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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1h
If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1h
In a clear f--- you to Trump, the Nobel Peace Prize goes to former International Criminal Court judge and Israeli critic. Prize 'a message to those who are attacking, undermining international system and its institutions,' Nobel chair says www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 1h
De Niro on location shooting MEAN STREETS (1973)
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13h
Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16h
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fascist republicans love painting m Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senate Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed as “dangerous” for America yet it was the criminal tyrant they gave full power to that just called for the bombing of major American cities. Muslims aren’t the problem, fascists are.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They said they are going to dismantle the administrative state, so they're doing it. The problem is that the administrative state is the only state. There is no other state.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i voted for all of them, but the response from biden, harris, obama, and the clintons to both terms of trump has been a dumpster fire. theyve sat back, laughed and joked, written books and had a good old time while regular people faced the fire.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 06/10/2026
So far this week we have lost three right-wing fraudsters in their eighties with criminal convictions related to their use of hush money to cover up sexual scandals. Almost like the Grim Reaper is hunting for one person in particular.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
Many people are saying this! www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
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Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reporters need to start responding: "No, you did not inherit higher prices, Mr. Trump. And, no, you have not brought those prices down. Why are you being so brazenly dishonest to the American people? You think they never visit stores and gas stations?"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
May this vile fucking man never, ever know another moment of peace.
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John Roberts and His Island
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 03/10/2026
There is a Man in my house doing Man Things (fixing my toilet) and asking me Man Questions like "how do you turn your water off?" and I hate everything about this.
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thatmetalheadman.bsky.social @thatmetalheadman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don't hate America,we just hate you and your entire party and all of your friends, family and acquaintances, or anyone any remotely like you in any way, you orange painted fat sack of shit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
anger within the ranks of the uniformed services by making overtly racist and sexist statements and seeking to block promotions based on racist criteria. By every measure he is the worst secretary of defense America has ever had. A foreign agent sent to destroy the Pentagon couldn't do more.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To be clear, Congress isn’t in recess, it has been completely nullified by MAGA terrorists to aid and abet the orange felon. That to me is what I’d call treason.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Drunkard rapist fox host war criminal Pete Hegseth says he’s establishing the Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon. Nothing says good Christian like an immoral despicable piece of shit using religion to promote fascism and hate. He should be behind bars, not quoting scripture.
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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why is the man overseeing the worst strategic military blunder in US history still allowed to direct the military at all, much less make changes to it?
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026
Patreon backers have a new 500 Songs bonus episode, two hours and twenty minutes on the Bee Gees -- the pre-Batley years. In which, mostly, Robin Gibb has a bad time of things.
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500 Songs Bonus: "I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees | Andrew Hickey
500 Songs Bonus: "I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees by Andrew Hickey on Patreon. Join Andrew Hickey's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is now very clear that word was going around GOP circles that Schmitt was definitely going to take down and humiliate Jack Smith, which makes the *opposite* happening even more delicious.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think the Senate Judiciary Hearing today, where they tried…in vain…to smear Jack Smith, was better than anything else that could have taken place to boost voter turnout for democracy. I think it reminded a lot of people just how much they hate these swindlers…and why.
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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let us learn from history. All the calls for national unity, reconciliation, and forgiveness at the end of the Civil War were all subterfuge for treasonous rebels of the Confederacy to escape punishment. We are now experiencing the consequences of that. Eradicate this forcefully, once and for all.
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28echo @28echo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just watching Jack Smith testifying before the senate. I am so sick of the GOP, the American fascist party, bastardize themselves to protect Trump and lawlessness.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 29/09/2026
Just finishing up the recording of the Bee Gees bonus. Looking like it'll be about two and a half hours in total when edited.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It appears only Fox News is covering this presidential "address to the nation" announcing one steel mill. No juice.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 28/09/2026
Perfectly competent pop-country production, pleasant but unexceptional voice (with an exaggerated accent sounding like nothing so much as Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs), shapeless verse and a non-hooky hook line.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 28/09/2026
I listened to the first verse and chorus of "Choosin' Texas" and now I think maybe all the people saying they've not heard it just actually have no memory of doing so because it has absolutely no memorable qualities whatsoever.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026
oh my god the team is being led by someone who acts like an adult. i dunno how to handle this.
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darkwebmallcop.bsky.social @darkwebmallcop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I remember how in the early 90s after the dissolution of the USSR we were going to teach the Russians about capitalism and instead they taught us about corrupt oligarchy
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/09/2026
Not being Yudkowsky is a conscious choice I have to continually make and sometimes slip up on. As I often say "if you're the smartest person in the room, it's because anyone smarter knows not to be in the same room as you".
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/09/2026
This is not, incidentally, something to be either proud or ashamed of. There is orders of magnitude more music -- more *great* music even -- than any of us could experience in a lifetime, and we all have different heuristics for finding the stuff we might enjoy.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/09/2026
I see people are doing discourse about whether or not it's possible to have avoided the current big hits. It's possible and in fact quite easy. We really don't have a monoculture any more, honestly. That you find a song unavoidable means nothing.
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