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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The Burning Towers Foreshadowed a Burning World – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 25 Years After 9/11" On this anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes how the horrific 9/11 attacks exposed both the power and vulnerability of the U.S. empire and its imperial citizens.
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The Burning Towers Foreshadowed a Burning World – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 25 Years After 9/11
On this anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes how the horrific Sept. 11 attacks exposed the simultaneous power and vulnerability of the American empire and its imperial citizens.
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Rob Huntley @robhuntley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The war in Ukraine is a hoot. Zelenskyy did not wear a suit. Trump did Putin’s dance And then J.D. Vance Just licked off the shit from Trump’s boot.
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Rob Huntley @robhuntley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Mandate (n.)— The authority that a politician gives to himself to carry out a policy or course of action that a minority of people agree with. Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
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Rob Huntley @robhuntley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Landslide (n.)— When a candidate wins a handful of swing states by a couple of points and the popular vote by the smallest margin in a quarter century. Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
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Rob Huntley @robhuntley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“Secretaries of Astronautics don’t have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.” —Octavia Butler, “The Parable of the Sower,” written in 1993 and set in 2024, in which the president-elect wants to get rid of entire government agencies and do away with that pesky minimum wage.
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Rob Huntley @robhuntley.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Efficiency (n.) - the idea that the government needs streamlining so you create a new, extra Department of Government Efficiency headed by not one but two freeloaders.” —Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary “
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