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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

slate.com/human-intere... @slate.com anarchists are by and large left just anti authoritarian left as opposed to socialist and communist so how on earth do you class us with alt right groups? (slate subscriber since the 90s here and widow of a prolific slate writer who knew the difference here)

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There’s No Better Term for the Alt-Right Than Alt-Right

Tuesday afternoon, in the wake of this past weekend’s widely covered meeting of Richard Spencer’s white supremacist National Policy Institute,...

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The current definition of pro Americanism seems very anti Christian and anti Capitalist to me so I cannot compute this.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

pallet vs palate has joined my long list of word conflations that irritate me. An unusual volume of usage of pallet to mean palate in my feed in the last few days. Below is a pallet factory. Palates have to do with taste. oxnardpalletco.com

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Oxnard Pallet Co. – Oxnard Pallet Company

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Well now it is clear. Vance questions mayo on fries. And he met with the pope the day before said pope died. It's a war on *my* culture.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Democratic Socialism is sweet and well intentioned but does not work. It creates an apparatus ripe for an autocratic demagogue to take over, use, and destroy. Not both-siding here. No siding here.

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Sterling Dodge (aka Justin Eger) @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Most people hear "factory jobs" and think "1950s economic prosperity," which was only possible through strong unions. The GOP says "factory jobs" and means "1880s corporate dominance over the working class." Recognize the difference.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

One of the many incredible quiet things my recently late husband Paul Boutin did that few realized was to act as the English language editor for Vladimir Bukovsky's massive Judgment in Moscow indictment of western complicity in Soviet war crimes. www.powells.com/book/judgmen...

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Judgment in Moscow Soviet Crimes & Western Complicity | Powell's Books

Bukovksy's Judgment in Moscow (updated in 2001), details Soviet meddling in Western politics in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the activities of the USSR in the Third World and the regime's suppression o...

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I will probably not be posting much for a while here as my absolutely one of a kind rehusband Paul Boutin passed of a suddenly advancing cancer last night. Polymath musician engineer journalist and generous to a fault.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Angus is a good, principled, forward looking man whom I had the pleasure of interacting with 20 years ago. As much as I hate government, as long as we have one, this is who I want in it.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. There, I said it. The rot at the core of Protestantism, and Constantine, to begin with.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I would feel a traitor if I’d agreed every time I’d had serious professional advice to go by Chris instead of the full name of my 500 years of documented Christina ancestresses. But each person’s choice is their own. The assumption here about Jay is unconscionable on the part of the letter writer.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

slate.com/news-and-pol... Props for Vidal vs Buckley reference in first few sentences. I doubt most readers would get it without clicking through. Even then. Shelf full of Vidal here. Best American antihistorian ever.

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Something Vital Is Missing From Our Discussions of Charlie Kirk’s Death

Hasan Piker sees how we got here.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Reciprocal ratings are breaking a lot of systems. Along with collaborative filtering, the most backfiring shallow concepts of our age.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The sentiment is correct here - we should mourn anyone assassinated in cold blood - but this is what is wrong “to put principle and country before fear and tyranny.” ‘Principle’ and ‘country’ will forever be opposed. ‘Country’ will always lead to fear and tyranny. We are seeing the zero sum.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

My mother was live in help with me around ‘86 for a gentleman born 1916 who was a polio survivor. He had a good life, became a local official, two marriages, children, swam everyday - but not a normal life - a walker and cane from childhood, considered himself lucky to live at all. We need vaccines.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

c4ss.org/content/31283 to the point. Labor unions are misunderstood today because they have become legalized and hence enmeshed with government. But an association of workers is just that. Especially in an era of monopsony.

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Labor Day Retrospective: Liberty in the Workplace and Labor Unionism

Labor day has come and gone. In spite of the fact that it was made a Federal holiday by a president who used government power to crush the Pullman strike, it’s still worth using it as an occasion for ...

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

America earlier: "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police" "White nationalists pervade law enforcement 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes "NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year "50% of municipal budgets

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Things that make you go huh 🤔 Chico spends 48.7% of it’s budget on the Police Department. By comparison, NYC spends 7.7%, Los Angeles 25.5% and Chicago comes in high at 37%.

