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Auld Black Jack

@freejack.bsky.social

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You know that "People, people who need people.." song? ...I'm not one of those people.

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · Dec 7

The GOP will misrepresent S.S. as a Investment with a poor ROI in an attempt sell their privatization scam.
This video is from the era of GWB's failed attempt, so the figures are dated but the program is accurately described.
Please share to combat GOP disinformation.
youtu.be/Tts2uTWt6e8?...

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bludawg1.bsky.social @bludawg1.bsky.social · 9h

Cuomo gets roasted....

youtube.com/shorts/OOFvj...

#cooking

YouTube video by Walter Masterson

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 9h

"Yes *bread* is important, but what about the circus?" asked the clown.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11h

The New York Times published the new rules imposed on journalists by The Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What Do the New Pentagon Press Reporting Rules Say?

The new rules codify strict limitations on access and raise the prospect of punishment for requesting information on matters of public interest.

www.nytimes.com

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11h

Kinda handy when these people sign the papers and identify themselves, don't you think? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 10h

Just around the corner; "cleansing" "cockroachs"

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 11h

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the Active Club club movement and Patriot Front

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis

Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h

Median ICE agent

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11h

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 13h

www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h

Beyond race, I'm glad activists here mentioned the attack on urban representation. This would turn the House into another Senate, heavily biased toward rural voters. A Tennessee with no representatives from Memphis or Nashville, or a Missouri with no representatives from St. Louis or Kansas City.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 15h

Segregationists spoke of the “long civil rights movement” as the “Second Reconstruction” and for inspiration turned to the Redemptionists, who declared war on the first Reconstruction and after many decades of legal and extralegal efforts Installed
Jim Crow regimes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

www.nytimes.com

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 13h

...stay in your lane Texas.

a man in a cowboy hat and a man in a suit are walking down a street .

ALT: a man in a cowboy hat and a man in a suit are walking down a street .

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 13h

It's Social Media.
If you can't stand the heat...

Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 13h

a cartoon of spongebob saying projection with his hands

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying projection with his hands

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 13h

What I didn't miss, as a licensed NY health professional living in NYC, was what happened here during Covid.

Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 13h

Enigma Wrapped GIF

ALT: Enigma Wrapped GIF

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 14h

"...even the medical professionals"
*Public Health* is a medical specialty specifically geared to things like pandemics. Hospital Administration is not.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“You’re making everyone here uncomfortable.”

“I’m Andrew Cuomo. That’s my brand!”😆

More epic Cuomo trolling here. (H/T @climatedefiance.bsky.social )

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 14h

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 3d

I'm hoping this backfires on Hegseth. All these journalists have probably been sitting on things (like why the Pentagon can't pass an audit) just to 'make nice' with people they see everyday. Let the dam burst. Don't wait for a book deal.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

US debit card transactions not exactly showing a holiday ramp.

(via Apollo)

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 1d

Well that NYT Amy Coney Barrett interview starts off… weird.

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 15h

Just don't blink. Barri Weiss won't be long for the job position.

Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 23h

Always found it to be one of those mindless zen activities that always left me in a better mood than I was in before I started it.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1d

Either she doesn't know the filibuster for judges has been gone for over a decade or wants to restore it, and either is bad

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely the fuck not. this needs to be a red line.

Janet Mills would support keeping filibuster if elected to the Senate

The Democratic governor’s stance is shared by Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican whom Mills entered the race to defeat earlier this week.

www.bangordailynews.com

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 1d

'According to the indictment, forced labor camps, surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, were turned into phone farms, or automated call centers, to carry out the cryptocurrency scheme and others.' - CNN

(Trump lackies immediately install phone service at all immigration deportation camps...)

The Cambodia Daily @cambodiadaily.com · 1d

The United States has seized $ 15 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Chinese-Cambodian businessman Chen Zhi, chairman of Prince Holding Group and an adviser to Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen.

United States Seizes 15 Billion Dollars in Bitcoin Linked to Hun Sen’s Adviser Chen Zhi over Online Fraud Scheme - The Cambodia Daily

The United States has seized $ 15 billion in cryptocurrency tied to Chinese-Cambodian businessman Chen Zhi, chairman of Prince Holding Group and an adviser to Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen. The U...

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