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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The GOP is the party of drunk driving. The newspapers of record have taken the position that if the GOP favors drunk driving, it must be presented as a serious alternative to driving sober. This is how a civilization drives into the wall.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There's apparently no video today of Senator McConnell speaking to the press. The Fourth Estate is killing it. youtu.be/yubaEwyrIrI?...

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Game of Thrones - Reek Shaves Ramsay (4k)

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Those making excuses for Google on the naming of international bodies of water are still reckoning with the denial phase of grief. GNIS ought to be an apolitical reference, but it no longer is. We didn't expect to lose such things, but we have. To pretend we have not is to enable corruption.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Let us not mince words. The president of the United States is an evil man, dragging his country and the rest of the world into wickedness and misery.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Good. Alaskans have already demonstrated that they know how to spell.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On the off-chance that some day I decipher an ancient script, I promise not to git-filter-repo the evidence of how I reached my conclusions.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a key document for understanding this period of US History. No matter how many times Trump shows his ass, the courtiers at the Times and elsewhere empty the thesaurus to describe the stitching of his breeches.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Blowing off legal deadlines and obfuscating has generally worked for the administration. Many of the Epstein Files are still behind a tarp.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

He was roundly booed at Madison Square Garden, but insists he heard "mostly cheers". This is how he wants to count votes.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bluesky is a very good thing. Would it be better if it were bigger? Sure. But it can't be helped that the way power is structured in the world allowed a particularly awful person to take over the place that was bigger and remake it in his own image.

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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." "We are the ones we've been waiting for." "A lot of people don't know 'dumb' has a B."

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's an indictment of our times that one man with no expertise at all, only an emotionally-seated fixation, is empowered to drive policy. Utter madness.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In this Ohio diner, the parliamentarian still means George Clinton. But they do know this: if Trump builds his ballroom illegally, Congressional Democrats should just tear the roof off the sucker.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Seeing this, I wonder if Bezos has brought door desking to the Post.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is a cut and dried emperor's new clothes moment. That there is no attendant drumbeat to remove this man from office reveals the corruption and inanity of the political establishment and its courtiers who pass for journalists.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Excerpt from the book How Democracies Die.

"America's democratic norms, then, were born in a context of exclusion. As long as the political community was restricted largely to whites, Democrats and Republicans had much in common. Neither party was likely to view the other as an existential threat. The process of racial inclusion that began after World War II and culminated in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act would, at long last, fully democratization the United States. But it would also polarized it, posing the greatest challenge to established forms of mutual tolerating and forbearance since Reconstruction."

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I read journalists debating details of WHCA security, and I am reminded of the obsessive attention to tactics in discussions of the American Civil War, which is to say, ostensibly talking about something, but really creating a diversion to avoid addressing what actually matters.

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The president rarely has a rival when it comes to Dunning-Kruger, but this may be an exception: Affecting to school the literal Pope on theology as a recent convert. Make him walk to Canossa, father.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs. It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Mother advocates for sustainable clothing storage practices

Faye Dunaway as unhinged Joan Crawford in the famous "No Wire Hangers" scene.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Republicans are literally incapable of comprehending that the world doesn’t simply follow Trump’s orders the way that Republicans, or American CEOs, or Supreme Court justices do

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“the great story of our time” indeed Piercing thoughts from Michael Wood on the war with Iran michaelwood627.substack.com/p/iran-thoug...

1-The republic truly is dead. The American republic, I mean. Since election night 2024, I have seen clearly that the man who sent a mob to attack the first branch of government would govern like a king, and I was right. I've written this type of thing so many times and said it in person to so many people but, I'm sorry, it's the great story of our time: for all intents and purposes, we live under an elected (for now) monarch who makes tax, spending, and war decisions on his own by executive fiat and completely disregards Congress because he feels confident that no one will hold him to
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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If the savvy set who decry Bluesky as an "echo chamber" were being molded by ex-Twitter's algorithms— they would attribute their ideological drift to absolutely anything but the actual cause.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Republican Party has abandoned any semblance of allegiance to the constitution or the people. They could stop this farce today. Even in an overt monarchy, only slobbering sycophants would allow a mad king to loot his subjects like this.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It will be hard for people in the future to understand the stupidity that rules the moment. They will look for reasons, but this is not a time of reason. Those in the positions of greatest influence are malicious and corrupt or in the perennial business of apologizing for power.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We're so far beyond a constitutional order at this point. The barons of 1215 are having a good laugh at us.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The top echelons of political journalism are increasingly occupied by those who worship power and its exercise, unencumbered by other considerations.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Democracy dies in darkness (laudatory)

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Here's a better view of the now-deleted photo showing Trump with Epstein and Trump with a group of young girls. The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Why were a small number of people with patently bad intentions allowed to do so much damage? It wasn't long ago that such people were correctly excluded from respectable discourse. Hopefully the remaining free societies learn from this example.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 24/11/2025

“I think most Americans would be stunned to learn that international adoptees have not all been automatically granted the same status as their U.S. parents. Several grown adoptees have already been deported, including individuals who came to the United States as infants”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Trump’s special envoy Witkoff put his hand over his heart when Putin walked in the room. Like he’s reunited with a loved one. That really tells you all you need to know.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Maybe the analogy breaks here: The numerical result of a calculation is not just a representation, but the object itself. Expressions of language, on the other hand, are always representations.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Some day, if we're lucky, they'll make a movie about this and most everybody will believe that they would have taken the side of the postal worker.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

These are always fascinating, to think of the meetings and memos circulating before these changes. The first headline is direct about the founders timely warnings of abuse. The second is as banal as Trump finding a new putter.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It seems like October 29, 2016 might have been one of those hinges in history.

Screenshot of email from Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein dated October 29, 2016. Text: "There's an opportunity to come forward and talk about Trump in such a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?"

New York Times front page dated October 29, 2016. All above-the-fold stories about Hilary Clinton's emails in the last week of the campaign.

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

DirectTV did this just as the 16th inning started. 😐

A television screen displaying only the text: "There's no broadcast sitting at this time. Please visit the Guide for a full list of programming on this channel."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/10/2025

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"

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Riley @jbomukti.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

People want to believe there is a line that the newspapers will not cross as the trappings of representative government are dismantled. Evidence is mounting that there's no such line.

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