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Secular Misanthropy

@laereth.bsky.social
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compulsive systems thinker reject the myth of social hierarchy

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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Dale Walls @dalewalls1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Bears just got a new fan 👏
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
DILLEY DETENTION CENTER NUMBER 2 Call it a “staging facility” all you want. The contract says detention. There’s playground equipment behind the fence. And Dilley has already held children far beyond the roughly 20-day Flores limit. Now they’re building “Dilley 2.” We know what this is!
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our most self-defeating habit: When unable to punch up at their oppressors and exploiters, frustrated and unthinking people often punch horizontally and down, venting their rage onto their peers and those with even less power. From @salon.com's @c-cauterucci.bsky.social
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court just let Trump use a flawed database to purge voters. It was never built for elections. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Don Gato 🐱🐈‍⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nuevas imágenes del gato salvaje encontrado en Bolivia "Leopardus Tilcayo"😻🐆 New images of the wild cat found in Bolivia "Leopardus Tilcayo"😻🐆
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social #askpitchfork Nick, you and some guests occasionally talk about economic inequality as though some amount of inequality is required or desirable, just less than we have now. My impression is it isn't an argument about the unavoidable inequities in life... [1/3]
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They are spy cameras....not security Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials-- group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device
Flock claims that images are only briefly stored on its cameras before being forwarded to the company’s servers, but a group of hackers determined that this wasn’t the case.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Boston kicks out Flock
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Boston kicks out Flock
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Haiti is the singular instance of nationstate arising out of a slave rebellion. In hopes of preventing similar outcomes, rich white men have spent centuries ensuring 'Haiti' is a synonym for hell on earth. The only way the know they're "winning" is if all the rest of us are suffering.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Haiti is the singular instance of nationstate arising out of a slave rebellion. In hopes of preventing similar outcomes, rich white men have spent centuries ensuring 'Haiti' is a synonym for hell on earth. The only way the know they're "winning" is if all the rest of us are suffering.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How it started vs. how it’s going.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is insane!!! New: At the FBI, hiring prostitutes, stealing from your employer or engaging in acts of bestiality are no longer an automatic barrier to getting hired. www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-can...
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At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired
In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hasan Piker is the only thing corporate-captured Democrats want to talk about is b/c Piker is a bad messenger for progressivism. They want us to think of Piker when we think of leftists, so we won't think of professional political rock stars like Mayor Mamdani and AOC.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hasan Piker is the only thing corporate-captured Democrats want to talk about is b/c Piker is a bad messenger for progressivism. They want us to think of Piker when we think of leftists, so we won't think of professional political rock stars like Mayor Mamdani and AOC.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@mikemadrid.bsky.social, respect to you for a classical take on the Republican mancave. An genuine Lincoln portrait, walls that particular shade of red, a preponderance of books. 10/10
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#vichyjeffries
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Al Green’s brave actions will place him in a heroic light when history asks the question, “What did you do while tRump was destroying the US, starting wars, and locking up people in concentration camps without due process?” #ProudBlue #AlGreen #ImpeachConvictRemove thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Rep. Al Green files articles of impeachment against Trump again
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump on Monday, reviving his push to remove the president from office as Democrats debate how aggressively to confront …
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🦋 Lucy Burns 🦋 @lucyburns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Boom.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fascist language to take note of. July 2026, Secretary Rubio hosts a summit in Europe and speaks about the dire threat of far-left terrorism to the US and explicitly links non-existent US "Antifa" organizations with funding and direction from foreign countries. [1/6] www.c-span.org/program/publ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is primary election day in Tennessee, and we're all in for @justinjpearson.bsky.social. If you're in Tennessee, polls are open until 7:00pm CT / 8:00pm ET.
A photo of Justin J. Pearson smiling, speaking at a podium wearing a sharply pressed navy suit and colorful tie, with a red ribbon pinned to his lapel.
