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Joe M

@firstweet.bsky.social
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he/him. Librarian, learning from you all. Healthcare is a human right. Protect trans kids, immigrants, and those displace by war around the world.

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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 4h
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 4h
this list has to be so valuable considering the people on it are likely the most gullible living americans
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 7h
Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h
At least MORTGAGE CRISIS we don’t have MORTGAGE CRISIS any recent instances of MORTGAGE CRISIS the market being overly fixated on MORTGAGE CRISIS one thing coming back MORTGAGE CRISIS and biting us MORTGAGE CRISIS in the ass.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 8h
Don’t/didn’t we all kind of rely on there being a society
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Joe M @firstweet.bsky.social · 8h
Holy shit is AI tulips?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h
what an asshole
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Alaska's News Source @alaskasnewssource.com · 01/10/2026
Katmai bears keep fans and rangers on their toes in tight Fat Bear Week finale 👉 tinyurl.com/2nw5vzdd
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's so wholesome.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember, it was this guy getting beaten up off U St that was the excuse for the National Guard’s deployment to DC.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DoesAIfeelpainhaveconsciousnesscallitsparentsenoughlikefoiegraslistentoyachtrockeatallitsvegetablessaygiforjiflikelongwalksonthebeachgotochurchonsundayvoterepublicanhelplittleoldladiescrossthestreet, a recent un-peer-reviewed study for clickbait 🤬
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm an AI scientist. You are responding to hype. What are you doing to reign in AI companies actually? Are you going to sign on with Warren to monopoly bust big tech, are you going to prevent OpenAI from having regulatory board seats, are you legislating against real climate and IP theft risks?
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh yeah, memory archive active, I remember what happened. Yikes.
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Joe M @firstweet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you can’t afford to buy cards and wait for them to go up in value, you have no business (literally) being a reseller. Imagine complaining because winter’s coming and you want to sell overpriced tires but other shops are selling them for MSRP.
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you cannot defeat fascism by ceding anyone’s bodily autonomy.
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Joe M @firstweet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jerry, no! How can boxing labor day be on a Wednesday?
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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the way media talks about AI like it’s some all-knowing digital god is infuriating. It’s software. Models, code, data, compute, servers, human decisions and probabilities. It can be powerful as hell, but it is not magic, consciousness or an oracle.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 28/09/2025
magnet (@arcadeseals)
me: I'm terrified of random letters
therapist: you are?
me: [screams]
therapist: oh,l see
me: [screaming intensifies]
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 14/09/2026
#⏰🐘🧵
A typewritten note that reads:

survive. they fucking hate it. it makes them so damn mad. do it.

With a doodle of an elephant in trans pride colors
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Joe M @firstweet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feels like they applied hair gel to his face to hold it in position.
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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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Joelle Maslak @jmaslak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Some Dem candidates are saying "we think we'll win more votes than we'll lose by being transphobes." And somehow people are mad at the trans people who will be like "You'll lose my vote" when that was the political candidate's calculation. Maybe get mad at your candidate's transphobia.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Things to note : - folks really don’t understand satire when it’s not cruel - people don’t respect satire if the author is not white - clicking over to this man’s profile could have solved yalls problems - wild how folks don’t spin out conspiracy theories of virtue for this
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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia
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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It blows my mind how every day these people lie to you, gaslight you, and expect you to take them at their words every single time. Whether its AI folks, the administration, grifters, talking heads on TV... Just endless lying while they strip the wire out of the walls of society. It's astonishing.
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Da Real Juicy J (10/13 🥳) @realjuicyjay.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
Skyline cleanse!!! Please enjoy this video of ducklings meeting puppies for the first time 🥹🥹
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shanley @shanley.com · 10/09/2026
This era should be known as The War on Competence
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Lennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s “full self driving is coming next year” or “we’ll send humans to mars in five years” but for vibe coders OoOoOoOo spooooooky AI
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026
uhh www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
A whole ass pedophile tried to kill a gubernatorial candidate... A MAGA. Not an immigrant. I feel that it is important to know who the actual worst of the worst is in this country.
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not stealing all of the books from the library could severely hamper my ability to build my own library
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John Lieske @johnlieske.social · 13/08/2026
The name of the man that the AP is afraid to name is Christopher Gillum. Christopher Gillum planned to kill Black people, was caught planning, and the grand jury refused to indict.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m the most routine male influence in my 1 year old godsons life (he is being raised by two women). I sing a jokey song for him about how we’re discussing “man issues.” To be sure I include sports and wrestling as “man issues,” but so is: - being a good citizen - valuing women MAN ISSUES
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The response to people intentionally misusing "woke" shouldn't be engaging with it on their terms, even if trying to make it positive. The origin was Black folks directing it towards other Black folks, noting that they need to be aware of racial threats and the dangers of white people in the U.S. /1
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Friendly reminder that megacorporations like Amazon are ruining the world, and you can instead support small independent businesses that make weird little things like today's Low Quality Ad, this Frog Wizard Pin. collabs.shop/1wewwp
A round enamel pin featuring a light green frog wearing a pointed witch's hat against a black background, with the silver text "MY FREAK IS UNMATCHABLE" arching around the border.
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's Election Day in Tennessee. Memphis, formerly known as the last majority-Black congressional district in the state, is voting right now. Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 05/08/2026
🎶 The more you know 🌈⭐️
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026
* SPACEX PLANS TO ESTABLISH "CHEESE MINES" ON THE MOON TO DISRUPT GLOBAL DAIRY MARKET * SPACEX ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDURIL TO PROTECT CHEESE MINES FROM BIKER MICE FROM MARS * ELON MUSK CALLS LACTOSE INTOLERANCE A "WOKE LIE", DONATES $1.5B TO PRO-LACTOSE SUPER PAC
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
this is so fucking disgusting.
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
God forbid a man have hobbies
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
gun shop next door to a preschool
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We as a COUNTRY have spent the last 15 years ESPECIALLY believing that our specific feelings meant that we could and should be allowed to expect the least of us to “act better” than they are treated And that’s not how people work
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