Gary Carter
@gcarter1956.bsky.social
Advocate of liberal democracy, cat & dog lover, educator, humanist, public school advocate, UNC @ Chapel Hill supporter, and life-long resident of North Carolina
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“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration… Rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism.” @brucespringsteen.net
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May 16, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration… Rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism.” @brucespringsteen.net
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They could've voted in a seven-time MVP, a seven-time Cy Young/one-time MVP winner. They could've voted in guys like Murphy (2 MVPs) or Mattingly (1) who, for at least a brief time, were plausibly the best players in the game. But we get Jeff Kent who was never even once the best player on his team.
December 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
They could've voted in a seven-time MVP, a seven-time Cy Young/one-time MVP winner. They could've voted in guys like Murphy (2 MVPs) or Mattingly (1) who, for at least a brief time, were plausibly the best players in the game. But we get Jeff Kent who was never even once the best player on his team.
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I’ve known about trans people ever since I was a kid and I’ve never once thought “those people don’t deserve respect or human rights” my thoughts were always “well I’m definitely happy as I am but if this is what makes that person happy then good for them”
Why is that so difficult?
Why is that so difficult?
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’ve known about trans people ever since I was a kid and I’ve never once thought “those people don’t deserve respect or human rights” my thoughts were always “well I’m definitely happy as I am but if this is what makes that person happy then good for them”
Why is that so difficult?
Why is that so difficult?
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Typical CEO In Chumplandia......
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Typical CEO In Chumplandia......
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A country run by banks will always be in debt
Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease
A state run by war will never know peace
A nation run by media will never know the truth
Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease
A state run by war will never know peace
A nation run by media will never know the truth
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A country run by banks will always be in debt
Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease
A state run by war will never know peace
A nation run by media will never know the truth
Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease
A state run by war will never know peace
A nation run by media will never know the truth
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
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My segment on Face the Nation today on recent changes by CDC’s vaccine advisory committee to the pediatric schedule.
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Scott Gottlieb says Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose prevents chronic infection
As the CDC vaccine panel voted last week to stop recommending the birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healt...
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December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My segment on Face the Nation today on recent changes by CDC’s vaccine advisory committee to the pediatric schedule.
www.cbsnews.com/video/scott-...
www.cbsnews.com/video/scott-...
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Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
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The most important take on the illegal, immoral and unlawful strikes Trump/Hegseth and the rest of the regime goons have disgraced us with comes from the always concise, brilliant and beautiful @bradmossesq.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The most important take on the illegal, immoral and unlawful strikes Trump/Hegseth and the rest of the regime goons have disgraced us with comes from the always concise, brilliant and beautiful @bradmossesq.bsky.social
@velshimsnow.bsky.social @ms.now
@velshimsnow.bsky.social @ms.now
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The affordability stuff is now everywhere. Looks like people are gonna ride this horse into November. Nobody is talking about what they will actually do to make things affordable.
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The affordability stuff is now everywhere. Looks like people are gonna ride this horse into November. Nobody is talking about what they will actually do to make things affordable.
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Since they're shooting these boats from a distance in the air and not stopping and boarding the boats, I still don't understand how they know how many people are in these boats much less who they are.
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Since they're shooting these boats from a distance in the air and not stopping and boarding the boats, I still don't understand how they know how many people are in these boats much less who they are.
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first, a "small open drug boat" does not waste capacity carrying 9 more people than the 2 running the boat
second, how did they determine all 11 "deserved" to die for their crimes
third, was the wreckage analyzed for significant drugs
fourth, in a "war", survivors are picked up and interrogated
second, how did they determine all 11 "deserved" to die for their crimes
third, was the wreckage analyzed for significant drugs
fourth, in a "war", survivors are picked up and interrogated
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
first, a "small open drug boat" does not waste capacity carrying 9 more people than the 2 running the boat
second, how did they determine all 11 "deserved" to die for their crimes
third, was the wreckage analyzed for significant drugs
fourth, in a "war", survivors are picked up and interrogated
second, how did they determine all 11 "deserved" to die for their crimes
third, was the wreckage analyzed for significant drugs
fourth, in a "war", survivors are picked up and interrogated
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Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
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The GOP U.S. Supreme Court is not a court-it's an arm of the GOP. In 2028 we need Democratic presidential candidates to make reforming this corrupt court one of the top priorities!
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The GOP U.S. Supreme Court is not a court-it's an arm of the GOP. In 2028 we need Democratic presidential candidates to make reforming this corrupt court one of the top priorities!
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I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
seriously, can anyone give me a reason why reporters refuse to express huge budget numbers, that they know are meaningless to their audience, in a context that makes them understandable -- such as a percentage of the budget? I NEVER get an answer to this question.
