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Atheist. Vegan. Altruist. Student of stoicism and risk parity. Cat parent. “The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.” —Gil Scott Heron

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cartoonist: Dennis Goris
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 13h
He’s Trumpifying the US passport again. Now no way to opt out. Pic of Trump. 38 pages instead of current 26 so an eagle “flies” when pages are flipped quickly. Gold cover seal to come with more bling. Shipped in a sleek white box that screams “steal me” instead of current plain envelope.
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Trump’s Image ‘Non-Negotiable’ On New U.S. Passport Redesign
Starting in 2028, there will be no way for Americans to avoid having the president’s image grace their passports.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 14h
@anandwrites.bsky.social on Real Time with Bill Maher on 2 October 2026.
“A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country... Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities” but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
We're continuing to report on sports betting apps, and we need your help. ProPublica is looking for at least 250 people who use DraftKings and FanDuel to share their data with us and help us understand how the apps respond to user behavior. ➡️ How to help: projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...
A neon green tracker shows that ProPublica has received 28 people's sports betting data, just over 10% of the way towards its goal of 250. Text below reads: If you’re one of millions of Americans who have placed an online bet on a sporting event, you know how quickly you can go from celebrating your wins to feeling like the odds are stacked against you.

ProPublica is trying to understand how sports betting apps incentivize users to keep playing and when they warn users to pump the brakes. To do that, we need your help: We’re aiming for at least 250 people to upload their gambling history from apps like FanDuel and DraftKings. We’re not quite there yet, so if you’ve used these apps, you can help our journalists. If you’ve worked in the industry, you can also help us by answering a few questions. (You can also reach us on Signal.)
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If we’ve learned one thing about Republicans it’s that they have no moral center. They endlessly accuse and deride their opponent to win then turn around and commit the very acts they accused others of but now label it good and proper.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Republicans already hold majorities in both the House and Senate. If they wanted to relieve Americans’ wallets they would have done it already.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It isn’t hyperbole to say Trump and Republicans are working to resurrect the robber baron class. They want a country where they are billionaires and every other American is a serf.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russia got away with it once or twice by feigning a mistake, but 5 missiles in one day can’t be waved away so easily. Putin is emboldened by assurances from Trump that US is now his b*tch.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Crown Bees @crown-bees.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Before you reach for the rake this fall, think about who's counting on that mess. A layer of leaves isn't just yard waste; it's insulation. Ground-nesting bees, overwintering butterflies, and beneficial insects tuck into leaf litter to survive the cold.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 text mentions the TSA on two occasions, one of which recommends that "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized" (Page 134, Bullet Point 4).” www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...
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Does Project 2025 call for privatizing TSA?
A number of recommendations from the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a new federal government are mirrored in Trump administration policies.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
❗️TRUMP WORD ALERT❗️ vagan [vay-gan] NOUN A person without a permanent home who omits all animal products from the diet.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The GOP is an opportunistic power-hungry political cartel. They go on every talk show to scream about 400 noncitizens voting then it’s crickets when 72,000 eligible voters have their ballots rejected. They betray their oaths every day.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The East Wing and now an ancient geoglyph in Arizona. Nothing is sacred to that orange dirtbag. “Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge. The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid.”
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now someone invent a micro EMP device you can wear as jewelry. Specs: USB-chargeable and tap like a Star Trek TNG-style communicator to emit a pulse effective within 10 feet (3 meters).
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Republican vilification of Democratic Socialism will go down in history as the largest financial scam in human history.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bombshell scandal. US Ambas. to Greece Guilfoyle “admitted in an interview for a Greek publication that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government because of its refusal to purchase US gas at above-market prices.” "We can do this to any country we want, we can do this in Greece too."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Aaron Cozen @aaroncozen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US
Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The US government is conducting a quiet genocide by withholding medicine, medical care, food from nonwhite immigrants, forcing them to live in unsanitary conditions then trafficking them to third countries where they disappear without a trace.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Between this and all the quiet business deals between Russia and the Trump Family and Friends cabal, I guess US only does business now with autocrats.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s ballroom is a military complex/ballroom. Trump’s triumphal arch is a military complex/triumphal arch. It’s only a matter of time before Trump claims renovation of the Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts is to convert it into a military complex/center for the performing arts.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20/09/2026
US retailer rations motor oil as prices quadruple and supplies run dry ft.trib.al/WA1NBZ9
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US retailer rations motor oil as prices quadruple and supplies run dry
Iran war has created global shortage of lubricant used in vehicle engines
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
23% of electricity while providing only 0.1% of jobs. AI data centers are a SCAM on states.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republicans want you to be the healthiest you can be so that you’ll work longer into your senior years to boost the US economy and further enrich billionaires! Win win! Amirite?
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
POTUS admits a shite computer model that can’t do math and hallucinates facts is smarter than him.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“When asked more complex questions, such as those which involved more than one calculation, the AI models made mistakes in 88 per cent of cases on average. Some models gave wrong answers to 99 per cent of these harder questions.”
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you compare and contrast Mamdani’s impact on the lives of ordinary Americans with Trump’s impact, the difference between DSA leadership and Republican leadership is as wide as the ocean.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Elon Musk knew this when he campaigned to get SPCX into index funds. June IPO. July QQQ. September slow down.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whose interests does this Congress fight for because it isn’t the American people’s. I’ll answer my own question. They fight for the tech billionaires, the pharmaceutical conglomerates, the insurance industrial complex, the real estate moguls. Vote these traitors out.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Donald Trump describing the longstanding fantasy of 70% of Americans.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Donald Trump, having a hard-on for Bukele’s CECOT torture prison, is trafficking Somali immigrants to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where they are held in prison-like conditions.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is permanently lowering its employee 401(k) match from 5% to 3% to ease budget stress after a 15% loss in operating budget caused by Donald Trump’s fascist war on higher education and scientific research.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And they will climb higher as Republicans have no appetite to rein in the corrupt Trump administration.
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notidefix.bsky.social @notidefix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the US is not in the top 10 of "best credit"
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Somewhere @justinwolfers.bsky.social is laughing or crying or laughing so hard that he’s crying.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hear SCOTUS is split 7-2 on whether Trump is a whiny little bitch for running crying to them every time someone tells him, “no”.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from animated series Futurama declares, “Good news everyone!”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sikhism is a religion that originated in Punjab, India. Sikhs are adherents of that religion. They believe strongly in “welfare for all”, generosity and compassion. The US gov which cries about Christian religious freedom is attacking a religious group as a way to foment racism ahead of midterms.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today USPS decides whether or not you deserve a mail ballot. Tomorrow they’ll be tossing magazines the regime considers “woke” or opening Express Scripts packages and tossing birth control and hormone medications. Once the precedent is set for USPS to interfere with the mail, it isn’t a far tumble.
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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Vote-by-mail ballots deposited into a ballot drop box are collected by election officials, not by USPS. Now that USPS has been repurposed for election interference, using a ballot drop box is the safest way to ensure your mail ballot gets counted.
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 11/09/2026
Russia lured foreign nationals with promises of civilian jobs, seized their passports and sent them to the front in Ukraine, Amnesty says, calling it human trafficking. At least 27,000 people from 130+ countries have been recruited since 2022, FIDH estimates. www.kyivpost.com/post/84272
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Amnesty International Brands Russian Army Recruitment as ‘Human Trafficking’
The Russian military’s most effective recruiting pitch to thousands of Brazilians, Colombians, Sri Lankans, Somalis, Cubans, Egyptians, South Africans, and Peruvians is simply to lie.
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