W Mercer
@w-mercer.bsky.social
Retired guy who was spending retirement coaching youth baseball. Just want America back.
💙 Support Ukraine💙
Disillusioned - USAID&Gaza
ANGRY about ICE!!!
🌿Worried for our planet 🌱
Every BlueSky user convince 3 new voters.
💙 Support Ukraine💙
Disillusioned - USAID&Gaza
ANGRY about ICE!!!
🌿Worried for our planet 🌱
Every BlueSky user convince 3 new voters.
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W Mercer
@w-mercer.bsky.social
· Feb 18
I always wondered what Germans, in 1934, seeing their country taken over thought and felt. I would have preferred not to have gotten answers to that question this way.
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All but 20 of the hundreds of migrants at CECOT in El Salvador who were sent back to Venezuela in a prisoner swap have been freed. DHS has said nothing about their release, now that their identities have been revealed and found to have no affiliation with gangs.
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
All but 20 of the hundreds of migrants at CECOT in El Salvador who were sent back to Venezuela in a prisoner swap have been freed. DHS has said nothing about their release, now that their identities have been revealed and found to have no affiliation with gangs.
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BREAKING: Senator Schumer just proposed a completely fair deal to open the government. All he asked for is that the Affordable Care Act subsidies be extended for one year.
This is in Trump‘s court now. Democrats are trying to protect our healthcare. Republicans are trying to protect billionaires.
This is in Trump‘s court now. Democrats are trying to protect our healthcare. Republicans are trying to protect billionaires.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
BREAKING: Senator Schumer just proposed a completely fair deal to open the government. All he asked for is that the Affordable Care Act subsidies be extended for one year.
This is in Trump‘s court now. Democrats are trying to protect our healthcare. Republicans are trying to protect billionaires.
This is in Trump‘s court now. Democrats are trying to protect our healthcare. Republicans are trying to protect billionaires.
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Putin has killed more people so far this century than any other human on the planet. Russia must be stopped.
October 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Putin has killed more people so far this century than any other human on the planet. Russia must be stopped.
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Critics call Mamdani’s policies radical, but in Europe, they’re normal.
Luxembourg and Malta have free public transit.
Istanbul has municipal groceries.
Austria caps rents.
Portugal and Berlin have free childcare.
Findland and many others have baby baskets.
*None are communist*
Luxembourg and Malta have free public transit.
Istanbul has municipal groceries.
Austria caps rents.
Portugal and Berlin have free childcare.
Findland and many others have baby baskets.
*None are communist*
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Critics call Mamdani’s policies radical, but in Europe, they’re normal.
Luxembourg and Malta have free public transit.
Istanbul has municipal groceries.
Austria caps rents.
Portugal and Berlin have free childcare.
Findland and many others have baby baskets.
*None are communist*
Luxembourg and Malta have free public transit.
Istanbul has municipal groceries.
Austria caps rents.
Portugal and Berlin have free childcare.
Findland and many others have baby baskets.
*None are communist*
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Despite the pending appeal on SNAP benefits, some states, including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin, have already started to process full food stamp payments (NYT).
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Despite the pending appeal on SNAP benefits, some states, including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin, have already started to process full food stamp payments (NYT).
Cary NC is a great place to live. It just got better.
Democrats made a clean sweep.
indyweek.com/news/wake/fo...
Democrats made a clean sweep.
indyweek.com/news/wake/fo...
Four and a Half Takeaways from the Cary Town Council Election
How party politics, strategy, and money factored into Tuesday’s results, and what it means for the next Cary town council.
indyweek.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Cary NC is a great place to live. It just got better.
Democrats made a clean sweep.
indyweek.com/news/wake/fo...
Democrats made a clean sweep.
indyweek.com/news/wake/fo...
Trump may have something there with Soc Security being in trouble.
He causing us to bleed jobs while at same time he disappears bonus wage earners with ICE.
He causing us to bleed jobs while at same time he disappears bonus wage earners with ICE.
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Trump may have something there with Soc Security being in trouble.
He causing us to bleed jobs while at same time he disappears bonus wage earners with ICE.
He causing us to bleed jobs while at same time he disappears bonus wage earners with ICE.
I think I’m becoming a big fan of Pope Leo.
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I think I’m becoming a big fan of Pope Leo.
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November
A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge orders the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November.
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Nancy Pelosi said it.
“ All roads lead to Putin”
“ All roads lead to Putin”
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Nancy Pelosi said it.
“ All roads lead to Putin”
“ All roads lead to Putin”
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Six years ago, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill were freshman roommates in Congress, part of a record wave of women who helped Democrats retake the House. Now they’ve made history again as Virginia’s first female governor and New Jersey’s first female Democratic governor.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Six years ago, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill were freshman roommates in Congress, part of a record wave of women who helped Democrats retake the House. Now they’ve made history again as Virginia’s first female governor and New Jersey’s first female Democratic governor.
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Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Again, not the most important here, but I'm begging for a journalist to figure out how/why NPS put up a Confederate statue DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. How is this "essential" when food stamps are not?
@lizcheney.bsky.social
Liz Cheney,
We are very sorry for your loss. I believe your father must have been so proud of you last year.
Liz Cheney,
We are very sorry for your loss. I believe your father must have been so proud of you last year.
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
@lizcheney.bsky.social
Liz Cheney,
We are very sorry for your loss. I believe your father must have been so proud of you last year.
Liz Cheney,
We are very sorry for your loss. I believe your father must have been so proud of you last year.
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Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.
@maragay.bsky.social
Mara, Your comments about how what Trump has done recently which ended in “was dark” was inspired.
I just want to watch it over and over.
Mara, Your comments about how what Trump has done recently which ended in “was dark” was inspired.
I just want to watch it over and over.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
@maragay.bsky.social
Mara, Your comments about how what Trump has done recently which ended in “was dark” was inspired.
I just want to watch it over and over.
Mara, Your comments about how what Trump has done recently which ended in “was dark” was inspired.
I just want to watch it over and over.
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Fired for defending science and speaking the truth. Dr. George Tidmarsh, head of the FDA’s drug division, says he was placed on administrative leave after questioning the legal basis of a new “rapid approval” program for certain drugs. A longtime industry veteran who joined the agency in
November 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fired for defending science and speaking the truth. Dr. George Tidmarsh, head of the FDA’s drug division, says he was placed on administrative leave after questioning the legal basis of a new “rapid approval” program for certain drugs. A longtime industry veteran who joined the agency in
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
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The Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago perfectly depicts America under Trump, where the ultra-rich live in careless indulgence against a backdrop of growing social inequality, indifferent to the harm they cause.
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago perfectly depicts America under Trump, where the ultra-rich live in careless indulgence against a backdrop of growing social inequality, indifferent to the harm they cause.