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Bobby Goat Gruff

@ratcellar.bsky.social
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Software Engineer in Palo Alto Interested in American Democracy surviving 2025 and beyond. Not a tech bro.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NYC COMPTROLLER: “Next level. Beyond anything we’ve seen. We’re very worried about the precedent this sets.” Institutional investors (and regular Americans) are being forced to own billions worth of SpaceX after it was fast-tracked into indexes to make Elon a trillionaire 🤔
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"The SpaceX IPO looks like a fire sale. Nasdaq and other indexes have changed their rules specifically to fast-track entry for SpaceX, and S&P Dow Jones Indices has proposed eliminating profitability requirements..." $SPCX www.patreon.com/BindingChaos...
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Bobby Goat Gruff @ratcellar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The SpaceX IPO is really a sign o’ the times. This is a pile of hot garbage, and it’s going to be washed through index funds in 15 days. We continue to steamroll towards and past a “let them eat cake” level of inequality and corruption.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/06/2026
SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We've all grown numb to Trump accusing an entire political party of committing felonies with negative proof, but that doesn't mean the Speaker of the House gets a free pass. Every media question he gets from now to November should demand he put up or shut up. Humoring this bullshit is dangerous.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Repurposing the memory of perhaps the greatest and most daring battle to fight the scourge of fascism in Europe into an explicit argument for ethnonationalist exclusion is an especially fascist rhetorical strategy.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Significant development on $1.8 billion fund: Federal court responds favorably to motion by 35 former federal judges. Their motion asked court reopen the case to see whether a fraud was perpetrated on the court to effectuate the "settlement." Judge responds⤵️
Here, the non-party movants advance grievous allegations that Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed this litigation solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a lawsuit that “was collusive from the start” and was only filed to provide the imprimatur of legality for an unlawful settlement. (DE 63 at 16). They point to the fact that the settlement in question includes a “three-paragraph addendum2 . . . [that] purports to ‘forever bar[] and preclude[]’ the United States from pursuing claims that could have been [otherwise] asserted [against] Plaintiffs,” (Id. at 8), and highlight the fact that Defendants did not “even try[] to defend against Plaintiffs’ claims” despite their active opposition to nearly identical claims in other litigation.3 (Id. at 16). Finally, the non-party movants assert that Plaintiffs’ claims were “clearly untimely” and therefore untenable. (Id.).
Accordingly, it is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that Plaintiffs shall file a response to the Motion (DE 63) on or before June 12, 2026, detailing their position on the matters set forth in the Motion, including (1) the charges of collusion and whether the Parties are truly adverse; (2) the assertion that the dismissal in this case was premised on deception by the Parties; and (3) the question of whether the case should be reopened because the Court was the “victim of a fraud.” (DE 63 at 13, citing 11 Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2870 (3d ed.)). The non-party movants may, if they choose, file a reply on or before June 19, 2026. DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers in Miami, Florida, on this 29th day of May, 2026.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 21/05/2026
The January 6th Slush Fund hasn’t even opened applications yet, and look who’s lining up. Andrew Taake, accused of attacking police with bear spray on January 6th, while he was already out on pretrial release for child solicitation in Texas. He now has to register as a sex offender.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/05/2026
In any democracy, this would be considered illegal state funding of the president' s political supporters
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Donald Trump pardoned 1500 people, is investigating the elections of 2020 in both Wisconsin and Georgia, has fired DOJ and FBI employees that investigated J6, and multiple judicial and executive branch nominees refuse to say the 2020 election was valid. Every lever is already in place for a coup.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
2/2 I am sure this shouldn't be taken as any sign of partisan bias, but FYI: Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were all on GW Bush legal team during history-changing Florida recount. -GWB named Roberts to appeals court, then chief justice. -GWB named Kav to appeals court. -ACB appts were from Trump
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2026
when you're not reading the room
official White House tweet featuring an image of Charles and Trump with the caption, "TWO KINGS"
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just stop and acknowledge that this is not normal. What I am so done with is pretending this normal. We need to break the chain that this is normal.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A public discussion is emerging about whether financial gains associated with political leadership should face closer scrutiny. Mentions of Donald Trump have brought renewed attention to questions about ethics, transparency, and how wealth tied to public office is evaluated.