Posted in r/ChicoCA by u/StandUpChico • 807 points and 491 comments

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A very basic test of Trump's justification for sending armed officials into DC (to reduce crime) is whether its residents feel safer or not. They do not. They are not going to public spaces. They are not going to restaurants. They are more afraid of the occupiers than risks from crime.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

UFW is the only caller for donations I always give to. However it was sad that a caller from Minnesota for them last month did not know the city name Bakersfield - UFW’s home city and home of Cesar Chavez. I gave anyway because they do feed us.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I decided at 16 to never participate in a 401k or other US gov ‘protected’ retirement account. BC I assumed the US would not exist by my retirement. Social Security not optional - have been contributing since I was 6 as a child actress supporting parents. But this end of humanity cult is different.

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Héctor @hm-hicetnunc.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Taylor Lorenz's was already warning about this a few days ago! bsky.app/profile/tayl...

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

“Police” vests on humans rn are no different than “service dog” labels on canine harnesses. Easily bought at big box stores and complete BS.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

slate.com/technology/2... I will start worrying about this when Siri stops interpreting my clearly enunciated “going to” as the awful “gonna” and ‘our president’ stops Capitalizing for Fascist Emphasis.

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ChatGPT Shaming Is Making Our Writing So Much Worse

In the age of A.I. paranoia, people are cutting em dashes, skipping metaphors, and leaving in typos to show their human.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/08/2025

Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"If you look at page 1 of the tariff handbook, it says: Don't tariff inputs. It's the simplest way to make it harder—more expensive—for Americans to do business. Any factory around the world can get the steel, copper, and aluminum it needs without paying a 50% upcharge, except an American factory."

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I am just out of words and out of ideas. My friends and community are scared to leave their homes and have family in black sites.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

States are a recent phenomenon in the anthropocene era. It seems like a good week to remind ourselves of that. Enjoy my chat. chatgpt.com/share/685a09...

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ChatGPT - Human Population in 1776

Shared via ChatGPT

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The US runs on both the incarcerated and undocumented immigrants. It is still a slave society. I’ve given today to this org that helps get the truth out. Will you?

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

let’s not think Newsom is a white knight. He is also a would be king. He’s left people he harmed in the dust.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is not a remotely liberal organization.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

great thread. full disclosure - early buoyant advisor and shareholder here. I am no longer actively involved but I think you are saying what no one else of stature is willing to say rn. OSS needs smaller projects w viable single commercial companies behind them and no bottomless vc behind that.

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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 30/03/2025

Ppl defend property instead of a persons right to be angry at a company for their slave labor practices, their involvement in prisons and deciding policy that harms the most marginalized. Fuck everything about the state, and everything about ppl who think you should get beat up. 3/3

"Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a 'Great Leap Forward' that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state.
Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous."
- Robert Higgs

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Polio is no joke. I spent one year growing up living in the house of a great man who survived childhood polio born in 1916 in San Francisco son of a pharmacist. My mother was his live in housekeeper/ caretaker. He never walked after his teens but did become Marin’s tax assessor and married twice.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I am personally constantly torn between my love of tradition and my deep feeling about personal freedom. Today is Santa Lucia day. When little Swedish girls light the early night with their candles on their heads. I chose Santa Lucia as my patron saint when I was 12. She is the L in cfrln. Goodnight

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

@chicagotribune.com - suggest you fix your ad algos. They are all selling me items customized for Irvine, well over an hour, and an entire life, away.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Beautiful. “ I remain grateful for the day I picked up “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” and realized that a woman could speak without hedging her bets, without hemming and hawing, without making nice, without poeticisms, without sounding pleasant or sweet, without deference, and even without doubt.”

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📿 𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓖𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓖𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓭 📿 @fromgulagtogilead.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

✨✨✨ The paradox of tolerance: If a tolerant society allows hate and intolerance to grow, it risks being destroyed by them. ❗ Remember: tolerance has its limits.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

this was such a toxic generation of Stanford - I’ve interacted and been close with many - some who were awful, and others who were decent, but told me the undergrad stories of the awful ones like Sacks and Thiel.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

it is Sinterklaas eve today, when Dutch children await their presents. I am a Dutch born person that is ashamed of the Zwarte Piet part of this myth. It’s a blackface servant for those who do not know and it was invented only in the mid 19th c. Every year I post something to one of the Dutch groups.

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cfrln @cfrln.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I had one of these when I was 9 in 1983. Found one on ebay and could not resist. yes it is an Amex green card formatted calculator. yes I was a strange child.

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