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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 51m

We're already monetizing everything, and we're already doing corruption in everything, but what I propose to you is this: what if we monetize the corruption

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1h

Really missin' old Bobby Jenks today

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 6h

How badly can a country lose a war? Let's all find out together

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

"pete hegseth's idea of a smart guy" is such a brutal own

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 7h

Become a writer, kids, it's rich and rewarding work

A summary of my royalties for the first book I wrote. Zero copies sold, zero dollars made in the last six months. Becoming a crossing guard was the best career move I ever made

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning! It is September 30th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Special Services Day. Salute those who meet social needs! We celebrate the freshwater drum, aplodinotus grunniens. Angie Dickinson was born today in 1931; James Dean died on this day in 1955.

A freshwater drum fish swims in an aquarium with rocks and green foliage.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago! Come to this! It's gonna be good, it's open to all, and it's at the best beer joint going!

SHOP TALK: Independent Political Action. How should socialists approach electoral politics? What is a "Dirty Break" and why should DSA plan for one to happen with the Democrats? Join Chicago Bread & Roses for an open discussion on these questions and more. Open to all - we want to hear your thoughts! Sunday, October 4th, 6pm-8pm @ Beermiscuous (2812 N Lincoln Ave). RSVP to attend

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago! Come to this! It's gonna be good, it's open to all, and it's at the best beer joint going!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

I take no pleasure in the Lynx getting routed by the Liberty, but I did have a pretty strong suspicion it was gonna happen. Once you get all the concrete mismatch stuff out of the way, the Liberty are a team that absolutely fucking hates to lose and in the playoffs, that counts for a lot

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The bosses have made it perfectly clear what they expect out of AI and what they want to get out of it and yet there are still people on 'the left' who think we can use it for good

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I literally cannot imagine what would make someone pay premium prices to get courtside seats for a playoff game and then talk shit right in front of the best player alive. I just can't put myself in that headspace

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can pay for a league pass in any sport and still not be able to watch regular or playoff games, thank heaven for people putting up bootleg streams on YouTube

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love this

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Munetaka Murakami on how he deals with high pressure situations like the postseason:

"I think it’s important to just be honest with yourself about how you’re feeling in that moment. If you’re nervous, I don’t think you need to force yourself to not be nervous. And if you’re feeling the pressure, you don’t need to convince yourself that you’re not. What’s most important is to recognize and sort through those feelings, even while you’re out there on the field, and still be able to compete calmly. More than anything, I think it’s about trusting the preparation you’ve put in and everything you’ve experienced and fought through over the past year, and just continuing to do that without changing anything. That’s what I think is most important.”

#WhiteSox

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every day people whose brains have been completely boiled by social media are dripping with unjustified entitlement and moral superiority, and every one of them thinks they're "doing politics". It does no good to point out that they are mistaken, it's like telling a fish they're surrounded by water

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are a lot of hilariously stupid AI commercials but the one where the old guy running a pizza parlor asks Copilot to help him figure out how to sell a dollar slice might be the hilariously stupidest

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This should have around 4k likes already, you people don't know funny

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Me when I have to go to a DSA meeting after eating too many carbs

A screenshot from the 1990s JEEVES AND WOOSTER series featuring a balding, older socialist with a gray mustache. He's wearing a brown jacket and round spectacles andsaying "Comrade Butt yearns for the revolution just like you do."

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chicago friends, there are a TON of great @chicagodsa.bsky.social events coming up this week, and I'd really love for you to come to any or all of them! Even if you don't usually come to DSA stuff, these are all really great for first-timers, the curious, or casuals. Please come if you can! (1/5)

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing that gives the game away about protecting young white men from the consequences of their behavior in the name of their "potential" is that it only applies to them

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good morning! It is September 29th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Mutual Aid Day. Reciprocal support builds community! We celebrate the sycamore, platanus occidentalus. Carmen Delgado Votaw was born today in 1935; Madalyn Murray O'Hair died on this day in 1995.

An American sycamore tree with green leaves and white bark, set against a blue sky with white clouds.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another day, another blocking spree of people saying "the genocide we didn't care about two years ago has gotten worse and it's your fault"

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My wife just read AS I LAY DYING for the first time and I am very excited about it

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here are five songs about Texas that are better than the one Rolling Stone wants you to feel bad about not knowing. If you have never heard these before you live in a bubble and you should feel bad, or alternately Venmo me twelve dollars BigXthaPlug, "Texas"

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BigXthaPlug - Texas (Official Music Video) | NEW ALBUM OCT 30

YouTube video by BigXthaPlug

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are plenty of reasons to doubt what is shaping up to be the 'official story' about RAF Fairford: the suspects are British nationals, they're out on bail, it's being called a "terrorist incident" even though nothing happened and no one was hurt, the only real sources are state ones, etc. But!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's Movie Monday on the blog. There are many people - some of them claiming to be Coen brothers fans - who dislike 2016's HAIL, CAESAR!, to date the last big-screen feature they've made as a duo. I am not one of those people.

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Serving Up These Lollipops - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

As often as the Coen brothers are referred to as pastiche artists, their films tend to be pretty thematically consistent, with the genre-bending taking place more on the level of...