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Bobby Goat Gruff @ratcellar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It seems like the House (and maybe Senate) will flip, assuming we make it past efforts to tamper with elections. After that, I hope we have eyes out for harder coups that may prevent those Democratic majorities from being sworn in.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
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Bobby Goat Gruff @ratcellar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
But I do…
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office
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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
One week ago Tuesday, Trump took the world to the brink of nuclear war and the GOP Congressional leaders stayed on vacation and did nothing. If it happens again, they will do nothing. And MSM has already moved on from a story that would be in the news everyday if any Dem were President.
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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Some of you have not read Herodotus’ recounting of Croesus’s mistaken interpretation of the Oracle of Delphi-telling him that attacking Persia would “destroy a great empire”-and it shows.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/04/2026
I do suspect this trash To be a party in this injury.⁠
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/04/2026
According to the Times:
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026
there is no king
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Last Will and Testament Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
A screenshot with a block of text:

Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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Bobby Goat Gruff @ratcellar.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today at Meta, instead of acknowledging or commenting on overnight layoffs (which occurred after weeks of rumors, published in Reuters), Mark Zuckerberg announced a Small Business initiative at 3am Pacific Time, via post. What a pig.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A special prosecutor investigated the Clintons for five years over a six figure land deal that the Clintons lost money on. Here’s why there will be no investigation of a Trump official making nine figures on blatant insider trading
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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It took four years of hate-filled propaganda for Slobodon Milosevic to convince people of committing atrocities. It took less time in Rwanda. Steady messaging that designates internal enemies should never be taken lightly.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Re-upping from last night. This offense deserves attention.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds
Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So it begins …
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/03/2026
If Trump doesn't like your coverage of the war, his FCC will pull your broadcast license. That is flagrantly unconstitutional.
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Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Recessions are ugly, unpredictable and leave a scar. Those accompanied by inflation are worse. The economy is not a single body that can be fit from a “cleans,” as I have so often heard in my career. It is a complex system that has increasingly seen inequality worsen in the wake of recessions.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.) This is an atrocity.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/03/2026
WOW. Rep. Glenn @ivey.house.gov: I just got back from Selma for the Bloody Sunday anniversary. We toured old slave quarters, they looked like what we just saw upstairs [in ICE holding facility]. In fact, they might've been a little bit better than what we saw upstairs."
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨Incredibly disturbing video. Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) joined Capitol Police in violently ejecting a Marine Corps veteran in uniform who protested the war against Iran. You can hear the bone in his arm snap around the 55 second mark.🚨🚨🚨
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hillary Clinton finding out Lauren Boebert is posting photos of her testimony: "If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. this is just typical behavior... We all are abiding by the same rules." Boebert: "I... I will take that down."
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This reminds me of the old adage, "Never work for Jack Dorsey under any circumstances"
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And then there were none . . . www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Anthropic Drops Hallmark Safety Pledge in Race With AI Peers
Anthropic PBC, which for years billed itself as a safer alternative to artificial intelligence rivals, has loosened its commitment to maintaining its guardrails, one of the most dramatic policy shifts...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
When I look at photos of lynching, it is always the crowds, smiling around a monstrously defiled body, that make me ill. People want permission to be vile and President Trump’s most dangerous gift is that he gives permission to those impulses.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
Facial recognition technology is dangerous when it works and when it doesn't. The last thing we need is Big Tech, the government, or anyone else capturing our biometrics as we go about our lives. Meta must not add this unreliable and invasive technology to its glasses.
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 12/02/2026
Audible gasp reading this @ryanjreilly.com lead: “A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump has been convicted of child molestation and other crimes, after he tried to use an anticipated payout from the Trump administration to silence one victim, according to a Florida prosecutor's office”
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Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump convicted of child molestation
Andrew Johnson tried to bribe a child victim with the promise of a January 6-related payout, prosecutors say. Trump has discussed the possibility of compensating rioters, but no one has received any p...
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