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The Tsars, Soviet Premiers, Putin are all nominally different systems, but reveal both the same drivers (ambition that always exceeds actual power) and the same results (when you lack actual power, deception is your only option. Disinformation and reflexive control are all you have.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Excellent article and exactly correct. Putin exploits what are the key strengths of the West to undermine it - open flows of information, open debate - to paralyze it so that it can make incremental gains it could not otherwise by military power or moral suasion.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🧵*9/16/2025 noncooperation thread* A daily thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, defiance, & whatnot by individuals, communities, &/or institutions. * IL State Sen Villa, in heels, yelling for people to stay in their houses, yelling at ICE "THIS IS MY CITY." Not even a megaphone.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Exactly. The permanently financially insecure underclass isn't recent. It's AT LEAST back to the 90s, maybe farther back like you say, depending on how you measure it. For them, they WISH they had "great wealth and ease", and they aren't bored, they're often working 2-3 jobs and still can't make it

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I think what you miss in this comment is that 59% of Americans cannot afford an emergency expense of more than $1000. 37% cannot afford an expense more than $400. So, while I agree for the upper/upper middle class, MOST people do not enjoy this "great wealth and ease" you speak of.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 13/09/2025

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

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What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Allow me to finish for you ... ooooooooh, I get it ...

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Big difference between just hearing BS rhetoric and suffering the actual consequences of the BS. We're getting that in spades now that Trump's election pitch is turning into his unique blend of stupidity, incompetence, and malice.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Blink twice if you're being held against your will ... lol

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Well done. "these are tiny little peas ..."

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It should be noted that beer and wine are not really growing in part BECAUSE OF the growing popularity of mixed drinks (i.e., liquor-based) as a substitute. A complete analysis would show the same chart for liquor.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And by the way, I agree with you generally. I just don't think the "answer" is so obvious. There's a little more nuance needed here to get the whole or vast majority of the labor base in the boat. And of course Trump/Musk will try to split the coalition as they always do.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Haha - not trying to "do" anything. Just making a point. And I am a real person, lol

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Sure. And by the same token, your opinion, or even your union's position, is only one of many. That's all Im saying. It's not totally straightforward or easy.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Haha - fair enough! But I imagine there's a diversity of viewpoints and I'm just pointing out that treading the line in messaging that will get the maximum traction across the whole population might not be simple.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Except they’re actually happy about tariffs on autos imposed just now. (Of course they won’t be later when the price of autos and the recession hits - but this may not be the moment.) Somewhat difficult to message and peel them away at the moment

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ok. But make them continue to react. Force them to continually change tactics. Obstruct. Obstruct. Obstruct. No free rein.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They are pre-positioning. When the REAL pain comes (and oh it will), it's the fault of the ones that are fighting against this "courageous work". Not the people who put the TARIFFS on in the first place, it's the opposition. "It doesn't work w/o all the spokes in the wheel ..."

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Viral claims about family influencers fleeing the state of California are completely false. TikToks and YouTube videos have amassed millions of views pushing this conspiracy. My article debunking it only has.... 2 shares. Journalism feels so fruitless sometimes.

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No, family vloggers are not fleeing California over a child labor law

A viral TikTok conspiracy theory claims that family influencers are moving because of a new law that claims to protect child influencers. It's not true.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yup. Fabricated pretext for cancellation. Present Zelenskyy with options he can’t possibly accede to, like a peace without NATO or is peacekeepers, and lifting sanctions on Moscow, and then turn around and say HE is the one obstructing negotiations.

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Jeffrey A. Ward @jeffreyaward.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In reality, Trump has been trying to shake-down Zelenskyy since at least 2019, when he failed to strong-arm the Ukrainian leader into announcing a (bogus) investigation into the Bidens, a move that got him impeached. Through it all, amazingly, Zelenskyy has maintained the moral high ground,⤵️

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

She's awesome and beautiful at the same time.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

good. more like this. don’t give those fucking weasels a moment of quiet

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/02/2025

Quick reminder: DOGE isnt real. Its a figment of President Musks imagination and has no power, and isn’t an agency

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yall have no idea what you’re talking about, so I’ll just say, “yeah, nah.” For #1, take a basic civics class. For #2, go back and check the data. Buh-bye

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

To your second tweet. "It was out of Biden's hands" was what I meant by dems "fighting the last war." You know, when the president didn't investigate his political appointees and appointed an independent counsel. Firing the AJ and replacing him - that's not an independent DoJ. Get it?

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

To your first tweet. 1) Biden crushed Bernie in the primary. 2) The demographic and polling data showed that while Bernie could gain in the far left, he would lose more with centrists. He would have had his ass handed to him.

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chillybatts.bsky.social @chillybatts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

1) Biden barely won. Bernie would have lost. Then this shit happens in 2021 instead of 2025. 2) I agree the DoJ slow walked. It was the dems fighting the past war. Biden appointed Garland, who slow walked. At that point, it was out of Biden's hands, bc DoJ independence. #2 doesn't make #1 false.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/02/2025

In Taiwan, years back, some civic hackers created the Gov0 campaign (or g0v) in which they got the domain name g0v.tw (it's a zero in the middle) and created alternatives to every gov website of what they would do if they were in charge. Anyone could see the plans by replacing the o with the 0.

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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The surest way to protect our Constitution is to act and talk like we still have one. The surest way to lose it is to act like we don't.

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