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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instead of complaining about Trump acting like a petulant child I wish the American press would finally realize that a lot of his power actually comes from them. Just. Stop. Talking. About. Him. But they won’t.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Liberal populism is unfortunately another way the ruling class prevents us from focusing on class. What the US needs right now is a Worker’s Party.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Time travel probably doesn’t exist. No one came from the future to stop the Boomers from ruining everything.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Um, does Anthropic even have red lines?

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

America is about to turn 250. What will not be discussed is America as a system, what it is doing, what it has always done. After all, if America is really only turning 250, then how the hell has it been at war for almost that long? You read that right. open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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The Bum on the Plush

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I heard Trump said after the UFC fight he wants to be able to give a thumbs up or thumbs down.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Get ready for spikes in people reporting paranormal experiences around data centers. It’s coming. They cause an insane amount of infrasound, which has been identified as a cause of people believing their house is haunted. 👻 @edzitron.com

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New piece. If you like it please share. open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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The Bum on the Plush

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A telltale sign of fascism is the hollowing out of the public and the exultation of privatization. Along with this comes a devaluing of professors, doctors, and intellectuals. Learn to recognize the signs.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Whoever is not willing to talk about Capitalism should also keep quiet about Fascism. —Max Horkheimer

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Looks like they’ve renamed the American economy ChatGDP

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Since he likes religious imagery so much

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In Straub’s Ghost Story and King’s It the creatures (Alma and Pennywise, respectively) are referred to as the same thing (what natives called a “manitou”). Further, Salem’s Lot, Ghost Story, and It have a LOT of similarities. Surprised more hasn’t been made of this. @club-stephenking.bsky.social

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The layoffs aren’t going anywhere. At least you should know why. open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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We Can Do Better

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Can you imagine if people were dying in U.S. hospitals because another country had shut their power off???

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sick and tired of journalists (and coaches) acting like there’s a positive correlation between the depth of a question and how much they struggle to articulate it. Makes nearly every interview on NPR an insufferable circle jerk.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

So I tried the Jeff Daniels sandwich….

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I worked 18 hours yesterday. F that!

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Do not be torn between feeling you can do nothing about the way things are and feeling you have to do everything. What we need is more and more people realizing they can do a little, and then doing it. open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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Demanding Democracy

Slave, who is it that shall free you?

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Managers that do layoffs should have to hear about what they’ve done to people and their families. Creating jobs that pay living wages can and should be a reason for businesses existing.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Ok peeps I’m going to give Bluesky another shot. Why is this the place to be?

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@stephenking.bsky.social Question for fans or the King himself. It really seems like Straub’s Ghost Story is inspired by King’s Salem’s Lot and that King’s It is in turn inspired by Ghost Story. Thoughts? Super fun and fascinating if true.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

According the the WSJ, the US is running out of ammunition. It has been supplying so much to Ukraine and Israel that there isn’t much left. Trump hopes to disarm Iran before this becomes apparent. Simulations suggest that in a war with China the US would run out of ammo in a matter of days.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Instead of asking how many people communism killed in the 20th century, why not ask how many people have needlessly died because the USSR was dismantled? Why not ask how many people capitalism has killed?

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

In other news, apparently Bad Bunny not singing in English is a bigger deal than the Epstein emails.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Any society that would be fundamentally different if its working class had an actual say in how its economy functions is an oppressive society, end of story.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A: Making higher education free would greatly reduce the significance of getting a college degree. B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system. C: You’re both saying the same thing.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

You can’t make this stuff up. Canada throws in the towel on its much hyped “Victims of Communism” memorial after realizing that the majority of names they were going to inscribe on it were of Nazis. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

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Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy

Historians raised alarms years ago. Ottawa changed course only after the memorial opened.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

At least they get to feel morally superior about it

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

What if Captain America was actually more like Galactus? open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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Origin Stories

The Lateral Lens is a reader supported blog.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It’s “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed doesn’t mean it’s not there. open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

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Narrative Warfare

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

If we really want to “make America great again” then the focus needs to be on labor organizing, extreme regulation of corporations, governmental oversight of big tech, and wealth taxes. We will not return to the heyday of working class jobs without the politics that prioritized workers.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This wins the fucking internet

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Charles Lambdin @cglambdin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

When people would ask if you had any plans for the fall, people used to assume you were talking about autumn. Not anymore.

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