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John Spiderman

@newcomb.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026
randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have
Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads: 

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it.  Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Turfman’s- the superior college football and gentlemen’s quarterly
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is rookie NFL QB Cole Payton. He is 6’3”, 232 pounds.
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"Guru Larry" Bundy Jr @larrybundyjr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
An automated A.I. WWE news channel tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane! 🤣
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 17/04/2026
this is fucking nuts:
youtu.be
Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (take 2, test pressing)
YouTube video by Nick Dellow
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The best barbecue ribs in Oxford, MS come from a place that smells like crickets. Fight me
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Auntie Social @auntiesocial.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
America hasn't really changed, only your understanding of it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My God, how did we get here? How could this have possibly happ... Oh, wait, I remember.
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Robby Kalland @rkalland.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
i assume this is the scene in the ole miss locker room
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Totally normal football game ending there. Those refs were something. Makes the win even better. Go Rebs! 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹 🇹🇹
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
GOSHAMOTTY
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🏴‍☠️ Maddox 🏴‍☠️ @maddox.xmission.com · 11/09/2025
Military roaming the streets, multiple political assassinations, Israel still at war, Poland attacked, Ukraine still at war, regular school shootings, ICE raids, tariffs, postal service to America suspended, boycotts of American goods. Is literally anything better?
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Not too shabby
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hold on, Marv Levy, hold on. This could be the year
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...
graph of tariffs collected over time
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Why is this in my NFL feed? C’mon @bsky.app
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
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NFL MEMES @nflmemewar.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
New statue they put behind Brady. #nfl #NFL #Giants #nflmemes #TomBrady #Patriots #EliManning #Jets #Dolphins #Bills
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
American jurisprudence is a fiction.
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The speed and fury in which the Dems are coming at this guy is proof they can engage in mass political action *when they’re motivated*. Turns out, they’re motivated by the same things that the R’s are.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The bar is high, but I think this is the dumbest anti-Zohran argument I've read so far www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/is-z...
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Bring back the 1983 HBO Feature Presentation intro
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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The problem of constitutional law, in a nutshell:
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
everyone else in the recording studio: it sounds like "bobba ran" Brian Wilson: I don't hear it
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
His is Forty
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Warhose
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Fist Blood
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Temple of Dom
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John Spiderman @newcomb.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Feels like we really need the aliens from The Abyss to show off a couple of waves right now.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/04/2025
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison theonion.com/judge-g...
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Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
GREENBELT, MD—Decrying the deportation as “wholly lawless,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Monday that the Trump administration had three days to return her to the United States from a Salvadoran prison or face contempt of court charges. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had no legal basis upon which to send me, a U.S. citizen […]
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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
From Nov 7:
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2025
Tweet from @dril with an edit. Original says:

“Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying”

The edit is that the candles line is crossed out and replaced with “Tariffs: $6 trillion”
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/03/2024
oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...
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The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector
I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Scientists identify mutation that could facilitate H5N1 'bird flu' virus infection and potential transmission in humans New findings underscore the importance of ongoing surveillance for H5N1 mutations that pose risks to public health www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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