If every budget number was presented as a percent of budget, percent of GDP, and percent of 10 year GDP, a large fraction of the population would have a pretty good understanding of the relative sizes of these items and budget proposals pretty quickly
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I really would like to hear a non-nefarious reason why reporters at places like the NYT, WaPo, or NPR can't take 10 second to tell us that the $100 billion we spend on SNAP is 1.3% of the budget or the $6 billion that went to the AIDS program in Africa was 0.9% of the budget. Love to hear a reason.
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NOTE: Democrats believe that immigration is a necessity to expand our future population as it is slowly dropping.
Immigration is the answer to our joblessness. Not the reason for it.
Every roofer hires immigrants.
Every landscaper hires immigrants.
Every builder of any structure, hires immigrants.
Immigration is the answer to our joblessness. Not the reason for it.
Every roofer hires immigrants.
Every landscaper hires immigrants.
Every builder of any structure, hires immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NOTE: Democrats believe that immigration is a necessity to expand our future population as it is slowly dropping.
Immigration is the answer to our joblessness. Not the reason for it.
Every roofer hires immigrants.
Every landscaper hires immigrants.
Every builder of any structure, hires immigrants.
Immigration is the answer to our joblessness. Not the reason for it.
Every roofer hires immigrants.
Every landscaper hires immigrants.
Every builder of any structure, hires immigrants.
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There is zero narrative right now about wages or incomes. Kudos to all the rich assholes at choke points in the political process that succeeded in wielding polling to keep the conservation not about what you earn relative to the rich but on the price of eggs. Master stroke.
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
There is zero narrative right now about wages or incomes. Kudos to all the rich assholes at choke points in the political process that succeeded in wielding polling to keep the conservation not about what you earn relative to the rich but on the price of eggs. Master stroke.
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Sounds like defamatory hyperbole, right?
It's not. A July 2025 survey showed that almost 1/2 of registered Republicans say they'd still vote for Trump if he were "officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" that were known to involve children. leger360.com/trump-epstei...
It's not. A July 2025 survey showed that almost 1/2 of registered Republicans say they'd still vote for Trump if he were "officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" that were known to involve children. leger360.com/trump-epstei...
December 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sounds like defamatory hyperbole, right?
It's not. A July 2025 survey showed that almost 1/2 of registered Republicans say they'd still vote for Trump if he were "officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" that were known to involve children. leger360.com/trump-epstei...
It's not. A July 2025 survey showed that almost 1/2 of registered Republicans say they'd still vote for Trump if he were "officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" that were known to involve children. leger360.com/trump-epstei...
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Ukraine & America’s Credibility Crisis
• with Anne Applebaum •
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum joins Scott Galloway to explain what really happens in peace talks, why business interests are overtaking diplomacy, & how corruption is reshaping American power at home and abroad.
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• with Anne Applebaum •
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum joins Scott Galloway to explain what really happens in peace talks, why business interests are overtaking diplomacy, & how corruption is reshaping American power at home and abroad.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Ukraine & America’s Credibility Crisis
• with Anne Applebaum •
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum joins Scott Galloway to explain what really happens in peace talks, why business interests are overtaking diplomacy, & how corruption is reshaping American power at home and abroad.
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• with Anne Applebaum •
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum joins Scott Galloway to explain what really happens in peace talks, why business interests are overtaking diplomacy, & how corruption is reshaping American power at home and abroad.
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Be yourself.
Everyone else is taken.
Everyone else is taken.
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Be yourself.
Everyone else is taken.
Everyone else is taken.
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that is nefarious and I also am not convinced that reporters/editors believe their budget stories command more attention because their audience exaggerate the size of the spending involved by a factor of ten or even a hundred (0.008% of the budget went to public broadcasting).
That’s because they want to hype things, and putting things in context will mean they can’t create hype to that news. #biased
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
that is nefarious and I also am not convinced that reporters/editors believe their budget stories command more attention because their audience exaggerate the size of the spending involved by a factor of ten or even a hundred (0.008% of the budget went to public broadcasting).
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What we need right now is a holistic, systematic rebuke of current Trumpian ideology & strategy : its betrayal of moral truth, humanity in general, & American ideals; its foundation in cowardly fear, racism, xenophobia & hate; its fraudulence, corruption; its foundation in lies.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What we need right now is a holistic, systematic rebuke of current Trumpian ideology & strategy : its betrayal of moral truth, humanity in general, & American ideals; its foundation in cowardly fear, racism, xenophobia & hate; its fraudulence, corruption; its foundation in lies.
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