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Jack Burton

@jessejames1861.bsky.social
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Retired Fed. Espionage/crime novel addict. Lifelong martial artist. Gamer. Hockey/soccer/surfer dad. Rabid hater of injustice everywhere. No DMs, “dates”, porn, crypto, and the list continues to grow. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trans people and other endangered communities deserve better. They see you willingly sacrificing them for votes even as polls show the actual momentum is behind standing up for them. This isn't a game and people need to reject popularism and electoral punditry like the fucking poison they are.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯 “Feminism doesn’t hate men: it hates abusers, aggressors, sexists, misogynists, femicide perpetrators, pedophiles, and freeloaders. And good men aren’t bothered by this, because they hate them too.”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every centrist who hides behind "I don't like it but it's good strategy" when it comes to laundering genocide or sacrificing gay and trans and poor people or not fighting for vulnerable people or reproductive rights or social safety nets is in denial of their actual politics and ideology.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not sure what y’all are talking about, I think Mitch McConnell looks great, I hope I look half as good when I’m 175.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The whole dark fantasy of AI becoming a god is simply a neofeudal / neofascist mystification. Like peasants believing wars and pandemics and basic suffering is divinely controlled, we’re supposed to buy into sci-fi nightmares that further alienate us from how systems of power actually work.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 17/09/2026
Ban members of Congress from trading stocks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Puppet News @puppetnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commemoration is a chance to reflect. Americans in power will try to use this anniversary to say that everything happened exactly as it had to, and that we should bow our heads rather than use them. We went along twenty-five years ago. We should not do so again. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Solidarity w my fellow Caribbean people. We’re here and they’re not getting rid of us
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bwaah 🤣🤣🤣💥
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was just thinking about how I’d like to see one of the Dem 2028ers do a speech like Obama’s race oration, just on how the GOP is corrupt and illegitimate. Lay it all out and tell the world that the bipartisan era is, for the time being, a dead letter.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fetterman is only in the senate because Dems in PA and nationally had his back when he was incapable of campaigning. And now, with all the things Trump is doing, he dedicates all his time and energy (which isn’t much) incoherently trashing Dems on Fox & Newsmax every single day.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Justice Alito's delayed financial disclosure report for last year his been posted. Confirmation that, as of 2025, he's still holding on to oil & gas stocks ahead of the big climate change case being heard in October.
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@redriverdog @redriverdog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thomas Massie speaking the truth once again.
Thomas Massie
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Son on the USS Lincoln, father in ICE detention. The son suffering during a senseless war abroad, the father suffering during a sadistic war on ourselves. www.atfkw.com/p/navy-sailo...
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Navy Sailor’s Father Detained in Key West Immigration Operation
Joshua Aviles Castillo was completing his ninth month aboard the embattled USS Abraham Lincoln when he learned that federal immigration authorities had detained his father.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And, again, you cannot stop oligarchs and fascist control leading to further consolidation of capital through moderate attempts to "work with" them. That only ensures the project will continue and even accelerate. If you don't believe it, just look at what's happened and what's happening now.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 12/08/2026
She removed chiefs. Annulled more than 3,500 child marriages. Sent girls back to school. They called the late Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto “The Terminator” of child marriages. Thousands of girls got their childhoods and futures back. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Photo of Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto of Malawi seated in traditional attire. Text reads: “The first female chief of Malawi ended more than 3,000 child marriages and raised the legal marriage age to 18.”
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Feels like a good time to remind folks that the text of the Constitution explicitly provides for legislative privilege. It says nothing about judicial or executive privilege. So, naturally, the courts have found that judicial privilege is the strongest, then executive, then legislative.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CNN producer: El-Sayed is projected to win. Quick, get the biggest fucking loser you can find on air
John Fetterman looking like a dipshit loser on CNN
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Corporate media in the age of monopolization isn’t worried about ratings or views, those are secondary to appealing to oligarchs and corporations who will supplement lost viewership in order to ensure control of mainstream discourse and the information diet of politicians and parties
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He's a moron. He's always been a moron. You're a moron for voting for him.
