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Carter

@thecartercat.bsky.social
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She/her. PhD candidate. Cat mom. Modern-day Cassandra.

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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hey so if capitalism means we need to have constant gains for shareholders then that means private prison companies like GEO Group have to have profits go up even as crime goes down. Ergo, immigration sweeps, new categories of crime to feed the machine. Idk guys seems like a bad system
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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hot take but maybe taking issue with genocide isn’t just “politics”
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Idk guys seems like Hasan had a point
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Democrats played stupid games with the genocidal apartheid state, now they’re reaping their stupid prizes.
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Centrist Democrats are livid with AIPAC after primary fiasco
AIPAC spent $2 million attacking moderate-leaning Tom Malinowski in a House special election — and may have handed the race to progressive Analilia Mejia.
MR. MALINOWSKI
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol
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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Conservatives and the rightwing are primarily interested in rationales for domination; insofar as a culture can be created from that, it will have no core, no load-bearing values, and in time, diminishing reach.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is probably a consequence of the circles I travel in academically, but I am always shocked when people claim expertise in a topic they know nothing about beyond the superficial state propaganda line. Know that it’s okay to not know everything. You can’t. But don’t posture like you do.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Oh god, the Dem commentariat is back on Russia stuff big time. I also just saw someone use the hammer and sickle in a chart about how Putin is controlling Trump. I’m going to have a stroke I swear to god
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This photo is wildly embarrassing on so many levels.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Gonna go update my CV to include “military-grade intelligence”
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Having affectionate cats is great until you sit down for the first time all day to do *more work* and you get mobbed because the cats know it is Snuggle Time.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It does kinda suck that we could live in a really cool world and we don’t because we have to make the line go up. Like the US could absolutely have Chinese-level cities and infrastructure and we don’t. We could have universal healthcare and education. But we don’t bc 📈📈📈
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Okay but if box dye is bad why does my hair feel so glorious afterward?
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Y’all are not gonna believe it, but there’s this other country…
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Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to defeat extreme wealth taxes, that was great, i love to share a party with people who think he should be president
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Working for a humanities prof who wants to have students use AI in class and speaks about conversations he had with “Chat” makes me want to Ouija Ted Kaczynski
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The worst part of watching this is knowing he thinks he’s absolutely serving cunt here
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Nothing brings me as much simultaneous joy and irritation as spotting some email-chain level “like if you agree Trump is an idiot” post in my feed. I would love to understand the mind of someone who makes those unironically. It’s a new, elevated level of boomer. Boomer galaxy brain.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/02/2026
JD vance might be one of the most repugnant people ever, somehow even more than trump, and as far as we know vance isn’t even a pedophile
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Gonna go ahead and put my bet in now that after Trump passes, Melania et. al are going to put out tell-all books about how they never liked him but were all scared. And the people who thought Liz Cheney was great for Dems will eat that shit up.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Least surprising Epstein associate of all time.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If y’all have never made brownies (or blondies, I suppose) with chickpeas, you are missing out. Just FYI. I know it sounds like crazy diet food but it most definitely is not.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hey so I know we can be outraged about multiple things at once but maybe let’s keep the Kennedy Center pretty low on that list
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OuterBoroPrincess @outerbororoyal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
When they kept trying to pass laws to allow adults to “inspect” child athletes, you’d think that would have tipped people off.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a group of people are standing in a field and one of them says i am your king i did n't vote for you
ALT: a group of people are standing in a field and one of them says i am your king i did n't vote for you
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I will say gently: every famous counter sit-in from the Civil Rights era was a crime. Nonviolent civil disobedience is quite literally and explicitly a strategy where you commit crimes.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Let’s give them “guaranteed lifelong housing” in one of those warehouses they love so much.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Donald Trump didn't break the political system on his own. Our broken political system is why we have Trump.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/02/2026
IMO, petty in-fighting, territorial behavior, snark, sneering, and general bitchiness is inherently baked in to activist movements. But the difference is that it’s way easier to SEE all of that now - because unlike in earlier movements, a lot of this infighting plays out on public social media.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026
We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I genuinely wonder how anyone reads the news without a materialist/class-based analytical framework. Sadly, it appears the overwhelming majority of Americans read it from a good vs. evil framework. In this, liberals and conservatives are the same, they just assign labels differently.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
ICE are slave catchers and y'all want better trained slave catchers? Y'all want slave catchers with better rules? Fuck out of here
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 02/02/2026
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
General strike this general strike that, okay, but when are Trump’s organs going to strike? Surely the working conditions are terrible.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Apropos of nothing, there is nothing quite like a snow day, cozy in bed, watching Milo Rossi videos and eating a good snack with a cup of tea, blitzed out of one’s mind. 10/10 no notes.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 01/02/2026
Not everyone can protest. Not everyone can strike. Not everyone can donate. I get the limitations & restraints to certain forms of involvement. But there’s no excuse to do nothing. To remain silent. In this moment, to carry with life as usual. To say and do nothing is a personal failure.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Sure libs can win in commie places like Fort Worth but what does real America think
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
the heroes have arrived!!!
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The most insane thing to me about this Epstein stuff is the women who knew about this. Not the victims, but the women who were willingly in his orbit, or married to those who were. What made you think you would be safe? You’re just like plantation mistresses. You knew what was happening.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Evergreen post
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Chomsky being in the Epstein files is my favorite posthumous Foucault W.
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Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.
George W Bush and Ellen DeGeneres sitting together and laughing in box seats at a NFL game.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I miss when tech felt cool and not just dystopian.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop laughing at the idea of Elon being such a “le epic” loser that he couldn’t even get an invite to Epstein’s island.
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