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Staying alive so as to not upset others.

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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not happy about Anduril, but you're crushing this debate. Though anyone that doesn't seem completely insane would do as well. Not a high bar to beat this maga clown.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dan Cox doesn't seem intelligent enough to know that the BS he's spouting is actual BS. That's scary.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dan Cox does not seem intelligent, sane, or rational. I'm not 100% on board with all of your choices, including Anduril, but at least you're grounded in reality.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your reporter at this debate is killing it.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What? I don't understand this post. Who's antisemitic? Who's cancerous?
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm watching you on C-SPAN right now. You seem smart, but more impressive than that, you seem sincere. If I lived in Kansas there's no doubt I'd vote for you. I hope you win. 🤞
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They're weekend at Bernie-ing him.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If I was rich, Amazon would be delivering sooo many inflatable sheep to FBI headquarters right now. 🐑💘
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Similar to the Taliban.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality (Gift Article)
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't think of anything good that can come of this. Maybe (if Jeffries is smart) just some idea of what they're thinking. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
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Opinion | The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control (Gift Article)
Helen Toner, who served on OpenAI’s board, hopes the recent hack by that company’s models serves as a warning.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why does the CITY own and manage the bridge??
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
His only truthful response.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fred Fleitz is a horrible person.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I can't remember what the number was, but he said at that height we had a chance to survive. The plane was leaking several liquids from several places. At 18 I just went along with it all. Ended up being an amazing experience. But also could have been a disaster.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The very first time I went sky diving, the plane lost an engine just as we started to go down the runway. Luckily we never left the ground. An hour later the pilot said it's all fixed and we could try again. The instructor said watch your altimeter, if we get to X feet, we can jump.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Re the $1.8b slush fund.. "As more details on the settlement negotiations come to light, serious questions remain about whether criminal statutes against political interference in tax audits and tax administration were violated." 3 and 6 yr statutes of lim www.justsecurity.org/140939/congr...
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What Congress Should Do About the President’s Sweetheart Deal in Trump v. IRS
Three core actions that Congress must take to fully unwind the Trump administration’s settlement and hold its architects accountable.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/patricem...
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PART 2: A Funny Thing Happened Over Breakfast With Trump Voters
Between the coffee refills and the check, the contradictions got harder to ignore.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fantastic article. Part II is below. open.substack.com/pub/patricem...
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A Funny Thing Happened Over Breakfast With Trump Voters
There was coffee. There were pancakes. There were opinions.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
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Opinion | How Much Crow Will Trump Have to Eat on Iran?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
When Trump’s Undersecretary of State Jacob Helberg—who came from Peter Thiel’s Palantir—defends the creation of a new special economic zone, as he just did re: the Philippines, it’s helpful to know this quote from the Sovereign Individual (quote from book; Thiel wrote a separate preface). 1/
"The dramatic phase change from mass democracy to the ultimate form of self-government, personal sovereignty, need not involve a shift in public opinion, nor a miraculous vote by disenchanted electors opting to scrap a mass democracy. Such a revolution can begin, indeed already has begun, invisibly with the leasing of sovereign territory," & "in due course, sovereignty will fragment repeatedly," & "we anticipate that the apparently solid power of nation-states ... will splinter into tens of thousands of fragments..." - The Sovereign Individual (Peter Thiel & a16z are fans)
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Thanks for the correction!
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This was edited. Just as insane, but still not the same as the actual post.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/jimstewa...
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Mathematics of Caligula: Malignant Narcissism Has No Limit
Trump’s pathologies have a deterministic trajectory. He will try to take us down with him.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
First off, thanks for everything you all do! Secondly, I'll 100% watch this video, especially since I'm in MD. Lastly, I just went to your website to check something, got hit with the spring survey (which I gladly took), and now a half hour or so later, I can't remember what I was looking for. Lol
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Christina's World is my favorite painting of all time. This is a great re-imagining of it.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NOTHING at the National Mall?!??
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Nothing at the Capitol / White House / National Mall area??? That seems like a massive mistake.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I wanted to read more about this, but I can't find anything other than an MSN article that seems like it's AI with no citations.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Great HCR today about continuing cover-ups. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 18, 2026
I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Off-topic, but today I'm wondering something. The oil companies said that it wasn't worth it to drill/pump Venezuelan oil because the price of oil was too low. Gonna have to see if I can find out what their break-even price point for Venezuelan oil is. Iran now seems like a weird coincidence.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Ahh, thank you. Gonna block this acct then.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I might have to buy a lottery ticket, because the odds I'd be asking John for fashion advice are astronomically higher, and that's about to happen... Just saw you on Seth Myers, and I really want that shirt. Where do I get it?
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The replies to this are just nuts, lol
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"if necessary" How TF is it not necessary NOW?
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Is this real? I can't find ANYTHING about it.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Genuinely curious. I have no idea who that is. Doubt I've ever replied to him. How did he find me to block me?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
So now they're trying to get witnesses killed? 🎁 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
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Justice Department Exposed Cooperating Witnesses in Epstein Files
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I am not ok after hearing that.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Blocked....
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How you maintained your cool with Paul Perez is beyond me. I feel like I need a shower and he was only on my TV. What an absolutely vile human.
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Mary Tyler Moore hat toss vibes
Mary Tyler Moore tossing her hat
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Thank you for this. Also, F JB Jennings
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Badger @theoriginalbadger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I love these random posts that show up where the subject matter is so foreign to me that it might as well be written in hieroglyphics, but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. :)
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