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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Grado makes an open back wireless, but I keep not pulling the trigger on a purchase…

Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Explained to my kids to watch out for a type of person who says it will be worth hurting people now to make things better for everyone later— told them to take note: those people make sure the “hurt” somehow never touches them (I had effective altruists in mind so this isn’t too far of a stretch)

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 21h

This is from British politics, but given that this horseshit is global— There are NO tax cuts in modern times in the US or the UK that are “paying for themselves”. This is a peddled fairytale, and you should heap scorn on anyone pitching it to you. Just laugh in their face, send them running

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Comical— whether you’re talking the US or the UK, no tax cuts have paid for themselves in decades. The idea is laughable.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 23h

They used to be too ashamed to be this terrible in public—and very notable that their “thought leaders” obsessed over “woke scolds”, “virtue signaling”, and “cancellation” I hope one day the public grows the guts to *make* them ashamed of anti-social behavior again

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think the 40 years of every conservative shill since Reagan—Limbaugh, Hannity, Carlson, you name it—telling facile lies about how they're being robbed by other poorer, struggling Americans has really done its work. Disquieting to grow up alongside the project and see how successful it's been.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We watch Jesus Christ Superstar every Easter

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow our limp American brains decided that it’s a wrong or gauche to have an “ideology” or be “ideological”— But if you don’t have a theory of the world and how it works, you can’t offer any fixes—simply reflecting the public back at themselves doesn’t offer direction or clarity at all

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All this kind of thing does is encourage looking at every brown person one encounters and wondering whether they have deserved to “pass” It’s the language of caste… you can hand it to her; she’s bringing into common conversation the talking points once-only-dreamed-of by white nationalists…

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But Braverman takes it on herself now to say someone might be a citizen, might have spent their whole life since birth in England, they and all of their personal friends might think of them as English… but a few bigots feel uncomfortable, so *she* now says, 4 generations? Pitiful, should be mocked

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think what you’re saying makes any sense— no one is denying that genetic ancestry is “real”. We’re not talking about that, we’re talking about ethnicity, which is a social construct. We even know—scientifically!—that there’s no correlation if you correct for skin color bias.

science.org

Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study

Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some people try to make it that but my understanding is that anthropologists (academics) do not consider race/genetics part of ethnicity

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think she’s very dim here. Citizenship is clearly defined. Identity is personal and subjective. Ancestry is genetic. But ethnicity is a social construct: a community who see themselves in each other. What she’s doing is *volunteering* to cut herself and others out of English society. Awful.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

my guide is especially helpful if you care about an issue a lot and want to know the (often dozens of local) referendums that will affect it. here's just a sampling on housing/transit/climate!

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder how much of it is just corporate learned “efficiency”— after a while, people can just start making things that they know will be approved/“they liked this last time”

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does this expose her to more discovery? My understanding is she was never questioned by the FBI and no one actually saw the contents of her calls, but she was 100% part of the plot to interfere with the regular elections process on Jan 6th... from my perspective, a lot of chutzpah from these creeps.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given the creep factor, just gonna assume that’s uh, “Grok” under there

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the charge of “ethnic cleansing” is conceded here on all sides—though that language still isn’t consistently used by news outlets, and still hasn’t been enough to make anything stop.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fair, and perhaps my use of "splitting hairs" is too far, but frustration is often see the "thick hair" of "not-a-genocide" used as a fig leaf to paper over the ethnic cleansing— And our newspapers won't use *that* term either! Ends up feeling like no language being used that captures reality.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes, it’s a little strange— people will claim, “well, we’ve only killed 3% of the people”—while continuing to force 97% of the population from their homes under threats of starvation, violence, etc seems to all come down to splitting hairs between genocide and “ethnic cleansing”

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’ve been delaying needed repairs (like the leaking roof) so that building issues will worsen— so as I see it, it’s also a “nice building you got here, shame if something happened to it” style shakedown

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is on that site, but if you check, for example, CNN or the Washington Post web sites, you’ll have to work to find it (I found it on CNN, but I had to search and it wasn’t the first result)

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Absolutely wild thing to say in public let alone at the UN

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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh and if you think there isn’t a backroom deal between Newsom and the Ellisons to give him favorable coverage when he runs you are a fucking mark

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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 21/09/2026

For all his anti-Trump grandstanding, Newsom is hopelessly ill-suited to handle this authoritarian moment. If Americans want to restore their democracy, they should kick out every one of these establishment Dem assholes at the soonest opportunity.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AG Bonta, the goal was for you to not allow massive media consolidation in the hands of autocrats and their acolytes, and you're announcing the terms of how they bought you off. You can't sell that here.

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Mako @mako69.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You do not hate Gavin Newsom enough. You just simply don't. If you have any hate for this Patrick Bateman boss boot licker in your heart, triple it. That's a start. Media consolidation at this scale is venom straight into the veins of the public. Insane how fast they caved before the midterms.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026

newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Resign. You failed California and America.

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My favorite was their legal guidance: “Mr. President, as long as you *commingle* your crimes and thievery *with* your functions as president, then all bribery and lawlessness becomes A-okay!” He got the message

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And then they’re maddeningly *dystopian* about near-term trajectories— these guys aren’t out here helping the current generation of children, or building a stable society that would enable a shared future—Instead, it’s always some sociopathic excuse for why some have to go on the bonfire *now*

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That’s funny, because, under the theology of MAGA, God and Jesus are out here waving pom-poms while Pete Hegseth blows up kids and the pastors say “empathy is a sin”

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(The story is: the iron of the ring represents the iron from an infamous bridge collapse and the lives lost—the ring is faceted and worn on the pinky, so as the engineer draws blueprints, the sharp edges catch at the paper—a constant reminder of their ethical obligations)

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Computer Scientists have somehow never learned to appreciate ethical lessons around responsibility and integrity as other engineers used to… and I worry the move fast/break things attitude is getting worse across all fields. Feels like on can only dream of a tradition like the iron ring now

en.wikipedia.org

Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An article that leaves readers *less informed* than before reading it, whitewashing the naked extortion… and then the mealy-mouthed AI-powered “Q&A” at the bottom with even more weak language and both-sides-ing! Well spotted, it’s an amazingly repulsive snapshot of the modern media ecosystem

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Links to quick and convenient message to Governor’s office for CA residents

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with CA that would make the state abandon its net neutrality law, broadband affordability, and public safety protections. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality,

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws,

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And even the wealthy ones who’ve supposedly been educated in finance can STILL have their brains cooked by watching too much Fox News

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

They simply *stopped* enforcing white collar crime…

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Recovering from being this stupid is going to be a lot of work

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It doesn’t just sound like arbitrary prosecution with poor coverage—it looks and sounds like selective prosecution, no?

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Any other approach and we’re in “politicians in your pants” land

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Christopher Lepkowski @clepkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think the mistake was lending the “concerns” validity. Any such action plays into the idea that politicians should be weighing in at all— Personally feel the right political answer is to reject the question: “that’s for doctors and patients” or “that’s for individual sports bodies”

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