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning! It is September 28th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Maritime Day. We all depend on the world's waters! We celebrate the roseate spoonbill, platalea ajaja. Koko Taylor was born today in 1928; Miles Davis died on this day in 1991.

A roseate spoonbill, a large bird with a flat spoon-like bill and white, red, and pink feathers, perches on a log.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It used to be that when I got up in the morning there were a lot of people outside the US on my timeline going "oh dear what have the Americans got up to now" These days they're all like "well our government has just outlawed sitting down" Fun times for all of us, I'd say

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning! It is September 27th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Vegetarian Day. Try a meat-free meal! We celebrate the Carolina rose, rosa carolina. Angélica María was born today in 1944; Babe Didrikson Zaharias died on this day in 1956.

A Carolina rose shrub with bright green leaves and a lovely pink and yellow flower against a blue sky with white clouds.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good afternoon! It is September 26th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Public Safety Day. Our good health is everyone's responsibility! We celebrate the Olympic marmot, marmota olympus. Serena Williams was born today in 1981; Assata Shakur died on this day in 2025.

A small marmot with brown fur chews on a plant stem in a green grassy field filled with colorful flowers.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

With the MLB postseason about to begin, it's good to remember that it's always someone's first year getting into baseball. I therefore present the following guide if you're new to the sport and are wondering what your long-term rooting interest should be.

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For the Home Team - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

With the Major League Baseball playoffs coming up, that can only mean one thing: only one more month of manic-depressive obsessing over baseball! But not everyone is like me, hardened...

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good afternoon! It is September 25th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Extended Family Day. Embrace your relatives, however distant! We celebrate the American beech, fagus grandifolia. William Faulkner was born today in 1897; Ring Lardner died on this day in 1933.

An American beech tree with greenish-gold leaves in a forest.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good afternoon! It is September 24th in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate International Socialism Day. Build solidarity across the globe! We celebrate the bluefish, pomatomus saltatrix. Jim Henson was born today in 1936; Dr. Seuss died on this day in 1991.

A bluefish, a large seawater fish with silver and blue scales, swims in the ocean.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recent Developments have led me to believe it's time to Get Off the Internet for a few days. It's a simple thing to do! More people should try it every once in a while

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good morning! It is September 23rd in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate the Fall Equinox. Welcome autumn! We celebrate the sweet birch, betula lenta. John Lomax was born today in 1867; Bob Fosse died on this day in 1987.

A sweet birch tree with gold-yellow leaves in a grove.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have learned a lot from being on the left a long time, and the hardest lesson - and the one well-intentioned people have the hardest time recognizing, internalizing, and acting on - is that wreckers (intentional or otherwise) are real and you have to figure out how to deal with them

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pretty nice seats for a Sky game with my gal

Kamilla Cardoso of the Chicago Sky goes up for a basket against the Toronto Tempo

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Too broke to have sex" is the biggest skill issue I've ever seen

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Going in front of the UN and wondering if you should genocide a country while simultaneously preparing devastating economic sanctions against the only international body that can do anything about it is the kind of baller move you can only pull off in a capitalist 'liberal democracy', kudos to us

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good morning! It is September 22nd in the United Socialist States of America. Today we commemorate Diary Day. Preserve your thoughts for posterity! We celebrate the little egret, egretta garzetta. John Coltrane was born today in 1926; Frederic Jameson died on this day in 2024.

A little egret, a bird with long black legs and white feathers with yellow shading around its eyes and a long beak, stands in the water near a riverbank.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's funny that Seth Rogen owns a company that sells THC beverages that deliver a 3mg dose. Seth Rogen has not had less than 30mg of THC in his system in this century. That guy has more than 3mg in his normal bloodstream at all times

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The most blackpilling part of the last 10 years is that every liberal party in the industrialized ‘western’ world has embraced austerity, immigration restrictionism, and anti trans bigotry and it has objectively been a complete failure and their only idea is to just keep doubling down.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry, I refuse to recognize the second brain. Most people weren't even using it when it was just one organ, this is like being excited your boss bought a fourth house

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Herr Donkey Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Speaking of Columbo (and always speaking of comics), I mocked these up on Tumblr right about when the podcast was wrapping up. Although he's cameo'd in a few comics, it's unfortunate to say that Columbo never starred in a comic strip of his own. I'm proud of the story titles and the fake NBC brand.

A fake Columbo comic book cover from Gold Key publishing. The title is COLUMBO and in captions it reads: It's canine calamity when Dog is the only witness to a shocking pet salon murder! Don't miss COLUMBO FOR DOG-CATCHER!" There are inset photos of Peter Falk as Columbo and his dog, Dog.

A fake Columbo comic book cover from Gold Key publishing. The title is COLUMBO and in captions it reads: "A murdering minister has a sinister proposal for Columbo when DEATH CHEATS THE BRIDE" There is an inset photo of Peter Falk as Columbo, and a corner of the comic is missing.

A fake Columbo comic book cover from Gold Key publishing. The title is COLUMBO and in captions it reads: "TV's disheveled detective matches wits with a cowboy killer. THE OLD-WEST MOVIE MURDERS!" There is an inset photo of Peter Falk as Columbo.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trudging through inches of viscous mud to see a 95-year-old man do bad metal covers Rock and roll will truly never die

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