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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Fifth Amendment only exists if you have an R next to your name, apparently.

Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Marxists are just leftwing Christians who spend all day praying for armageddon rather than feeding poor people. They would rather let a thousand children starve, so long as it ushers in the A̴p̴o̴c̴a̴l̴y̴p̴s̴e̴ revolution and the k̴i̴n̴g̴d̴o̴m̴ ̴o̴f̴ ̴h̴e̴a̴v̴e̴n̴ dictatorship of the proletariat

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, so the 1 dollar donut from Jake's Pup in the Ruff is the reason I'm poor. See, I thought it was because AI & Indeed have destroyed the ability of laborers to find employment that aligns with their skill and experience, but apparently it was actually just the weekly donut.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My favorite thing about climate change is that I've always wanted to live through the bronze age collapse, and now I know my dream is coming true.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This was, without exaggeration, the single most devastating single piece of writing I have ever read in my life.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here's a question: how do we, as young people, plan our lives in the face of an impending global collapse?

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This reminds of Toronto vs Chicago, when it comes to public transit. Chicago has much better coverage, but it carries a fraction of the riders. Toronto runs trains more often, has a safer system, runs on time, etc.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I wrote an article about the way our government and media are sweeping the COVID pandemic under the rug. "We all lived it. Would we have forgotten so quickly if bombs were falling? ... Are blood and guts the only measure of a disaster’s worthiness?" samwritingoutloud.substack.com/p/they-want-...

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They want you to forget it ever happened

Big brother is trying to memory-hole COVID-19

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

But building more housing would raise the value of their property. It's a pretty basic economic reality that the networking effect drives up the price of land, which is the part of your home that's always the most expensive. More people = more productivity = higher land values.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Climate change started hammering us years ago. Remember Hurricane Helene? A hurricane so huge it physically could not suck up any more water from the Gulf of Mexico? What we can do now is mitigate the damage and stop it from being 10 times worse for our children.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This seems like a running pattern for Green Parties in practically every country.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What kind of evil scum-fuck wants to profit off the deaths of cancer patient?

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's something so cathartic about a politician that actually roasts these weirdos like they deserve.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don't understand why people are so dogmatically opposed to building more housing.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've never understood why we don't do this by default.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is just objectively true. Why is this treated like some kind of debate? The question isn't "is climate change killing us?" The question is "what do we do about it?"

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The demon engine has consumed 10 more children today. If only there were an alternative to feeding it more children! Certainly transportation was impossible before the demon engine rescued us from having to walk a quarter mile to the grocery store!

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is the kind of shit that North Korea does when Kim Jong Un catches the flu and doesn't want anyone to know

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At this point, I'm convinced that cars are some kind of enchanted demon engine that robs people of their humanity the moment they step inside.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kinda seems like the solution to transit-funding is just broad-based upzoning. Replace SFH zoning with three-flats by-right, and bada-bing bada-boom.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They're not "getting into the foothills" they've been pissing on the First Amendment for the last two years.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kinda crazy that people want to downplay the significance of winning when you're being outspent 10-to-1. It's a pretty well-documented fact of Political Science that money is usually the single biggest variable for winning elections, with only incumbency mattering as much

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Everything I don't like is neoliberal and everything I do like is Leftist. Simple as. /s

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The cruelty is the point...

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

More on the medical theme: modern medicine is basically science fiction. 30+ years ago, certain diseases were a death sentence. Now most forms of cancer are treatable and you can live a normal life with AIDS. Its to the point that if Breaking Bad released today, Walter's lung cancer would be curable

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wow, what a shocker: people actually go to the theater when you make good movies. Who'd have thunk?

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Alternatively: maybe we can just not turn our busses into billboards? Maybe have at least one space in society not devoted to shoving a product down your throat? Just maybe?

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why is this the case with literally every app and website? It's infuriating

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't know what I would do with myself 😭

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Why do they even bother to report this stuff anymore? At least wait until the deal is actually confirmed before you write a headline about it

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I literally cannot fathom being this reliant on AI to function. Like, even if you use AI, wouldn't it be as like a robo-coworker? What are you doing all day if you just order ChatGPT to do your job for you?

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

People really don't get how easy it is to die a million different ways before you turn ten. Even before you're born, just flip through the obstetrics section of an EMS textbook and you'll find twenty different ways to die before you ever see the sun for the first time. Modern medicine is a miracle.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

With how much the world is destabilizing, I feel like the ability to integrate refugees is going to be massive for any country's success moving forward. It's crazy that 'don't be racist' feels like such a huge ask right now

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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Extremely funny possibility that our racist American Asses win the 21st century because we somehow managed to only be Average Chicago Ethnic White level racist and not Nathan Bedford Forrest level racist

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I hate that it's basically impossible to build these kinds of homes today. All anybody thinks about is high-rise condos and single-family homes. The historical norm is to build relatively small multi-family homes with family-style apartments, the dichotomy between apartments and houses is artificial

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The crazy thing is that these banks often act as regulatory agents in their own right. A variety of rightwing activist groups use credit card processors to censor any kind of media they don't like, from NSFW video games to LGBT content.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is an excellent piece about the parasociality of online politics. Your favorite podcaster is not a revolutionary, they are an entertainer. It's easy to forget that when we refuse to touch grass. #USPOL www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Dp...

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I'm about done with "political content"

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some of my favorite shots of Ravenswood, Chicago. A quiet little town in its own right, right in the middle of the Northside. Neighborhoods like this are why Chicago feels like 70 smaller towns all duct taped together. #urbanism #chicago #fuckcars

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People are willingly opting into the panopticon and calling it convenience

Image of a prison with a single guardpost in the middle, called a panopticon. A beam of light represents the guard watching the prisoners through the bars of their cells. Although the guard can't watch anyone at once, the prisoners are nonetheless forced to remain under constant threat of surveillance, with all privacy stripped away by the possibility and inevitability of the prison guard's gaze.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For real! who tf has the money to abandon their whole life and move to another country 😭

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surprising absolutely nobody, it turns out that cops hate trans people

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So glad I live in a city with health clinics specifically for queer people. Howard Brown Health unironically saved my life

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Update: Did not live up to the hype. Solid 6/10. Typical Nolan movie with the pacing of a Mr. Beast video and color palette of an emo teenager's first comic strip. Phenomenal cinematography and action scenes. Penelope & Calypso were robbed of all agency, and Odysseus was a generic American war hero.

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wrote an article about the way that colonization transformed the land itself. Link below. samwritingoutloud.substack.com/p/what-did-i...

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What did it mean to colonize America?

How the land itself was destroyed

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is what people wanted. They watched Trump launch an insurrection and lead the most corrupt administration of the 21st Century, and then they decided they wanted more. I can't decide if it's because the disinformation was just that good, or the average American just likes the chaos

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Sam Mobley @jakemobley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It took us a while, but we're getting there. Solarpunk, here we come.

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