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Bob Lablaugh

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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm currently fighting the Gen X instinct to tell the world to fuck off. Time for a vacation
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Apple watch is now a security risk. gizmodo.com/if-meta-glas...
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If Meta Glasses Freak You Out, Wait Until You Hear About the New Apple Watch Features
Live Rewind and Siri Recap just killed the dreams of always on AI wearables.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This sounds a lot like the Network State ideals applied to universities. "We're teaching facts, which is the least useful thing in these times." @gilduran.com warned about this www.npr.org/2026/09/01/n...
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A makeover for college: No gym, no meal plan and two years of work
A new model in Vermont emphasizes hands-on learning while stripping away frills like gyms and meal plans that increase costs. Other newly created institutions are also reimagining college.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/08/2026
Cops arrested a man for saying “bullshit” at a city meeting a week earlier. EJ Carrion and others, some who were tossed from the same meeting, are fighting a plan to reduce the number of polling places by almost 50% ahead of the midterms. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/man-arrested...
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 11/08/2026
What started with a “golden share” in U.S. Steel has morphed into a government takeover of vast swathes of the economy. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/11/t...
foreignpolicy.com
Trump Has His Own Communist Manifesto
Seldom before has the U.S. government intervened so actively in the economy.
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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Did Donald Trump state during a 2020 Tulsa campaign rally that he’d asked to slow COVID-19 testing to reduce reported case numbers? @factbriefs ow.ly/SuHO50ZyFrj
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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The Real Meaning of El-Sayed's Victory
It's not what you're hearing
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Nothing but the best for the children of Oklahoma 🙄 kfor.com/news/oklahom...
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Shocking numbers of non-standard certified teachers in OK classrooms
Numbers from the OK State Board of Education meeting held on Thursday showed that most of the new Oklahoma teachers aren’t traditionally trained to be teachers.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Amazon is being sued for price fixing, and strong-arming vendors to raise prices at competitors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A sitting FBI Director. Hosted by Russia's spy service. Agenda: blank. Timing: weeks before the midterms. I did the deep dive. It's worse than the headline. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What stocks did Trump buy yesterday?
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/07/2026
A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over. Read now: www.404media.co/footage-show...
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Saul Goodman is back and delivering the truth about your rights. Seriously! Mike is there, too. youtube.com/@saul4democr...
youtube.com
Saul4Democracy
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/07/2026
This video now has 628k views. Watch it if you haven't already. Share it with your networks!
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Any more fake progressives want to make easily disprovable claims?
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/06/2026
The tech billionaire Network State project called California Forever couldn't win voter approval in Solano County. 70% opposed it—Dems and Reps alike. Now, as I predicted, the billionaires will use state power to get their way. Expect Gavin Newsom to veto the will of the people here. Why?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is the Utah primary. And it will be interesting! The red state will probably nominate a Democrat who will win in November now that it has eliminated partisan gerrymandering. That vote could help determine which party controls Congress. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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Utah voters finally got a fair map. Republicans are making sure it never happens again.
The GOP has a veto-proof supermajority, even though the state’s demographics have changed dramatically.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/06/2026
“It’s terrifying the degree to which Peter Thiel created JD Vance. I don’t think we’ve ever had a politician reach that level of influence who is so closely connected to one billionaire. Vance is an existential threat to our country.” Full interview: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
publishersweekly.com
Billionaires or Democracy: PW Talks with Gil Durán
The journalist’s ‘The Nerd Reich’ (Avid Reader, Aug.) examines the authoritarian ideologies of Silicon Valley’s tech and venture capital billionaires.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Good job, Oklahoma. You can always be counted on to vote against your best interests.
A screenshot from a news site that reads: 

State Question 832, which would have raised the minimum wage in Oklahoma to $15 an hour by 2030 with regular adjustments after, failed 55.4% to 44.5%.

