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Joshua McMinn

@jmcminn.bsky.social
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Software engineer, amateur photographer, retro arcade hobbiest, cat lover, and generally opinionated nerd. ;)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
3 wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, & Iran. 3 tax breaks to the rich: Bush, Trump, Trump $10 trillion cost to the debt. All Republican failures. They have caused the financial mess.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I used to BS my way through essays in college like this. “This passage could arguably be read as [some arrant nonsense]. If so, then [my thesis].
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dr. Fauci: "Get vaccinated." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Wear masks." Republicans: "No." Dr. Fauci: "Socially distance." Republicans: "No." (A million-plus Americans die from COVID.) Republicans: "Prosecute Fauci!"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Republicans have already bailed out farmers with $44.3 billion of our money over the past year because of Trump’s policies and now want to give them $11.1 billion more for a total of $55.4 billion but the vast majority vote Republican because they are against socialism.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
People deserve to be remembered for who they were. Lindsey Graham tried on many different skins and ultimately settled on the very worst version of himself. There were, at one point, a few shreds of something you could call principles--not many, but they existed. There were none at the end.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Andy Beshear should just steal mcconnell's senate seat the way mcconnell stole Obama's Supreme Court seat.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The allegations against Platner were disqualifying. He had to drop out. The difference between Platner and Trump is Platner was credibly accused by a victim — Trump was credibly accused by a victim AND found liable by a jury.
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Someone should be sentenced to 20 years in TDCJ based on what Texas has done in other cases….
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
100% this. youtube.com/shorts/HqG41...
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The same people voting for #trump were protesting free lunch years ago #politics #news #democracy
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/06/2026
The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“But I only voted for Trump to inflict pain & suffering on others. What gives?” -Greg Abbott
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I think it’s a safe bet Benjamin Netanyahu has a complete unredacted copy of the Epstein files.
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
One of thousands of reasons my only two words for every idiot that voted for him are a four letter word and “you”.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This cartoon isn't an exaggeration—not even 1% an exaggeration. Weeks ago it seemed this far-right Supreme Court would still block any map intentionally authored to be racist. We just learned that that's no longer true. We have reentered Jim Crow, and it's a national disgrace.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
In unusual deal, a $1.8 billlion fund that could help Trump allies is created. 
The agreement to end the Trump family’s lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority …
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#KangarooCourtOfTheUS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. It does not have to be like this.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Great question, fortunately it has an easy answer because they've repeatedly been in power in my lifetime The answer is that they'll be great for Wall Street, job growth, world peace, the environment, healthcare, and do exactly none of the things Nazis like Elon fearmonger about
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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 27/04/2026
Even if you assume for the sake of argument that the attack at that dinner was authentic, that the reflexive response was to seek a ballroom rather than do something about gun violence speaks extremely loudly
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You know… the NSF and USDA funds research into these kind of plant pathogens. Too bad the Trump administration has destroyed those research programs that could have helped here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m sure he does not think of this as trolling the American Christian right, but if a pope did decide to troll the American Christian right, it would probably look something like this.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
United States is tossing away the most important technologies of the 21st century because they aren’t racist enough
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Kasper Halttunen of the @sjbarracuda.bsky.social shoots the puck on goal versus Bakersfield on Fan Appreciation Night.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
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Joshua McMinn @jmcminn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I was seriously tempted to make the check out to and address the envelope to “Orange Shit Stain’s embezzlement and grift”.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No wonder Republicans love Hungary so much… 😕
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Rep. Paul Tonko @reppaultonko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide. For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump. Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...
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