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I offer help to people who want it. Facilitator and lover of humans. Somewhat retired, but not exactly retiring. Interesting, handsome, shy, erudite. Have accidentally […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.online/@mjt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Here’s the thing. It looks like a political cartoon, but it’s real. The slices of the pizza are exactly mathematically proportional to reality. We are being screwed every single day by rich oligarchs. And we know it. It’s time to fundamentally change the […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

A pizza representing our economy is sitting on the table. A rich white guy labeled “Top 1%” gets a slice that looks to be about 85% of the pie. A white lady labeled “Merely wealthy” gets a slice that looks to be 13% or so. A black lady labeled “upper middle class” has a slice that’s about 2%. A frowning guy labeled “lower 50%” has a few crumbs on the table, not even a slice.

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How America’s economic pizza is sliced per capita. This is not a joke.

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h

“There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined. Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.” ~Garrett Graff

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

“Pro-voting groups are asking a Texas court to force state officials to fix its online voter registration process after a backlog of nearly 600,000 applications was revealed just before the midterm elections.” Oh, come on now. Processing voter registrations is *hard*.” #USpol #Dictatorship […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It’s kinda like TFG’s “electrocuted by a sinking electric boat, or eaten by sharks” dilemma: is it better to be eliminated because you’re “lower-value human capital,” or killed by AI as redundantly irritating

Bold black text: “‘Lower-value human capital’ is what bank CEO calls thousands of workers he’s cutting because of AI.” Smaller text: “Standard Chartered plans to eliminate 7,800 jobs by 2028.”

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

“This afternoon, the President of the United States posted two videos of lions and tigers attacking humans.” Knowing that this creature, plainly pure id at this point, has a private army beholden to only him. He has the ability to imprison many of us, or kill most of us. And we continue […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Timothy Snyder is a serious scholar, steeped in knowledge of how fascists take over societies. Listen. Understand. Act. Don’t wait until it gets worse. www.instagram.com/reel/DePQHj0BEGs/… #USpol #Dictatorship #USpolitics

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

These goons are, under cover of “justice,” raiding the homes of elected US Representatives. They’ll raid your house next. If you sound or look a certain way, you’re already being asked for your papers. This is not normal. This is not “protecting America.” This is against the Constitution and the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

All of youse in DC. who are (for now) relatively safe from blowback, please ask EVERY DAY why there are federalized National Guard troops on the streets for EVERY remaining day of TFG’s current term. Ask EVERY DAY why they’re standing in front of ballot drop boxes. Ask EVERY DAY (if you’re safe) […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Don’t let the fuckers steal your vote. I know I’m speaking fromn privilege here because I live in a state that’s not going to try that (at least on the western side of the state), but please, we need *all* legal votes, and don’t let someone else tell you what’s legal. You know whether you’re […]

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NEW POPULAR FRONT Survivor❤️‍🩹 Ally🏳️‍🌈 Ukraine Must Win🇺🇦 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s my birthday. This is the only thing I want. #Midterms #VoteEarly #CheckYourRegistration

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Greenland: natural resource-rich, useful for security, proximate to US. Alaska: natural resource-rich, useful for security, proximate to Russia. And it used to belong to Russia, which is taking back its “rightful” historic territory. Donbas: industrial heartland of Ukraine, useful…well, you […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

“‘Zelensky could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to.’ [He] blamed Zelensky for the high cost of diesel because Ukrainian forces have targeted Russian oil refineries, although since Russian oil was sanctioned, the actual chokepoint for diesel prices is the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

A way to fight or even stop authoritarianism: non-violent, large-scale protest. Beats guns and bombs, sometimes. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/my-head-… #USpol #USpolitics

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Just about every day, there are mass shootings in the US and, increasingly, around the world. A dude gets a gun, shoots a bunch of people, then shoot themselves dead. Widespread thoughts and prayers are generated, then it happens again. It happened yesterday, it’ll probably happen today, and […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“‘I got into this case to defend the law the [Wisconsin] Legislature wrote,’ Dickhead and State Rep. Calvin Callahan said in a press release. ‘If you mail your absentee ballot back to your clerk, you do not get another vote at the polls. … One person, one ballot. That is a foundation of our […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Further proof, as if we needed it, that TFG and his goons don’t give a single crap about the law, Congress, or voters. What’s your over/under on whether Nazi Stephen gets him to declare martial law before the elections just like the best banana republics do […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Two soldiers in camouflage stand near a DC ballot drop box on a sunny street; timestamp 10/8/26.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

U.S. Voters: Vote early and in person. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Democracy Docket has mapped all the places the USPS has slowed mail pickup and delivery […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Public executions were once a public spectacle, but then that stopped. And there was a reason for stopping, more than one reason. apnews.com/article/fort-hood-livest… #USpol #USpolitics

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

UN condemns Trump regime’s plan to livestream an execution, stating that doing this would violate the prohibition of torture […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I don’t for a second think my little voice can make a difference in any particular world event, but I hope and wish and even pray that thousands and millions of voices across the country and world can stop the horror announced by the apparently sub-human Hegseth tonight. Please, even if you’ve […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and without regard to the creed which he professes. If the United States proves false to these […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

“In 1997, a group of gynecologic surgeons published a paper in the journal Gynecologic Oncology with a title that gets straight to it — “Is Adam worth more than Eve?” Dr. Barbara A. Goff, now chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Washington Medicine, and colleagues found that […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.

