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Lones Smith

@lonessmith.bsky.social
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Punster, math aficionado & economic theory spin maestro. I do game theory and information economics.

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Bernard Taylor @bernardtaylorforfl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it. And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him. Do with that story what you will.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is…. not the same as violence
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Texas Gov. Abbott is refusing to extradite to Minnesota an ICE agent charged with firing into a home there, "at least until Minnesota 'step[s] up and [repays proceeds of] fraud that they’ve committed in their state through federal programs.'” It's a meritless stand. [@stevevladeck.bsky.social]
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Bonus 244: Minnesota v. Abbott
Governor Abbott is ignoring his duty to extradite an ICE officer indicted in Minnesota. He has no viable legal claim, but may be trying to run out the clock.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING. Joe Rogan has just discovered that Trump might be corrupt.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When you win a war, you dictate the terms of the peace. When you lose a war, you try to salvage the best deal you can get to end hostilities. What we are doing is the latter.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Jade @ap.jade.ellis.link · 31/05/2026
The three genders (nonbuynary)
What is your gender? 
Please select one.

Male 
Female 
I have no plans to purchase a new vehicle
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #BribeForceOne
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
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Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: "Just think, 250 years on, what the Founders would see if they visited us today. *crowd groans* But wait -- they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights ... "
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Trump's reelection basically meant that white collar crime is now legal, except when it can be used as a cudgel against his political or personal enemies. The task of rebuilding the DOJ after this debacle is going to be epic and thankless.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The worst possible tactic you can use when negotiating a deal with a regime like Iran is to dunk on them in public during negotiations. Any knowledgeable seasoned diplomat knows this. But we have Mr. Art of the Deal who needs to feed his cult and the markets a steady diet of BS.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary. The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The real reason Trump is mad at NATO.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“Are you encouraging oil company CEOs to use the Strait of Hormuz?” Trump: “I think they should use the Strait. Look, we took out just about all of their mine ships." Hours later, an oil tanker is decimated by Iran just past the Strait of Hormuz. His advice killed people and destroyed a tanker.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Bill Clinton was just interviewed about his Epstein links. Here he is as assistant professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1973. He had just graduated from Yale Law School after a Rhodes Scholarship paid MA degree at Oxford. That's real hair!
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
TCM movie tonight during the SOTU was "Gaslight" PS In hindsight, they needed a movie about a Gasbag. He set the all time blather record: 1 hour and 41 minutes
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Don’t let Trump steal your music. Sue him like the Hayes family did.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Truly nothing new under the sun. Just reading Pat Buchanan from 2002 writing what might as well be every Miller/MAGA/Project 2025 talking point in 2026. All the talk of birthrates, white victimization, xenophobia, anti-feminism, Christian nationalism, even promoting anti-minority violence. All here.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This brand new protest song is timely and totally Boss
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/01/2026
The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.
Rand Paul up to his usual dipshittery.

"The NSF spent $8 billion to study whether Japanese qual are more sexually promiscuous while on cocaine"
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell just hired an extremely aggressive law firm in his criminal fight against Donald Trump. The firm is known for going “scorched earth” and fighting until the very end without settling.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
She was protesting. He told her to leave. She was complying. SHE TURNED THE WHEEL TO LEAVE. Another agent tried to forcibly open her door. She gave the car gas to leave. He shot her in the face. These are the facts of what happened.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
South Park writer Toby Morton bought the domain www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago. Decent trolling
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HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Relieved that the MIT & Brown shootings are solved. This Reddit post “blew the Brown case wide open.” The poster later told police he asked him: “Your car is back there, why are you circling the block?” The police then tracked the car and identified the man. www.reddit.com/r/providence...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is how fascism works.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Prefect!
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Pretty sure this tweet just cost Tesla at least $10 billion. Who wants to help Russia attack freedom and democracy? I mean, besides Elon Musk… PS Dmitry Medvedev is essentially Putin's National Security Advisor
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A democracy fighting against an authoritarian movement.
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Elon Musk's right wing politics have cost Tesla over a million EV sales. Yale economists used county-level, monthly data on new EV registrations, comparing changes in vehicle sales depend to D vs R shares. Yet Musk is currently trying to get $1T dollar pay package from foolish Tesla shareholders!!!
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Lones Smith @lonessmith.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
67-year-old American citizen being taken down by Border Patrol agents in a Chicago neighborhood. The man was left with six broken ribs and will no longer be able to compete in the NYC marathon for which he had spent 4 months training.
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