isn’t smart enough for anything else. He’ll become more loutish as he circles the drain. 641451257
Reposted by Randy CarpenterNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly. 22994202
Reposted by Randy CarpenterCREW @citizensforethics.org · 30/09/2026By raking in $2.2 billion last year, President Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours. And he made the median American's annual income about every 10 minutes. 13291164
Reposted by Randy CarpenterSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 382474543
Reposted by Randy CarpenterJim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 23940291044
Reposted by Randy CarpenterSeth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33372971086
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm saying that it's no surprise that the IFU is endorsing candidates and therefore it doesn't say much about Iowa politics. I really hope I'm wrong - I spent my first 40 years in IA and I'm dismayed at the turn it's taken. But man, my faith in Iowans and esp Iowa farmers has been shaken hard. 0200
Reposted by Randy CarpenterElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This man is leading in a race against the man who successfully prosecuted the Klan members who murdered four girls in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. 29435112
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Doesn't the Farmers Union always lean heavily Dem (I love the Farmers Union, always have)? They're the contra Farm Bureau. 4301
Randy Carpenter @prac0691.bsky.social · 24/09/2026theonion.com/man-knows-un...theonion.comMan Knows Unsettling Amount About Nationwide Age-Of-Consent LawsHAGERSTOWN, MD–During a conversation at work last Friday, drill-press operator Pete Cromartie revealed a disturbing familiarity with various states’ age-of-consent laws. “I mentioned to Pete that I’d ... 020
Reposted by Randy CarpenterThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026"You pathetic worm. You mewling quim." You do want to read the whole thing:lnk.thebulwark.comPortrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in DespairThe fire rises. 36413
