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Sam McC...

@semcclint.bsky.social
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Political junkie and long time blue dot in TX. Beagle lover.

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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you and or a loved one has a Medicare part D plan, be prepared. Today I received my notice of change and the premium chage was "at least" and that was a 75% increase with a higher deductible, drugs reclassified to higher tiers, and increased co-pays for all tiers. So tired of this...
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If affordability is a hoax, then why are so many more cities struggling with how to deal with the increase in their unhoused population? Just asking.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Why is anyone still a Dallas mavericks fan?
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
No surprise that the 2 NTX reps "Daddy" ordered TX to get rid of with their new map are the only ones that went to the FBI to demand more information about the three detainees who were shot, one fatally, at an ICE field office earlier in the week & then were denied. www.notus.org/texas/lawmak...
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Two Democratic Lawmakers Confront the FBI for Answers After the Dallas Shooting
Reps. Marc Veasey and Jasmine Crockett argued it’s unusual that the public still doesn’t know the identities of those killed and injured by a gunman in Dallas on Wednesday.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If he bothered to communicate and work with state senator Roland Gutierrez, he would know. Instead of posting outrage, how about actually working with a Texas Democrat who has actually been working on getting accountability for the families.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Should I be surprised that living south of railroad tracks define who represents. Are we really going there?
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
For educators in states requiring the 10 Commandments be posted in your classrooms: consider also posting the fundamental tenants/truths of other world religions so that your students get a basic/simplistic crash course in comparative religion & see there basic are similarities among all faiths.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Crazy idea, but language is important. Instead of talking about tarrifs, why not use the more common synonym... import tax. Call it what it is that even the least educated among us can understand.
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MothersAgainstGregAbbott @democracymoms.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Did you know Greg Abbott's voucher scam is paying for the Chinese Communist Party to have access to our children in Private schools? Bet the idiot legislators didn't think this through. Here's how: 1) The largest investor in private schools is Primavera Capitol Group, Chinese Co.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.

