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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 25/01/2026
Bovino on CNN, his explanation: Protest=riot Attending a protest means you will be shot. So dont leave your house. Helping someone get up off the ground=assult on a federal officer. Holding a phone to film=brandishing a weapon. Having a legal weapon=massacre This violates the: 1st 2nd 4th
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredictable moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Bafta? Give this man a Pulitzer
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If it’s the Golden Age & everything is great & the economy is booming & Trump has ended all wars & slayed inflation & everyone is happy & drug prices are down & his approval is at 71% & everyone hates Dems, why would they need to do mid-decade gerrymandering to hold the House?
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On this holiest of days, let us give thanks for the ever-dwindling blessing of shit that's funny enough to break through the paralyzing horror of 2025. These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle 🙏
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/08/2025
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
weird
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 04/08/2025
Oh no! This paragraph in Autocracy, Inc. is prescient AF. Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy: When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power. They will destroy to maintain control.
At the extremes, such contempt can devolve into what the international democracy activist Srdja Popovic has called the "Maduro model" of governance, after the current leader of Venezuela. 

Autocrats who adopt it are willing to see their country enter the category of failed states," he says-accepting economic collapse, endemic violence, mass poverty, and international isolation if that's what it takes to stay in power. 

Like Maduro, Presidents Bashir al-Assad in Syria and Lukashenko Belarus seem entirely comfortable ruling over collapsed economies and societies. 

These kinds of regimes can be hard for the inhabitants of democracies to understand, because their primary goal is not to create prosperity or enhance the well-being of citizens. 

Their primary goal is to stay in power, and to do so, they are willing to destabilize their neighbors and destroy the lives of ordinary people.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says: - We are headed for a recession -The BLS data is totally reliable- for now -The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs -Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy 1/
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The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.
Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked.
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It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hear ye, hear ye
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Bill's Rad Vermont @billsradvermont.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Revised jobs number for June now has the US adding 400 billion jobs
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“The Roberts court is simultaneously corrupt, extreme, pliant and incoherent. It is the worst court imaginable facing the worst president in American history, with a rubber stamp Politburo serving him, while trampling the Constitution.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
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The Roberts court: a hive of grievance from powerful men
Appeasement has a price.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A balm for our battered souls youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
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Tiny Chef's Meditation
YouTube video by The Tiny Chef Show
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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"It's only pedantry if you're right. Otherwise it's just sparkling fuckheadedness."
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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Good stuff here.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Agree w the sentiment but struggle to think of a single example of a secular right-wing predator, as in someone in the magasphere with zero ties to the Christian right. When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable. Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
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Lauren Rinaldi @laurenrinaldi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society. That's it. That's the post.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 22/07/2025
Jupiter. In infrared.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Dem leadership should appoint an official Alt Press Secretary to give briefings after every one that Karoline Leavett does and just break them down lie by lie maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 17/07/2025
stock market reaches all time highs on news that trump has arrested jerome powell and is dangling him upside down over a pit of alligators
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just in case you're still able to sleep at night. Horrors upon horrors. youtu.be/W8iKWyyvu1c?...
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Tim & JVL React: Mehdi Hasan BODIES 20 Far-Right Clowns
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Baby Grok
A 3 panel comic in response to an Elon Musk tweet saying he’s going to make Baby Grok. A kid friendly AI

Panel 1: 
A small child dressed in dungarees holding an iPad
Child: Ummm…Gwok?

Panel 2:
Child: What’s the alphabet?

Panel 3: Close up on the iPad screen. There is a Grok generated image of two colourful dinosaurs. One is dressed as Hitler, the other is also a Nazi. Hitlersaurus is doing a puppet show in which a Nazi soldier shoots a Jewish person.
Behind the dinosaurs are the sentences 
“J is for Jew”
“K is for Kill”
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Yeah I don’t care if you’re a socialist, a Blue Dog or Bill Kristol, if you’re an enemy of fascism then you’re my ally, and if you care more about your status in the democratic coalition than about beating fascism then you have to go.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The central dividing line in Democratic politics is not between the left and the moderate wing, it’s between serious people who understand we’re in an existential fight against an incipient fascist regime and irredeemable narcissists who just want to keep fighting the 2016 primary forever.
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Mr Suzuki is correct. We're too late, and it's only accelerating now. Idk if it's practical to try to change the system that brought us here, though; seems highly unlikely to happen. Might be wiser to focus on preparing for the world to come. youtu.be/lg1lm0uWdS8?...
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The Fight With the Climate Catastrophe is LOST !!! We must overthrow capitalism now!
YouTube video by Vlad Bunea
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
As a lifelong resident of the deep red, this is why I inwardly sigh at all the "just wait til the tariffs hit" or "just wait til meemaw loses Medicaid" punditry. We have to find a solution that doesn't hinge on his supporters snapping out of it. Bc it's not going to happen. They will die first.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
When Republicans get power they do whatever they want. They dont care about polls or the courts or the rule of law. When Democrats get power they worry about pissing off Republicans who will never vote for them.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/07/2025
See that bright speck? That's Venus. Photographed from Saturn.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share
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Disorderly Borderline 🇨🇦 @disorderlybrdrline.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
CBS announces Colbert's replacement.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 16/07/2025
This is Earth. Photographed out the window of the Apollo 14 Command Module on the return leg in February 1971. Apollo image AS14-76-10349, 70 mm Hasselblad, 80 mm focal length, Magazine O, with minor processing by me.
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The stuff of dreams
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This was basically the concept of the IRA and welp now instead the opposite is happening
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
In my darker moments, I root for AI. I'm not sure we as a species deserve to run this place anymore. youtu.be/5KVDDfAkRgc?...
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We’re Not Ready For Superintelligence
YouTube video by AI In Context
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
6 Wizards in Robes acting as a third-chamber super-legislature & burning entrails, along with the Constitution & the rule of law
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Piper Gates @pipergates.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
25%?? Take me to this wonderful world of only 25% racist bullshit pls
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Pope Leo: “In order to live eternally, we do not need to cheat death, but to serve life, by caring for others in this, our time together. That is the supreme law that is prior to all society’s rules and gives them their meaning.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/07/2025
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work theonion.com/relaxin...
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It me
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