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@jbshakerman.bsky.social
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Democracy Today. Democracy Tomorrow. Democracy Forever. Read a lot, write a bit, help wife, love kids, pet cats, play klezmer. Retired. Slava Ukraini. Save the Republic. Fire Husted. (No DMs please.)

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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
AI crowding out housing investment is another reason for short supplies and higher rents and home prices, according to chart in Paul Krugman's column today.
Bar chart shows construction spending is up 64.5% for data centers but down nearly 10 percent for single and multifamily housing according to data in Paul Krugman's October 11 column.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This just in. Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy can't be pro-business if he's only pro-really really big business.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyone else feel like Specter is accelerating Project Scorpio?
Adolfo Celi as the bad guy in Thunderball with Sean Connery.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Justice imitates art.
Pseudolos the slave admits he’s not impervious to his own pain.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pro tip: Copying talking points from Ming the Merciless is widely considered a bad move in diplomatic circles.
Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980).
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once again investors are convincing themselves they can make more money by ignoring Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae rules and buying mortgages that charge borrowers lower fees to cover future losses. We saw this show before. The final season brought the house down in 2008. Remember?
Foreclosure sale sign from 2008 housing crisis.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Butlerian Jihad Now!
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How about something like this?
Scene from Spinal Tap showing miniature Stonehenge next to performer.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump: "Me? I'm giving away free money. But where is the Batman?"
Jack Nicholson as the Joker giving cash away.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Aliens -- tough woman leads workers to victory against ultra-vicious corporate thugs.
Poster for Aliens with Sigourney Weaver holding Newt, lone survivor of Alien outbreak on space colony.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No doubt Trump figures he should keep the $400m rather than waste it on candidates who will probably lose anyway. Can you blame him? Refusing to invest more capital on slipping talent, products or divisions is what it means to run government like a business.
"You're fired" written across a picture of Trump.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Why try to change Lake Ontario's name when you're losing a war to Iran, terrorizing families, vandalizing your government, and ruining your country's reputation?
Don Draper quote: "If you don't like what is being said, change the conversation."
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trey Gowdy, refugee from . Metaluna
Metaluna citizen from This Island Earth.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Apple Maps still operates in the real world.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Signs of the times.
Grease board at art camp announcing Thursday’s Improv class was canceled because it took place on Tuesday.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trump all-in on steam punk navy.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I so overestimated our power to stop history’s worst from re-infecting our times.
Side-by-side of Haitian woman 
wearing US ankle monitor and Jewish man wearing Yellow Star proscribed by Nazi Germany.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
July 20 1969.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nobody, I mean nobody but Mel Gibson was born to play Rocky the Flying Rooster. God bless his heart.
Poster of Rocky the Flying Rooster from Chicken Run.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Trump is always copying Hitler. Can’t wait for the bunker scene.
Nazi propaganda picture of Frederick the Great, Bismarck, and Trump’s favorite bedtime reading author.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Did you know 100 years ago J.R. Brinkley made a fortune transplanting goat testes into impotent men? We should pray SecDef doesn’t mandate this for service members.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The touch of Trump
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump vs Davros: who wore it better?
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
GOP — Higher Prices! More Wars!
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Freddie Mc’s net income jumped 61% in the second quarter (YOY) despite the GOP openly targeting the GSE for extinction since 2008. www.freddiemac.com/investors/fi...
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trump wasting taxpayer dollars buying Cadillacs to doll up DC in his own special way.
Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo Texas
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What could go wrong?
Cylon firing weapon on 2004 episode of BSG.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hegseth unveils America’s new super-T weapon.
Man using unusual appliance on recent Tucker Carlson special about  testosterone.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
McConnell photo.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Two games!!! Britain needs to kick this into high gear and bring in their top cat, Larry, to overturn the red card.
Larry the Downing Street Cat.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Waymo?
Return of the Jedi’s Admiral Ackbar saying “It’s a trap”.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium 4 USA 1
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Dessert, Congressman?
Marie Antoinette with a piece of cake before the shit hit the fan.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
FWIW- July 4 is the 200th anniversary of the passing of Presidents and Founders John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. I’m sure they would join us in wishing #8647 and stand with all who stand against monarchy.
Founders John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died 200 years ago on July 4, 1826.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Trump, SCOTUS and the GOP have turned America into the Fyre Festival. Biggest failure of all time.
After promising a world class party for the rich, the Fyre Festival delivered a remote- island disaster.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Iran takes control of Strait of Hormuz?
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
WA satisfying Juneteenth to all who celebrate the end of chattel slavery in the United States and appreciate a federal holiday untarnished by discount sales.
Juneteenth paraders on horseback carrying American Juneteenth flag
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For decades the GOP brand has been “the party of grown up competence” for managing the nation’s affairs. Thanks to Trump, the GOP brand is choking daily on algae. as well as Iran, global retreat, Constitutional decay, and rampant criminality in the ranks.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Iran will keep the Strait open to toll-payers as long as the US muzzles Israeli aggression.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Or how far the blowhard has fallen since 2017.
Trump rudely shoves his way past the leader of Montenegro at a 2017 photo shoot.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cheung related to the ButterBean (aka Eric Esch)?
Boxer Eric Esch, aka the ButterBean
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
GOP and Techbros (aka “break things fast”) contempt for America’s heritage is doctrinal and bottomless. Wall Street’s, on the other hand, is entirely mercenary.
Ernie Hudson wearing suit saying “If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say”.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
KNICKS win. Trump nowhere near MSG.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Straight out of Interzone
An insectoid inhabitant of InterZone from Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news in the era of Trump.
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jbshakerman.bsky.social @jbshakerman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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