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UncleFunker

@unclefunker.bsky.social
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Musician, recording engineer, recovering S.F. boomer tech bro

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This story and the story of the Collins corruption allegations broke the same day, and in one instance the administration is alleging fraud to remove access to healthcare, and in the other they are stopping anti-corruption investigations of political allies.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
America is free only when the media is competitive, independent, and accountable to the people. apnews.com/article/warn...
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States settle lawsuit over Paramount-Warner merger, clearing key hurdle for $81 billion deal
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to settle their lawsuits against the mega merger.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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David Raikow @david.raikow.online · 22/09/2026
From the class I teach on political corruption analysis: “Opportunistic and systemic corruption are related but distinct… Systemic corruption functions via networks of ongoing transactional relationships. Key links are usually based primarily on financial, service, and threat transactions…”
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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 22/09/2026
Trump Made Over 1,000 July Stock Trades politicalwire.com/2026/09/22/trump-…
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David Bailey @drgdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not your grandparents GOP. They have set up concentration camps. They want to invade Canada and Greenland. They have invaded Venezuela. They're engaged in market manipulation and all other sorts of corruption. They tore down the East Wing of the White House.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You’re lying to yourself if you don’t think misogyny is a factor. It’s easier, I suppose, for people to believe that the Clinton and Harris campaigns were so fatally flawed rather than to acknowledge that a decisive percentage of voters simply hate women. Hey, I’m sure AOC won’t pay a penalty.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was Biden's ultimate failure. The inability to see that people weren't voting for Biden because they especially liked Biden. It was because they hated Trump. Now, Democrats are about to make the same mistake again. They think votes for them validate their inaction and their corporatism.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the progressive era, muckrakers took down various powerful entities without ever having access, it can be done! Having investigated companies that won’t talk to me I can confidently say it is very possible to report on people who don’t invite you to their press conferences. This is not to say…🧵
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
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Kent right now @bookshrike.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Democratic Socialists are winning because they go out and meet and listen to their constituents. And their constituents like their policies of getting things done. Any party or segments of a party can replicate this anytime. The biggest cost is time, not money.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Reuters: A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump admin's plans to immediately slash the workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by about two-thirds.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I mean, this was paid for by taxpayers -- $14.2 million to paint and waterproof this pool to make it "American flag blue" -- so I guess people are getting their money back in a way
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Rex A. Paar @nothingmanguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you’re going to rename the DoD the Department of War, and rename the SoD the Secretary of War, and then start an unnecessary war, you’ve opened yourself up to mockery when you lose that war.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Remember, it's only a waste of taxpayer money when it is something that is being done to help other people
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon
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Iran War Reasons Chart.xlsx
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18/06/2026
A century ago, Black physicians built hospitals, clinics and medical schools across the South – only to see them dismantled. to.pbs.org/43DIBDE
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'The Price of Exclusion' explores lasting impact of racial inequality in medicine
A century ago, Black physicians built hospitals, clinics and medical schools across the South – only to see them dismantled by policy, segregation and an influential report. Investigative journalist N...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/06/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “‘Voter fraud’ is not about fraud,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “It is about who votes and how. It is about the breadth and scope of the political community.”
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Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Never Stops Talking About Voter Fraud
“Voter fraud” is not about fraud. It is about who votes and how.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Damn Colbert is a treasure. He very knowingly and intentionally played Linus and Lucy on the air, and the copyright holder joyfully got a fine out of CBS for it and then donated it to World Central kitchen. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Stephen Colbert's Unauthorized Use of Vince Guaraldi's 'Peanuts' Music Leads to Donation
The owners of Vince Guaraldi’s music reached a licensing agreement with CBS over Stephen Colbert playing 'Peanuts' music during final ‘The Late Show.’
