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Lex Hovani

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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump has brought a new era of globalization bringing to America many approaches that I only really saw abroad. Fascism, cult of personality, kleptocracy, attacks on press and rule of law, leaders building gold covered monuments to themselves.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We can’t stop the bus, but we can steer the bus” - Anthropic CEO. That was also the plot of the movie Speed. It did t end well for the bus. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...
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How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears
The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our Never-Ending Race to the Bottom www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Corruption Stains, From Texas to Maine (Gift Article)
Something is wrong if vice is all on their side and virtue is all on yours.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The perfect example of Trump’s extractivism. Setup what is essentially a pure gambling system the house is guaranteed to win. Reduce regulations for your crypto casino. Encourage your most passionate supporters to “invest”. Trump takes 600M investors -3B www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A genuinely dangerous person, JD Vance, and an appalling interview. The self serving bullshit on each topic was bad enough. As a former USAID foreign service officer his absurd use of left wing election wins to justify destroying the Agency was astonishing. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/o...
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Opinion | JD Vance on the Morality of the Trump Administration
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Lying or close cousins…criminally negligent…delusional…self-serving blindness… the most important thing is to let the innocently misled back in to normal society once we recover while forever punishing and ostracizing the truly complicit
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I am watching American Psycho for the first time. I think when it was made 26 years ago and was a little “out there” then. Today it feels just one step beyond conventional. Consumerism, sociopathy, food and health obsession, personas. Not a nice trajectory for society…
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Is there more of a worthless piece of shit than Hegseth? He’s both political scum and preening faux religious. Most people pick one or the other.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Charlatans and con artists who reach his level are smart enough to know they are charlatans and con artists. He should assume that he will be fired—it’s rational.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My Dad and Grandmother fled Hungary in 1956 to escape Russian imposed fascism. Who could could have imagined America would be cooperating with Russia to prolong fascist leadership in Hungary and threatening Russian-style war crimes in Iran? Thankfully neither of them are alive to see it.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Wow, is there any more clear sign that someone is going to hell than they pretend to have religious beliefs and yet align with Trump? There is zero chance that God likes what Trump is doing or that he likes the pandering, soulless people exploiting Trump’s corrupt and soulless husk
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
And the difference is that often Presidents get blamed for things they have little influence over but all of these things Trump made worse through his actions (and mind-bending stupidity)
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Sometimes I feel vulgar, like I should not call Trump a piece of shit. But why waste energy on precision? Why strain for decorum? He is shit in so many ways that make specifics seem unnecessary. Every utterance of his degrades our shared humanity. Do I need to still be polite?
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Are we going to be able to take Trump’s name off these things? It’s gone from pathetic to humiliating. Kennedy Center, TrumpRX, Penn Station (NY), Dulles Airport, Trump Accounts, Trump Institute of Peace… It really ought to be illegal, especially when leveraged through extortion.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I just did the math and the ICE occupation of Minneapolis has one ICE agent for every 140 or so people.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u... what to say about these people? The police and the synagogue agree that this was in no way aimed at the synagogue, but federal officials swoop in to shit on the day? Thanks
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ICE Arrests Harvard Professor Charged for Shooting a Pellet Gun
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Does that jumping nonsense constitute probable cause for searching for drug paraphernalia?
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Scum, sleaze, shit, filth, scourge, evil, pathetic, worthless, vile, disgusting, despicable…I can never summon words to fit the appalling mess of Trump and company…
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Is there any estimate of how much time we’re wasting as a country on Trump admin moves and comments that are utter fucking nonsense? I am thinking of things like this Coast Guard swastika nonsense, the Comey trial nonsense, etc. I am not criticizing opposition to nonsense or legitimate policy moves.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Or he’s selling a meme coin about his generosity
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’ve hardly watched him on video let alone conversational settings, but I now get it about his charisma…
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I think incivility is more related to more and more cramped seats, lack of food and water, and underpaid flight attendants. And the thought that the entitled asshole breaking your kneecaps with a fast recline voted for Trump
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It’s wild that people take Nvidia’s profit announcement as an indication that it’s not a bubble. They’re the ones making and selling the bubble gum, of course they are profiting when loads of companies jump into bubble blowing. If those companies show profits soar it will be news.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
What is the most comprehensive summary of corruption allegation in the Trump administration? It’s hard to keep these cases all in mind.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There are now dozens of stunning, stupefying examples of corruption, sadism, and incompetence of the Trump administration each day. Yet Trump sitting in the Oval Office and basically trivializing the Khashoggi murder because “things happen” still made me gasp.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hehb
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In case anyone reads this, Hawley actually voted for the bill. So he’s an even lower form of scum than the others since he understood how immoral the bill is and he signed it anyway.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The road to hell is going to be paved with spineless, sociopathic Republicans who let this happen. Now the death and trauma they welcomed by destroying USAID is fully arriving on our shores.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
You could extend this ICE is responding to chaos involving people rationally panicked already watching ICE dress like masked terrorists, haul people off the street, mistakenly AND illegally send them to foreign prisons and then refuse to bring them back.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The military is consistently one of the most trusted institutions in the US, but between Hegseth, North Korea-style parades, and potentially violent confrontations on city streets it looks like Sgt Bonespurs may destroy this too
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hating the government is not the same as hating the country. In 2025 America they are almost opposites.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria,thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.”
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Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours
Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This is truly apalling.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So many unpredictable dynamics will arise if we don’t get it together
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I truly can’t believe this is allowed here.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o... There is no news here just a clear summary of this awful aspect of our national moment
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Opinion | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
To paraphrase Chief Brody from Jaws, "You're gonna need a bigger media," if you want sufficient coverage of all the atrocities going on.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is the first time I wasn’t appalled by Josh Hawley, so maybe I am overreacting in a positive way now, but it was great to see a prominent Republican giving such a full throated defense of Medicaid. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...
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Opinion | Josh Hawley: Don’t Cut Medicaid
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/05/2025
In all 435 congressional districts, our groups are organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power. Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups Or let us help you get started: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I have been trying to understand what is so great about being in Congress that people are willing to sell their souls to stay. I am starting to wonder whether insider trading is a big part of it.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Let’s just hope he realizes how much he is to blame www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
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Charles Koch Says Many in the Country Are ‘Abandoning’ Its Principles
In a rare appearance on Thursday to receive an award from the Cato Institute, Mr. Koch made oblique references to President Trump and his tariffs, without mentioning his name.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Numeracy is a real thing
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
As a Michigan alum I was dubious when the Big 10 expanded and lost its geographic coherence but now I am changing my tune. Thanks #Rutgers! I hope this #mutualdefensepact inspires others! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...
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This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Just because 99/100 scientists agree that it's bad to open a portal to the hell dimension doesn't mean we should immediately discount the opposing views of the scientist employed by Open A Portal To The Hell Dimension Inc.
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Lex Hovani @lexhovani.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...
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Opinion | Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder
Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.
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