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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 21h

A favorite straw man argument against "taxing billionaires". Yet another of the week arguments against having a few pay a fairer share. youtube.com/shorts/0jaTr...

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Can we say what “tax the rich means” instead of avoiding the discussion out of sheer cowardice?

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Megyn Kelly again demonstrating that she is human garbage. So many problem with her speculative narrative, and how she is participating in traditional male misogyny, despite her own history. Shameful. youtu.be/WP3OqZoJRVY?...

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Olivia Rodrigo Attacked Over Cornell 7 Case

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love living on an island. I can handle the 50 miles each way commute 3 of 5 of my work days. With a van pool that used to be 5 days a week. It's part of the cost to have just a quiet home in such a lovely place. But I do not require that the people making my life possible work inhumane hours.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The situation has become grave. No idea if it is because of mismanagement or just the reality of time passing an people retiring out, but the impact on their lives can be, and is right now, brutal.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

USCG regs require engineers on all larger vessels. These are difficult jobs, often in noisy, sometimes very cramped conditions. Engineers hold these ferry jobs so they don't have to be away for weeks at a time on some commercial ocean-going ship.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Engineers, all of whom are already scheduled to work 84 hours per (seven-day) workweek, must inevitably confront exhaustion when asked to work the numbers of overtime hours required by the current stopgap system.”

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The United States of America is now synonymous with cruelty and greed. Every day another thing supports that view. This is not what makes America great...indeed, it is what tears us down.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once again a Creationist group simply does not understand science, and people are again falling for their nonsense and lies.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, yes, the current "Noah's Ark Project" is a scam, and its public face is a racist antisemitic flat -Earther. The project overall is, charitably, questionable. So many things wrong in their public releases so far, including mislocated photos and nonsensical "science". youtu.be/GrcWlasDGb4?...

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Bombshell Noah’s Ark Report RELEASED!

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump is pushing to undo The American Experiment. I guess it has gone too far towards actual freedom and equality. youtube.com/watch?v=gwW9...

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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The power of privilege extends down through history, even here in the US. It is not a surprise that members of one college fraternity would be let off so lightly. How many more have never been seen? youtu.be/y1kMOua-eXo?...

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Thomas Jefferson Survives: The Cornell 7 and the Price of Great Men

YouTube video by Resistance History with Tad Stoermer

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This goes on the must-ride list! What a fun and cool feature! Tasmanian River Rapids at Wild Adventures Theme Park www.facebook.com/share/r/19c2...

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The people responsible for investigating are no longer there, of course, fired for doing their jobs. So, here we are.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Susan Collins is a crook who takes bribes. The conservative SCOTUS has made it nearly impossible to prosecute politicians for soliciting or accepting bribes...on the most specious logic twisted to allow bribery. youtu.be/2RWREllGTOo?...

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Susan Collins Took Bribes?

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The coverage problems are the worst, and once you choose the MA path you're stuck on it. Possibly the most American thing ever.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The general vibe I fly under right now is that Medicare Advantage is ultimately a scam. Given the "enthusiasm" shown in the few commercials I've seen playing they must make a buttload of money with these plans. youtu.be/7JDgHvgWsZo?...

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**The Truth About Medicare Advantage I Wish Every 64 Year Old Heard Before They Turn 65**

YouTube video by SliceofLifeMD

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In re Senator Schmitt's faceplant, it was like a badly-staged middle-school play. All the Republican Senators could do was yell at Smith. What was the point? Sounds like the fake Atlanta trip story is still making the rounds. Weird. youtu.be/i4PWmvrZGn8?...

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Trump Claims He's the First President to Not Collect His Salary

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Senator has yet to admit the error, but neither is he being at all recognized for scoring anything but a faceplant. It's bizarre.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well this was embarrassing. A Republican Senator tries to gotcha Jack Smith and instead ends up being so completely wrong. He thought it was his golden day, but as usual they did not do their proper checking. youtu.be/vnFmHC59Z8o?...