Over 627,000 votes were cast on the State Question, suggesting an above-average voter turnout.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Iran's team arrived in Mexico wearing "168" pins. 168 is the number of Iranian schoolgirls the United States killed on February 28, 2026. Apparently, they are playing *on* the field, but not off.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the erosion of privacy www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of...
techradar.com
Quote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the ero...
Legendary technologist Larry Ellison has outlined a vision for an increasingly aggressive surveillance state in the 21st century
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 31/05/2026
When consumers stop buying Twinkies, Captain Industry springs into action: pay cuts for workers, a salary increase for himself and absolutely no reconsideration of the business model. @rubenbolling.bsky.social on corporate logic in action. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
A satirical comic by Ruben Bolling titled “Captain Industry vs. Union-Man,” presented as a mock Hostess advertisement. A CEO transforms into the superhero Captain Industry when sales of Hostess products fall. He confronts a warehouse worker he calls Union-Man and forces him to accept a pay cut, then awards himself a large salary increase. When sales remain low, Captain Industry briefly considers changing marketing strategies, improving efficiency or reducing supply costs, but decides the only solution is another worker pay cut. In the final panel, he blames “Union-Man’s fiendish plot” for the company’s collapse while the worker stands nearby holding a baby.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic - 🧠 Dementia Donnie settles with himself and takes all the Teddy Grahams! - Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member Warren W. and new member Cooh John. JOIN US at patreon.com/rubenbolling/membership 👊 - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A car ran a stop sign and was struck by an SUV driven by a drug task force officer. He was speeding. One of the fatalities was an 8 year-old girl, thrown from the car. Police were so quick to clean up the scene they overlooked her body. They found her remains six hours later. bit.ly/4dNne7u
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“Covered Up Quick”: How a Fatal Panhandle Crash Involving a Drug Task Force Officer Was Investigated  - Oklahoma Watch
Eight-year-old Petronila Ramos-Mejia didn’t want to go to her babysitter that evening. She wanted to stay with her grandfather, Juan Mejia–Garcia.  Juan and his wife, Petronila’s grandmother, Daniela ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/05/2026
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/05/2026
Meanwhile, a friend just sent me this example of Tesla/Grok integration and the "conspiracy mode" AI "personality" going pretty Hitler-like on the user: www.reddit.com/r/Jewish/com...
reddit.com
From the Jewish community on Reddit: Teslas are now telling users that Jews are orchestrating the downfall of society, the Holocaust is fake, and that the Final solution is what's needed to fix the we...
Explore this post and more from the Jewish community
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Gangstagrass is a hip hop bluegrass band. They've got some excellent advice. Pass it on. youtu.be/SnjuJzlYlmM?...
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Gangstagrass - Don't Open The Door [lyric video A]
YouTube video by Gangstagrass
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In case you need any more motivation to hold the most corrupt "president" in U.S. history accountable. #Register&VOTE 🌊
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The Lever @levernews.com · 12/05/2026
🚨 ICE awarded a $12M immigrant-tracking contract to a tiny vendor whose “lead computer scientist” was represented by a stock photo also used by therapy and life-coaching sites. After The Lever asked questions, the executive vanished from its website.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/05/2026
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
When they say the quiet part out loud www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 28/04/2026
Looks Like A Police State To Me, Says Federal Judge Handling Migrant Detention Cases Under Trump, DHS, ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have violated every single right affected by their daily work. When you're trying to perform 3,000 arrests per day, you can be slowed down by things like the…
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Looks Like A Police State To Me, Says Federal Judge Handling Migrant Detention Cases
Under Trump, DHS, ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have violated every single right affected by their daily work. When you're trying to perform 3,000 arrests per day, you can be slowed down by things like the Constitution. And these agencies certainly haven't been slowed. In fact, they've been encouraged to continue violating rights by being told (by no less than DHS counsel) that judicial…
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm sure GM will refund these tariffs to the consumers www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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GM lifts profit outlook, flags expected tariff refund
General Motors posted on Tuesday a 22% rise in first-quarter core profit and lifted its full-year earnings forecast, buoyed by a resilient U.S. car ​market and an expected tariff refund.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The U.S. sold off a critical helium reserve despite decades of warnings — now, the war in Iran is exposing the consequences. www.levernews.com/the-helium-c...
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The Helium Crisis That Won’t Go Away
The U.S. sold off a critical helium reserve despite decades of warnings — now, the war in Iran has exposed the consequences.
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NonDoc @nondocmedia.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
After an exchange of letters about his House-floor remarks opposing #okleg efforts to loosen #MedicaidExpansion requirements, #Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin "will not be invited back to the House," says Speaker Kyle Hilbert. nondoc.com/2026/04/16/s...
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Hilbert to Hoskin: Medicaid expansion comments 'inappropriate' in House floor speech
In a letter April 9, 2026, Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert rebuked Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. for Medicaid expansion remarks
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The answer is Yes. We are #8 in the nation. Are we great yet?
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
In Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Can we get rid of AI? No one wants it except the billionaires who own it. fortune.com/article/pala...
fortune.com
Palantir CEO says AI 'will destroy' humanities jobs, but there will be 'more than enough jobs' for people with vocational training | Fortune
Alex Karp said he struggled to market his humanities skills to get his first job.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Change your settings in Signal and all your apps. There's no reason for your phone to store copies of every notification you get. Just more corporate spyware
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"but her emails..."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Moulton: I’m not a child psychologist so I can’t understand the mind of Donald Trump.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Oklahoma has come a long way since Carl Albert.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
In an effort to lighten my postings, happy birthday-ish to my guitar. It turned 70 this spring.
A vintage red burst guitar hangs on a white wall.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/03/2026
200 years of free New York City buses. Refund 70 percent of the tariffs the Treasury Department collected illegally. Restore Trump’s cuts to clean energy projects, 6 times over. 247 Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus. 1.4 billion pairs of Florsheim dress shoes.
motherjones.com
Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead.
7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Listen to the reporters in the room after he says it.
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Bob Lablaugh @vagabondjohn.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This man is pure evil
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