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Caryn Hunt
@carynhunt.bsky.social
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Random links & shenanigans. Writer/filmmaker. Citizen.
Really tired of living in interesting times.
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the witching hour;)
November 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Dalai Lama quote: "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." No Kings October 18th DC and everywhere.
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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This is a pretty good article that summarizes the plagued history of the ACA www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
One of the main messages of The Ten Year War, Jonathan Cohn’s excellent history of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), appears in the final chapter: “The Affordable Care Act is a highly flawed, distressingly compromised, woefully incomplete attempt to establish a basic right that already exists in every other developed nation. It is also the most ambitious and significant piece of domestic legislation to pass in half a century—a big step in the direction of a more perfect union and a more humane one as well.” Cohn’s other key message, stated more succinctly in a March 22, 2021, article in the Atlantic (adapted from the book), is that the ACA became law because the Democrats were willing to do the hard work of compromising and turning policy into legislation. It was not repealed because the Republicans were unwilling or unable to do this work.
October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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You certainly can't call it informed, but Trump voters definitely knew what they were voting for.
Trump voter at a pre-election rally proudly holding a "Mass Deportation Now" sign. This is what he was peddling, and this is what they were buying.
September 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Oh yeah, famously no mission creep in wars. Sheesh WaPo. All your board editorials are stinkers these days. How far the mighty have fallen. You may as well call your OpEd page, "Well, akTuaLly..."
Washington Post Editorial headline: In defense of the War Department. Subtitle: Euphemisms such as 'defense' and 'security' have a tendency for bureaucratic mission-creep.
September 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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from George Conway - I wish I could retweet this a million times: David Jolly says: For context, roughly 25% of our total national debt incurred over the last 230 years actually occurred during the 4 years of the Trump administration. That's right. 25% of our entire national debt, all during the Trump years.
August 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Drop a bad guy you actually love...
Andrew Scott as Moriarty in Sherlock.
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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It's exactly what they thought they were voting for. The cruelty is the point.
Trump supporters at a rally holding "Mass Deportation Now!" signs.
July 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Fix Your Hearts or Die!
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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h/t @nateduty.bsky.social
"When John McCain Took the mic away from the woman lying about Obama, and came to Obama's defense, that was the best of American politics. There is not a single Republican member of Congress who will take the mic from Trump. That's the worst of American politics." - Glenn Kirschner
May 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Always enjoyed these:)
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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pretty sure this is what Lynch would have to say to the NYT -
David Lynch: Fix your hearts or die!
May 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Sign about to be flooded over "But Her Emails"
April 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#NoKings
"Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door."
April 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Woody Guthrie with his guitar that says "This machine kills fascists."
April 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Great #NoKings rally in Philly yesterday - great turn out. Check out @50501philadelphia.bsky.social for the signs. Especially liked this one:
"Jawn or Die" sign with segmented snake. A play on the Philly word jawn instead of join.
April 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I'm sure he'll handle this really well.
April 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Complicity in the Perversion of Justice:
The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law
in the Third Reich h/t @kevinwhitejr.bsky.social

link to paper: commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...
"It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere." - Primo Levi
March 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Cartoon showing newly unemployed federal workers holding up signs that read: Please Help! Lost my job protecting America from terrorism; Please Help! Lost my job educating our children; Please Help! Lost my job providing aid to America's neediest; Please Help! Lost my job protecting our national parks, etc.
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Epitaph On A Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. W. H. Auden
March 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Related:
From Max Kennerly: "A notable aspect of private health insurance is the absence of any reason for it to exist. It does not contain costs, expand coverage, or expedite care -- it makes those all worse. Its sole function is to profit as a rent-seeking middleman between patients and providers."
March 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Seen in London -
A Tesla bus stop ad in London, with Trump and Musk in front of a red Tesla reads: Tesla - The Swasticar. Autopilot for your car. Autocrat for your country.
March 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The American flag hanging upside down - the traditional symbol of national distress - on the El Capitan rock face at Yosemite National Park.
February 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Dang, right, AOC @aoc.bsky.social. Power to the People!
February 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM