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Sam Ferguson

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"Pretty dumb for a smart guy." | he/him | center-left social democrat being pushed farther left by the day | turbo nerd

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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 15h
Before Nazi Germany’s policy for the Jews and other out-groups of Europe was extermination, it was forced emigration. Authoritarian regimes almost-universally have sought to soft-sell genocide as removal first, before coming to the final truth. “Remigration” is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why does he keep saying this? This feels like he assumes nobody else knows because he himself didn't know until very recently.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I really need the news that I watch to stop sounding so much like fictional news clips used as exposition at the beginning of 1980s Cold War doomsday movies like 'The Day After' or 'Red Dawn'. youtu.be/rSiZyYm_jD8?...
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Russia warns NATO of a possible nuclear response if Kaliningrad exclave is cut off | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are a lot of people who are awkward mooks, but are not also shitty humans. Then there's JD Vance.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning. Your ol' pal Sam here to reminder you that, this being October 1st, you are legally and morally required to listen to Type O Negative all month long. You're welcome. youtu.be/9lqy1iYh25k?...
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TYPE O NEGATIVE - Love You To Death (Live at Wacken)
YouTube video by Nuclear Blast Records
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only thing more potent than my self-criticism is the inertial laziness that prevents me from actually changing. Pretty sure that's a specific sort of mental condition 😆
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, good. They'll self-regulate. That's traditionally worked out great. youtu.be/LHK4FRpc0eQ?...
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Trump says AI companies must 'self-regulate' | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Secretary Hegseth's gutting of our military's leadership is not only continuing unchallenged by our legislators, it's actually accelerating. (1/4) apnews.com/article/hegs...
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Hegseth is set to announce more cuts to the military's general and admiral ranks
According to Pentagon officials, Hegseth will direct all the military services to double the 10% reduction that he ordered last spring to the roughly 800 flag and general officer positions, making it ...
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Assertion: Janet Jackson's "Escapade" is a perfect pop song.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had my first panic attack in years last night, and today I'm reacquainting myself with the "panic hangover" — that feeling after your body has just processed a shitload of adrenaline and cortisol. Today is a day for my Big Grey Hoodie™, breakfast for dinner, and Trek re-runs in bed.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Par for the this admin's very profoundly incompetent course of affairs: The AAG leading the Nat'l Fraud Enforcement Division doesn't know how the new-fangled concept of...<checks notes>..."insurance" works.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Add the SPR to the list of critical national security resources depleted by Trump's war, alongside our stockpiles of anti-air and precision munitions, our strategic posture in Europe and the Pacific, the good will of our allies, and the endurance of our service members. www.npr.org/2026/09/25/n...
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The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is low. Here's why you should care
The U.S. has tapped into its strategic oil reserve to help drive down rising gasoline prices in the wake of the war with Iran. Can oil from Venezuela help fill it back up?
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are two types of people in the world: 1) Savage, uncivilized, inconsiderate hyena-people. 2) People whose parents actually taught them not to slam doors.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If I absolutely had to karaoke a hip-hop song, I think I'd have to go "Hits from the Bong". Just like, in terms of actually knowing all the words. Maybe "Welcome the Terrordome", but there's words in there that people who look like me should never, ever say. So probably the Cypress Hill.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Metal albums I've listened to front-to-back in the last 24 hours. Blackbraid — 'Blackbraid III' (2025) Coroner — 'Dissonance Theory' (2025) The Haunted — 'Songs of Last Resort' (2025) Hellripper — 'Coronach' (2026) Mastodon — 'Marrow Deep' (2026) Skeletonwitch — 'Devouring Radiant Light' (2018)
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the single most accurate representation of the working relationship between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump that I've ever seen.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can tell you're solidly, irretrievably a middle-aged white person when you start saying things like "I really like my rheumatologist" and "The dark chocolate cherry cashew Kind bar has revolutionized my morning routine." Source: Me, it's me, I said those things today.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The collective groan from the Internet at the ghastly public reappearance of Mitch McConnell is the most disappointed I've seen huge swaths of our society be at finding out someone is not, in fact, dead.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's nice that it's not just us shooting ourselves in the proverbial boot, I suppose.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On this week's episode of 'The Worst Dude You Know Makes a Very Fucking Valid Point'...
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quick reminder: The President saying that we don't need guardrails for AI as long as we have a "STRONG and SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" and saying he'll create an "AI Force" and appoint an "AI czar"? Same dude who posted an AI slop video of a U.S. warplane pooping on American citizens last year.
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Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for volunteering as a medieval reply guy. You will choose or be assigned a pseudohistorical source or factoid to be obsessed with. Memorize your factoid; it’s like a spell that beats anyone who can read a medieval text. Remember, the point is to beat those guys, not for anyone to learn things
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's very plausible that the closure of USAID will turn out to have the highest body count of any single U.S. foreign policy decision in our history, and I will be ashamed until the day that I die that we let it happen. apnews.com/article/usai...
apnews.com
What to know about USAID and the deadly impacts of US foreign aid cuts
The foreign aid landscape has changed dramatically since U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration dissolved the United States Agency for International Development, once the world’s largest humanit...
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The palpable dread of fully understanding that humanity faces very real existential challenges, unprecedented in our brief history in this cosmos, and simultaneously realizing that the people we've chosen to lead us are almost universally the worst and dumbest of us.
