Dr. O.

Dr. O.

@weimar10.bsky.social

-retired teacher of Mathematics -extensive traveler - teilzeit Weimarer -proud Liberal Dem

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The "true" Conservatives at the Bulwark and on MSNOW don't support Trump, but did support the anti-LGBT policies of Bush, McCaine, and Romney? I feel like I'm having a stroke

Totally correct

Alpheus Williams@alphwilliams.bsky.social

Interesting...and agree. This nonsense started with Reagan...a shithouse grade B actor who simply read from the Corporate script and totally screwed the Middle Class, Accessible Higher Education and Climate Action. Canonised by Fox News as a great leader and the braindead swallowed it.

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Replying to @adamkinzinger.substack.com

Never trust a Republican. Free markets? In 2008 the "free market" wiped out $23 trillion from our economy. The rich got bailed out by Main Street. Wake up, America 🇺🇲

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If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.

This is stunning news and should be more widely reported!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

Third Way has always been a group of Conservatives too embarrassed to admit it.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...

Conservatives longing to return to the pre-Trump party is a joke and more evidence of their stupidity. There was nothing good about Conservatism pre-, during- or post-Trump.

Exactly

Pam Keith@pamkeithdc.bsky.social

Mitch McConnell’s absence and the deceit around it is an insult to the American people. That is OUR Senate he’s fucking with. I could not be more disgusted with Andy Beshear. Appoint a replacement and dare the Republicans to do something about it! Make them put up or shut up!!

HURRAY!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tom Cotton: "Ultimately, it's not about Prime Minster Netanyahu and Israel -- it's about arresting Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in the future if they ever travel abroad."

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To be clear, the MAGA regime’s destructive murderous endless war with Iran, the American soldiers who have died as a result and the tens of billions of dollars wasted because of it has been for absolutely nothing. How this isn’t considered treason at this point is beyond me.

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6 Democrats voted with MAGA to pass the NDAA 216-212. They are: •Danny Davis (NC) •Henry Cuellar (TX) •Jared Golden (ME) •Adam Gray (CA) •Vicente Gonzalez (TX) •Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Centrist Democrats continue too betray us and enable fascism to advance unchecked. 1/2

Funny how we can afford to give Musk billions, pay for wars of choice, and sudsidize big oil and yet Social Security must be cut! GFY

Susan Nelson@susaniniowa.bsky.social

Obama's efforts to cut Social Security helped Dems lose big in the 2010 midterms. This is immoral and politically stupid, and any Dem who even gives cover for it should get nothing from the rest of us but grief. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

Sad but absolutely true. And they will do the same thing in NY.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social

The Dem establishment and its corporate donors did everything to destroy Platner and are now gloating that a Fox poll has him behind Collins, and I'll bet they actually will sacrifice the Maine senate seat to teach them progressives a lesson.

As I have said before, unidentified people are pointing loaded guns at NJ citizens, shooting them with pepper balls. Bring in the State Police and arrest them!

Coinman of the Month@meetzow.bsky.social

Kind of seems like a Governor should have more options on the table than simply "calling for" ICE to stop? They shot pepper balls at a Senator a couple days ago, they arrested the Mayor a few months ago, they shoved someone under a moving truck last night. State Troopers can't block the street???

Why do judicial apologists continue to discuss cases before SCOTUS as if it were a legitimate, functioning body? It is a partisan joke.

If he can sell those assets, he must already own them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

Conservatives are lying douchbags

Michael DiTullo@d2lo.bsky.social

⛽️ You buy gas (petrol) ➡️ 🛢️ Oil companies give your money to Republicans ➡️ 🐘 Republicans start war in the Middle East ➡️ 💰 Price of oil goes up ➡️ 🔁 Repeat This is the third time in my life this has happened. Break the cycle. Get an EV. A non-Tesla one of course.