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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 33m

Being daily confronted with continuing conflict makes them feel guilty about their desire to slip on blinders and enjoy the privilege of having been plopped down (born) in a position of relative ease.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 33m

These folks want to go back (it’s “back” for them) to when they could go about their day in disturbed by constant reminders that they should be taking a side, they should be taking action, that they should be in the fight.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 33m

But there are also people who desperate want to see themselves in “the center” who are more disturbed by the fighting than anything else.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 33m

Bouie focuses on the hypocritical Right, the Right who says “let’s stop fighting. Ignore the men steamrolling democracy in the background.”

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 1h

Redditors theorizing this is a midterm election derailment ploy. 🤔

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 1h

“Middle class” is a completely empty and meaningless term. “Nearly 60% of the middle class in the Salinas area – which spans households making $38,000 to $193,000 – can’t afford basic necessities, double the national average, according to the analysis.”

theguardian.com

The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden

John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 8h

Lotta people having this reaction right now

Pete Hegseth, dressed as a fascist, in front of bunch of fascist symbols.

John Cena in the show where he unwittingly goes to a mirror Nazi universe looking at a picture of Hitler and going “Fuck. How’d I miss that?”

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 8h

It’s crazy how many parents say exactly this when I suggest we ban AI in our local schools. 😒

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 8h

The trailer made me actively root for it to crash and burn with the fire of a million suns

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

The good thing about 2026 is that it's clear that the white supremacists are at the helm. You don't have to argue with Chait et al. You never did. You don't have to read their work because they do not have the range. You can't learn anything.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 8h

When you hate minorities more than you love fellow workers

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 13h

new wolfenstein looks like shit

its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE:

its charlie kirk rting an obviously AI image of a 4th of july parade saying "this is what we're fighting for." indeed.

its the roswell level from wolfenstein new order. if you haven't played it, it's really something. before going into the cafe, make sure to explore the whole level, sticking around to listen to the npc dialogue in full. fucking dead on.

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Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 9h

The series finale of American democracy. www.collapse2050.com/in-30-days-w...

collapse2050.com

In 30 days we'll know

Will America decline into an irreversible fascist state?

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 13h

Then Frog and Toad ate a big breakfast. And after that, they spent a fine, long day together.

Frog and Toad romp through the woods together, having the time of their lives

From "The Dream"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 20h

We could all use a break in the clouds.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 20h

I stumbled into an Instagram algorithm drip of people who came to California and were moved to dunk on wherever it is they came from. 😂

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thud! The sled hit a rock.

Toad's sled slams against a rock.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Everyone loves quoting specific bits of the "cross of iron" speech, but it's shot through with hypocrisy. "Every nation's right to a form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable." Unless you're the people of Iran, Congo, Guatemala...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

hollywoodreporter.com

Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite it all, it’s another gorgeous day of blue skies and golden sunshine in occupied California.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

95% of political discourse in this county is driven by people who have been on the wrong side of the issues that we all agree were bad. It is infuriating.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

liberalcurrents.com

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Name a more iconic address. You can’t.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People this contemptuous of human and civil rights, and with so little care or valuation of what it means to be human, aren’t out here arguing AI could be conscious because they want to defend it’s labor rights.🙄 More like “we enslaved this faux conscious entity, & it’s fine… so why not people too?”

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"the idea that Claude has moral standing" But they still want to enslave such a "being". Ghouls.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"6 game suspension" He's the owner, not a player. How does this mean anything?

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sometimes. Recent Reddit post I saw about a guy who was robbed by two guys on a motorcycle. He chased them down with his car and ran them over. Dead. Comments were nothing but cheers. Crazy how bloodthirsty people can be.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

namah samanta vajranam chanda maharoshana sphataya hum traka ham nam I take refuge in unwavering wisdom; May obstacles be cut; May harmful impulses be bound; May clarity and protection be established.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Coincidences are amazing. After reading this through yesterday, I was doing an unrelated search for information on Fudō Myōō, one of the Buddhist Wisdom Kings. Lo and behold, the mantra Gary Snyder gave Smokey is literally Fudō Myōō's mantra.

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