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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
If incremental progress is all we can hope for and it gets taken away so easily, maybe we should do something differently?? Idk crazy idea
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
All I will say is that his profile picture looks like that and somehow it is still catfishing.
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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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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
New-age spiritual healer being a sex pest and/or criminal is definitely one of those “many such cases” things. 🫠
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Look my IUD is a pain in the… uterus(?) sometimes, but god am I thankful for it with these morons in charge.
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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.
POLITICO
Q
'It's pissing people off':
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 · 08/02/2026
Depends on which state they’re in. In some states you can choose your primary ballot if unaffiliated.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Here’s one of those images floating around. Not to be cruel, but have you guys been lobotomized? The only “communist” position here would be undermining NATO. But I’m sure the creator didn’t know and wouldn’t understand why the left would take issue with NATO. Just broken clock shit.
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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
And also there’s, like, another country with an even more obvious influence on American politics (ICE, Epstein, Palantir, aggression against Iran, etc., etc.) that is much more important to talk about than Russia.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Before anyone concern trolls: I don’t support Putin at all, and I do think he has unreasonable influence on Trump. But acting like a right wing oligarchy is in any way a spiritual descent of the USSR really emphasizes that y’all are embarrassingly undereducated.
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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
I think that’s the point of the post? Or at least I hope so.
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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
Gotta change the underlying conditions, though. I think Europeans are tired of the whiplash they’ve been experiencing since at least Bush II. The Euro politicians may be spineless (they seem to be) but I don’t think the people are.
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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
America combo is probably why Musk and these other guys feel such a strong affinity with the American branding. They like the frontier/pioneer/colonial mindset that gives them a sense of purpose they otherwise lack + reinforces their masculinity.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
At present, yes. And I think one could make a case they are creating a new form of slave labor without all the “inconveniences” of slavery. I think in some ways the tech bro bit is coincidence more than destiny historically speaking (like oil baron money and the Bush family), but I think the tech+ /
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I remain baffled by people who are that vocal at the gym. Like it sounds like some of y’all are enjoying this workout a bit too much, you know?
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Thank you so much!
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Question: do any of these do good text to speech? Or any way to side load android apps or something?
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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
I’m so sorry but the juxtaposition of your profile pic and his are sending me
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
These are the same guys that do not clean the equipment after use too 🫠
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Absolutely insane proportions on this guy.
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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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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
media.tenor.com
an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him
Alt: an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him
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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
I rest my case.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Minecraft of course
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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
Gotta give the whole family cushy diplomatic posts in the interest of “unity.”
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yeah these people are suddenly real big on systemic issues when it affects them. Which I assume is why they think anyone else looking from a systemic perspective is doing it in bad faith - because they are.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our boy is brandonizing 😔
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Great posthumous win for Foucault, though.
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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
King James, and I cannot stress this enough, used to soil himself on his saddle during royal hunting parties and then just… wallow in it. Not the brightest man. But at this point perhaps that would make him presidential.
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Carter @thecartercat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I also would like to know more about this.
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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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