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Sea Slug of Doom

@seaslugofdoom.bsky.social
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I am jaded, misanthropic, and demiurgic. I love run-on sentences and Popeye's red beans. I have comma disease. Mastodon: @seaslugofdoom@sfba.social Signal: seaslugofdoom.77

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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 6h
A new Pentagon study on future warfare is co-led by Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey, whose companies hold big Pentagon contracts. The author says that's part of a Heritage Foundation plan from 1994.
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Hegseth’s Purge Is the Heritage Foundation’s Military Takeover
Newt Gingrich, the foundation’s longtime intermediary, links the 1994 Contract with America to Project 2025 and now the Pentagon.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Chris Hedges ties the alleged Cornell assault to a bigger charge: universities turn out obedient, silent recruits for corporate America and starve the humanities that teach students to question power.
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Thoughts on the Mass Rape at Cornell University
The Chi Pi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.(Photo by Matt Burkhartt / AFP via Getty Images)
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dean Blundell compares Hegseth's new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs to the church ministry Germany created in 1935. The office is real, and the historical parallel is the author's argument for readers to weigh.
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Hegseth Just Built Hitler's Ministry for Church Affairs, and He Did It Faster
1. He now controls who becomes a chaplain, who gets funded, and who counts as religious. Germany built this exact office in 1935.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chris Hedges, drawing on Ece Temelkuran’s exile, argues that neoliberal inequality hollowed out democracy, fueled fascism, displaced belonging, and left people searching for fragile forms of home amid enduring estrangement.
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Becoming the Stranger - Read by Eunice Wong
The road to fascism, as Ece Temelkuran writes in “Nation of Strangers,” was constructed over the last six decades of neoliberal assault. We have arrived at the terminus.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@stephenking.bsky.social Happy Birthday!!
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More than anything, I’m profoundly disappointed. This whole situation is just so disgraceful.
Your daily reminder that Usha Vance sits on the Kennedy
Center board that voted to close and destroy the venue. She's every bit as vile as Trump and the turd she married. She's NOT a victim. She's an accomplice.
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Rockin’ Robin 🎶 🐦🪺 🎼 @rjow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Man Sips Tea for Tea Report
ALT: Man Sips Tea for Tea Report
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez reports Deb Haaland’s gubernatorial campaign accepted over $87,000 from Oracle and affiliated leadership behind Project Jupiter, despite Haaland publicly supporting a moratorium on large-scale data centers.
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Give the Money Back, Deb
The campaign of Deb Haaland, the Democratic nominee for governor in NM, has been taking huge sums of cash from Oracle, the company behind the Project Jupiter data center, despite voter hatred of it
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tech giants often exploit outdated zoning codes and use vague terms like "light industrial" to quietly build resource-heavy data centers in small towns, prompting local governments to rewrite their rules.
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The Code Words That Mean A Data Center Could Be Coming To Your Town
Learn the lingo. Then get to work.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Border Patrol units monitor confidential Treasury banking reports to identify targets, tipping local police to stage pretextual traffic stops while deliberately hiding the financial surveillance records from criminal court proceedings.
danboguslaw.substack.com
Secret Banking Database Used For Pre-crime
Border Patrol’s predictive intelligence hinges on a vast and secretive banking database
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elon Musk’s VoteSafe.org presents itself as a voter registration tool while collecting extensive personal data, tracking users across platforms, and allowing America PAC to sell or share sensitive information widely.
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In [Chomsky After Epstein](strangematters.coop), Alex Gendler argues that Noam Chomsky's ties to Jeffrey Epstein reflect a lifelong pattern of reflexive contrarianism, media obsession, and dismissal of atrocities committed by anti-Western figures.
strangematters.coop
Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters
Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An aspiring doctor and honors student complied with every immigration mandate, only to be forced to wear an ankle monitor by ICE. The ensuing public humiliation drove him to suicide.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
Pierre Damas Bel Died As A Result Of An Anti-Immigrant Purge Built On Cruelty
The tragic death of a 20-year-old college freshman after being shackled by ICE “demands that we confront the cruelty embedded in our immigration system,” said one Haitian leader.
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/08/2026
Signs of Fascism. #Pinks
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This article argues Trump is reshaping Washington’s historic landscape through demolition, redevelopment, spectacle, and monuments, using changes to public space and memory in ways associated with authoritarian consolidation of power.
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Trump’s Perverse Rupture
The Diabolical Plan Devised to Disorient a Nation
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This essay argues that Bessent’s bond buybacks, stablecoin policy, and removal of transparency safeguards form a pattern that could benefit a privately controlled digital dollar as the official dollar weakens.
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THE CURRENCY KILLER: SCOTT BESSENT
He broke five currencies and made billions. Then, he got the keys to the USD. All while having connections to Epstein and Ehud Barak.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Media Lens examines an actuarial warning of catastrophic mortality under severe warming, arguing that muted coverage and delayed political action obscure the climate crisis’s stakes for billions of people worldwide.
medialens.substack.com
4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An expanding immigration detention system is increasingly marked by deaths, medical neglect, prolonged child detention and abuse, while the administration tests legal boundaries around citizenship, confinement, and presidential power.