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Tim Williams Art @timwilliamsart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I love that both Musk and Zuckerberg seem to be in free fall. We have to get Bezos on that trajectory.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Over the past 10 years, the misogyny of the manosphere has become more open and strident, but the big innovation seems to have been combining that conspiratorial misogyny with earnest self-help advice. Heartbreak and rejection leave people emotionally vulnerable, and the manosphere pitch often comes paired with benign advice about standing up for yourself, being mentally tough, or becoming physically active. But getting yourself together with the expectation that soon everyone you meet will be forced to respect you inevitably leads to disappointment.

When that disappointment sets in, the manosphere has an explanation: Can’t find a girlfriend? It’s because women who make their own living can no longer be forced into marrying guys they don’t like. Can’t find a job? It’s because undeserving women and minorities are being picked instead of you, even though you’re better. Feel bad about yourself? It’s because our feminized society deprived you of a life of meaningful toil, military adventure, and elevated social status. It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Generation Z
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/07/2026
Financial disclosures show that Susan Collins was taking checks from some of the men named in Epstein Files.
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More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered
Collins took money from men on the Epstein list before voting against releasing the files
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Young skater refuses to quit until he lands the perfect trick. Hundreds of failed attempts, one defining moment. That is skateboarding.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Answering doubters. www.offmessage.net/p/the-doom-l...
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 17/07/2026
By defying Congress, Trump has again disregarded constitutional limits on war, underscoring the need for firmer congressional action, write @bcfinucane.bsky.social (Brian Finucane) and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social (Tess Bridgeman).
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How Congress Can End Trump's Iran War and Prevent the Next One
By defying Congress, Trump has again disregarded constitutional limits on war, underscoring the need for firmer congressional action.
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commanderkiddie.bsky.social @commanderkiddie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 14/07/2026
Thank you, Bab! 💙 @knighthawk899.bsky.social @larrycolvin.bsky.social @chauncey8581.bsky.social @lillians.bsky.social @milliekitkat.bsky.social @trickemhunter.bsky.social @hunho7.bsky.social @beantownbop.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.lol
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Los Angeles Dodger Kiké Hernández has decided not to attend the team's visit to the White House.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
NY Times exec editor Joe Kahn in 2024: "It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second."
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Joe Kahn: ‘The newsroom is not a safe space’
The New York Times’ executive editor said the paper is a “pillar” of democracy but not a tool of power.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/07/2026
Mitch McConnell was complicit in fascism. He destroyed the US Senate and stole Supreme Court seats. Let's not pretend otherwise. If you're a Democrat who doesn't want to call it like it is, how about you stay silent instead? Just like you do on genocide, anti-Muslim & anti-Black violence.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2026
NEW: FIFA has suspended the red card suspension of USMNT’s Folarin Balogun! He will play Monday against Belgium! www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
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Folarin Balogun available for USMNT vs. Belgium as red card ban suspended
Balogun was set to be suspended for Monday's game at Lumen Field in Seattle but is now free to be selected.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
My wife when I tell her that I just got an 11 AM tee time on Saturday, and she'll need to watch the kids. 😂
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2026
this guy has it
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You better believe we will take back the House, we will issue subpoenas, and we will continue to fight for justice. Full stop.
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Michael Pacholek @michaelpacholek.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Fox put their camera on John Terry. One of the most contemptible athletes of all time.
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
💯. The warrior ethos was embraced by the U.S. military in an era in which the U.S. lost two wars. The reasons for losing were many. But the soldier as warrior is not just fundamentally un-American but fundamentally astrategic.
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REPUBLICANS ALWAYS LIE @maga-lies.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@ms.now Cowardly Democratic Party losers keep attacking Platner. The same assholes who retired Al Franken w/out hearings because he clowned around (as a comedian) in a “sexually-suggestive” manner with a false friend who became a MAGA operative. Meanwhile there’s Paxton! Trump! Scott! Collins! BS! 🖕
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Listen, I was born poor and rural. My high school mascot was a literal hillbilly. I understand white trash culture. I can say with complete confidence that this is white trash culture. 
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