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Christopher Coffman 🌹

@coffmanesq.bsky.social
886 followers 807 following 6.4K posts

“...a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.” economics, public policy, art and literature, philosophy; Rice owl; recovering full-time college adjunct (you may have known me as “tex” in the other place)

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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 4h
i read it either right before or right after “The Magus” by Fowles and boy was that an mind-altering pairing
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 4h
i can’t even remember how long it’s been since i read it and i still think about it not infrequently
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 5h
the pee tape is real
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 10h
we’re going back to analog whether we like it or not
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 17h
Ken Paxton on the Uvalde shooting: “Life is short no matter what it is.” 21 elementary school children and teachers were killed in the shooting.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 16h
having a walk at the park ruined by the shooting range across the river makes me want to do violence
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 17h
it would be the horniest primary in history (laudatory)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18h
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 17h
the people responsible for these crimes should be [redacted]
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 19h
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 17h
Did she say she was kidding? Dev Lemons's workplace micro-romance video is a big hit this week at InfoWars HQ. Watch InfoWars HQ now: bit.ly/4AUe43X
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 17h
a good mechanical pencil is always worth it
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merriam 🇰🇳 @merriam.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
These are cartel tactics
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this is like that episode of The Office where they host a business seminar to sell paper and the one guy is like “my business idea is a credit card where every time someone uses it i get 25 cents”
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
mobile banking via telecom balances was already a thing many many years ago in many parts of Africa...like, pre Cashapp or Venmo. just too easy for a lot of people to assume an unbroken linear path of military and technological engagement and that Africa is obviously way behind.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
guessing it's probably running on Tubi, too, because i see all of the same gambling and political ads on both streaming services
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
this ad is still running on streaming services...just saw it while watching a Midsomer Murders channel on my tv
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Got to see & hold the most famous Roman coin in history, the Ides of March coin Brutus had struck after assassinating Julius Caesar. The numismatist said it was Caesar putting his own face on coinage that precipitated his assassination, so Brutus doing the same thing did not go over well.
Two fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring two knives and a Liberty cap between them. Under them is written in capital letters Eid Mar which is the Ides of MarchTwo fingers give scale to a small silver-green coin featuring the face of Brutus and the legend BRUT IMP
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is very cool
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As we were saying ...
Tweet from Robert Jeffress: 

I support the Pentagon’s decision to livestream the execution of mass-murderer Nidal Hassan.  

Capital punishment is commanded by God in Genesis 9:6 to remind people of the sanctity of human life. The more people that can see that truth illustrated through a public execution, the better.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
even if this were true, the Houthis and Ukrainians would like a word
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
me. John Cornyn 🤝 wanting Ken to lose www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...
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‘He wants me to lose’: Paxton complains about lack of support from Cornyn in leaked audio | CNN Politics
Ken Paxton has publicly said he would “love to have” John Cornyn’s support after their bruising Republican primary runoff in the Texas Senate race. But privately, Paxton has grown frustrated with the ...
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i don’t think Jeanne is going to like what’s coming in 2029
After Paxton explained his two-pronged approach to reducing the deficit — tax cuts to grow the economy paired with "reasonable cuts to mandatory spending" — a lobbyist in the room, Jeanne Haggerty, chimed in that she wanted a personal tax cut, prompting laughter from the room.
"I would really like to pay my fair share of taxes, which is less than I'm paying right now," Haggerty said in the recording.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans keeping calling Dems silly names and Dems will just keep embracing it and making cool t-shirts store.jamestalarico.com/products/im-...
store.jamestalarico.com
I'm A Talafreako (White Tee)
"I'm A Talafreako" with Logo back tag. Imprint on White, 100% cotton tee.Purchase is a donation to James Talarico.Orders ship within 10 days.Union Printed and Made-In-USA.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is amazing but also i’m having hard time keeping these PACs straight…is this the same PAC sending out the “ArE yOu WhItE” texts?
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
perfect tweet
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
omfg
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
orange cats always be the loudest it seems
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is a big part of why i’m glad i went to a school that didn’t have greek life…still plenty of risks and issues, but it’s way less institutionalized
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ah, yeah, i was thinking more open-ended questions. still plenty of people who would just take it at its word
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
you or i could spot a lie in such a case…not so sure about a lot of other people
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
for sure, it’s quite a stretch…but shared animus does make strange bedfellows at times
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is a good and acceptable use case of AI i’m not an AI expert, so i don’t know how much more efficient this was than just identifying the star and doing some manual programming calculations to analyze but sifting through massive data sets is a good case of AI/algorithms
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i’m attending a Microsoft Copilot Chat training session this afternoon 😐
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
sounds like they claim not to do that anymore, at least not through official foundations….who knows
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
well, we know the founders/owners contribute money to anti-LGBT orgs, and some of those orgs are known to lobby against LGBT rights in other countries where they proselytize…not as direct as buying black market artifacts, but likely some indirect influence
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
preparing my dinky little sling in hopes of recovering the bad ass staff i lost
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there should be consequences for the people funding and promoting this blatant white nationalist filth
Text Message from +1 (254) 645-5412

"White skin is contagious"
That's what James Talarico believes. That's what he taught his students
STOP TALARICO >> https://vt-
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my response:

fuck y'all, you racist fucks. you nazi pieces of shit. you pathetic white supremacists
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
gotta be the pianist
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
poster for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 film “Salo”
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
she’s so proud of herself you’d think she was Ghandi marching to the sea
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the older i get, the more i believe that econ (my own field!) is really just more of a framework for problem solving and that any “open problems” are not actually economic…they’re psycho-social
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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026
We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.
Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera. 
Photo credit: PhotofestMarlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.' 
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia PicturesCary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
he could have said that in just 14 words
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i don’t think these mfs actually know what religious liberty means
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
GOP delenda est
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan
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Christopher Coffman 🌹 @coffmanesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
imagine being as rich as her and being this incredibly weird on such a personal level with people you know…so fucking weird
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