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charlie

@chopcornpickens.bsky.social
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attorney with background in housing, immigration, human rights. i like books trains politics etc.

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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Netflix commentators going all out to convince us that a very nondescript minor league style stadium is incredibly special because it is surrounded by corn
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Watched the first 30 minutes of Avatar 3 on a flight and boy do the Na’vi still look like absolute garbage
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
U.S.A. women’s team just crushing Mexico in the Women’s Baseball World Cup game right now.. it was 16-2 when I started typing this and the U.S team hit a grand slam before I finished typing. 20-2, no outs in the 2nd
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the top negative reviews of the odyssey on letterbox are so funny (derogatory)
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Personally, I love how everyone suddenly making “leftist” arguments for gun ownership uses the same dogshit arguments that conservative gun nuts have been making for years
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 4: Monarch of Medioka

Mickey talks from a balcony to a crowd of booing people.

Mickey: It won't do you any good to stand around makin' threats! You're wastin' time -- so you may as well go home!
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 27/05/2026
Listen I'm not here for any white house is sacred discourse. It's a mansion built by slaves for slaveowners and it should be turned into a museum and the president should live in a somewhat nice condo
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just got out of a four hour town meeting and municipal finances are in an absolutely catastrophic state We did pass the commonwealth’s first zoning provision banning data centers though, so that’s nice
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The usual intellectual rigor of Imprimis, inserting a word into a quote to completely change its meaning. Embarrassing!
who is subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Indeed, during debate over the amendment, Senator Howard, the author of the citizenship clause, attempted to assure skeptical colleagues that the new language was not intended to make citizens of the Indians. Although the Indians were born within the nation's geographical limits, Howard steadfastly maintained that they were not subject to the nation's jurisdiction because they owed allegiance to their tribes. Jurisdiction understood as allegiance, Howard pointed out, excluded not only Indians but "persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, lorl who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers." Thus "subject to the jurisdiction" does not simply mean, as is commonly thought today, subject to American laws or American courts.
It means owing exclusive political allegiance to the U.S.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
watching Gimme Shelter thinking about how fortunate i feel to have grown up in the world iggy pop built. like, imagine if mick jagger was the most iggy pop you ever got exposed to
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It brings me no pleasure to admit that this is a pretty good bit
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
BAD BUNNY!!
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
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Michael Crider @michaelcrider.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Of course the “club baby seals” rep is on here
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
the president slowly physically decaying and manifesting what appears to be some kind of stigmata on his hand while becoming more insane and evil would be dismissed as a hacky writing device
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If Star Fleet Academy is going to feature gratuitous closeups of Caleb’s insanely ripped body, it should also feature gratuitous closeups of the rest of the cast’s bodies
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The ungentlemanly urge to post really mean comments on negative Goodreads reviews of books I enjoyed
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I keep seeing this ad for Avatar that shows the motion capture side by side with the finished product. It looks…terrible? Like, really bad?
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
RIP to Bob Weir, who I was fortunate to see go off on conservative bullshit nearly a decade ago:
"If you've got gay friends, tell them you're sorry about that, sorry about what happened today. You know it's funny, the lieutenant governor of Texas and a distinguished representative in the house from Georgia, well, that guy last week was reading quotes from the Bible saying about how gay people deserve to die. And today, after the incident down in Florida, the lieutenant governor tweeted that "Well, they're gonna reap what they sow." Tell you what, I want to ask a question: is there a difference between that mindset and the mindset of the folks in the taliban or ISIS? The hatred and intolerance is the same, they may pull it out of different books, but it's the same fucking thing. Register and vote, get those assholes outta there."
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/01/2026
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you believed an SUV was about to run you over, seems like common sense would compel you to simply step out of the path of the car, as shooting the driver in the face in no way would guarantee that the car would stop. In fact, the car might accelerate uncontrollably as the driver slumps forward.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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New town every hour @townsusa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Waltham, Massachusetts Pop: 62,495 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltham,_Mass… Images: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?c… commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?c… commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?c…
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 07/01/2026
anyhoo the only surprise here is Musk's pivot from a long standing belief of his, specifically that he has historically been very pro running-people-over-with-cars
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.
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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 07/01/2026
it's twin peaks the return and I don't even think it's particularly close.
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump showing no interest in Machado is pretty funny
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The November issue of Hillsdale’s Imprimis hits every key point of modern conservative thought: lavish praise of every act of the Trump administration while warning about the dangers of concentrated power, evocations of obscure Roman history, and repeated used of the phrase “with a full throat”
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“Have your tried ‘kill the poor’?” was supposed to be satirical youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?...
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That Mitchell and Webb Look - Kill All The Poor
YouTube video by fanvideos4u
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ward’s Berry Farm getting a lot of shoutouts in today’s Patriots broadcast
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Are we really supposed to get worked up over Trump’s bathroom renovations now? Who cares?
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
As a former Waltham resident, I can confirm that Mayor McCarthy didn’t believe in the concept of people walking in the winter either… or in other seasons, really.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
NYC Mayoral Debate MAMDANI: I want to make NYC a better place to live CUOMO: I want Mandala over here to admit he can't do anything, because I can't do anything SLIWA: I would drink a $27 Moscow mule from Andrew Cuomo's skull
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23/10/2025
a lot of the electorate has questions about my gigantic back tattoo that says “it’s gay to be racist.” rest assured that I intend to answer most of them in due time.
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I simply do not understand the people saying that the East Wing demolition gives them the same feeling they had on 9/11. Nobody is dead!
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I hate that it’s just normal now to pull a starting pitcher after two innings even if he hasn’t given up a run
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...
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Air pollution linked with increased risk of autism in children | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution has been linked with significantly increased risk of autism spectrum disorder in children, particularly if exposure occurs during the third trimester of preg...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.
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charlie @chopcornpickens.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/on-jimmy-k...
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On Jimmy Kimmel: It's Time to Destroy the Censorship Machine and Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996
In 1996, Bill Clinton set the stage for what Donald Trump is doing now by creating a censorship machine of consolidated media, broadband, and tech firms. It's time to break it apart.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/09/2025
If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants. If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd.
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How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left
If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...
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