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Josh Rudolph

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 59m
These guys keep imagining a Benevolent Dictator that exists solely in their own heads because they imagine it to be them personally, and they can’t shake the juvenile fantasy that if everyone was forced to obey them personally all problems (namely people defying them) would be solved
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 39m
Incredibly funny result for Marist to find Democrats doing worse in Maine than in Iowa, Ohio, or Texas.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 3h
Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 3h
What context should they have been taken him?
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 3h
Friendly reminder Russia started this war. 👀⛽️
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2h
Let the Diet Sun Drop flow.
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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 1h
Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania *alone* produced more pig iron than *the entire so called confederacy* *including the claimed West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri* combined.
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 4h
This isn't making me want to talk less shit about farmers.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 4h
It also tends to be forgotten that a lot of Irish and German immigrants in the US Army had military experience from Europe too.
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 4h
I know it's the ideological cornerstone of modern conservatism, but it never ceases to astonish me how deeply believe rich, reactionary men believe that the general populace is too stupid and impulsive to be trusted,
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 3h
You know, I was curious how they squared that with any of the court decisions last week, but I guess the answer is that they didn't.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 6h
"Republicans are triaging ... to shore up Texas" is one of the most beautiful sentences it's possible for human eyes to read (we could still lose Maine but that's because Maine is cursed beyond the capacity for humans to comprehend, why do you think so much early eldritch horror was set there)
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 10h
This thing where reporters simply do not check trump supporters' public social media posts at all, and editors don't give a shit either, has to stop
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 6h
I don't really believe this, deep in my heart of hearts, but unlike some of the other projections people are making, it is actually what the data has been pretty consistently showing.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h
That's part of my complaint with this whole thing. This is great and all and we're embracing the warrior ethos and whatever. Fight a war with what? We have zero (0) carriers in the Pacific now. What are you gonna do? Command the tide to hold the PLAN back? Fly combat air patrols with seagulls?
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Josh Rudolph @voltron64.bsky.social · 5h
And the best we can hope for is that they die completely alone.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Picture of the character saw gerrera the rebel leader from star wars overlaid with a post that reads 

People who become right wing 
because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 6h
One of the worst truths you have to reconcile with as an adult is that most of history’s monsters die cozy and old in their beds.
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 5h
Because of course they do. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
miamiherald.com
Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 6h
No bank is gonna margin call a debtor that owes them half their market cap, especially when they're about to go public. This is gonna end under far more absurd circumstances than anyone can predict.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 13h
The A.I. investment boom is contributing to inflation. It also appears nearly immune to high interest rates. That’s a challenging combination for the Fed — with potentially serious implications for the rest of the economy. With @colbylsmith.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b... #EconSky
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High Interest Rates Aren’t Slowing the A.I. Boom. That’s a Problem for the Fed. (Gift Article)
Rising borrowing costs are taking a toll on households and businesses. But they are doing little to dampen enthusiasm for investments in A.I. infrastructure, which are contributing to inflation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 7h
Worth a shot, but I doubt it would work. The Republicans know their master is a big fan of collective punishment. If they fail to stop another Senate Trial, he and his followers will blame every Senate Republican.
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Hannah Lee Stockdale (LOOKING 4 WORK) @hanoodles.bsky.social · 7h
He destroyed careers, he destroyed peoples’ livelihoods. I hope he sleeps well with his golden parachute knowing he’s had a major hand in turning the US animation industry into the desert it is today.
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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 13h
Gavin newsom with a creepy dead eyed smilethe smiler from Transmetropolitan
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6h
Lawsuit.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans and Dems starting to treat key battleground House seats as guaranteed Dem favored and triaging/reallocation in Georgia and North Carolina Senate the last few days While this does free up GOP money to go to say Kansas Senate, Dems are able to respond just the same with these cuts
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 7h
We should know where this freak is at all times
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 18h
Remigeration, deportation & dehumanization of immigrants is extremely popular in Europe. Frontex has directly played part in drowning of countless immigrants in the Mediterranean with our taxes. Europeans just hate Trump particularly, not his worst policies. They support those locally.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h
kinda surreal to see the fight for Blansas actually happen
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Heck Awaits @heckawaits.bsky.social · 11h
Without endorsing violence, I think I can say that the last several years have driven home how much some people cannot exist within social structures if they aren't allowed to dominate them, and those people cannot be tolerated or reasoned with.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h
I remember being a little salty before I had read Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI that he had invited the Anthropic guy to be there. It made me nervous he had gotten snowed and would pull his punches. It feels so good to learn that actually Anthropic was livid and almost pulled out of the event
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 10h
almost like there’s a reason gibson can’t take a pic without looking like a fucking cartoon villain grimacing
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 9h
Ok, now I'm getting a little excited.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h
Another Susan Collins bribery scandal has hit the airwaves theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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Call me Ishmaboo @billjank.bsky.social · 11h
Solid dose of hopium from @doctorow.pluralistic.net
As seas rise, we're going to have jobs for every person who is willing, building sea defenses and moving whole coastal cities inland. Two generations of neoliberalism has left us with massive shortages of housing stock, crumbling highways, inadequate schools and hospitals. That means that we need to build *lots* more of these, and they can be built with state-of-the-art climate hardening, including geothermal heat, "passive home" designs, modern insulation, and heat-pumps. The rights-of-way for the interstate system would make dandy railbeds for arrow-straight, all electric high-speed rail powered by solar, wind and tides.
All of this has the potential to yield a second peace-dividend prosperity. A post-oligarch world can recover industrial capacity by diverting it away from destructive activity (data centers, luxury housing) to essential functions (climate defenses, decent housing for everyday people). A post-oligarch world can recover democratic excellence by removing the malign influence that morbid wealth exerts on our policy choices: for example, if we don't like the quality of public schools, we can fix them by giving schools more resources, not by letting billionaire dilettantes privatize and starve them in the name of "school choice":
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every response to this seems to assume (1) this inevitably leads to reactionary politics and not just like, you know, whatever politics offers a vision (2) those grapes are sour anyway
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Working class Republican found lying about his motivations and history next to fork in kitchen
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 12h
At some point the sheer degree and frequency to which these people can be demonstrably found to be lying about themselves—“I was a lifelong Democrat til da factree closed down yadda yadda”—has to be taken as evidence that the hypothesis about The Workers just being misled rubes is disastrously wrong
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 12h
Turnabout is fair play.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 12h
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
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What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 11h
Consistently good nutrition is maybe 60 years old in advanced economies.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's $2/gallon cheaper than gas currently is in SoCal.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 03/10/2026
This is the lesson that the Biden admin failed to learn and that UK Labour is also flailing about horribly at:
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 14h
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 14h
The West Wing isn't real. Debate and rational discussion doesn't change minds, especially when the other side thinks violence is an acceptable means of achieving political change.
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