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The Prodigal Carpetbagger

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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At last, I've discovered it! A coherent definition of the South that includes Wisconsin and Illinois and excludes Virginia and Florida! The Census Bureau will be overjoyed!
A map of the United States where Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Maryland are colored red
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The offending salmon:
An older white dude in a camo jacket holds a massive king salmon. Like truly a big honking fish, probably 4 feet long, a titan of the sea.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The hardest age to teach is 4th grade and the hardest K-12 subject to teach is PE you can't change my mind
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Account books are the first draft of history
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whenever your parked car gets smashed beyond usefulness, remember that the other driver's phone buzzed and there was a tiny chance it was a life-or-death emergency
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I feel like it's undersold that Bleeding Kansas was initially some (mostly unsuccessful) northern small business owners and farmers vs. an organized militia led by a former fucking US Senator
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gavin Newsom has never met a flim flam scam that he doesn't want to crush into a fine powder and snort off his desk
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The new ChatGPT ads really highlight how useless it is as a search engine and how great it is at reflecting back the things I'm saying to me so I feel less lonely
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
People are responding to this like I'm not joking and wasn't in a Rush-themed high school drumline for literal years of my life. Polyrythms nearly killed me I know they exist!!!
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My cat knows I'm reading a horror novel and has decided to set the mood by being extra scary. Like she's never snuck up behind me to boop the back of my neck before, but she's done it twice in the last hour and also screamed like a human baby from the dark kitchen. What an asshole
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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Roosevelt and Truman wanted the Soviets to join the Pacific war. The August offensive in Manchuria was the culmination of that diplomatic effort. Do people just not know this or…?
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
God's love became obscure and in revenge the Dutch invented capitalism
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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
you know I think I can believe these heartless swamp germans invented capitalism
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I genuinely hate this administration and everyone that's worked to make it possible beyond what can be put into words or actions. Like I could scrub them from the earth like a stain out of my shirt and I'd still be mad
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lyndon Johnson mentioned!
Passage from Twilight of the Gods by Ian Toll referencing Lyndon Johnson's involvement in congressional procurement for building a naval pilot training station in Corpus ChristiRick Dalton pointing at himself in the movie Once Upon A Time in Hollywood which I have mixed feelings about
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You know the part of Henry VIII's reign where a huge portion of the country is just like waiting around tapping their watches wondering when this fuck is finally going to die of his many diseases? Yeah.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I really don't understand the pathological commitment of so many to dying in office
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I appreciate movies and shows now always showing me they take place either before or after 2020-2021. The bad years were a lie and never happened. Thank you for reminding me
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've been really beating myself up in a pretty mean way for forgetting to take my antidepressants yesterday, which I think is a sign they work
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Most adults don't know this trick for lower back pain but if you call the central banks who have been buying gold the hot single MILFs in your area will explain it to you
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A happy 4th of July to my ancestors who came to the US to escape either political or criminal persecution, and a dogshit 4th of July to those who would prevent people from coming to the US to escape criminal or political persecution. You are deeply anti-American, this country is for everyone
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"God strikes down the evil antichrist president with the literal heat of hell on the Fourth of July" is some Left Behind bullshit I didn't expect to be rooting for
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Please god it would be so funny
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Disclosure Day was just...bad. Like not even interesting bad, it just feels like the rough draft of a movie
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Not being someone who will ever get to retire at 62 and who has to be in person with their kids every day I really have trouble sympathizing with the plight of the poor mistreated California state workers
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think it's funny when my fellow Americans who like AI compare it to cars vs. horses. Like can you *imagine* a world where Americans cling to an outdated transportation technology beyond all logic or reason and to the massive detriment of tbe country? How silly!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
the democratic rank and file is being arrested for posting newspaper articles and getting 50 year sentences for distributing zines and democratic leadership is more concerned with their friends getting primaried than any of it
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I feel like we keep getting sent a message
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Lucy @leftliblucy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We will never have any hope of moral progress until we declare that the republic is about more than luxury real estate and influencer culture. We must reject the opiate of domination for the purifying hardship of Commonwealth and liberty for all. Feel the bite of the morning wind. Live.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Followed a family wedding with a road trip to Appomattox and a few other sites, then demolished a deck while listening to a podcast about World War 2 in the Pacific
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Disclosure Day was...bad. Very weird pacing, no character development or setup so I felt like I missed the first 20 minutes, bad effects, throwing around smart-sounding terms that don't mean what the characters think they do constantly, and a plot that could have been an email
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
My last bitter comment re: my state's gubernatorial race Anyone complaining about a Becerra v Steyer primary wasting money should look at the CA party's FEC filings under the current machine Becerra ended up being the candidate for because ummm
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"American food isn't good" and yet I make Lucky Charms ice cream
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2026
a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Charlie Kelly with a yarn board explaining how Katie Porter and Matt Mahan staying in when they had no chance boosted Kevin Kiley's chances of remaining a congressman
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Just looking at latest votes in from CA-7 and my personal unprofessional prediction is Vang is going to pass Matsui in the district wide totals
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The great thing about Platner is I'm always trying to figure out if people are re-discussing one of his numerous old scandals or if yet another has broken
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I think if you are making sweeping declarations about politics based on election night results out of California a ghostly nun should appear from the air to smack your knuckles with a ruler. Like every two years people have the dumbest takes based on a nonrepresentstive 50% of the vote
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
WE NEED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE AND THAT FIRE IS TOM STEYER COME ON MULES DON'T FAIL ME NOW
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My favorite episode of Seinfeld is where the FBI guns Jerry down and he dies in Kramer's arms
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Guy who decides between Becerra and Steyer based on which one he can find first on the word search California calls a ballot
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/05/2026
look the thing is that steyer is just Good, Actually
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You can't concentrate the alcohol content in a fermented beverage while removing impurities? Still issue
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Alright folks it's time to play America's game: BIG TOUGH MANLY MAN OR WHINY FIVE YEAR OLD
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Every time I go to an airport, regardless of which one, there are fewer places where you can sit to eat and more places you can pay 18 dollars for a really gross cold sandwich with a robot cashier. Obviously this means we're all doomed
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Honestly the more these people tell me I'm not a Christian and not an American because I don't get down on my knees and worship their wrinkly orange calf, the more I'm committed to driving them into the sea
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I like to stop at the duty free shop!
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Can't say exactly what they said but Texas primary results are getting coverage on Italian radio
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