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If you love Boots Riley go out and get this hard copy and help support all the wonderfulI artists that made it possible. If you still haven’t experienced the satires of this modern-day Aristophanes, hurry up and watch Sorry to Bother You first.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 18h

The GOP is a political party. That is not the same as “the government”. Republicans, while they may serve in government, are never THE government. Government taxes, whether raised internally or externally, are not political party income. And the President may be Republican, but he not the State.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 20h

I wish there was a way to gift this New Yorker piece, because it’s the kind of subject & writing that sets your heart hammering like a horror movie. If you can read it you should. The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado deserves its own Kubrick treatment. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?

The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues. Why doesn’t anyone want to fix it?

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Almost every day offers a new chance to reuse the old saying, “Eventually they’ll come for you, too.”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Psychopathic little creep who couldn’t find a moral compass with an industrial magnet.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Authorities Embarrassed by Civil Discovery Revealing Squirmy Things Beneath Overturned Rock; Investigation into Squirmy Things Grudgingly Reopened”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even though carpet bombing is a war crime, Israel never signed the protocol, because “never again” was meant for everybody else. The US signed it but didn’t ratify it because weasel policy makes for profitable arms deals, & what is the US if not a profit-taking machine?

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

⚠️ Famine is baked in at this point

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the great editing jobs of all time. These times miss you badly, Rod. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5mUI...

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Rod Serling Sets You Up With His Friend At The Bar

YouTube video by Zane Golia

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is this a deleted scene from Backrooms?

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally watched Backrooms. Really nice mix-up of House of Leaves and the Jack Vance story When the Five Moons Rise. Talk Like A Pirate Day will never feel the same again.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Has anything ever been more useless and self-serving than the medical profession’s advocacy organizations, who sit by silently as the tyrant in the White House commands their members to abandon their own oaths in the pursuit and execution of one policy of cruelty after another?

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the thinking of a creature who lived so long on the “fine intellectual dexterity“ of others that if you dropped him in the middle of an only slightly-wild suburban ring he’d die of thirst before he could find potable water.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And with all respect to Sen Duckworth, pretending a midterm win for Dems will reset everything back to the 70s is the height of irresponsibility. Concentration camps, murder, disappearances, destruction of law & civil service, but let a war criminal save face? Shameful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm53...

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Duckworth: "Don't be impeaching anybody"

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This incredible thread by Ms. Brockell really slams home that we need to disabuse ourselves of the idea that we live in a land of law w/people who are bound by law. The Regime is still refusing entry to MSNOW this a.m. It’s response to nearly every court order now is “You & what army?”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last night I dreamt that I was back in a leafy neighborhood Philly when firestorms suddenly broke out all around & we were engulfed in flames. Except my house was miraculously spared. Later in the dream, guests moved rugs, & I found we‘d been overwhelmed with ants. The metaphors write themselves.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cat Distribution System finally caught up with me at Aldi’s.

Little black stuffed cat in an orange and black striped dress with a lace collar and big orange cartoon feet and hands. She sits up on her butt thanks to sand in it. She’s cute as a button, and as my mother-in-law used to say, “I couldn’t afford to leave it (her) there.”

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There have always been psychopaths in white collar professions and among the rich. But it feels like they’ve never had fewer scruples than now about letting us see who they are, and the law has never felt more impotent against them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...

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The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side (Gift Article)

Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We are a disgrace, and would be a laughingstock as well, were it not for the horrors we support daily by allowing this monster to stay in power. Short, sharp shock of a thread…

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is no requirement for intelligence, or even sentience, in the characteristics displayed by life forms: -Cells -Complexity in organization -Growth & development -Energy -Stable internal environment -Responsiveness -Reproduction by DNA AI is not life, no matter how much it tells you it loves you

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you ravage the only possessions of the most friendless, vulnerable people in the world and use it as a photo-op in your unmitigated drive for power, you‘re not going to worry about the moneyless hoi polloi when you make policy. Newsom is a Trojan horse for the plutocracy.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we don’t do this, we’ll soon have a people that can’t even recall a world w/out vast monopolies, & when that happens, the incentive to break them up will be gone. Our culture values youth over age, immediacy over memory, newness over permanence. What can’t be recalled isn’t worth remembering.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People used to wonder how ordinary, non-political Germans could sleep through the Nazi years and claim to be unaware of the camps and the industrial murder. This is how. Enough were unaffected by the horror to permit them to think they were the good guys & things weren’t so bad.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So proud to have Will Bunch on our side.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One day we will find out what the hell happened, but that day is not this day. That day will come after the books have been written & published and sold, and the people who could have told us have first made a bundle on it.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why do I need a ”tactical pen”? Why are these continuing to proliferate? Is writing by hand now a martial art?

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

*Some clown has built an entire "glass jar" full of fruitfly brains; the flies speculate in blockchain crypto, generate bad drum-n-bass music, etc *I'll be pleasantly surprised if this flybrain fad has any practical application whatsoever flyrooms.net

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Flyrooms

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I swear to you, a few weeks ago I didn’t know this guy from Adam, and now I’ve watched all of Season 4 and would die for the man.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is like if people in the US attacked the Red Cross for helping save lives. Going after neutral humanitarian entities, from Israeli attacks on ambulances & food convoys, to DOGE & Trump destroying USAID, to the Taliban killing doctors vaccinating kids, this is a right-wing project everywhere.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pavlov taught dogs he would feed them when *he* rang a bell. Cats taught humans to feed them when *they* ring a bell. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzh0...

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Cats Ringing for Dinner

YouTube video by Clement Wong

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pavlov taught dogs he would feed them when *he* rang a bell. Cats taught humans to feed them when *they* ring a bell. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzh0...

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Cats Ringing for Dinner

YouTube video by Clement Wong

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Sodhi was one of at least 13 people shot in the aftermath of 9/11 by people seeking revenge for the attacks, 12 of them fatally…” When 9/11 happened I worked at a state agency investigating discrimination. Hate incidents afterward spiked, & stayed high. www.thetrace.org/2026/09/sept...

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The Forgotten Hate-Fueled Shootings in the Wake of 9/11

Several shootings driven by Islamophobia were obscured in the aftermath of that day. In a new analysis by The Trace, we revisit what happened.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

thetrace.org

The Forgotten Hate-Fueled Shootings in the Wake of 9/11

Several shootings driven by Islamophobia were obscured in the aftermath of that day. In a new analysis by The Trace, we revisit what happened.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Even the sane among us don’t fully grasp how mad this moment is. In 50 or 100 years, our descendants will look back on this as another of history’s mystifying periods of mass delusion. We are like Maenads who are intoxicated by a spell & won’t realize the bloody shreds in our teeth till we awaken.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is actually something for the Scots to be proud of.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Joseph Steiglitz is looking for a grave to roll over in.

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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nothing to see here, just the US President, a convicted felon, bribing the entire nation to keep him in power, and all the Times can say is it would be “exorbitantly expensive.”

Top of the fold front page of the NY Times online, with every headline about the absolutely unimportant fake “RNC convention”.
Below a video on loop showing Fetterman’s ghost at the rally, the caption reads:
“Trump’s Dubious Midterm Pitch: Keep Us in Power and Everyone Gets Cash
“President Trump offered to pay every adult American $5000 if Republicans keep control of Congress. The notion would be exorbitantly expensive.”

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Connie Sneezer Story. Front and back of a photo from my collection.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat lying on the ground outside, looking peevishly at the camera.

Type written text that reads “Connie Sneezer. He can't bear to see the others getting ‘taken’ unless he gets in on it too. So he just sauntered up this time and planked himself down, and said clearly, ‘Now take me, please’”

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