Misty M
Misty M
@mmmccarthy.bsky.social
Loud laugher. Parent of a poorly trained dog and decently trained kids. Wife to one of the good ones. You’ll have to repeat that because I wasn’t listening.
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“ The Houthis have recently homed in on a particular set of revelations to try to undermine Saudi Arabia’s leaders — namely that associates of the Saudi royal court sent tapestries that had draped the holiest site in Islam to Mr. Epstein’s private island.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/w...
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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...
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The Exxon ad Exxon doesn't want you to see. New from Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social and voiced by Woody Harrelson.
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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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The CDC denied a request from California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington to validate a high-volume measles test, citing “other priorities.” 🤨
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FEMA won’t help Texans after July 2026 floods as agency tells states to lead disaster response
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If you're looking for context as to why Ramaswamy went into the gutter, even by his standards, Marist found him losing 50-44 in a poll released late last night.
So this is two weeks in a row that Ramaswamy's big ad has starred someone who's defended and/or justified the actions of a pedophile. Interesting campaign strategy.
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‘There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined. Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.’
This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...
How popular is Ted Cruz? He’s in Alaska campaigning for their US Senate race but knows that he will only inspire more votes for Talarico if he shows up in Texas. I don’t have to be a witch to know how loathed Cruz is in Texas.
Ted Cruz: "Right now, if you are left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump"
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Replying to @andbjn.bsky.social
We find that academic performance improved (0.073 SD), with the largest gains among the weakest students. And students who experienced the ban became more supportive of it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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B of A: A combination of a) rising diesel prices, b) rising commodity prices and c) higher wage trends could send food-at-home CPI surging to 10% over the next six months. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social #FAH
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When immigration agents struck a man with an SUV in Houston over the weekend, they said they were chasing an undocumented Mexican man facing deportation and multiple criminal charges. But the photo they shared of their target was of a man whose family says he died almost a decade ago.
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Since 2020, electricity bills have risen 34% for customers of investor-owned utilities, but only 19% for customers of publicly owned utilities. Nuking the IOU model & making all distribution utilities publicly owned: people are saying.
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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Republican Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton has faced damaging leaks of his private conversations, public details of his past romantic affairs, and regular jabs at his physical appearance. At least some of his allies are convinced the sabotage is coming from within his own party.
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Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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“You might be seeing people who say, ‘my allergies are a lot worse now than they were before,’ and that’s because the allergy season is getting longer and more intense,” said Kenneth Mendez, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America president and CEO. bit.ly/47AsSac
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Of course, of course: "Korea Disputes Trump’s Claim It Agreed to Invest in Alaska LNG" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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In recent years, few schools have gone further than Texas Tech in restricting speech and academic freedom. Benjamin Wofford reports on the aftermath of a Charlie Kirk scandal on the university’s campus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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"'We have confirmation due to communication between Kate and Wilber that he’s in Pearsall for interrogation and still has the bullet lodged in his body. He’s received no pain medication and had to sleep on the floor.'"
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An RFK Jr.-linked nonprofit offered some companies access to top agency officials in exchange for payments as high as $300,000.
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NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."