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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 11h
Listen to Max about DSA: Don't Stop Agitating!
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 18h
It has been 10 hard, wonderful, rewarding years since October 1, 2016. Thanks to all of my clients and collaborators! The best is yet to come!!!
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 20h
HCR: The Time Magazine interview reveals that Trump is unable to answer questions coherently, is obsessed with his architectural projects, is consumed by his own fantasy of himself, and is angry at the media that he feels mistreats him. He does not appear to be a well man.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
today's post gets off to a super-quick start with an awesome video, and then we settle in to parse all of Sunday's dumbfuckery. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/4ylhBqg
This what-in-the-fucking-world image is taken from some AL slop that presidential flunky Dan Scavino posted to Elon’s Nazi Bar and Child Porn Emporium — and we’re going to get to it, I promise. But first—

Everything totally fucking sucks right now, so let’s just put our Hero of the Day right up top. It’s the guy who ruined Dear Leader’s day by screaming ‘YOU’RE A FUCKING PEDOPHILE’ at him.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved being at @waynelawschool.bsky.social in Detroit on Friday for the Wayne Law Review Symposium to Examine Oligarchy, Power, and the Rule of Law Knowledge is power & the more we learn, the better prepared we are for the battle!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
from today's post: "What the fuck is this ‘let them eat cake’ bullshit from the White House?" — What thimble-brain thought this was a good idea? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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What the fuck is this ‘let them eat cake’ bullshit from the White House?
What thimble-brain thought this was a good idea?
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scott MacFarlane: In the day ahead, will we see a new all-time high for diesel prices. The front page in Long Beach, California spotlights the trucker who made the most expensive fill-up on record. $1,392 for a pair of fill-ups over the past 48 hours!!!
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Krugman: After the midterms Mad King Donald won’t feel that he has failed America, he will believe that America has failed him and try to punish the nation accordingly. Thus he will use his remaining power mot just against Democrats, but also against the American people.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Krugman; So many people both at home and around the world hate Trump. That has, however, been true since quite early in the Trump II administration. What has really changed is the dissipation of fear.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do not build data centers. We do not need them . theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/centralize...
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Centralized Data Centers May Cripple America
A single EMP device - over 4 data centers - America cannot fight the next conflict
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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📸 1 millisecond before an American missile blew a Palestinian child into a million pieces. If you are an American, we paid for this. It’s truly evil.
Photo of the Day :: Tuesday, September 15th, 2026 :: Edition 014
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is unbelievable that this needs to be written, that the Republican party has renounced America. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...
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January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
MAGA gets hella mad at a TV show, the GOP drools over Hasan Piker's weenus, and Dear Leader drools while sleeping though a 9/11 memorial. all that and more in 'this week in stupid,' my every-Saturday wrap-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened. go read it, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/3UMcosB
the show that’s got the MAGAsphere all hot and bothered is ‘The Gentlemen,’ a British comedy whose premise is — and I quote — ‘a young aristocrat inherits his family’s massive country estate, only to discover it serves as the front for a massive underground cannabis empire.’

yes, I know — they used ‘massive’ twice in the same sentence. look, not everyone is as brilliant a writer as I am. but I digress.

the apparent issue here is that somehow, a neck joke posted to social media by Netflix insults the hallowed memory of misshapen garden gnome Charlie Kirk, who got necksecuted by a gunshot one year ago this week.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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The United States Is Facing a Terrifying Surge in Child Sexual Predation
The US Justice Department Continues to Refuse Investigation of Epstein Associates—Exactly the Kind of Impunity Child Predators Exploit.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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The Long Decline of America
It began decades before Trump
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dear Leader and his merry band of fuckheads are going to defile the memory of 9/11, just like they fucked up the nation's 250th birthday party. it's what they do. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I bring all the receipts. link is here: bit.ly/4xErcbc
the 25th anniversary of 9/11 is two days from now. it would be nice if we lived in the timeline where the worst people in the world aren’t going to turn what should be a solemn commemoration of a tragedy into a five-alarm shit-show.

but we don’t live in that timeline. we live in the shitty one.

lucky us.

I’m just glad that Mitch McConnell isn’t alive to see this.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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VIDEO: Trump's Dallas Meltdown: He Begged, He Bribed, He Slurred, And Nobody Showed Up. The MAGA Circus Is Finished...
He offered you $5,000 to keep him out of prison. Tim Scott screamed at an empty arena. The Attorney General of the United States talked about dead babies. This is what the end sounds like.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dawn on a Happy and Restful Labor Day for All! The New York Times had a great article today: "There is something better than happiness." As Freud said Love and Work are all that matters. Work means productive Labor, a societal contribution, and a structured purpose. share.google/dilaVKYbnFhe...
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dean Blundell: But what Trump is REALLY mad about is that Canada simply doesn’t GAF, and Carney has literally stopped taking his phone calls because, “Mark thinks he’s very unwell and will wait until Epstein or the midterms take him out.” he’s just Angry that Canada is KILLING him.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
All those Marxist professors have been proven right. Paul Krugman: In Venezuela, Trump has just validated everything the Latin American left has ever said about U.S. imperialism. And we’ll be paying for that, diplomatically and strategically, for decades to come.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Dean Blundell: Trump is fighting Canada because destabilizing Canada is the assignment, and the assignment isn’t his. When a man repeatedly sets his own house on fire and the only person warmed by the flames lives in Moscow, at some point you stop calling it an accident.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Agaain: "We need to talk about the housing market: It has been in a low-boil recession for four years now, with anemic sales and the appearance of high prices, somehow without tanking the overall economy." Emily Peck, Axios Market 2026 08 28 www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
while a delusional Preznit Fuckwit imagines he can re-name Lake Ontario (spoiler alert: he can't), Canada has a real chance to seriously fuck with our economy. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I explain how. link is here: bit.ly/4y0Y6CC
the Welland Canal is the only shipping route between the American side of Lake Erie and the Canadian side of Lake Ontario. approximately 26.3 billion dollars’ worth American goods pass through the Canal every year.

