Claire
@clairemcc59.bsky.social
Retired University of Wisconsin professor of organizational behavior/management, former training & development consultant, former board member of area hospital, former drug sales rep.
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As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.
I didn't see the tweet. I didn't hear the comment. I didn't watch the speech.
Republicans have been feigning ignorance about their mad king for eight years now.
Republicans have been feigning ignorance about their mad king for eight years now.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
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Gavin Newsom likened Donald Trump to a certain controversial French monarch for continuing his ballroom construction amid the government shutdown.
Newsom Mocks ‘Queen’ Trump for Building Ballroom During Shutdown
The California governor posted an edited image to troll Trump for continuing to construct his White House ballroom.
trib.al
October 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gavin Newsom likened Donald Trump to a certain controversial French monarch for continuing his ballroom construction amid the government shutdown.
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Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
#Medsky
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COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
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Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
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imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
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This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:
August 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:
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We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.
They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
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Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
August 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
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Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
August 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Stanford's student paper sues Noem and Rubio, saying their policies cause non-citizen students to avoid expressing themselves freely in the Daily's pages due to fear of detention and deportation
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
h/t @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
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Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
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"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
August 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc
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NBC News' Hallie Jackson examined the timeline of President Trump's relationship with Epstein.
July 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NBC News' Hallie Jackson examined the timeline of President Trump's relationship with Epstein.
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Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
July 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
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Long before Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump in 2024
Even before he said he’d rather vote for Trump over Joe Biden in 2020
Rogan had Alex Jones on his podcast
Twice
I guess it’s a plus that a right wing apologist like Rogan decries Trump’s immigration tactics
But don’t trust him for a second
Even before he said he’d rather vote for Trump over Joe Biden in 2020
Rogan had Alex Jones on his podcast
Twice
I guess it’s a plus that a right wing apologist like Rogan decries Trump’s immigration tactics
But don’t trust him for a second
July 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Long before Joe Rogan endorsed Donald Trump in 2024
Even before he said he’d rather vote for Trump over Joe Biden in 2020
Rogan had Alex Jones on his podcast
Twice
I guess it’s a plus that a right wing apologist like Rogan decries Trump’s immigration tactics
But don’t trust him for a second
Even before he said he’d rather vote for Trump over Joe Biden in 2020
Rogan had Alex Jones on his podcast
Twice
I guess it’s a plus that a right wing apologist like Rogan decries Trump’s immigration tactics
But don’t trust him for a second
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Former FBI agent and January 6 rioter Jared L. Wise—who shouted “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” while the mob attacked law enforcement at the Capitol—is now part of Trump’s Department of Justice.
https://trib.al/466Leys
https://trib.al/466Leys
July 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Former FBI agent and January 6 rioter Jared L. Wise—who shouted “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!” while the mob attacked law enforcement at the Capitol—is now part of Trump’s Department of Justice.
https://trib.al/466Leys
https://trib.al/466Leys
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No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed | Moira Donegan
No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed | Moira Donegan
The bill steals from the sick, elderly and hungry, and gives to billionaires and jackboots. But Republicans will follow their leader anywhere
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
No one wanted Trump’s devastating budget bill. Of course it passed | Moira Donegan
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After more than 24 hours of negotiations, the Senate has passed the bill. The overhaul of taxation and spending could spell trouble for America https://econ.trib.al/QCXDq7W
Ten charts to explain Trump’s big, beautiful bill
The overhaul of taxation and spending would spell trouble for America
econ.trib.al
July 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
After more than 24 hours of negotiations, the Senate has passed the bill. The overhaul of taxation and spending could spell trouble for America https://econ.trib.al/QCXDq7W
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Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.
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Commentary:
After the federal government cut funding for AmeriCorps’ disaster relief programs, more than 60 of us in the California Emergency Response Corps were told our service was ending early. Some of my teammates were still in the field when the news came in. cal.news/4kSEcU0
📝 Lauren Levitt
After the federal government cut funding for AmeriCorps’ disaster relief programs, more than 60 of us in the California Emergency Response Corps were told our service was ending early. Some of my teammates were still in the field when the news came in. cal.news/4kSEcU0
📝 Lauren Levitt
Gutting AmeriCorps weakens California's response when the next emergency strikes | Opinion
After the federal government cut funding for AmeriCorps, dozens of California emergency response workers were abruptly removed from service.
cal.news
June 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Commentary:
After the federal government cut funding for AmeriCorps’ disaster relief programs, more than 60 of us in the California Emergency Response Corps were told our service was ending early. Some of my teammates were still in the field when the news came in. cal.news/4kSEcU0
📝 Lauren Levitt
After the federal government cut funding for AmeriCorps’ disaster relief programs, more than 60 of us in the California Emergency Response Corps were told our service was ending early. Some of my teammates were still in the field when the news came in. cal.news/4kSEcU0
📝 Lauren Levitt
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The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro.
This summer is going to ROCK!
This summer is going to ROCK!
June 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro.
This summer is going to ROCK!
This summer is going to ROCK!
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Chris Murphy: "The entire administration is a grift from top to bottom... it appears Musk didn't get everything that he wanted in this bill to help his companies, and so he's throwing a temper tantrum... you have to understand none of this is on the level. It's a bunch of thieves stealing from us."
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Chris Murphy: "The entire administration is a grift from top to bottom... it appears Musk didn't get everything that he wanted in this bill to help his companies, and so he's throwing a temper tantrum... you have to understand none of this is on the level. It's a bunch of thieves stealing from us."
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The House budget bill, comically titled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, is a piece of legislation no honest fiscal conservative can support. Its tax provisions would, over 10 years, cost $4.6 trillion.
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country
The Republicans’ tax cut plans are an exercise in bad faith, aimed squarely at the American people.
newrepublic.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The House budget bill, comically titled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, is a piece of legislation no honest fiscal conservative can support. Its tax provisions would, over 10 years, cost $4.6 trillion.