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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith Ambush Ends in Spectacular Humiliation

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What they are NOT doing is "taking dangerous illegals off the streets". They're an ethnic-cleansing force that occasionally picks out token non-POC targets. We got by for over 200 years without ICE. We don't need them now, certainly not in the form they currently take.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Once again, ICE is an organized criminal organization that routinely conducts unlawful operations that endanger the public while grossly violating the civil rights of citizens and non-citizens alike. youtube.com/shorts/6y5RM...

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ICE officer involved in Texas shooting was not wearing body camera

YouTube video by ABC News

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Man...I gotta really really develop an editor's eye to my longer posts since few services allow edits. Proof-after-post is just never gonna cut it. Embarrassing.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Behind that stand people who do not believe in personal freedom, only compliance with a very narrow, dark, sad world.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's really a much much much deeper effort here to conflate a number of cultural domains that are then vilified together. People like Tuberville are vile, unwilling to allow others the freedom they themselves demand.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He seeks to create a false problem, and then draw focus on that, away from the train wreck the Republicans have made of our government and economy.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tommy's mis-takes on furries are not just moronically stupid, they're actually dangerous fascistic rhetoric. I know a few folk in the furry culture, and they damn fine people. Painting them as somehow deranged is slanderous and plain evil, willfully ignorant of this relatively tiny community.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville is a moron. That's just a plain statement. He routinely says things that are embarrassingly bad takes on reality. Things is, he's a useful idiot to others who have genuinely anti-American goals. youtube.com/shorts/Iz_pL...

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WHY is a US SENATOR talking about furries again ffs 😭😭

YouTube video by Rorschach

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

D'Souza about to release another stupid book. He is a lazy apologist, but people will suck it up without knowing any better. Why do people still trust this fraud? youtu.be/TUwj7qo-bZQ?...

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D’Souza makes his best case for the Bible’s reliability

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

WhoTF are these "aides"‽‽‽ Did she spawn the idea on her own, maybe while out for a run...after golf carts‽ Tell you what. Let's rename some portable shitters to "Trump Buckets". They could be everywhere! "Drop your diaper loads right here!" Spray paint them gold.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck?!?!

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No no! Prayers aren't spells!!! They're _requests_ for spells! "Oh, dear and loving Lord Jeebus, place boils and sores upon this other child of yours. I'm asking you to be spiteful against them, to cause them suffering and pain and ruin!!!", as all good Christianishes should do!

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woopsie! AI giving away the game. They'll probably code around it, and put tighter controls on the training data so the AIs just don't know. youtube.com/shorts/whHyp...

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Amazon’s AI Chatbot Just Snitched on Amazon

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump would destroy the engine of world peace by turning us back to the 1800s. We have no kings. We will never have kings. www.youtube.com/live/CvtUBff...

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Politics Chat, September 22, 2026

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When confronted by current bad economic data showing things getting worse, Republicans blame Biden. When confronted with polls showing dissatisfaction, they say the polls are wrong. When confronted with election results of voter revolts, they say the elections are rigged.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is why so many support Luigi. When the executive leadership conspires to deny valid claims pro forma, sometimes with great financial and health impacts, we are left with what looks and feels like a criminal conspiracy. Such fraud ruins customers lives, all just to bolster the bottom line.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hugging Face was an amazingly effective and scarily creative attack…er…event. A cooperative event between otherwise disconnected agents. Goes to show even a low-concern platform like Artifactory can be leveraged to be a chat space. youtu.be/2aw3MF8pY3w?...

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As a Microsoft Engineer, This Is the AI Agent Story That Scared Me

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Post-partum psychosis is not a new thing, but it's certainly been too far under the radar. The slop unfortunately prevents the needed awareness, causing real future harm.

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gone to Taiwan for 2 weeks and really didn't have time to pay attention to the Lindsay Clancy trial and the harm from speculative internet slop. youtu.be/ECRvaxkrV0w?...

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Lindsay Clancy Trial Spirals Out of Control, Dolly Partons Legacy, Trump Beef Recall | Zaid Talks

YouTube video by Zaid Tabani

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Scot Harkins @scotharkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh my I do hope someday we get the audio! We need an app that renders full-diaper baby Donny in his own tantrumic words. atlantablackstar.com/2026/09/16/t...