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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦

@swelljoe.bsky.social
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For the masses, not the classes. Born tired. Likes hikes and bikes. Still in Texas. Did you add alt text to your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5h
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h
every election everywhere after one (1) cycle with the fascists out of power: FASCISM NEPOBABY: 50.1% NORMAL POLITICIAN: 49.9%
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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
now that’s what I call music for 18 musicians
music score on a piano reading ‘Steve Reich’ person in white playing a large marimba with two people in white playing cellos in the background
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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/10/2026
a man in a hardhat and a yellow tyvek suit, covered in brown sludge. looks like poop. but he is smiling wide.

a speech bubble infers he is speaking the post that is being reposted.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The median Trump voter
Nick Pinto, a 26-year-old crypto investor, said he invested $450,000 in the Trump meme coin and the value of his investments is down to roughly $50,000. He said he was disappointed by the first dinner last year, as Trump was there for "no more" than 20 minutes and did not take photos
with the crypto holders. The steak was only 5 ounces and "not something you'd get at a steakhouse in New York," he said.
Pinto also said that, if it was an option, he could see himself voting for Trump again. He plans on attending the upcoming dinner.
"I hope the food is better this time," he said.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I just called us "Homey Sapiens" as a typo in my book, wake up babe, new species name just dropped
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Mal a BOO 👻 @hallowedverses.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Idk who needs to hear this, but bounce on it for old time’s sake
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026
waking up every day in 2026 like:
a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
⏰👀
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 @swelljoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We destroy ourselves with this barbarism. www.wsmv.com/2026/10/01/d...
wsmv.com
Doctor involved in Tony Carruthers’ botched execution administered Christa Pike’s lethal injection — and she’s still alive
Ihnen confirmed the team is filing a motion to stay the execution, the latest in a back-and-forth over the “Jobs Corps Murder” convict’s execution.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We normally try to keep this on the DL, but it’s true: We can fly.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two absolute lunatics
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As seen on Bernie Sanders's FB page.
A group of tech leaders sit and stand around a table with name tags, titles, and their net worth highlighted, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Lisa Su, and others.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you just string together a bunch of random clauses, you get Kyrsten Sinema's life.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
God forbid a bear wants to get out of the house and try new things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLH_...
youtube.com
Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread
YouTube video by CBS Colorado
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
social media dot jpg
newspaper clipping of a tiny chick perched on a hand in front of some sort of large primitive microphone captioned 

you are now listening to a three hour old chick giving its opinion of things in general
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 @swelljoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Istanbul look like he's wearing a porkpie hat and doing a ska dance. Probably listening to the Specials.
Pictures of "walking men" from crosswalk signs around the world, showing signs from Montreal, Warsaw, Kolkata, London, Saragossa (wearing a skirt), Beijing, Chicago, Istanbul, and Rome.
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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
starting to think the plan is to lose by so much that it almost looks fake
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026
what keeps me up at night is these guys have basically never received real pushback and they still lost their minds and shredded the federal government's regulatory capacity when employees started griping too much in the company slack. What if you actually arrested one of them for their crimes
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026
This kind of bloodthirsty misogyny used to be the province of the fringiest fringe right wing, but with the advance of US fascism it’s becoming a mainstream religious right position.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.
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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 @swelljoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My position on the Choosin' Texas discourse.
sad guy/happy guy on a bus meme:

Sad guy: "I have never heard choosin' Texas and refuse to believe it is popular."
Happy guy: "That's a nice pedal steel part."
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Someone in a group chat I'm in described 2026 as "microdosing Falling Down moments" and I cant get that out of my head.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
you know what? I agree with him my moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment is we throw all of these assholes out of office and then we put them in jail
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026
When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire group has like three--four, at most--muscles between them
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
egirl & podcaster boyfriend
Sigourney Weaver smiling alongside a xenomorph from the set of Alien 3
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DO NOT READ ALOUD FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
cbsnews.com
Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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AlderFish @alderfish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hopeful for guillotines is still hopeful 🤷‍♀️
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really gross how everyone from Logan Paul and Benny Johnson to the conservative leader of Canada think it's suddenly ok to do digital minstrel shows thanks to AI
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
You, weak, bringing an iced coffee to an interview Me, strong, answering the first question right as the beat kicks in and singing “it’s time for the percolator”
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
nobody has ever heard of this person
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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