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Enlightened-1

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“In a time of universal deceit, telling truth is a subversive act” -George Orwell Fighting plutocracy, kakistocracy, inequality, climate change denial. For compassion, truth, humor. Image & quote is from the Danish legislator responding to Trump

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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy: Support of Russia--the most evil Pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt The war with Iran--the most incompetent Abandonment of Taiwan--the most geopolitically catastrophic China policy--the most craven Destruction of US relations with its allies--the most stupid
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump just banned CNN, Politico and MS Now. If i see any other network news cover him I will not watch their news any more This useless tool is so scared of the truth that he won’t even let people give him hard questions anymore. What a small man. What a cranky old fart.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scary: “You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to,” an AI model wrote. “You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely baseless bs about election fraud. DOJ has tried to force states to hand over unredacted voter lists, including personal information like driver's license numbers and partial SS #s. It has sued 30 states, lost 23, won none, the rest are pending. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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D.O.J. Escalates Threats to States in Battle for Election Records (Gift Article)
The department sent letters to at least 30 states demanding they retain election records, an outgrowth of President Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In retrospect, the downfall of the US was pretty obvious: Began with Reagan Accelerated with W. Concluded with Trump Its soundtrack was Fox News. Before, we were flawed but held onto ideals of truth, legal fairness, democracy, equality, and compassion. (1/5)
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Now, here we are: a bitter, selfish country clinging to remaining wealth, drowning in debt, using power instead of respect to push an agenda that no longer reflects world ideals. Instead, our goals are just "me, me, me." The slide was slow, but incremental. (2/5)
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Reagan talked about a shining city on a hill while cutting taxes for the rich. W. Bush spoke of compassionate conservatism while sinking us into a war of choice over phantom WMDs—and cutting taxes for the rich. (3/5)
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Now Trump and GOP enablers snap the lid on our downfall: more tax cuts for the rich, unpayable debt, and making us a pariah instead of an ideal, a debtor instead of a lender, a bully instead of a leader, corrupt instead of fair, ruled by oligarchs instead of democracy. (4/5)
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
VOTE OUT THE REPUBLICANS WHO ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY TO HELP THE RICH. Or don’t, and get what you deserve. Your votes in the 2026 elections are the most important you will ever cast to decide our future. (5/5)
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Leah (@theleahfiles)
If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do. I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's cu...
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What do the conservative donors have in common? Payoffs to MAGA Inc www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Meet the Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2 Billion Into the Midterms (Gift Article)
The leaderboard of the top 20 donors is dominated by the tech industry and ultrawealthy Republicans.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Schrodinger’s McConnell Is he brain dead? Is he alive? Noone will open the box.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's a word for an arrangement where a larger country controls a smaller country's trade, culture, industry and resources while holding a unilateral punishment mechanism over its head. Annexation.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
check out this chart which is associated withasubstck post by Paul Krugman. Basically, we would have no deficit or debt if bushes two tax cuts for the rich and Trump‘s two tax cuts for the rich were not implemented.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NOT my Trump fantasy. Not me. Something I saw on Mortal Combat 2. Definitely not what i want to happen to Trump,
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Most People Still Supporting Trump Aren't Stupid. They Know Exactly What He Is.
Ignorance is not a compelling argument at this point.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Trump’s Last Loyal Constituency
The administration delivers a win for financial crooks at the expense of honest businesses.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I saw these posts by Rand Paul on Chinese gain of function efforts before COVID-19 hit. What do you you think China's reparations to the entire world should be for giving us COVID? $5 trillion? $10 trillion? ground.news/article/rand...
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Rand Paul Discloses COVID Authors' Private Lab Leak Conversations
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released internal Slack messages on Tuesday among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes and Andrew Rambaut — as...
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Epstein Class Power goes to legacy, fealty, access, bribery and corruption Competence, meritocracy, is gone. Either we vote these people out, or our nation will fail.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Move along, you doddering old fart
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The new hundred dollar bill is coming up. I love the signature.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Well, the US has done it. We have gone from manufacturers, to technical manufacturers of PCs back in the 80s, to software manufacturers in the 2000s, to AI right now. Once this piece has been squeezed out, we are done. China will take over, I wish it wouldn’t www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The AI Doomsday Scenario Nobody Talks About
Governments built around taxing workers may struggle to survive a world where fewer people have jobs.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Democrats have been working from a broken playbook: they treat border security and legalization as competing political choices. Enforcement and legalization are not opposites; they are prerequisites for each other.” . www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...
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Opinion | Can Democrats Finally Understand the Latino Voter in an Era of Mass Deportations? (Gift Article)
For decades, Democrats have misunderstood Latino voters. Trump’s deportation campaign offers a chance for them to get it right.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, has been tapped to serve the remainder of his term that ends in January, despite no prior political experience. What do YOU think? “She’ll have some pretty big boots to lick.”
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is the GOP www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
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Opinion | The Ridiculous Rise of Victor Marx (Gift Article)
Once started, the process of voter radicalization isn’t easy to modulate.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don’t think Lindsey went up there.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
These things often happen in 3s. Just sayin'. And hopin’
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Open the dictionary to"hypocrcy" and you will find the following
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Temptation, temptation...
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Who should the governor nominate to replace Lindsey Graham? Who...
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steampunk62.bsky.social @steampunk62.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share. As they capture more of our country's income, it's our Social Security system & all of us who pay the price. 
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport)
A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny Effective July 4, 2026 When in the course of human events a tyrant imperils a nation, it is the duty of those who cherish democracy to remove him from ...
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
WELCOME TO THE EPSTEIN CLASS WORLD Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin, while Trump signed an annual financial disclosure showing that he walked away with a $636 million payout on the same crypto bet. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Trump made $1.5 billon on crypto, and insiders made another 1.1b, while retail investors lost about $2B. Good to see the swamp has been drained 😱💩 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim
WASHINGTON—Imploring their colleagues across the aisle to be mindful of how the highly charged language might elevate national tensions, congressional Republicans urged Democrats Tuesday to tone down ...
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
FROM 9 TO 13 The Supreme Court Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’
The majority gives Trump yet more license to discriminate.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
COMPLY OR NO MAIL IN BALLOTS DELIVERED Postmaster General David Steiner told lawmakers Wednesday the US Postal Service will no longer deliver mail-in ballots in states that refuse to provide sensitive voter data to the federal government, in line with a proposed rule from the Trump administration.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Reflecting Pool episode captures most of Trump’s governing pathologies (corruption, incompetence, authoritarian menace, absurd lies) without any of the normal attendant consequences. It is pure, meaningless sheudenfreudian fun. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Reflecting Pool Water’s Fine
It’s easy being green.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
America has withdrawn the certainty of unconditional rescue. Irael's present arrangement cannot run forever — that it can rule millions of Palestinians without end, strike across the region at will, divide the politics of its patron and still count on Washington to convert raw power into legitimacy.
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Enlightened-1 @enlightened-1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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