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Can you count, suckers?! I say the future is ours, if you can count

created August 24, 2023

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The only map Yarvin has ever seen

An ink map of Middle Earth
1/9/2025, 3:10:29 PM | 23 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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politics is conflictual; a reality you cannot poll, focus group, or message your way out of.

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Embarrassed to admit that you caught me replying, "but Mrs K is canonically dead"

28/8/2025, 6:41:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just Add Cabbage™

27/8/2025, 8:04:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Intrepid Museum, The Met for the armor and weapons, guitars, mummies, AMNH for dinosaurs, Museum of the Moving Image or SpyScape, Little Island or The Highline, walk the Brooklyn Bridge into DUMBO, grab a slice, walk back over the Manhattan Bridge to Chinatown for dumplings, Coney Island at night

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Pfffft, what use is discovering penicillin if you can't mass produce it for the war effort? USA! USA!

27/8/2025, 5:24:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd actually appreciate that so I could avoid that corner

27/8/2025, 5:10:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Retvr—oh wait, nevermind

Philadelphia Flyers logo since 1967
26/8/2025, 11:42:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The process of becoming a public figure is that transition. A performative version of yourself that is then uncontrollably iterated on by the public

26/8/2025, 11:03:31 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Mississippi River Valley 🤝 The Nile River Valley Love of revivalist cults

26/8/2025, 12:51:11 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Relatable

Leroux initially was going to be a lawyer, but after spending his inheritance gambling he became a reporter for L'Écho de Paris. At the paper, he wrote about and critiqued dramas, as well as being a courtroom reporter. With his job, he was able to travel frequently, but he returned to Paris where he became a writer. Because of his fascination with both Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote a detective mystery entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and four years later he published Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.[3] The novel was first published in newspapers before finally being published as a book.
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Just the 90's: The Pelican Brief (Pakula '93), Death and the Maiden (Polanski '94—I know but an amazing performance by Sigourney Weaver), Strange Days (Bigelow '95), Insomnia (Skjoldbjaerg '97), Perfect Blue (Kon '98), The Insider (Mann '99)

22/8/2025, 1:42:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They turned out because they wanted to see Paul Walter Hauser take his line back from Jamie Taco

20/8/2025, 2:22:16 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needs more dealer plate

20/8/2025, 11:53:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since I can't actually share the PT software my provider uses, here are my best approximations Doorway Chest Stretch 30, 45, 60 seconds (see attached photo) Sitting Scalene Stretch: youtu.be/BMo8fOpYjFA?... 8 reps, 1 set Sitting Trapezius Stretch: youtu.be/-r0eoFS7_5Q?... 8 reps, 1 set

A diagram showing a man stretching against a doorway
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Saw it as part of a horror exhibition at MoMA and, man, it has stuck with me like few other films. Great restoration, and Rudolf Hrusinsky is incredible www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

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Letts and Friedkin made solid collaborators. Killer Joe is also really fun

18/8/2025, 10:15:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Easier to see the more familiar you are with Coppola and their relationship!

16/8/2025, 11:09:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Liked Weapons! Don't understand the complaints that it's vague or unfocused. Speaking of unfocused, did not enjoy either Mickey 17 or Mission Impossible as much as I wanted to. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Weapons (2025), Micky 17 (2025), Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025), Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
15/8/2025, 4:39:21 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You used to have an older cousin, weird uncle, or great grandparent to solve for this "accept that this is just the way things are, shut the fuck up, and appreciate your good fortune. You want to lose any eye like the Vitellil kid down the block? God forbid"

12/8/2025, 5:27:41 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey unsurprisingly the best parts of Jurassic World Rebirth. Can we get Ali his own action-adventure franchise already? Something swashbuckly #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), Strictly Ballroom (1992), Jurassic World (2015), Predator Killer of Killers (2025)
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If anyone remembers. Lot of hits to the head

8/8/2025, 4:07:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rhoder Land is sick though

8/8/2025, 2:43:18 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Topic-based internet better than post-based internet

7/8/2025, 6:33:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Talks a lot of shit about Nazis but still won't leave their bar

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Rashomon is the only situation where "we gotta hear both sides"

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I mean...

Pubmed headline: Mood and cognitive performance improved by a small amount of alcohol given with a lunchtime meal
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Look at Mister 'Didn't Develop a Trap Impingement from Years of Turning to Look at Chat Notifications on Monitor 2' over here.

5/8/2025, 10:30:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's been a consistent problem since 2021 with much less enforcement, which exacerbates the problem

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It's too late. What am I, a Spaniard?

5/8/2025, 2:03:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, I would never fly in one. Safer to walk down the middle of a highway

4/8/2025, 10:46:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She survived a helicopter crash at 98-years-old. Satan's great bride

4/8/2025, 10:41:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this the Deutscher biography?

