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TPainTheElder

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Antii-extremism and macro econ nerd, look for me outdoors

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 8h
Motherfuckbuckets, this is giving me feels. I absolutely love this one. The combination of the time theme and the decades of everything feeling like it's getting more difficult, just super powerful. His rough around the edges delivery is so perfect for this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 9h
This is awful. Put in a full-body straitjacket and then pulled up the air stairs by his wrists and ankles. The WRAP is regularly used on ICE flights to Africa.
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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 12h
The United States is now a colony of the Russian Empire, everything make sense now, the War in Iran, the red carpet in Alaska, the attempt to destroyed NATO, everything. Comrade USA.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 10h
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not an accident. Hegseth is a disgrace to every American who sacrificed their lives in the fight against the Nazis and fascism.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
“It’s natural for a candidate to subtly modulate his messaging for different constituencies, and one way we can see that is with the choice of spouse.” — Cooper Ingraham, campaign manager
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Congressional Candidate Has Different Wife For Campaigning In Rural Counties
DARLINGTON, OH—In an obvious attempt to appeal to the county’s different demographic, U.S. House of Representatives candidate Jim Richardson reportedly showed up Monday to a campaign event in a rural ...
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Republicans count on their fervent adherents being complete morons
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
We've reached the open use of anti trans slurs phase by Trump. Dems haven't done shit to call out Pete Hegseth and Nancy Mace doing it so now it's become normalized.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Further polluting the Last Best Place
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only a total F’ing criminal puts dyed diesel in their pickup; so of course Trump likes it! Trump Allows Cheaper, Dyed Diesel to Be Used in Nonfarm Vehicles www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Trump Allows Cheaper, Dyed Diesel to Be Used in Nonfarm Vehicles (Gift Article)
In Nebraska, President Trump announced an executive order to waive an off-road requirement for the fuel, which is exempt from the federal highway tax.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is akin to what Putin did via the GRU fronts in the Prigozhin network in the Sahel. Especially Dagalo's/Hemedti's controlled parts of southern Sudan. They took the gold out through MERO-Gold & MERO-Invest & then laundered them through the UAE. Because no one legit will touch it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
A letter shows how the coal industry pressed the Trump administration to keep coal plants open using emergency powers.
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This protects the monied interests in college sports and not the players. Oligarchs grabbing more
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤦🏽
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou
A carrot field where you see the Bunches of harvested carrots laid out
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republicans ignored rising prices until Jon Husted started trailing Sherrod Brown. Now, six weeks before Election Day, the Senate GOP suddenly wants to look like it cares about affordability. Too late. Vote blue…and make their panic permanent. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What? Are they afraid of getting what they voted for AGAIN??
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And once she’s elected, she’ll go back to kissing tRump’s backside 🫏
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Erin was enough
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🥳🤣🤣🤣
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Typical MAGA
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If the Terrible Twos could also be called a ‘long-running pattern’
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Caw Yar Bluff @j-leslie3k.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russia sees Alaska as part of their empire. Lavrov wore a USSR sweatshirt at the 2025 Alaska Summit as a jab. I am concerned the US may allow an energy company in Russia to develop Alaska’s resources as they are helping Iran strike us in Iran and recruit U.S. citizens to surveil and murder people.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey Chuck! This is what you voted for!!
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Data centers are a higher priority than housing NOT!!
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More Fox News stupidity and propaganda
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rasputin’s beard
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Honestly, I’m just so over the pathological lying.
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Mike Johnson is Despicable
Honestly, I’m just so over the pathological lying.
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“.. hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind” You’re getting there Tom…😉
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As much as I am cool with the idea of Payton delegating the play calling, it’s looking like the team’s rhythm is off and that this move is one they should be reversed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war Would be bigger news..
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So it’s still cheap to register a super car in Ukraine that oligarchs want a Ukrainian rego plate? Uh huh….. 🤦🏽
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We don’t buy diesel from Russia but the rest of the world does. And with US production filling that ex-US gap, our supplies are low and prices skyrocket. A US diesel export ban has been mentioned, ala the crude export ban we had until fracking took off, but that would upset the world economy
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💯🎯
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/09/2026
#medsky
COVID heat map, based on CDC wastewater data & standard levels
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14/09/2026
One Big Billionaires' Bill
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New word: Middle-garchs “These wealthy politicians,” Zidar and Zwick write, “are predominantly Main Street millionaires.” “They’re not just influencing politicians. They often ARE politicians.” apple.news/A7FT1ifaITGG...
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The powerful millionaires hiding in plain sight — NPR
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political...
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’ll stick to Kodachrome, thanks 📸
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TPainTheElder @tpainetheelder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Full of hot air 💨
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