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Darrell Long

@floopjack.com
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Technologist, Musician, Progressive, Dreamer, Epicure, Animal Lover. I like pie. Personal Account. All opinions are my own

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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 9h
Cool 🙄. Since SCOTUS destroyed any real impact the FTC once had, this is at best a dog and pony show, but more accurately a market manipulation effort.
washingtonpost.com
FTC launches broad investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI
The probe reflects a focus by Trump administration officials on using existing laws to tame artificial intelligence safety risks.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 30/09/2026
👇🙄
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
It's always Staten Fucking Island.
nytimes.com
Judge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start Over
A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
🤡🚗 “Yes, I did file late, but that’s because I waited on the stupid Republican Party,” she said. “I won’t do that again.”
alaskabeacon.com
Judge rejects Anchorage state House candidate’s challenge to August state primary result | Alaska Beacon
The Division of Elections rejected Short after she failed to submit a form ahead of the June 1 candidate filing deadline.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
My dude. 300 data center moratoriums today. Legislation pending in DE, MD, MI, MN, NH, NJ, OK, PA, SC, SD, VT, VA, WI. Wouldn't encouraging the legislative body to listen to their constituents and regulate be the thing to do? We'll flag this as another sign of the AI bubble about to burst.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
I'd laugh at this nonsense of I didn't have a feeling it was precursor to a government bailout when the AI bubble bursts and "Super Intelligence," aka over-leveraged billionaire investments are suddenly too big, er.. too smart, to fail.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
Been in a cavalcade of meetings so just catching up on the Jack Smith highlight reel. Jack's a national hero. All Republicans on the so-called Judiciary Committee might be the stupidest people alive. Other than the sitting pResident anyway.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
Fantastic. Even if he'll be paying with dirty crypto money.
rawstory.com
Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice,...
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Do you?
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
Good point. It's never Healthcare Week.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/09/2026
Some good news in a generally not good news cycle.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026
He’s catatonic
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/09/2026
TODAY: I speak to the Secretary of State of Nevada Cisco Aguilar about what the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State is doing to prepare for Republican election interference in the midterms. ⚠️ There may be an F bomb or two. Free to listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
Legal MadLibs (feat. Cisco Aguilar, NV SecState)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · September 9 · 54m
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 04/09/2026
Perhaps one of the most impactful donations you can make. And yes, I too am inundated with requests, but this is a really important one.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
WHY IS THE USA INCAPABLE OF REMOVING AN OBVIOUSLY INSANE AND INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT? WHY?! 😎✨
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it *does* have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence. www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...
cbsnews.com
Video shows SpaceX Starship explosion at Texas launch site
A SpaceX Starship exploded​ at a launch site in Texas Wednesday night, bursting into a massive fireball.
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jackiefromtexas @jackiefromtexas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
All Congress members too...
Utah senator Mike Lee, keep your hands off our public lands.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 18/06/2025
“He had more guts and balls than you!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin just RIPPED INTO Hegseth for refusing to say whether Trump conveyed an order to shoot protesters—an order Trump's previous SecDef had the courage to reject. Leadership is saying NO to tyranny. Not saluting it.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
California National Guard members stationed in L.A. are currently at risk of being bored to death.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2025
Since yesterday, immigration and other law enforcement have inflicted terror and chaos on residents of LA. The leader of California's largest union was among those arrested for protesting ICE's cruelty. Congress must hold President Trump accountable and stop him from terrorizing our communities.
aljazeera.com
ICE launches ‘military-style’ raids in Los Angeles: What we know
More than 40 people arrested by immigration officials in ‘oppressive and vile paramilitary operation’, advocates say.
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Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...
dotmaetrix.neocities.org
A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Every place you see steel and aluminum is something that will go up in price from Trump’s new tariffs. Like soup cans.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth asks Ukraine’s Defense Minister how he executed the intricate plan leading to the destruction of one-third of Russia’s strategic bombers without talking about it on Signal.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 01/06/2025
The kids aren't the problem. At. All. The adults need to sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up and learn something from their kids. I say this from experience.
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Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander @goodlander.house.gov · 01/06/2025
Every American—every human being—deserves the promise of a life of dignity, security, and equality under the law to proudly love who you love and be who you truly are. That’s the promise of our Constitution, the spirit of Pride, and why I’ll never stop fighting in Congress to make it a reality. 🌈🇺🇸🌈
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 29/05/2025
'bout fucking time. Market manipulator in chief is gonna be soooo mad. 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Tariffs Ruled Illegal by Federal Judicial Panel
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
When ambition meets Murphy's Law: a modern political tale.
newsletter.samuel-warde.com
The World's Stupidest Wanna-Be Authoritarians
MAGA Morons: The Triumph of Mediocrity
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Most of the cronies Trump has placed “in charge” of critical agencies…did not have to learn to be stupid like Rubio and Bessent. Instead, they were chosen precisely because had established track records of being lazy, ignorant, incurious, and morally obtuse.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi...
publicnotice.co
A cabinet of dunces
In the Trump regime, incompetence is a job requirement.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 20/05/2025
Does anyone else remember a time when a central plot device on many television shows revolved around quicksand? 🤣
mirror.co.uk
Horror moment Brit tourist nearly swallowed alive by quicksand on beach
British holidaymaker Jensen Sturgeon got into trouble while digging a whole on Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, when he hit quicksand and needed to be rescued
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 16/05/2025
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands
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Danielle ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Republicans tank their own 'Big, Beautiful Bill' in House Budget Committee because they decided it didn't screw enough people. #SaveOurMedicaid
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/05/2025
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 09/05/2025
Holy shit. Six months of this bullshit.
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 08/05/2025
It sure does! Australia, Canada, the Papal Conclave! Who's next?
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 08/05/2025
Australia, Canada and now The Pope! Fuck around and find out, magats, you fascist authoritarian pieces of shit. We're taking it all the fuck back.
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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 07/05/2025
I see quid pro quo is back in style. #impeach www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
U.S. pushes nations facing tariffs to approve Musk’s Starlink, cables show
Some countries have turned to the satellite internet firm in preparation for trade talks, State Department staffers wrote. The U.S. has a strategic interest in countering Chinese internet providers, b...
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is just to say I have lost The F/A-18 Super Hornet That was on the USS Harry S. Truman And which You were probably saving For bombing Forgive me It was the second one So sweet And so expensive
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 06/05/2025
Rep. Sarah McBride is already a legend—and she’s not here to play. She was the 2nd House Dem to sign the discharge petition today to force a vote on the Hands Off Medicaid & SNAP Act. If GOP reps swear they’re not gutting care, they can prove it. Or shut up. @mcbride.house.gov
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Buttigieg: Like I love A1 steak sauce, but A1 steak sauce is not one of the most important things confronting humanity right now. Artificial intelligence is. And somebody who doesn't understand that probably should not be leading an important federal agency.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2025
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 07/05/2025
Has the US issued a statement about India - Pakistan relations? No? We're just talking about dolls, the Arabian Gulf and bad tariff metaphors? Great. What could possibly go wrong?
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 07/05/2025
The water that caused floods and destroyed crops while being nowhere near the fires? That water?
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 07/05/2025
They likely can't actually do this. Energy Star enjoys broad bipartisan support. But what the fuck?
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
does any thing normal ever happen any more is every thing just fuckin insane i am just asking
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Darrell Long @floopjack.com · 07/05/2025
They know this is a really shitty metaphor right? Holy fuck.
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