4/8/2025, 10:05:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At least Atticus shot that rabid dog!

4/8/2025, 1:10:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the fucking contempt the Italians have for their lack of sophistication and class

4/8/2025, 12:36:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is absolutely true. I'm from a family of shittalkers and I got the piss beat out of me more than once as a kid. It's a hard earned lesson that (for idiots like me) sometimes takes more than one teacher

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Paulus watching the Soviet 5th Tank Army encircle him at Stalingrad: "What? A bunch of slavs?"

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My first thought was Green Day but I'm giving it to Tarsem's The Cell—I mean, Peter Gabriel’s 'Us'

A man in a grey suit stands with arms spread wide against a red background. It's blurry with motion. There's a massive white tear in the shape of a woman to his left. The floor is made of tubes
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Yeah, the 'anti-Nike' style shot this to the top of my anticipated list. Love the style

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Learned all about Hare Krishnas, Apartheid, Dan Quayle, and, unfortunately, Trump

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I would take Bloom County jokes to my dad and be like "I know this is a joke but I don't understand the specific reference from before I was born" and he'd explain them to me

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Strictly Ballroom asks: would channeling all male angst and resentment into pasodoble change the world (Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship)? #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot Letterboxed movie posters last four watched. From left to right: Strictly Ballroom (1992), Jurassic World (2015), Predator Killer of Killers (2025), Superman (2025)
1/8/2025, 12:02:45 PM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only material resources I'd like to offer them are the same they'd extend to us: razor wire, tear gas, and lots of double braided rope

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Loving The Gilded Age: BlueSky 🤝New York Theater Actors

31/7/2025, 4:14:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Striking stuff from @pkrugman.bsky.social, who dismantles Trump's Europe deal from top to bottom. It will actually undermine US manufacturing, the "concessions" Trump won are fake, and Trump voters will be hit hard by the tariffs. All on the pod. Don't miss this one: newrepublic.com/article/1985...

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You could change the life of everyone you've ever met with no consequences to yourself. You better believe my old teachers are getting damages for my being a little shit

30/7/2025, 12:39:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've used a variation of this Chef John recipe for years, just with less sugar. Found success with a lot of kimchi recipes Big fan of Sunomono as well www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23923... www.foodandwine.com/recipes/quic...

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If you're not into pickling them, I really love smashed cucumber salad (tons of variations but sichuan/ mala is my favorite www.seriouseats.com/sichuan-styl...) or a cold cucumber soup with mint, or basil, or whatever as long as it has enough salt and acid

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Me, walking past the Delacorte in the summer. Softball on the lawn! Dogs galloping freely! Shakespeare! In the park! youtu.be/CZFngXSDD0I?...

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I love the spicy shit

Question from New York Opinions Survey: Which of the following statements do you agree with more, even if neither is exactly right? These ballot questions are a blatant power grab by Eric Adams, who is trying to give more power to himself and luxury developers while cutting local communities and democratically elected City Council members out of the process Passing these ballot questions will prioritize citywide and boroughwide needs over special interest opposition, making sure we build affordable housing in neighborhoods that need it but have refused to build it You are now going to read a statement from opponents of these ballot questions who would vote “no,” and then there will be questions about your opinion. These ballot questions are all being pushed through by Eric Adams to sideline elected neighborhood officials and unions, while lining the pockets of his wealthy developer donors. The current process exists for a reason: it protects local input, lets communities negotiate for better deals, and ensures that construction workers are paid what they deserve and treated properly. But these ballot questions would blow that all up, giving luxury housing developers what they want while cutting our communities out of the process.
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An Arcology in Sim City 2000, a skyscraper-sized grey structure with a giant dome on top. In the dome is a park with a huge land and mountains
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Team Bone Tower. I think it'd really help us as a society

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A man in a dark jacket stands in shadow in front of a window; it's pouring outside. William Petersen as Will Graham in Michael Mann's Manhunter (1986); shot by Dante Spinotti
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*array operations have entered the chat*

29/7/2025, 6:22:36 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every MTA apocalypse reminds me that I should learn to ride a bike but that carries its own risk, namely the embarrassment of learning to ride a bike as an adult

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The Florentines had a 🤌 ligature and everything!

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And then on Ash Wednesday you're like "Dave, really?! Never would have thought"

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It's dangerous to go it alone. Take one of these.