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Escalating Abuse Inside Detention Camps as Trump Moves to Claim Unchecked Power to Imprison United States Citizens
Documented deaths, abuse, medical neglect, and obstructed counsel intensify across a rapidly expanding detention system.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Using the logic of childhood bullying, A.R. Moxon argues that accepting fascist labels and frames enables repression, while solidarity offers a way to resist exclusion and defend people targeted first. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...
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Soon You Too Will Be A Commie
Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A reminder. Heidi Cuda’s column examines warnings from Jason Stanley and Keir Giles about threats to the midterms, voter restrictions, election administration, and growing public distrust in democratic institutions across the country.
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Hot Type: ‘Everyone Has to Realise They’re Going to Try to Steal the Elections’
Byline political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda documents the Trump regime’s comprehensive attacks on the November midterm elections and the collective pushback required for its efforts to fail
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Chris Hedges reflects on family graves, war, memory, and mortality, arguing that ordinary moments become sacred after death and that love, remembrance, and attention give brief human lives their meaning.
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The Dead
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A federal appeals court cleared Arkansas to enforce Act 372, reviving potential criminal penalties for librarians and giving local officials final authority over disputed library materials amid First Amendment concerns.
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Appeals court allows Arkansas to enforce law restricting library materials | Arkansas Advocate
The law creates criminal liability for librarians who distribute content that some consider “obscene” and gives local government the final say over library content.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The "Make Corrupt Politicians Pay Act" is a model state bill designed to let individuals and attorneys general sue public officials for insider trading and financial fraud connected to office.
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This State Law Makes It So Anyone Can Sue a President for Financial Fraud, and their State AG Can Levy Criminal Charges
Securities fraud, stock manipulation, and scams are not "official conduct" for a president. They aren't in pursuance of the Constitution, so the Supremacy Clause doesn't apply.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@wordweaverlynn.bsky.social Happy birthday!
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Popular Information reports that One Nation, a Senate Republican-aligned dark money group, operates six state-focused websites that present partisan messaging as local journalism while concealing their ownership and funding sources.
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Senate Republicans launch network of fake news sites
One Nation, the Senate GOP's primary dark money group, is producing propaganda masquerading as journalism.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hartmann argues Trump is transforming ICE into a modern slave patrol, using local police, surveillance, detention and violence to intimidate immigrants, protesters and anyone threatening entrenched political power and wealth.
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America Ended the Slave Patrols. Trump Is Bringing Them Back.
The uniforms have changed. The technology has evolved. But the mission remains the same: protect power through fear and intimidation…
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Howard Lutnick's firm once sought approval for event betting markets, including hurricanes. Now, as Commerce Secretary overseeing federal weather forecasts, his family's exchange still profits from hurricane bets his own department predicts.
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Why Is Howard Lutnick’s Family Taking Bets on Hurricanes His Own Department Predicts?
Congress stopped Cantor’s first market for betting on the future. It never followed what Cantor and Jeffrey Epstein funded next, or how the surviving exchange could be tied to the Commerce Secretary.
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🍂k a r e n🍂 @andthenisleep.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Angela Ederson Meet Bruce Taylor of Taylor Farms. This man makes huge contributions to Trump and is MAGA, so his lettuce is never inspected. So far, this man has given us E. coli, and cyclosporiasis.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lettuce monopoly sickens thousands, wildfire smoke fills the air, and a shaky election-fraud claim sets up emergency powers while Medicaid cuts loom. Corporate consolidation and political nihilism, working together.
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The Nihilist Pro-Death Cult: MAGA Monopolies, Toxins, and the Machinery of a Modern Coup
How corporate consolidation and state-sponsored gaslighting are engineering a dystopian reality in real time.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Seth Abramson suggests that Trump's speech on Thursday, July 16, will be about election interference by foreign actors, and that it will focus on Georgia. The event might include a "confession" by Maduro of Venezuela. The article is behind a paywall. open.substack.com/pub/sethabra...
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Donald Trump Has Launched His New Coup Plot
Thursday—July 16—marks the launch of Stage 2 of the January 6 coup plot. It has been in the works for 5 years; its aim is the end of our democracy. Trump’s move toward a possible civil war begins now.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
James "Fergie" Chambers, a Cox Enterprises heir who gave away his fortune to Gaza aid and activism, sits jailed in Spain, facing US extradition and 30 years under a new memo branding leftist solidarity as terrorism.
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The Crime of Compassion: What the Arrest of Fergie Chambers Tells Us About Where We Are Now
A wealthy man who gave his fortune to Gaza's wounded sits in a Spanish jail, awaiting extradition to Trump's USA, a country that now calls charity terrorism.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A former corrections officer draws on prison psychology, neuroscience, and survey data to argue conservatism reflects diminished empathy, tracing parallels between inmate behavior and political incentive structures.
