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Mr. America

@skinnerboxusa.bsky.social
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"The Simpsons" is a documentary. Homer is the median American. Formerly SkinnerBoxUSA at the other place. IFBAV.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 5h
Ok, this is pretty wild. Check it out for yourselves. bsky.app/profile/norm...
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 8h
Once we pause a beat and consider that Schmitt-for-Brains is a bloviating buffoon, but *also* smart enough to know what he's doing and why and *for whom*, the whole "grandstanding transparent bullshit for the benefit of assholes who think Obama did 9/11 *and* Katrina" dynamic falls into place.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 9h
We should always enjoy any "victories," however small or large. I would never say otherwise. It's the only way to keep sanity and focus. But they must be understood for what they really are, and what the outcomes are, and whether they're really "victories" or not.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 10h
I know everyone's gotten to full sail this morning over Sinter Goatfucker From 'murka's Throbbin' Taint confusin' "Hawks" with "Hawkeyes," but if you can point me to a single instance of one of these defiant turds facing *any* accountability in the past decade or so, then we can be impressed.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h
$0 to enjoy the whole thing
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 13h
Not sure what the *point* of having hundreds of billions of dollars is if you can't hire a personal trainer or a shrink, and you wander around throwing vials of your monkey-chowder at various women, looking like Pregnant Ahnult. (No, I never saw the movie.)
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are plenty of reasons to doubt what is shaping up to be the 'official story' about RAF Fairford: the suspects are British nationals, they're out on bail, it's being called a "terrorist incident" even though nothing happened and no one was hurt, the only real sources are state ones, etc. But!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You owe nothing to people who openly hate you.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[monkey paw slowly curls another finger] bsky.app/profile/tomp...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do they have broccoli cuts and too-cute-by-half nicknames like "Big Balls"? I'm not even kidding here -- Coristine pulled off what was clearly a false-flag mugging, and the National Guard have been picking up trash in DC all summer. These people are capable of anything. bsky.app/profile/angr...
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seriously, this is like being annoyed with someone -- like genuinely irritated with them -- because they happen not to know all the names and personality quirks of The Progressive Insurance Commercial Gang. Sorry, I ignore commercials so I can *read* during them. Makes football more interesting! 🙄
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because "Jesus Camp for Closet Cases" would've been too on-the-nose. 🙄 Look, if these guys all want to spend the rest of their lives lying to their wives (who already know) and hustling other guys in the same boat, great. Good luck with it. Just stay the hell out of politics.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The BEST part of getting old (and there are many) is that you can ABSOLUTELY miss something wildly popular. Zooshas just flying by while you’re admiring someone’s sensible shoes or whatever. Bliss.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dept. of Feeling Seen: Speaking for those of us who labored on the Baltimore drama mentioned, this -- more than any arbitrary listing -- is gratifying. That said, looking around at our republic and society today, I would prefer to be entirely ungratified.
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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't feel the compulsion to be the cultural contrarian and inform you that "I've never heard/seen ______," but I do think the PR barrage over this song (which, no, I haven't heard because it's 2026 so I get to curate 100% of what I listen to, not what's in "heavy rotation") seems thirsty.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You go to the country’s most famous and successful immigrant and you tell him you want to use the city’s power to help the poor and struggling help themselves. It’s not a stretch. www.tmz.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Introduces L.A. Mayoral Candidate Nithya Raman to Power Players
Arnold Schwarzenegger is opening doors for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman ... bringing her face-to-face with some of the city's biggest power players, TMZ has learned.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The English language conveniently offers us a term for people who hear what fascists have to say and think "This sounds good to me."
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It takes genuine talent to be this wrong
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's a shame, because Jennifer really has her finger -- when it's not buried up to the third knuckle in her left nostril! -- on the pulse of What Really Matters: school bathrooms of the same sex living in sin, getting "married," prolly being allowed to adopt, etc. 🙄 bsky.app/profile/coop...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My friend @josephfahim.bsky.social's sweeping, eloquent review of NAZA covers points I haven't seen made elsewhere. I'm seeing NAZA on Saturday in a sold-out Alice Tully Hall, which also speaks volumes. www.middleeasteye.net/discover/naz...
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NAZA review: Portrait of Israel as a nation stuck in a moral abyss
Testimonies from military and intelligence whistleblowers debunk myths about the reasons behind the Gaza genocide
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly. To the extent that a nation or society can be said to have a "soul" or some intangible binding ethos, the one in this country is corroded, rotting, metastasizing, and there is no entity proposing to address that. It is truly cancerous. #MakeAmericaGoodAgain bsky.app/profile/norm...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026
why does this guy look like what would happen if you shaved a sasquatch bald
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Nothing to see here? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin shares a D.C. home with a Republican congressman
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The extraordinary spectacle of Tommy Tuberville trying to start a new hate & fear campaign against furries in the airline industry when his whole party are a bunch of goddamn human trafficking pedophiles.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ooh, such a *tough* guy, Chubs. You gonna choke the life out of an unconscious hitchhiker with those wittle doll-hands, while your "wife" tracks down Moose and Squirrel? Fucking play-acting jabroni motherfuckers. 🖕🤡💩 #MachoMachoMan
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus H. Christ. "Does it matter" to a billionaire? No, does *anything* matter to them, other than their own endless self-aggrandizement? *Should* anything matter to them? Does having basic cognition skills and conceptual thinking matter to people who will need to *work*? 😤 bsky.app/profile/mfor...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to listen to this fellow. His research into the sexuality of minors has been precise and comprehensive. His naked concern on such matters has been long evident.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is as perfect an example of Median Democrat Brain as I could've possibly dreamed or conjured out of thin air for a brief skit. Duckworth is in one of the safest blue seats in the country, in an environment where KANSAS is now on the table, and this is her take. 🖕 www.c-span.org/clip/public-...
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great stuff here, as always. Every villain is the hero of their own story. bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think it's very simple, the bosses agreed with Trump about "wokeness" and this was an excuse to purge anything associated with it bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unindicted war criminal Condi Rice thinks that the final solution to the Iranian question should consist of more and better war crimes: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/curb...
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Curbing my enthusiasm - Lawyers, Guns & Money
One of the under-appreciated aspects of the Nazi regime was that it was a giant money-making scam for various social misfits and outcasts. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in...
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jesus Christ. So many of them really have to go, if we're going to stand any chance of getting anything back. They don't care. They really don't. They keep saying it; we just need to hear them. [goose meme] "'get back to work' on *what*, Tammy?" bsky.app/profile/mere...
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is great, the most heartwarming thing I've read all week. Ideally, Steve Deace and his ilk would find a 6th-story window or idle farm machinery to end their pain, but "everybody hates him; he should get out there more" gives a clear view of their cognitive abilities. bsky.app/profile/chic...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humoring conservatives & acting like they make good points over the last 30 years brought us here. You never have to listen to them for the rest of our lives. It's time to treat career arsonists with the contempt they've earned instead of imagining a fake world where they're reasonable interlocutors
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A lot of shows should be one season only. A good skill to cultivate is to know when to bail on a show, which I've done with all of these after a couple of seasons. At some point, even shows that started really well have nothing new to say.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I just checked my voter registration. I encourage all of you to do the same. Try your state's official site. AVOID VoteSafe.Org. It's an Elon Musk scam to harvest data.
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One thing the owner class really don't want median 'murkins thinking about too deeply is just how much of "The Economy" is predicated on and buttressed by this baroque racket specifically engineered to extract exorbitant costs for service that ranges from mediocre to dismal. bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Real shocker that The Poop Detective literally does not understand how actuarial risk pools work. As always, Thanks Oprah! 🖕 bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”
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