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Neo-Athenian Empire

@athenianempire.bsky.social
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Democracy and Imperialism.... But really, it's probably more likely to be sh!t posts, gripes, and poorly made slice of life jokes. This won't' be the first account to fail to live up to its ambition.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
YES. I also think there’s an argument to be made that presidential pardons cannot be valid as applied to subordinates, particularly under the “unitary executive” theory (which, to be clear, is made up anticonstitutional bullshit, but still).
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It never should have existed in the first place. The entire department was a civil liberties time bomb waiting to go off.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Alan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cities generate most of the GDP and most of the tax revenue, then get threatened with the military for the crime of voting differently under Trump and his republican enablers. That's not governance, that's corrupt. Rally Saturday at No Kings then vote early to end this crap. #VoteEarlyForNoKings
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Elon Musk would REALLY like everyone to head back to X for his election manipulation.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.
Vertical bar chart titled "Norwegian wealth tax revenue, change from 2021 to 2024," in billions of Norwegian kroner (BNOK), nominal. Subtitle: top rate 0.85% to 1.1% and stock valuation discount cut from 2022.

Two bars. "Growth with no emigration": 13.71 BNOK, a tall bar. "Lost to reform-driven emigration": 0.65 BNOK, a barely visible stub, about one-twenty-first the height.

Notes: Growth includes the rate and valuation changes and wealth growth. Net of tax that emigrants still paid, the reform-driven loss is 0.49 BNOK.

Source: Ring (2026), NBER Working Paper 35854, equation 2 and figure 5.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I should end more online arguments this way.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This needs to happen in order to maintain any credibility on the global stage. Our allies, if they are still our allies, won't be able to trust any agreement, under the assumption that the next admin will just rip it up.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they are WHAT
“In Ireland, where toads are supposed to have been banned by St. Patrick, they are nonetheless known, along with poets, as warty boys. Once I was engaged to a poet who was walking before me” excerpt from elspeth barker’s notes from the henhouse
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@sam-pearson.bsky.social The Discord Invite on the BDC website no longer works.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How would the Dems do this? This rule has already been violated. The GOP made it so you can't Filibuster SCOTUS nominees.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a sain world, this would invalidate their pardons.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary fix.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Siri: Give me an example of "saying the quiet part out loud."
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oracle is going to be the first up against the wall when the AI bubble bursts. The chuckleheads company is going to be broken up and sold for cash.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have hit a new milestone in popularity! All of my new followers have 10s of thousands of their own followers (and follow 10s of thousands more). Such platform health!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
liberalcurrents.com
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They keep warning us about communism, but these Trump ads the government is running are some of the most Communist Chinese Party shit I’ve ever seen. And they’re fucking terrible.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Massie and Khanna announced they had secured commitments for 218 signatures for the second petition: Epstein Files Transparency Act II, 2026. Mike Johnson sent the House into a pre-election recess, shortening the calendar, with the House’s return expected after the midterms, around early November.
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Osprey Games 🎲 @ospreygames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Command a fleet of mighty battleships, sleek destroyers, and agile fighters, battling for supremacy of the stars. 🎲 A Billion Suns: Second Edition ✏️ Mike Hutchinson 🎨 Rob Turpin & Juan Richard Feliz 🗓️ December 2026 Available to Pre-Order Now #Wargames #ABillionSuns #SpaceCombat #SpaceFleets
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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
what if the real collapse was all the stupid decisions we made along the way
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"So remember, every time you see one of those 'Talarico is for they/them' ads, it's just Musk trying to build a [gas-spewing] data center down the road from you."
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think the story of corporate media collaborating in a fascist usurping of democracy looms larger, Ross.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The GOP will fight to defend Trump in a way they won't fight to defend others.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Except that, in ~basically every situation where you need to impeach an inferior officer, what you should actually be doing is impeaching the president
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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JP Antifa @jasonpaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
But they followed orders anyway.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Virtue signaling is good.
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Read the fucking room Jeffries. People don't want bipartisanship, they want accountability.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Latest Politico cartoons
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026
But ultimately, AI discourse broadly is about productized chatbots, LLMs, GANs, and "agents" (a vague term that generally means 'LLMs eating each other's shit'). When you try to drag random ML tools being used into it you're just carrying water for the AI industry.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026
I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")
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Neo-Athenian Empire @athenianempire.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It will be her and Miller that are running the country by the end of the year.
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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We wouldn't want to drive Republicans to "excess" lest they murder people in broad daylight, open concentration camps where people from infancy through old age are captive without due process, attempt a violent coup, steal untold amounts...would be terrible if they started doing that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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