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Don Gato 🐱🐈‍⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don Gato esperando en la entrada de la tienda para pedir a la gente que le compren comida.🙀🙀🙀🙀😸😸😸😸 Top Cat waiting at the store entrance to ask people who understand him for food. 🙀🙀🙀🙀😸😸😸😸
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our transition into government by american taliban proceeds apace
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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 06/08/2026
Today, I'm introducing the first-ever Data Center Bill of Rights. Communities deserve the right to reject data centers, protect their water, keep electricity bills down, and prevent states from shoving data centers down their throats.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 06/08/2026
Labor's share of national income just hit a new low, meaning less of the economy's gains is going to workers and more is flowing to capital. That's especially troubling as the AI boom is already inflating corporate profits and putting downward pressure on wages.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: Trump's FCC just opened the floodgates for even worse media consolidation. That could mean billionaires buying more local TV stations to raise prices and control more of what you watch. Another Trump anti-monopoly nightmare.
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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As pointed out by biologist Anjali Goswami, cats are evolutionarily perfect.
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Antifascist but raging misogynist “ is not antifascist.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social The ambiguity of 'like' on social media is probably deliberate. Reduce the options to thumbs-up or down and any vote can be a wide range of motives, like Jen said. Creators, though, just see high 'like' counts without knowing the impetus, driving continued engagement.
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Have you ever struggled to open a door while carrying groceries and used a push-to-open button? Thank the Americans with Disabilities Act. While Disability Pride Month is wrapping up, the work of advocates benefits us year- round. Here’s more life-saving accommodations the ADA gave us. A thread🧵
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just imagining the relentless campaign of SAY YES, SAY YES @vanhollen.senate.gov staff is hopefully now hatching to persuade their employer to bring his moral clarity to real power is quite soothing. Don't let me down, staffers.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@reprashida.govpeeps.us's "You archived the "Know Your Rights", Russell. For Veterans!" is the fresh injection of fuck-you energy we all need from Dem reps. Call out the bullshit. @crockett.house.gov l of "I did NOT ask you a question" also offering classes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmb...
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'You Should Be Fired!': Rashida Tlaib Snaps After Russell Vought Says He Works For The President
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@reprashida.govpeeps.us's "You archived the "Know Your Rights", Russell. For Veterans!" is the fresh injection of fuck-you energy we all need from Dem reps. Call out the bullshit. @crockett.house.gov l of "I did NOT ask you a question" also offering classes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmb...
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'You Should Be Fired!': Rashida Tlaib Snaps After Russell Vought Says He Works For The President
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social re: 'pussy' Jen, you can say you aren't talking about vaginas, but you don't decide which definition your audience hears or interprets. Someone with your platform denying the misogyny of equating women's anatomy with weakness of character is dishonest. Do better.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social re: 'pussy' Jen, you can say you aren't talking about vaginas, but you don't decide which definition your audience hears or interprets. Someone with your platform denying the misogyny of equating women's anatomy with weakness of character is dishonest. Do better.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is legitimately wild, and very dark. Google is saying users will no longer be able search the actual internet, wikipedia and scientific journals and legit websites. Instead they will only offer access to AI chat bots, trained on nonsense and bad data. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨SNAP tracker update: Data through February is now available for all states. In the 7 months since H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last summer, we estimate that SNAP participation fell by more than 3.5 million people nationwide. cbpp.org/research/foo...
Did you know? The Republican megabill enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history in July 2025. By February, more than 3.5 million fewer people were receiving SNAP benefits.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 19/05/2026
The burden that survivors of Epstein's abuse carry isn't just emotional—it's also economic. Their bodies & dreams were violated, and so were their rights under the Crime Victims' Rights Act. While we push for accountability, restorative justice for survivors must be a priority.
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Secular Misanthropy @laereth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is legitimately wild, and very dark. Google is saying users will no longer be able search the actual internet, wikipedia and scientific journals and legit websites. Instead they will only offer access to AI chat bots, trained on nonsense and bad data. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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Luke ❌👑 @lukehklipp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My god. What have we done.
Global sea surface temperatures chart showing temps from 1982-2026, with this year’s temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1982-2011 average, and 0.3 degrees warmer than any other year at this time. The chart had to be expanded upward to include this year’s line.
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Nana Pat @misspatdi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Universal Basic Income - putting money into the hands of the poor will fix a hell of a lot of the problems in this society. It's even the most economically conservative way to help our country. Every dollar put into the hands of the poor goes back into the economy.
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