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thirdcoastalelite.bsky.social

@thirdcoastalelite.bsky.social
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Former Hill rat, current fed up public servant tired of Trump withholding/terminating congressionally appropriated funds to states, forever fan of cheese. Mom, Dem, and pro rule of law.

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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think that evacuating strategic bombers from an allied nation 3400 miles or so from the conflict area is probably a bad sign.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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Graham Edwards @grahamedwards439.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, Nixon certainly wasn't treated fairly. He was pardoned and escaped prison. Very, very unfair.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've grown quite impatient with the utter refusal of some reporters to speak directly and the overreliance on weak, nondescript words like "odd" and "interesting"
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Hiegold @hiegold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The man is trying to add his name to a MEMORIAL for an assassinated President. Cannot everyone see how demented this is?
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Florida Man misses Michigan Senate debate
Abdul El Sayed debates an empty podium as Mike Rogers i guess skipped this debate?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those keeping score at home: The Ohio GOP Senator who long refused to denounce his MAGA son-in-law who allegedly abused the senator's daughter and granddaughter is a *different Republican* from the Ohio GOP Senator who has long employed a white supremacist who likes to cosplay as Nazis.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Page One. @wsj.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In the 1946 midterm elections, the GOP used public anger over meat shortages to win back both houses of Congress for the first time in over a decade. Their message for those midterms was a simple one that Democrats should borrow: “Had enough?”
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...
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20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine
Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“.. This is life-altering,” said Carla Kurkjian, an oncologist at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, who wasn’t involved in the studies. “Not just for patients .. but for us as physicians, to be able to have a different conversation than we’ve had for so long.” www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Doug Ford: "Jobs number went down in the US last month while Ontario gained 52,000 jobs, more than the entire US combined ... I feel terrible for the people in the US"
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is cringeworthy. Absolutely embarrassing. You should not be a U.S. senator if "national security is not your thing." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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‘I’m Not That Informed on National Security,’ Graham Says in South Carolina Debate
Senator Darline Graham made the remark in a debate against Representative Ralph Norman, her opponent in the runoff election to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. Here are five takeaways from the deb...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In 1924, the son of the president of the United States, with access to the best medical treatment, got a blister on his foot playing tennis, it got infected, there were no antibiotics, and he died of sepsis.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Mr. Trump, you are the first president in American history to start and lose a war by yourself. You have made America more weak, more alone and less respected. Congress needs to take back the steering wheel from this impaired driver."
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Marcomerican @marcomerican.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The timing of news outlets like CBS to choose this moment to pivot to a pro-Trump bias is especially mind boggling.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On July 1, 2025, RFK Jr's Dept of Health announced that the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), would stop surveilling illnesses caused by Campylobacter, Cyclospora, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia as part of an effort to reduce federal funding. 13 months later:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
Anti-vaxxers shouldn't feel comfortable speaking in public because of the threat of immediate ridicule.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What might a Dem midterm contract for America look like? *Stop the Iran war *Investigate the corruption *Block illegal tariffs fueling inflation *Stop weaponization of federal funding by reasserting legislative power of the purse *Impose accountability on immigration enforcement
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Americans had the lowest inflation of any advanced economy, and hated it. A widespread belief — and near consensus across media — that this was a historically awful state of affairs that needed to be rectified. So now we have the opposite.
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It has to be an impeachable offense to withhold federal funding for the purpose of blackmailing states into giving up their voter registration loss list to the federal government something they aren't legally required to do
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My man looks like he uses air quotes when saying "The Holocaust"
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
There's nothing wrong with our elections, but there is something wrong with Donald Trump.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
This is nuts: "Trump Media has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks ​& trading firms 'the fastest' access to posts from influential Truth Social ‌accounts Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders"
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Truth Social to sell Wall Street firms the ‘fastest’ access to Trump’s posts
President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform regularly move markets. High speed access to these could be very valuable to traders and investors.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How do you think it would have been covered if President Obama had to pay $5 million to a woman he sexually abused and defamed? Do you think the White House press would have asked him about it?
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
In recent years, FDA inspectors have uncovered disturbing lapses in facilities producing food bound for American supermarkets. Under the second Trump administration, inspections became their lowest since 2011, excluding the pandemic. (Published Nov. 2025)
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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Wyldefire @wyldefire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/07/2026
Lawrence O’Donnell dismantles the myth of Graham Platner. And warning signs were there all along. Information was publicly available, but ignored. Maybe the U.S. Senate shouldn’t be someone’s first political job. No public office. No real vetting. Hype isn’t a substitute for scrutiny. 🧵
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium
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Belgium beats, then trolls, U.S. team on Monday night
Even though it was tied, 1-1, after Malik Tillman scored another goal on a free kick just outside the penalty area, it never felt close.
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John Leone @jcleone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Killed by lightning to own the libs
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "He's pro-war. He's pro-tariffs. He's pro-cutting your healthcare. He's also a notorious bigot and antisemite, and an election-denying extremist who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, and is a Trump puppet who will serve his needs & agenda mindlessly"
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ken Paxton’s own party impeached him. His own staff reported him to the FBI. Now his own defense attorney is endorsing our campaign. Those closest to Ken Paxton know he's unfit for office.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is why the mainstream media is in such trouble all over the western world. This hypocrisy, deception and manipulation is repeated across the press and broadcasters in Europe and America - yet we ask why nobody trusts us anymore. To fix democracy we must fix the media. It’s a simple truth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2026
Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
What a loser
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thirdcoastalelite.bsky.social @thirdcoastalelite.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Unpopular opinion but it was this tone deaf attitude pervasive among male comedians that helped usher in the era of Trump. This unfunny skit aired on election eve ignores that HRC’s values were identical to Obama’s & yet she’s “unsavory” & just “less bad” than Trump. deadline.com/2016/11/jon-...
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Jon Stewart Blasts Donald Trump On Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Eve ‘Late Show’
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert perform a musical number about the importance of voting today – but not for Donald Trump.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Somewhere out there right now is a kid who has the dream of being the most corrupt president in US history. I am here to tell you to give it up. You will never reach the levels of corruption reached on a daily basis right now. It's like Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game. You're not going to beat it
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