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Nurse, professor, dad, husband. Intellectually curious, kind. Proud Vermonter. Parent of an an amazing adult child on the spectrum. American married 30 years to to an immigrant, parent of an immigrant. 🏳️‍⚧️ ally.

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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
👏 Bravo to this strong young woman. 🖕 To the cowardly principal.
youtube.com
Principal Cuts Off NC Valedictorian Mid-Sentence
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This sounds like a five alarm 🚨 fire 🔥 and huge leverage for Iran.
jalopnik.com
Gas Will Get 'An Order Of Magnitude' More Expensive In 2-3 Weeks If Trump Can't Open Strait Of Hormuz, Exxon Exec Tells Bankers - Jalopnik
I'm sure it's fine. It'll probably be fine, right?
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The fact that either side is claiming that a cease-fire exists at this point is pure gaslighting.
bbc.com
Iran says it targeted American base after fresh US strikes
The hostilities come during a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, and protracted negotiations to end the three-month war.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Because, of course.
nymag.com
A COVID-Conspiracist Erection Expert Is Leading Our Hantavirus Response
Admiral and urologist Brian Christine platformed far-right conspiracies about COVID and the 2020 election on his podcast, per a new report.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Eat the fucking rich, starting with Katie Perry.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Iranian state media says two missiles have struck a US navy destroyer to prevent it entering the Strait of Hormuz after the warship ignored warnings to halt.
aljazeera.com
Iran says it fired missiles at US warship to prevent it entering Hormuz
Iranian state media says two missiles have struck a US navy destroyer to prevent it entering the Strait of Hormuz.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Infuriating.
rollingstone.com
Kid Rock Debuts Taxpayer-Funded Concert Promo Featuring Military Helicopters
Kid Rock played a video at his show in Dallas featuring himself hitching a ride in a military helicopter with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🤣🔥
youtube.com
MUST WATCH Onion Satire Goes Nuclear: GOP “Civil War” Erupts Over Who Can Be More "Pro-Epstein" 🤣
YouTube video by Political Voices Network
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This story is quintessential #Vermont.
vermontpublic.org
Strafford residents barter for a free vasectomy
A small town fundraiser, a free vasectomy and a box of beef. This story contains all three.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
These are all huge historical events that could have been prevented with a ballroom.
theatlantic.com
A Ballroom Would Have Solved This
Many historical disasters would have been prevented if we had one of these in the White House.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚨 Any American planning to get a passport should do so ASAP unless you want to be stuck with Trump's ugly mug every time you travel for the next 10 years.
thebulwark.com
EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports
The new design would mark yet another U.S. government property upon which the president has plastered his likeness.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Bringing back the firing squad just in time for all the treason convictions coming in 2029.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Horrifying. Because it is the direction we are heading.
projects.propublica.org
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I needed this today.
youtu.be
ALL YOU FASCISTS (Bound to Lose) Music Video Bette Midler
YouTube video by Bette Midler
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm surprised it isn't public hangings or beheading. Welcome to Gilead.
newrepublic.com
Trump DOJ Announces It Will Start Executing People by Firing Squad
Apparently, death penalty by lethal injection wasn’t enough for Donald Trump.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"There’s real energy out here and it’s righteous, but right now it’s anger without a goal, and anger without a goal can’t build power. A goal, a vision, hope, that’s what you build a supermajority around."
thenation.com
We Are About to Miss the Opportunity of a Lifetime
2026 and 2028 can be our time.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It looks like the State Department is starting to require that all social media profiles be made public for visa applicants. This is an expansion of the recently added requirement to list all social media accounts when applying. Utterly dystopian. 👁
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This 👇 is a worthwhile read —what's really happening here is much more than a drinking scandal.
media.tenor.com
a man is carrying a bag in front of a garbage can that says 04 60573
ALT: a man is carrying a bag in front of a garbage can that says 04 60573
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Mood
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.
theatlantic.com
The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
1 day ago "parkergetajob: Nurses are some of the most productive members of society what a ridiculous thing to say" #Nurses are among the most valuable members of #society who help make a profound & positive impact on the lives of the people they help & work with & it's a #professional field
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I was an Amazon employee. I can assure you that they will do ANYTHING to make a buck. What's right is never a consideration.
theguardian.com
Newly unsealed records reveal Amazon’s price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims
Exclusive: A trove of previously redacted documents was filed as part of the tech giant’s anti-trust battle with the state of California. Amazon denies it engages in price-fixing
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“Trump isn’t just losing his grip on reality — he’s losing his brain. And the part that’s left is run by a malignant narcissist.”
open.substack.com
DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“Victims or whatever”
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s actually incredibly difficult to vote these sociopaths out of office.. both parties. Our campaign finance laws make it almost impossible. People think voters choose these candidates but actually that’s not true. Corporations & foreign lobbies do. We get to select from the plutocrats draft picks
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teuskat @teuskat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hey Catholics 👋 Are any of you still unclear on how the GOP views your faith?
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004
It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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I Got Popcorn @igotpopcorn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
If he actually thought that, it is proof positive that he is not mentally competent for the office of president. WHY would he post himself as a doctor? He literally kicked MILLIONS of people off insurance
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
No words. You cannot tell me that leadership was unaware.
wpxi.com
Multiple nurses sexually assaulted by same patient at local rehab center, police say
According to investigators, the assaults happened over a span of five months at the Genesis Rehab and Care Center in Bridgeville.
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/04/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“I need to help.” “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” she recalled the manager saying. Peak fucking Amazon.
thewesternedge.media
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Somebody should lose their job over these optics.
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Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Deuteronomy 5:7 NIV bible.com/bible/111/de...
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 13/04/2026
cybertruck owners are achieving levels of unfuckability scientists previously believed impossible
Cybertruck in Richmond VA with a vinyl wrap advertising a used car dealership with some stereotypical car-dealer guy face on it Cybertruck in Richmond VA with a vinyl wrap advertising a used car dealership with some stereotypical car-dealer guy face on it
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
They need to get JD Vance out on the road campaigning for every midterm GOP candidate. Everything he touches implodes spectacularly.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
After months of secrecy, the Trump administration must turn over body-camera footage, witness interviews, and investigative files tied to the Minneapolis killing. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
A federal judge is forcing the Trump administration to answer for Renee Good’s killing
After months of secrecy, the Trump administration must turn over body-camera footage, witness interviews, and investigative files tied to the Minneapolis killing.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This makes me want to vomit. 🤢
npr.org
Trump touts newly released plans for D.C. triumphal arch
The proposed 250-feet-tall, white-and-gilded monument would stand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., by the Potomac River.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungary, make it happen! The world is rooting for you.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm going to error on the side of believing the women who took the risk of exposing themselves and brought the receipts. @ericswalwell.bsky.social, I will be the first to admit I was wrong if that turns out to be the case. I'm not optimistic.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Wow. Unsurprising, but still wow to hear it laid out.
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🅳🆁 🅹🅾🅴 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @real-cup-o-joe.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We are living in a dystopian hellscape.
techdirt.com
Prosecutors Still Trying To Convict 62-Year-Old Woman For Wearing Penis Costume To Anti-Trump Protest
Never underestimate the stupidity of law enforcement. When things could just be left alone and everything would turn out OK, officers insist on inserting themselves into the equation, ensuring maxi…
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