Two men in camouflage firing a stationary TOW missile
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Combine newsies with alt weeklies so you get morning headlines and your weeknight plans in one go

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As a New Yorker who takes grocery shopping too seriously, I would read a series of articles about the grocery habits of New Yorkers, granny carts, Costco, etc

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In the sense of it being 'anti-police', it'll continue to be attacks on police budget bloat. Woke2 should endlessly mock treating cities like Fallujah and disguise cuts as modernization ie "why do they need a tank and machine guns? Automated enforcement is cheaper and 24/7"

25/7/2025, 1:20:30 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Embarrassed to admit I live and die by navy shirt/pink tie and pink shirt/ navy or blue tie combo

25/7/2025, 11:50:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is KPop Demon Hunters the first Disney musical style film from Sony Pictures Animation? It's a great update of the genre. Stoked to see Fernández's Río Escondido tonight! #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshots of Letterboxed movie posters. From left to right: Superman, Godzilla Minus One, Kpop Demon Hunters, Apocalypse Now
25/7/2025, 11:43:32 AM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's just Jack Ma posting from house arrest on a contraband phone

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Me: *sees a functioning bus route with low loiter times and frequent service* Neat. Them: What are you, a fucking STALINIST?!

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I saw Upstream Color on a first date and all we could talk about for the next two dates was the movie. To the point were we realized the only thing we had in common was Upstream Color

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He's been on an incredible run. His West Side Story is one of the best movies musicals made. The changes he and Tony Kushner made to the book are inspired and great interpretations of the source!

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Mostly true

Marcello Mastroianni, in a black tux holding a spyglass, in Leo the Last (1970)
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And RSG is adjacent to so many hobbies. Carlsen or Kasparov? Nureyev or Baryshnikov? Sutherland, Leontyne Price, Maria Callas? Could Fellini do Leone? It's great

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And if you were going to make a salacious movie about Oppenheimer, it would help to have well-written women characters to create any sort of tension. Christopher Nolan has never met a women unfortunately so instead we're left with two amazing actresses looking bored for 3 hours

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1 minimum but maximum depends on use: 1 for general use, 1 in the emergency kit. If you camp? Another one. That said, I think 5 would be too many. Why are you opening so many cans

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Point stands but Nathan Lane is gay

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Had a class my Freshman year where we watched a ton of cold war pop culture and doing '56, '78, '93 and then The Faculty back-to-back was a great exercise into the anxieties of Americans at various moments in the 20th century

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Was the first thing to go during lockdown. My wife was going to beat me to death with it

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That Smith is still employable after Cuomo shows just how bankrupt and useless that crowd is

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The Count of Monte Cristo remains undefeated; Dantes has his revenge and still shows mercy, while all of the evildoers are brought to justice

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Greenaway and Vierny make some of my favorite movies; that movie looks incredible and I'd kill to see it in a theater

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VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

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The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets. So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?

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Thank you, I'm embarrassingly proud of it

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Like watching 90s hockey and wondering when they'll stop warming up

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Fun exercise: Thinking machines are a DISASTER! Weak people made them, Elon's people, AFRIKANERS! SAD! We're bringing back the human mind, the best mind. The Butlerian Jihad is about putting humanity FIRST. The Spice WILL flow!

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99% / quartile meme: Left Distribution: It's All Resentment Middle Distribution: IDEA FORMATION AMONG ELITES IS A COMPLEX INTERPLAY BETWEEN NETWORKS, IDEOLOGY, INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT— Right Distribution: It's All Resentment
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"I scored a perfect English!," he screamed around the pistol in his mouth

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"An independent survey" Yeah, an election. It's already scheduled, thanks.

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When I was doing a lot of copy editing and graphic design, I kept a print out on my monitor of alt codes so alt + 0257 for the macron ā

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The prosthetics in this are great. Really love this duo and hope they get another film to meditate on grief in a disgusting and disturbing way

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social)

Healy is dogshit for a lot of reasons but I will never forgive his terrible, terrible theater reviews. Complete incuriousness. Incapable of engaging with material through any lens. Ignorant of the larger history or movements. Also always treated theater staff like trash.

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

Add Healy to that list and you're basically done!

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social)

Apocalypse Now in a theater is wild. Still hits as hard as it did when I was a teen. 28 Years Later surprisingly introspective. Loved the low fi aesthetic and the contempt it has for the island folk. It can never be as it was #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Screenshot of Letterbox last four: Apocalypse Now, 28 Years Later, Materialists, Rogue One
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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

I really can't wait / hope that design scales up. Would love to see it widespread

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Profile picture Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) reposted

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

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Profile picture Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) reposted

Turning into a single issue voter for 2028, where the issue is which Democratic candidate will vow to nominate the most rabidly partisan, vengeful and hate-filled AG you can possibly imagine

1/7/2025, 6:37:49 PM | 7721 1268 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

I genuinely believe, underneath the deaitrus of careerism and triangulation, she has the capacity for real reform. She has beliefs! She stands for things! I don't quite know what they are but it's there somewhere.

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

His literal first job was on the '82 campaign!

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

A 90's Wendys then

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Profile picture Bertolt Check Myself Before I Brecht Myself (@rustylemon.bsky.social) reply parent

DevSecOps? No thank, fish piss in it

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Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

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