Caroline M.
@mercmwr.bsky.social
Visual artist, senior citizen, liberal, feminist, environmentalist, civil libertarian, egalitarian, agnostic, New Englander. Married, not looking. No stranger DMs, please. Followers w/empty profiles might get blocked.
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
We & the media are NOT talking enough about how a Florida grand jury found that $10 million was funneled from a settlement intended to benefit Florida taxpayers to Ron DeSantis’s wife’s illegitimate “charity” (that never registered with the IRS), where it was laundered before it got to the FLA GOP.
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
Under Biden, spending on new U.S. clean energy and EV factories climbed from about 2 billion dollars a quarter to about 12 billion. After Trump and Republicans rewrote the tax credits in July 2025, it fell 34 percent. The latest quarter is still down 24 percent. #CleanEnergy #Jobs
NEW: Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) used the following words to describe data center developers today; "Predators" "Bullies" "Secretive" Shapiro signed a new state exec order tightening restrictions on data centers, requiring they get local approvals & provide their own power
We aren’t talking enough about those Destroyed American Bases….
Every Democrat running for office needs to come out about the Black people that are being lynched while the circus distracts. historycanthide.substack.com/p/why-i-keep... Head over to Substack to mess with the algorithm there.
Why I Keep Doing This
Last month, a former classmate messaged me to say my work sent him back to school to finish his history degree. We both went to a Maryland high school where white parents picketed integration in 1956.
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Laughed out loud at this, kudos Mike bsky.app/profile/mluc...
Mike Luckovich@mluckovich.bsky.social · 3w ago
Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.
The five biggest defense contractors spent more than $100B on buybacks and dividends since 2020. I have a simple question for defense contractors: If taxpayers are giving you billions to build military equipment, why are you buying back your own stock? This needs to stop.
My now defunct FIL said, repeatedly, we will never have good things in this country until we have a whole mountain of very expensive funerals.
This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”
Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE
The people who yearn for the days of segregation and no rights for women are telling us Democrat Socialists are the problem. That's all I needed to know.
I’d feel extremely safe on this flight because I already know they had to work twice as hard, be twice as good and make half as many mistakes just to get into those seats. Black women make up less than 1% of professional pilots. Yeah, I’d sleep good on this flight. ✈️
Apparently communism will be prevented in USA by a president who does what he's told by a North Korean Stalinist.
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
A competent Secretary of Defense would be greatly alarmed about reports of squalor on the USS Abraham Lincoln and go see the conditions for himself. But Pete Hegseth is not competent—he’s just a vain and vapid TV talk show chatterbox.
Should we be surprised ? Warfare pollutes. yhoo.it/45nSXbC
Huge oil slick hitting Oman's shoreline as agencies warn of disaster
By Jonathan Saul and Catherine Cartier LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A vast oil spill from a leaking tanker has started to hit Oman's coastline, its environment agency confirmed on Wednesday, in what
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I love this. Senate candidate Annie Andrews says she decided to jump into the race the day RFK Jr was nominated to lead HHS. She’s a pediatrician. Saw what was coming & decided she couldn’t sit on the sidelines. THIS is what I’m talking about. Feeling called to serve & actually following through.
