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Robert Scannell

@robert-t-scannell.bsky.social
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Husband, father and grandfather, proud Californian, true blue joyful warrior!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
It doesn’t bother me he keeps falling asleep, only that he keeps waking up.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In detail: how Trump turned the budget of the National Park Service into his own private slush fund.
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Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank
Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 17/07/2026
Read our statement on yesterday’s presidential address.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/05/2026
Here’s something that’s wrong with the Republican Party that predates Trump: They have no solutions to anything. trib.al/6Tkll56 On education, the environment, you name it—no solutions. The last three Republican presidents have left office with the economy in a shambles.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Any Democrat who is not explicitly committed to restructuring the Supreme Court does not deserve your vote, will not get mine, and should be actively primaried and opposed. There must be 13 justices on the court by the end of 2029. It is the only way our democracy has a chance of surviving.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
An amazing breakdown of the kindergarten-level military and strategic mistakes Trump has made in this war, from @jvl.bsky.social. Even for the dumbest president ever, it’s an impressive list. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Our Low-IQ President Did an Oopsie
You won’t believe Trump’s dumbest Iran mistake.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/03/2026
He’s flailing. He’s leading the country—and the world—toward catastrophe. When incompetence mixes with arrogance, the result is dangerous for everyone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I love seeing performative racists complain about a halftime show they haven't seen, knowing they'll watch it anyway so they can complain about being forced to watch it, all while promoting a Christian nationalist Klan rally set to duebro country music. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-...
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Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism
Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. See the problem here?
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It’s interesting how some sports dudes insist on being Aaron Rodgers apologists. Here’s a white, privileged guy who had everything going for him. Instead of using his enormous platform for good, he chose conspiracies, disinformation & SPREAD LIES THAT PUT PEOPLE’S LIVES AT RISK. Good riddance.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue when people are working from shared values. MAGA has a totally different worldview which prizes domination of the out-group as its highest good. They’re fascists. www.thebulwark.com/p/renee-good...
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The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It’s a new year and a new day in NYC.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I spent the entire Biden presidency warning idiotic establishment Senate Dems and Biden who opposed getting rid of the filibuster that Trump and the GOP would come back to power and do it themselves. I hate to say I told you so but… I fucking told you so.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/10/2025
"Are you enjoying my favor, or suffering my displeasure?" is the only real throughline in Donald Trump's approach to "governing." Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/totally-br...
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Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb.
Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Sometimes the symbolism feels like it’s just too obvious; too much on the nose. Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Vandalizing the White House
And other tales of Trump 2.0
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
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Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Trump, who last year vowed to exact "retribution" against perceived enemies, gets what he demanded, an indictment of Comey, even though federal prosecutors concluded there was no case. Devlin Barrett @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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Grand Jury Indicts Longtime Trump Target, Former F.B.I. Director James Comey
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Just imagine the kind of shitty person who wants to take these down. A sign about not crushing the natural plants? About how the place has been special to people for centuries? Small, cruel people who want to make everyone live in their small, cruel world.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
LONDON MAYOR: “.. I think Donald Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he's Islamophobic.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/world/united...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Accurate
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 16/09/2025
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This diseased, broken traitor Trump is so vain he thinks "hate speech" means speech from people who hate HIM It so he's going to be suing 65% of the country. What a grotesque, despised creature he is
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/09/2025
Truth bomb‼️ This man should be the one speaking on college campuses… “They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.” Watch
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 11/09/2025
A lot of folks might not fully appreciate just how frequently Trump accuses Democrats and other Americans he doesn’t like of being, in his words, "evil people," whom he considers worthy of his "hatred" tinyurl.com/w82st8u2
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Trump apparently on the verge of political unilateral intervention in Chicago with massive Federal law enforcement and possibly military formations. No coordination with state authorities. The face of a rolling suppression of American values.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“The president’s commissioning of the U.S. military to kill alleged drug smugglers adds a terrifying dimension to this misuse of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes.” thehill.com/opinion/judi...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/09/2025
"This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people. It’s the greatest act of civilizational self-mutilation since the First World War."
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The CDC. The Fed. The FBI. The National Guard. Do you get it now?
Trump is waging war against the American government. When he’s done, he’ll use his government to wage war against Americans.
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Myles 🔞 Gogash’s dad @kingtycoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I lost my step dad Ian to prostate cancer and I deeply encourage everyone who has a prostate to get regularly checked, thanks for the important reminder Rick <3
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
"Trump is a professional huckster and profoundly lazy man. So instead of tending to his promises to working Americans, he entered office pursuing his own bizarre obsessions. He then proceeded to devise a series of Potemkin village-like distractions calculated to divert the nation’s attention."
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Potemkin village populism
Trump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
China just conducted the largest military display in history. Impressive cutting edge technology. The old peasant PLA is gone. Trump has destroyed our Pacific and NATO alliances and trust. Policy by adolescent whim. Tariffs killing our friends.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Formula 1's new American team lands two veteran drivers in Sergio Pérez and Valtteri Bottas Cadillac F1 taps the two proven race winners, showing that it is prioritizing experience in its inaugural lineup as it prepares to join the sport in 2026. www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
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Formula 1's new American team lands two veteran drivers in Pérez and Bottas
The move by Cadillac F1 to tap the two proven race winners shows that the team is prioritizing experience in its driver lineup as it prepares to join the sport in 2026.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
EX AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA MCFAUL: “Putin doesn't look at all of this stuff as a sign of strength. He looks at it as a sign of weakness. He had to do absolutely nothing to get this meeting. Putin has gained everything and given nothing in return.”
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🧵The Anatomy of “Othering”: How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence All autocratic regimes need enemies. Authoritarians invent them to seize power. Learn how you’ve been othered by MAGA👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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The Anatomy of “Othering”:
How Authoritarians Build Permission for Violence
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
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What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation
It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.
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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
💰 The only countries with economies larger than California. 🔎 Everything About Maps
📝 Note: Based on GDP.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The exhaustion you feel right now? The heavy sadness that you can’t seem to shake? The sense of dread that hovers over you like a drone? The scalding rage bubbling just beneath the surface? This is all by design. This is these f*ckers’ master plan… johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/these-fcke...
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These F*ckers Are Trying to Break You, Good People. Don't Let Them.
(Note: If course language offends you, please don’t read or listen to this piece.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
May his memory be a blessing… to an old friend and colleague. Sitting in the green room or on a set with David Gergen, you always learned something. Our best to his son Christopher and the whole family. www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/p...
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David Gergen, who advised four presidents of both parties, dies at 83 | CNN Politics
David Gergen served as a presidential adviser to four presidents of both parties and was a longtime CNN political analyst.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025
i'm open to ideas but there isn't much you can do with minorities in both chambers of Congress. the Trump Big Bill cake was baked as soon as voters gave Republicans total control last November. Trump ran on concepts of a plan, won, and now here come the consequences.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In light of the news that the US economy has *lost* jobs under Donald Trump, it bears a reminder that the US economy *never* lost jobs in *any* month under Joe Biden. What an incompetent loser Donald is.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I hold you responsible: for every disgusting thing he says, every way he perverts our systems, every reprehensible decision he makes, every human being whose life he makes a living hell, every immigrant he rounds up in hospital beds and churches... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...
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To The People I Know Who Voted for Him,
To the people I know who voted for him,
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