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Panda Facepalm
ALT: Panda Facepalm
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unix-on-RISC in my literal pocket is easily my favorite thing about the future. The rest of it seems pretty awful.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Evil companies aren't ALWAYS also incompetent, and incompetent companies aren't ALWAYS also evil. But the two do overlap a lot.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He thinks he's making a funny here, but earlier this week he very sincerely used exactly this same logic to threaten to completely sever U.S. trade with the EU if they moved toward making Canada an associate member.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a recent attack on a U.S. air base in Jordan, 20 Iranian MRBMs were met by 70 Patriot and more than a dozen THAAD interceptors. Enough of those Iranian missiles still got through to damage eight F-15s and an A-10. (1/5) youtu.be/phZoogdyZ7E?...
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70 Patriots, 12 THAAD - and Iranian Missiles Still Got Through
YouTube video by Preston Stewart
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If the stakes were not so profoundly dire, it would almost be funny to see them out here talking about future U.S. defense posture as if the Pentagon isn't fucking on fire all around their stupid ears. apnews.com/article/spac...
apnews.com
US troops must prepare to fight around the moon, Trump's top military adviser says
The U.S. military is preparing for combat in space, including areas around the moon. This announcement on Wednesday follows the Air Force's recent revelation that it has deployed space control weapons into Earth orbit.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
President Trump's reckless war of choice against Iran is wreaking havoc on fuel prices, stretching our once-vaunted logistical capabilities, exhausting our men and women in uniform, and depleting our stockpiles of advanced anti-air and stand-off munitions. (1/8) www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
nbcnews.com
House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders canceled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What the actual fuck. This is the most Kash Patel shit that’s ever Kash Patel’d.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In a sea of shitty news, including a lot of other ways this regime is working to flood the zone with election interference measures, this is unequivocally very good news. Organizations like the League of Women Voters, backed by groups like the ACLU, deserve our thanks and our continued support.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What, precisely, makes a weapon “exquisite”?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As I’ve said before, a lot of modern American Evangelicalism is just a lifestyle brand for right-wing authoritarianism. It has no real core principles; its function is just to ventriloquize whatever otherwise-indefensible view serves power as a command from God.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of the best pieces of advice a grown-up ever gave me when I was a kid was “When it comes to making friends, being interesting isn’t more important than being nice…but it’s a close second place.”
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Apart from the inversion of logic and absolute break with reality that is the assertion that the U.S. could "stay in" Iran and "keep the oil", there's the added gem about Venezuela "paying for the war many times". (1/2) www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Trump says US could stay in Iran and keep oil, like Venezuela deal
He drew a parallel with the U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's reserves.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It takes a special kind of shithead to have started a war of choice that's actively interrupting international energy markets, then turn around and bitch at a people fighting for their lives because they're daring to strike their attacker's fuel infrastructure. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
reuters.com
Trump tells Ukraine's Zelenskiy to stop hitting Russian diesel
Long-distance Ukrainian ​drone attacks on Russian oil refineries in recent months ⁠have reduced that country's fuel production, triggering gasoline shortages ​across the country.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sam: "I hope my on-call rotation tonight is uneventful." The Cloud: "How would you like to wear a headset for eight straight hours tonight?"
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Rage Panda
ALT: Rage Panda
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Mouths of Trump that will take to the media tonight and tomorrow will tell every journalist with the stones to ask (which won't be that many) that he was "just kidding". But the President of the United States just made a rapt audience at a political rally pledge to engage in election fraud.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's okay. I'm sure they'll give it back after the mid-terms. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Yemen's Houthis reportedly seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha
Mokha's capture would bring the Iran-backed group closer to controlling the Bab al-Mandab Strait waterway, a key shipping route.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There are people who've made careers out of telling you what they think the Founding Fathers would say about various political topics. Take it from me: The two things they'd find the most disappointing are that we haven't passed more constitutional amendments, or impeached more presidents.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rachel. Rachel. Pay attention, Rachel: In order to be "rule-breaking", there has to be a rule, right? Do you think there would be a rule if "nobody had thought of this before"? I understand cognition is the right's signature weakness, but you sound pretty stupid even by your party's standards.
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Rev. A. l'Uecipher @revaluecipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
a priceless cultural artifact returned to its context and home you say wonder if anyone else is doing this
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Godfather: Act Like a Man!
ALT: Godfather: Act Like a Man!
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Republicans have spent my entire lifetime accusing Democrats of buying votes, and of wanting to give people handouts. Now our President and the leader of their party is promising a $5,000 pay-out to every adult U.S. citizen if the Republicans win in the midterms. (1/6) apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
President Donald Trump says he plans to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
3AM snack, 1996: 2L of Dew and literally as many Slim Jims as I can afford after buying cigarettes. Also, cigarettes. 3AM snack, 2026: a single can of Vernors Zero Sugar Ginger Soda™, one KIND bar, 800mg ibuprofen.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I understand that everybody's shit's fucked right now, and as an American I've got zero legs upon which to stand. But if we could NOT have the impending rearmament of Germany coincide with the resurgence of far-right political parties in Germany, that'd be great. Thanks. youtu.be/jOSdKN8I0go?...
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Official results: Far-right party wins Saxony-Anhalt state elections | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The most recent ridiculous thing my brain has decided it would do: Sing the words of Megadeth’s “Countdown to Extinction”, to the tune of the main theme from ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’.
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Sam Ferguson @samferguson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It should embarrass every American that Ukraine is holding onto its sovereignty by its fucking fingernails, and the "diplomats" we send to help negotiate peace are a pair of real estate hucksters. Venal, hopelessly-outmatched real estate hucksters. (1/2) www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Russia-Ukraine war: US envoys set for Ukraine talks after Putin meeting
It will be the first trip by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump's top negotiators, to Kyiv.
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