it’d be a real shame if Canada were to rename the Welland Canal to, oh, say, the Strait of Our Moose, and close it down.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Heather Cox Richardson: the Bureau of Land Management under Trump has been selling wild horses for slaughter as meat for as little as $25 a head. Wild horses are legally protected, but the administration appears to be selling them to middlemen who resell them into the food pipeline unquestioned.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Heather Cox Richardson: Trans girls have been banned from competing in K–12 girls sports since 2022 and are banned from competing in the NCAA and the Olympics. “This is literally an issue that doesn’t affect Republicans at all anymore,” How is this still a priority?”
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Heather Cox Richardson: MAHA at work: so far this year, the U.S. has reported about 10,500 cases of foodborne illness. Between 2021 and 2025, the annual average was about 1,500 cases.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Heather Delaney Reese: Yesterday, while trying to describe the future of financial technology, he said, “We’re also on the very beginning of a revolution in fictional and financial.” He meant to say something else. But fictional may be the single most honest word he has spoken in months.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trickle, trickle, it comes out. ellieleonard.substack.com/p/over-half-...
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Over Half of the Missing Jane Doe 4 Notes Were Just Leaked
Trigger Warning: this article includes descriptions of sexual abuse of a minor child
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Paul Krugman: Why are financial markets apparently unconcerned about U.S. solvency? Surely not because they expect Trump to act responsibly. The clear implication is that the markets expect Democrats to do what they’ve done repeatedly in the past: clean up the fiscal mess Republicans left behind.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Heather Cox Richardson: There is nothing new under the sun: Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected in 1892, and according to Republicans, Democrats were socialists and anarchists who wanted to destroy America.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Forget Roadside America, Let's Location Scout in "Weird France"
Forget Roadside America, Let's Location Scout in "Weird France" - Don't Be A Tourist - Messy Nessy's
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thom Hartmann: This is what Republicans do: move wealth from working class people into the money bins of the morbidly rich. The Rand corporation says it is now over $70 trillion that the rich have stolen from the working class.That’s also the essence of the Democrats’ “affordability” message.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Paul Krugman: So the cutting back on SNAP, the ACA and other programs by Trump are making millions of Americans much, much poorer than they were. Now many bad things aren't really the fault of the party in power. This, however, is absolutely, totally Donald Trump's fault.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I hope everyone gets this. Delightful popular kitsch vs boring modernism. "Good taste" may in fact not be good at all, but a scourge on our daily lives. I wouldn't want to go too far with this, but my city, Philadelphia, is suffering from a deluge of cheap boxes. Where did all the fun go?
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Paul Krugman: Make America Great Again? Hah. Donald Trump has weakened us with astonishing speed. Under his “leadership” America’s influence, reputation and credibility have peeled away like the liner in the Reflecting Pool.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You have to subscribe to Max at Unfuck the Republic (UNFTR). Medicare for all is the transformational issue of our time - along with the climate and AI of course. And the Dems are dilly dallying while the Repubs are full on science and factual reality haters. youtu.be/VVYO4A25eqI?...
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Climate Change, AI and The DNC | Man-Made Disasters
YouTube video by UNFTR Media
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The return to traditional architecture is occurring around the world. Such a return requires education in lost knowledge. Shown are contemporary structures around the world. theaestheticcity.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Paul Krugman and the MAGA rejection of reality: The susceptibility of the GOP to this totalitarian mindset has come as a surprise even to cynics. What’s clear is that the war on reality is exacting a high price on America as a whole. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Reality is a Communist Plot
Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
MAGA hatred of even thinking. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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The Fire This Time
The willful ignorance, it burns
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Senator Angus King (I-ME) and five Democratic lawmakers oppose Trump’s proposed triumphal arch. There are laws the construction would break. “Most fundamentally,” though, they wrote, the arch falls within an area called Area I that Congress established in the 1986 Commemorative Works Act.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Apparently MAGA is entirely made of child molesters, hence the love of DJT.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump's war on the future. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Trump’s War on the Future, Monetary Edition
Trying to punish Brazil for adopting a better payment system
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I visited the small town of Marfa, TX. A local mariachi band greeted us with a song they wrote for our campaign! Our Frontera Tour has been full of special moments — but this was a highlight. 🎶
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
ABC, NBC, and CNN declined to interrupt their regular programming for a presidential primetime address. Let that sink in. Three major networks decided the president of the United States could not be trusted with a live microphone.
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Krugman: In a way, the fact that Trump is back to bombing Iran is really bad news, not because I have any real fear that America is going to be at risk from a foreign power, but because I think it signals an enormous risk to us from our own president, our own government. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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