The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I get that networks go to wall street people/ceos/hedge fund people for comment,but these people are in the 1% who are going to be ok no matter what happens. They have no clue what it's like for most of us & don't give a shit how this financial fiasco affects everyone else (in their view, peasants).
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Why the hell does the us need a sovereign wealth fund? Since when do we have a sovereign?
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Republican congressional figures can express all the concern in the world. What they need to do is take action. "It's not what they say, it's what they do."
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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The in-person registration requirement also disenfranchises the 7.5 million American voters living abroad, including the military. Please make sure the @housedemocrats.bsky.social who voted yes or didn't vote last year vote NO this time around. #SAVEAct #democratsabroad
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thanks to the tarrifs, don't be surprised when drug prices go up (for you and for your insurer). From my own med list, 1 drug is manufactured in Austria; another in Belgium; and all others in India. And all of these are the generics/bio similars that aren't as effective as the original...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/03/2025
We will not normalize…
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/03/2025
Press release from Jasmine Crockett on walking out: "there's no point in hearing Trump's speech because he never does what he says he'll do and he lies about his actions to Congress and the public" "Our forefathers defeated the Nazis... meanwhile Trump cozies up to Russia and China"
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moriah @moriahj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'd make a Pink Pony Club reference, but frankly, it'd be incredibly insulting and disrespectful to Chapelle Roan to do so.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Gulf of America?... BS, in 1705, even the English called it the gulf of mexico. Why? Because the southern US coastline belonged to Mexico. Horror upon horror I know....
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Reminder that the French after their Revolution in their 1791 constitution limited the power of the monarchy and gave veto power to the legislative branch. Because kings should not have absolute power.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Presidents do not have security clearances. There is nothing revoke. The next media person who says Trump “revoked Biden’s clearances” is going to get shoved through a window.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Those of us in TX have been begging for everyone to pay attention. Our state has been under R control for close to 30 years and is where ALEC tries out it white Christo fascist legislation. TX R leadership is all in on the cruelty & control because they can't stand that whites are the minority.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is a post from TX's senior senator who has made it clear he has nothing but contempt for the people he represents. He assumes that those protesting aren't R voters (which many actually are) & are all tied to groups. But this post shows that showing up and calling pisses him off, so keep it up.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Someone explain to me like I'm 5 why it's ok that private citizen co-president now has access to everyone's data if they have EVER sent or received money from the government, including bank info. And also, medical records for everyone on Medicare or Medicaid. What the f*!
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Charlie Hebdo @charliehebdo.fr · 30/01/2025
Donald Trump est de retour, flanqué de sa horde de technocrates, Musk en tête. Et gare à l'Union européenne, qui n'a pas intérêt à les embêter sous peine de représailles. Musk jubile et Bruxelles panique. charliehebdo.fr/2025...
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Souveraineté européenne. L’UE garde sa jambe de bois face à un Musk bionique
Et si, pour une fois, c’était vraiment mieux avant ? Avant, c’est il n’y a pas si longtemps, au début des années 2000. L’Union européenne, présidée par Romano Prodi, était fière. Peut-être pas au titre de « gendarme du monde », formule boursouflée plutôt associée à une nation désormais dirigée par un leader disgracieux, mais au moins à […]
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Sorry but anything that occurs/occured after Jan 20th is all on the whiner in chief and his lackies. And his lackies' incompetence is on him, his R sycophants, and any D senator that voted to confirm ANY of his nominees.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
So let me get this straight, your Secretary of Defense and your Secretary of Transportation aren't responsible because they weren't doing their job that they weren't actually qualified to do?
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
And so we have a tragedy that needs competent leadership...yet instead we get dear in the headlights that anyone with a brain knew would happen. Shame on any senate D that voted to confirm him.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The truth for what it’s worth in this idiotic timeline…
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Damn, if only Biden and Newsom had thought to turn on the giant faucet, none of my friends would've lost their homes.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Feed cleanse to acknowledge that I love when Cleo (11 ) and Nigel (2) play
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I wish every Dem office would read this and internalize it. "The only sensible and dignified course of action is to accept that Republicans are in charge and to focus in on making their unpopular actions as painful as possible...The job of the opposition is quite literally to oppose. Get to it."
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Texas is one of the larger recipients of this funding.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Since the zone is being flooded and we had a slew of EOs Day 1 and am guessing this will continue, is there anyone that's actually keeping track of them all and what they mean that is all in one place?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 21/01/2025
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris flew to California and went right to work helping to feed families and first responders.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If this was a surprise to any Dem lawmaker, shame on you! Those of us paying attention saw this coming & you disregarded us when we expressed concern.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The erasure of an apolitical patriot who had the respect of everyone under his command, Congress, & the informed general public. He spoke the truth of our fear...err dear leader.... Once again those who cry "cancel culture" are those who are projecting & actually doing what they themselves decry.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 21/01/2025
Accepting Executive Orders at face value is a form of compliance in advance. Those EOs are as real as meme coins. Nothing changes until it changes. Make them fight for every EO in court— flood the zone right back with long court battles. Don't hand them an easy win— don't comply in advance.
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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The pardons should not be getting all the oxygen. When Orban offered his "recipe" for an illiberal state, there were a few main ingredients. This is one: loyalty up and down the federal bureaucracy -- but not to the Constitution. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump reclassifies thousands of federal employees, making them easier to fire
Executive order effectively reinstates ‘Schedule F’, which sought to categorize workers as political hires
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Watch it again. The law does not require that TikTok “go dark.” It prevents third party carriers from distributing it. So *the law* does not make the app “disappear” from phones that already have it. TikTok knows this, so they are intentionally depriving their own customers to create backlash
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My heart is broken. Mostly I've been angry lately, but today I'm just very very sad. We are losing everything that makes America great and replacing it with hate and stupidity. The America I know and love will never be the same. I'm so very very sad. This is a tragic loss.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I can' help it, but seeing Trump and his acolytes at Jimmy's state service makes me want to puke and is a desecration.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Why is the US against having smart, capable people that want to actually help their citizenry versus tv/movie stars that about themselves and those that suck up.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
So tired of ignorance of metro areas. And blaming the LA mayor for what has happened in suburban townships that she had no powere over just shows your ignorance. So stfu.
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Sam McC... @semcclint.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Perfectly said.
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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Burbank, Pasadena, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Culver City, Glendale, Universal City, Malibu, Calabasas, etc, etc. Blaming the city of LA for anything happening in those cities is like blaming New York City for something happening in Connecticut.
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