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Conservatism: America’s Personality Disorder
A military police officer turned researcher explores the relationship between politics and the psychological traits that accompany empathy disorders.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Rebecca Solnit writes on Democratic men excusing Graham Platner's red flags, including a credible rape allegation, arguing the party can't claim democracy while tolerating misogyny for electoral gain.
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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Heidi Cuda examines prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters, surveillance expansion, and NSPM-7, arguing these developments reflect growing authoritarian pressures while citing legal scholars and former Justice Department officials throughout the article.
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Hot Type: The Machinery of the Fascist State
As anti-ICE protestors are sentenced to up to 100 years in jail, Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on how a little-known Trump directive is forcing US citizens to ‘fall into line’
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A.R. Moxon examines how respectable national myths conceal enduring supremacy, shape which stories feel permissible, and hinder structural change, arguing that progressive humanism requires honest, costly new foundations for democracy.
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The Submerged Story
Want to win the story game? First, know whose story you're really telling.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Outside Delaney Hall in Newark, protesters face tear gas and riot shields as families are torn apart. Chris Hedges reports from the front lines of what he calls the fight against America's consolidating police state.
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The Fight to Save America - Read by Eunice Wong
The street battles against the abuses by ICE are the front lines of our struggle to prevent the consolidation of the police state.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Britain has arrested over 3,300 people, including an 83-year-old priest, for holding signs that say "I support Palestine Action." Parker Molloy traces how a WKUK comedy sketch became a real-world legal crisis.
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You Can Go to Prison for Saying This
How a 'Whitest Kids U' Know' bit went from the Supreme Court to a Channel 5 daytime show, and what the UK is actually doing to people holding cardboard signs.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A so-called progressive PAC spending $400K attacking a New York Democrat turns out to be linked to House Republican leadership through shared bank records, filing software, and a treasurer with deep GOP ties.
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Progressive Champions PAC is a GOP front
Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” On Friday, according to FCC records, ...
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New Mexico's deliberate legal loopholes, including a weak sex offender registry, enabled Epstein and Maxwell to traffic children for decades at Zorro Ranch. Political figures protected the system.
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The Legal Loopholes That Let Epstein, Maxwell and Many Others Traffic Children in New Mexico For Decades Were Deliberately Awful & Specific to This State
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell raped, sexually assaulted, and trafficked hundreds, maybe thousands, of children at a 7,500-acre ranch in Stanley, New Mexico for more than two decades.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Jared Kushner’s multi-billion-dollar luxury resort project on a protected Albanian island faces intense local protests, international environmental backlash, and an official corruption probe by the nation's anti-graft agency. Never ending grift.
open.substack.com
Kushner’s Albanian resort faces corruption probe, mass protests
Jared Kushner’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran War are not going well.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Chris Hedges warns that global capitalism and the climate crisis are driving society toward an inevitable choice between corporate tyranny and violent revolution, driven by the Global South's resistance.
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Tyranny or Revolution
We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On this day, the 1889 Johnstown Flood killed 2,208 people, caused by wealthy industrialists who ignored safety warnings. They faced zero accountability. The rich have always been dangerous and above the law. Nothing's changed.
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May 30, 2026
May 30, 2026 (Saturday)
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Christopher Armitage argues that blue states have constitutional grounds, rooted in Lincoln, Madison, and departmentalism, to defy a Supreme Court he says has abandoned neutrality for partisan rulings favoring Republican power.
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Lincoln Defied the Supreme Court. Blue States Should Too.
Defying the Highest Court has substantial precedent.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A recent investigation exposes two supposedly progressive super PACs secretly linked to House Republicans. Money is funneled through a new Wyoming LLC to conceal political operations and manipulate key congressional races.
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Two “progressive” super PACs linked to House GOP
Two newly formed super PACs which purport to be progressive are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a Popular Information investigation reveals.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
To no one's surprise. ProPublica obtained IRS records showing America's 25 wealthiest individuals paid an effective tax rate of just 3.4% on $401 billion in wealth gains between 2014 and 2018, while median households paid 14% on wages.
propublica.org
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Chris Hedges interviews journalist Matt Kennard, whose book argues the bipartisan War on Terror, through the Patriot Act, the imperial presidency, and lowered military recruitment standards, built the conditions that brought Trump to power.
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How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/ Matt Kennard) | The Chris Hedges Report
Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Barrett Brown exposes secret recordings from late informant Val Broeksmit. The audio reveals the FBI prioritized tracking a journalist Signal group over massive corporate fraud, Russian espionage, and Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Federal Witness Who Investigated Epstein and Fell Off a Building
Val Broeksmit wondered what his father William Broeksmit saw at Deutsche Bank before his unexpected death. Then Val unexpectedly died, too.
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Sea Slug of Doom @seaslugofdoom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A super PAC called Lead Left spent over $3 million posing as a progressive group in Democratic primaries, backing candidates with serious liabilities. Judd Legum traces it back to Caleb Crosby, treasurer of the House Republicans' primary super PAC.
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A GOP dirty tricks operation, exposed
Following the breadcrumbs from a “progressive” super PAC to a powerful Republican operative
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