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Señor Juanton @senorjuanton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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The Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
all of these ppl are repositioning to catch the next big grift wave. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Tucker Carlson apologizes for 'misleading' people on Trump: 'We're implicated in this for sure'
The former Fox News host, once a prominent supporter of the president, has been vocally opposed to how the president has handled Iran.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps. Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
BREAKING NYT: The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I’ve been critical of the SPLC lately but this indictment feels like a stunt. It targets one of the primary enemies of their shared cinematic universe at a time when MAGA is divided over the war. Me for MSNOW: www.ms.now/opinion/sout...
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Opinion | What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about
Michael Edison Hayden: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” That’s patently absurd.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/04/2026
According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.
Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night.
The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said. 
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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women. tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy
Post from headquarters news.bsky.social with video from Tucker Carlson and the text “Tucker Carlson: I'll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.”
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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fox mentions of Pres Biden's family conflicts, 16mos period: 13,000 Fox mentions Pres Trump family conflicts: "For Fox News, their word is apparently sufficient. The network’s evening programs have mentioned the Trump family’s myriad Gulf state conflicts just twice since late last year."
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If Republicans end up disowning Trump over this image, it’s not because he’s portraying himself as the Messiah. It’s because he’s giving away free healthcare.
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UncleFunker @unclefunker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
And so the musical chairs of the deplorables begins...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Wild scenes. Absolutely wild. My brain can't comprehend this kind of behavior
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2025
The Department of Health and Human Services gutted key groups that had been successful in helping Americans quit smoking. This is a "gift to Big Tobacco" a former CDC director said.
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HHS gutted programs to help people quit smoking. The impact could be deadly.
Cuts to the CDC and the FDA, experts say, could reverse hugely successful campaigns to reduce cigarette smoking rates and curb teen vaping.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 02/10/2024
this mythical republican party vance keeps describing that cares about things like child care and health care is interesting to me as a lover of alternate history scifi
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
I know a lot of people are making posts about the Trump guy’s politics like wow isn’t it complicated but if you take a step back and say “someone who thinks Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard would be great Presidents is an unhinged dangerous lunatic” it doesn’t actually seem that complicated
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UncleFunker @unclefunker.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Finding common ground solutions is not the point. Cruelty is the point. Control is the point. Being an a-hole is the point.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 08/09/2024
Crazy idea, stick with me... Law, but for rich people.
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Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers
The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden's signature…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
The Russians throw millions of dollars on a bunch of mooks like shit on a field and they see what blooms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Russian Propaganda Attack on America
Sometimes money is more effective than weapons.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Love when the video is Trump saying something like, "And then I ate a whole pie full of handkerchiefs and melancholy. So that's why Jesus helped me sink that putt, and Malaysians aren't real." But the chyron reads: "Trump to Fed: It's time to lower interest rates." www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar...
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Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Trump the day after another school shooting: "They had AK-47s. The ultimate guns. AK-47s. They can blow lots of people away real fast."
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
So Tim Pool, Benny Johnson and friends got more money from Russia than Hunter Biden’s firm got from Burisma lol. LMAO.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Many years ago when I was first freelancing I got an offer for $200 for 2 min worth of video footage from Ruptly. I almost took it, but the whole exchange felt really shady. But that was $200 more than American media outlets were offering, because all they offered was "credit/exposure."
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Right-wing India: Suspend these scores of accounts as part of our wider crackdown on freedom of speech Musk: Okey doke no problemo Left-wing Brazil: Suspend seven accounts Musk: HOW DARE YOU INFRINGE ON THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
I'm pretty sure that every single day this week there's been at least two Trump scandals that would have been *the* defining moment of literally any presidential campaign prior to 2016
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/08/2024
yes. this interview wasn’t for voters, it was to see how harris responded to the narratives that they themselves created!
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UncleFunker @unclefunker.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
It's in our nature to bitch about the economy, good or bad. So it's important to acknowledge when it's good.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
A story in four parts: 1) US GDP growth has outpaced all other G7 nations 2) it's even outpaced pre-COVID projections 3) inflation-adjusted wages are up, and most for low-wage folks 4) wages at the bottom rose so much, income inequality is down, undoing 1/3 of its growth since Reagan
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