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tmccarthy

@teemccarthy.bsky.social

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A Long Island native, a lover of Jesus, a lifelong servant of teens, a mega fan of their ridiculously funny & random humor, an avid reader, a music explorer, a curse word aficionado, and a 💔confronter of Christo-fascism, 💙 INFP, she/her

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 12

“He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭10‬:‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder) | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

YouTube video by Playing For Change

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 13m

Following you as well 💞

tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 14m

That’s a really hopeful take, and I’m going to grab onto it so I don’t add to the weight she already carries from her promotion of, and participation in our present conundrum.💞👍🏼

tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 18m

🤣👍🏼

tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 2h

That’s MY question! I’m so confused 😁

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 2h

WTF is going on with MTG? Did she have “come to Jesus” moment? Is it possible that her heart was softened after her meeting with the victims of Epstein’s horror complex? I’m wondering if she is growing? I’m confused.🙃

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

All facts

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h

"She was meant to live long past that, I would have thought. More accurately, to my own heart, she was supposed to outlive me, which is both absurd and understandable — and I feel no need to reconcile that contradiction."

A Toast to Diane Keaton

The patron saint of cool women.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

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Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot: Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 3h

I am so sad about Fetterman. I had such high hopes for him. There’s always going to be sellouts for the party, but this one really upsets me.

#Turncoat

✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 16h

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks
theintercept.com/2025/10/08/v...

Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks

Republicans in the Senate voted down an war powers bill to block Trump's deadly attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean.

theintercept.com

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Geneawac @genwacc.bsky.social · 3h

I hate that the US is daily dragging people off to be disappeared. I hate the fact that our so-called leaders lie constantly. I hate that they celebrate the murder of people on tiny boats. I hate their sneering and entitlement. I hate that they don't care if people die. This isn't "great again".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

New in PN: Republicans are totally full of it on healthcare.

It becomes more obvious every time they talk about it. And it's a big reason the shutdown is turning out to be such a disaster for them.

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 23h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3h

lmao

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3h

One of the better Simpsons lines

WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 21h

Sally:

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 3h

In other words, the Tide has turned, and it’s all going Downey today. We’re all tempaCheering for your Gain today 💞

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream news has entered the chat. Hello and welcome abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Terra Turner @cherrycobiz.com · 15h

Love the Universe 😍
Truly stunning 🤩✨🍀

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 14h

That was the line that floored me as well.👍🏼😑

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tmccarthy @teemccarthy.bsky.social · 14h

The journalist repeatedly asks Andrew Cuomo to comment on Trump’s political manipulation of the DOJ. The last 10 seconds are the clincher. “If you won’t condemn the President here, in this situation, how can a New Yorker believe you’ll actually stand up to him?” “Condemn him for what?”said Cuomo.😑

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Laurence - legend in my own lunchbox @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 15h

I understand that American psychoanalysts and therapists are noticing Trump-related anxiety since the stsrt of his second incumbency. The same was observed amongst Germans, even in the early stages of the Third Reich, in which suppressed or unexpressed fears were also played out in their dreams.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 15h

Portland is setting the bar

Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 19h

Portland holding it down!!

#FuckIce #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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