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@dougster44.bsky.social

Fan of Carolina Hurricanes/Detroit Lions & Tigers. Politics right down the middle.

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Latest posts by dougster44.bsky.social on Bluesky

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

08.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6257    πŸ” 1796    πŸ’¬ 272    πŸ“Œ 89
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To The People I Know Who Voted for Him, To the people I know who voted for him,

I hold you responsible.
You chose this.
You chose him.
For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, condemn his criminality, prevent his lawlessness, denounce his bigotryβ€”and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

21.09.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 495    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 10
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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t want you to know her opponent’s name. That’s how desperate she is to keep her seat.

I’m Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, and farmer. I’m running against her. Share my name.

14.09.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2129    πŸ” 1030    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 37
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β€œI’m not writing this as a Democrat or Republican, I’m writing this as a man watching families like mine wear themselves thin.” πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

20.08.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1133    πŸ” 381    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 35

Thank you for always providing the truthful data.

02.08.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95

Robert β€œEd” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

16.05.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7562    πŸ” 1667    πŸ’¬ 224    πŸ“Œ 178

Gotta love all the far right Republicans that scream and complain and vow that they aren’t voting for the one big beautiful bill and then they all capitulate. Grow some damn spines.

10.04.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Call your reps, tell them vote NO
5 Calls makes it easy to call. Enter your zip code, pick the issue (the SAVE Act), and just pick the name to call
If you want, there is a script you can use when you call

10.04.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

What did you expect when you elected someone whose only interests are staying out of jail, lining his pockets, and seeking revenge against his enemies. This is exactly what you voted for, team MAGA.

07.04.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1200    πŸ” 265    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 5

This, right here, is why tariffs cause depressions.

05.04.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1274    πŸ” 348    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 10

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculousβ€”they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

05.04.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 21530    πŸ” 9867    πŸ’¬ 452    πŸ“Œ 396
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This is a great message tool. Make it go viral.

04.04.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2544    πŸ” 1502    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 67

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE

This was before the tariffs

It's just...unbelievable

03.04.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 23738    πŸ” 7547    πŸ’¬ 538    πŸ“Œ 310
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πŸ‘‡πŸ½ 🎯 the point is to force the world to beg him for carve outs (and pay him off)

Mafia-style Government

03.04.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7726    πŸ” 2645    πŸ’¬ 449    πŸ“Œ 206
Golden Age
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Golden Age

The dollar is in free fall, stock market is down, and the price of groceries is up. Is this the β€œGolden Age” Trump promised you?

03.04.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4679    πŸ” 1183    πŸ’¬ 303    πŸ“Œ 50
The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg
). The post reads: "Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that."

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg ). The post reads: "Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that."

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

27.03.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 23225    πŸ” 7648    πŸ’¬ 429    πŸ“Œ 221
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

25.03.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 77225    πŸ” 17000    πŸ’¬ 3048    πŸ“Œ 1623

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting β€œWe are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

25.03.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3758    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 57

Read this πŸ‘‡πŸ»

22.03.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

This story is fucking bonkers

20.03.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6819    πŸ” 1886    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 214

Why I wrote my new Lucid essay on moral collapse: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

17.03.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2274    πŸ” 640    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 43
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The Alt Media with Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman | Substack The Resistance Newsletter. A progressive alternative to mainstream news. NSFF (Not Safe for Fascists). Click to read The Alt Media with Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman, a Substack publication with h...

I was glad to see that people were excited that a national committee for Democrats used the word fuck. We typically use the word fuck anywhere from 10 to 50 times a day in our free daily newsletter which is going on six years now. If you want a good and free resistance newsletter please join us πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™πŸ’™

12.03.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 3
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

Office of @raskin.house.gov provided a letter template to officially request your federal personal data from
DOGE in accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. Β§ 552a(d)(1) and this could be interesting jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

12.03.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1769    πŸ” 923    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 100
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True facts.

10.03.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44758    πŸ” 12528    πŸ’¬ 1299    πŸ“Œ 688
BREAKING: 
-DOW down 849.13 today 
-NASDAQ down 565.87   
-Inflation is up 
-Groceries are up 

 Is this TRUMPONOMICS?

BREAKING: -DOW down 849.13 today -NASDAQ down 565.87 -Inflation is up -Groceries are up Is this TRUMPONOMICS?

03.03.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 16416    πŸ” 4831    πŸ’¬ 780    πŸ“Œ 294
We're not done yet | 18F

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

01.03.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 93473    πŸ” 31168    πŸ’¬ 3205    πŸ“Œ 1412
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Reminder: When you invest in the American people, the middle class expands, and the economy grows.

When you cut taxes on the rich, the rich get richer, and the gains don’t trickle down.

It’s that simple.

29.12.2024 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2561    πŸ” 467    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 19
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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

23.02.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 90301    πŸ” 19739    πŸ’¬ 2853    πŸ“Œ 1488
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code. From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.

ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area:

grist.org/accountabili...

20.02.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 394    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 42

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