Busy European street with buses filled with people in a long line of people on bikes, waiting for the light to change in a separated, protected bike lane. Imagine if all those people or each in a separate car.

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

“[A]fter being triggered by ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker's rather mundane midterms analysis, Trump said he had “reported’ her to the FCC ‘for rebuke or punishment.’ When later asked about the Welker situation, [Brendan] Carr, [FCC chair] said that he believed Trump was "over the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“A functioning democracy cannot be just a matter of statute. It requires good faith and some measure of virtue from its officeholders. No law can substitute for character in leaders.” #USpol […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

“Work identity vs. workplace identity is one of the most important differentiations humans have to grapple with in their short time on this planet.” The brilliant John Cutler on companies and you, the employee, and how to survive a lifetime of work with your identity intact […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

None of us believe this will pass anytime soon. While I’m happy I’ll die relatively soonish…I worry much about my daughter and grandkids and nieces and nephews…and, well, all of you up there (and our friends to the south; my daughter’s lived in Mexico for over three years. Sigh. (2/2) @deborahh

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

It’s not me, it’s you! “‘He's not banning media outlets, what he's doing is saying we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda,’ [Regrettable US VP] Vance said, alleging that 92% of the stories from CNN, MS NOW and Politico about […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So do any of those things, true as they are, mean that we should support everyone being car DEPENDENT? That EVERYONE should NEED a car for EVERYTHING because some people may always need a car for some things? The post you’re replying to was about the choices made every day to CREATE car dependency.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Car dependency wasn’t an inevitability. It was a choice. And once it was made, it didn’t become an inescapable trap, although it can feel that way. It just takes making different choices, that are hard at first (because that’s what dependency does), but that get easier. It takes vision and will.

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

“Most experts agree that young people are more anxious and risk averse than their predecessors. … But…psychology professor and researcher Peter Gray offers a counterargument: It’s not the phones at all; it’s the hovering omnipresence of adults, which has expanded in both intensity and duration […]

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#American #history

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

For heavens’ sake, why are we paying attention to what Bo Fuckhead thinks and giving him a platform? He’s running for Fence Inspector or something in Backwater, Texas. Let’s just ignore him like a pimple and let him disappear. #USpol

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

USians, I ask you: do we live in a great country or what?

Online news story headline: “Feds find small alligator, 42 kilos of fentanyl in downtown L.A. luxury apartment”

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, suggested that he was open to sending federal agents to polling places. …which would be in open defiance of US law that’s been in place since after the Civil War, and without doubt an impeachable offense and an offense against the United States and the people of […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Actual TFG: “These are not the people I interviewed. They are merely a shell of their original selves.” Probably also TFG: “What happened to my lackeys? I thought they owed all fealty to me, and surrendered all independent thinking and power to me when I interviewed them!” #USpol #Dictator […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

“[TFG’s hand-picked board that oversees the Kennedy Center] had claimed that without ‘appropriate recognition’ on the building, Trump is unlikely to oversee the renovation or ‘lead the fiscal rescue of the Center.’” “[C]onfidential financial records show that ticket sales and fundraising […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

“[T]he administration’s continued flirtation with Vladimir Putin and his associates, its use of our tax dollars to imprison immigrants in substandard conditions, and its determination to rig the 2026 election add up to an attempt to establish an authoritarian government.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled?

Making Americans think socialism was the work of Satan and capitalism was the will of God.”

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

“Today, 84% of 11 year olds aren’t allowed to leave their street, with 53% not even allowed to leave their front yard. For 14 year olds? 92% aren’t allowed to leave their neighborhood, and 55% can’t leave their streets. “We told ourselves we were keeping them safe. We were doing something else […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

“Vance railed during the last night of the GOP midterm convention on Thursday that the U.S. was becoming ‘poorer’ and ‘dirtier’ before Donald Trump’s election to a second term, and that Republicans were tired of being attacked for saying so.” “‘We were tired of being called racists for noticing […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Vote.gov is the place to check your registration info, if you want or need to. Don’t in any case use the Musk-funded website I won’t name here, since it collects oodles of private info and shares it with companies and organizations you probably do t want it to. I’d link to the article that I […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“[Seattle’s] Bumbershoot has always been most effective when it has been all things to all people,” he added. “Your parents could go and see Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mavis Staples or something, and then you could go see some punk band you like playing on the other side of the Seattle Center […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“We have accepted a style of criticism that treats ridicule as a substitute for explanation.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

“The widespread, bipartisan backlash to Flock and data centers has many of our tech overlords wondering why people are so animated and angry about what they’ve dubbed a ‘revolutionary technology.’” #USpol #USgovernment #EndOfTimes […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The president is a criminal. The speaker of the House is a criminal. Most of the Supreme Court don’t give a crap about the law or Constitution, only power. #USpol #Criminals #AllIsLost

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Rule of law in the United States at the federal level has ceased to exist, because the very branch that enforces the law repeatedly and purposely disregards it. It won’t make any difference who “wins” the November elections, because the law doesn’t matter to the clowns and criminals who run the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

“Nearly a third of a[n H-1B] work-petition fee is earmarked for immigration courts. Another billion-plus is earmarked for ICE. Specialty-occupation employers are being converted into a revenue stream for removal infrastructure. That is not adjudication pricing. That is a labor tax designed to […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

“[TFG] has abused his office to enrich himself and his family in ways that are completely unprecedented—not only in the United States but also in the history of almost any peer democracy. Only Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s notoriously lawless former prime minister, was in any way comparable, and […]

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