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Sam

@soapboxhero.bsky.social
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Just taking a groovy ride on Starship Earth 🌹

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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you fake a heart attack at Angels Stadium they give you a free hot dog ❤️🤍
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If a politician isn't doing everything in their power to decarbonize, they're supporting more of this. If they're actively championing more fossil fuel extraction, they're championing death.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
They’re called the ‘dog days of summer’ because the humidity reminds us that we’re all disgusting smelly animals, and someday we will die. Hope this helps!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/08/2026
it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
this is shaping up to be one of the great defining calamities of our lifetimes. that we get this fucking disgrace so soon after iraq and afghanistan is a moral stain on all americans
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 05/07/2026
A new state tool lets you tell data brokers to stop tracking you. Will they comply? Help us investigate. cal.news/44NhuX8 🎨 Gabriel Hongsdusit
An illustration shows a person using a laptop in front of a blurred California privacy website, with yellow pixel-like blocks scattered across the image to suggest digital data. The stylized artwork uses a limited color palette and visual elements that evoke online privacy and information security.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dawg I told you not to let yourself become addicted to water! I fucken said you would resent its absence dude. Now you’ve gone and done it!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 30/03/2026
your grandparents voting for reagan
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It’s the hottest night club in Echo Park!! (Fire code violations)
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/02/2026
If you'd told me, a decade ago, that the rising concept of the 'influencer' would one day serve as a transmission belt for the elevation of subliterate clowns seeking to provoke pogroms in exchange for promotional deals with online betting companies, I'd probably have said, "That tracks."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I’m doodling a new sketch series about cute anthropomorphic creatures struggling with existential crises. It’s going very well
Sketch of a rooster doing Munch’s The ScreamSketch of a bleary snowman smoking with speech bubble saying “Give it to me straight, Doc. How long do I got?”A sobbing Post-it note lamenting his fallen kin, drawn on the last note in the stack
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/01/2026
The world's 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which found just eight billionaires accounted for about a quarter of those gains.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Ocean heating defies all earlier projections. We are on the worst possible track. Yet this has completely vanished as a topic of conversation in America.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Don’t threaten me with a good time! Don’t threaten me with a bad time either! As a rule of thumb this is a threat-free environment!
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
We could try constitutional reform via annual national referendums. After a few dozen amendments to restore governance we start doing fun ones. New anthem, something catchy. CFPB but for products that are annoying. Chemtrail ban
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Portland ICE facility now.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
can also run this backwards: we watched the development of mass incarceration, waves of repression of anti-police brutality protests, and a spiraling post 9/11 surveillance and detention apparatus. we shouldn't wonder how a president in 2025 could decide the guys with guns can do whatever they want
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
1. @abenewman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in @wired.com on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world.
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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
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marty, @numet.al · 22/01/2025
Frank Reynolds played by Danny Devito from the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the caption "you would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an American."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It took me 15 whole minutes of going “Wow Thunderbolts is insanely violent! Lotta F-bombs too” to realize I’d sat down in the Final Destination: Bloodlines theater by mistake. 10/10 movie! Marvel’s done it again!
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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 23/04/2025
one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
They called the targeting of brown people of another faith and erosion of civil liberties the “patriot” act so you would feel guilty or fearful for being against it. So you would adopt an us versus them mindset. You were being groomed for autocratic rule all along.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Panic! At The Dentist
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Me: If you think about it sleep is kinda like a mini vacation for ur brain haha The sleep paralysis demon I’m in a toxic codependent relationship with: Ima paralyze the shit outta you tonight
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Hossferatu
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
*lying through my fucking teeth* Ugh I hate workplace drama 😔
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
💛🤎
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m spinning a hardback book on my finger like a Harlem Globetrotter trying to flirt with the librarian. I’m familiarizing myself with the Dewey Decimal System
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
Giving my roommate a piece of chocolate every time they remember to turn the oven off. Trust the process
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Your barber should give you a little kiss on the forehead if you behaved yourself during the haircut
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Bloody Sunday families reply to IDF/Bono appropriating their history
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Physicists aren’t certain why all baseball players are named Travis, and yet it works in all their models. The universe is vast and mysterious.
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Bo Nix is stacking diplomas like he’s a minor character in Community
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Subtweeting is too easy now. For centuries, you had to write a 400 page novel where your dipshit protagonist was a thinly veiled metaphor for somebody you hated
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, please stop fooling me I am asking you nicely
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Sam @soapboxhero.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
And when there was only one set of footprints in the sand, that’s when Jesus backtracked to set a deadly ambush for his pursuers
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