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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

no, the idea that America is the root of all evil in the world, or that Americans are uniquely greedy or whiny or materialistic or whatever, these are other ways of calling America exceptional. so much of the fringe left is just fixated on America in the mirror image of the way MAGA is

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 8h

This is how we win

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

Our volunteers have been 3D printing whistles for ICE watch. Make your own today at 7016 N Clark St in Rogers Park from 12-3pm!

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 9h

Trump says all kinds of shit - I wish people would stop treating his posts as if they actually effected the outcome they’re about

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 10h

They could have boiled the frog but they were literally too stupid to figure it out

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10h

I think in general the GOP has completely misread what recissions have done. There's literally no reason for dems to cave if Russ Vought can just do whatever the fuck he feels like.

There's no benefit for them, no higher ground. The politics are murky enough it doesn't matter.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 10h

A lot of internet left commentary is premised on the assumption that all things are actually simple and any complexity or ambiguity is owed to mystification or ruling class conspiracy

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 13h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 12h

@grok is this legal

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 12h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14h

There’s just no way a bagel w cream cheese should cost more than like, 2.50

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

the contradiction generally lurking in this is the marriage of "sexuality is an evolutionary program not a choice" and "you can be a stud if you are not one already"

Beans, Frightening Bleeble 🫀🎃 @flawlessangel.bsky.social · 18h

idk why the youtube algo fed me this but i can't describe how scary & weird it is being a woman knowing these freaks are doing presentations on how to understand & conquer us like. we are just people. have you tried being fucking normal. i will never get used to society being like this

a man stood in front of a whiteboard that is just covered in loads of text because he's solved the 'woman' conspiracy he looks like a meme

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 23h

Have they tried unplugging the mariners and plugging them back in

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 23h

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we score a run?
ESTRAGON: Yes. Let's.

They do not score.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 23h

I have work tomorrow guys, cmon

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

You know the guy really does have a pretty big ass

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

Would love to hear one of these former players weigh in on bunt strategy

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

What a game
What a sport

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

Going after 3-armed WOC reporters…each day a new low in Trump’s America

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

steak n shake is now frying their fries in crude oil - this is a huge victory for wellness

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

i think "TACO" now is actually totally wrong. it's not that Trump chickens out. it's that maintaining a tariff regime requires object permanence

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

The Adam Friedland Show is doing great wdym

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

the autocratic takeover attempt is already in effect and it is trump all over: it's hamfisted and incompetent, but it will succeed if allowed to by sleepwalking leaders and elites

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

major crossover opportunity here

Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 1d

On Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Boogie Nights' and Wong Kar-wai's 'Happy Together,' released on this day in 1997:

How 1997's Best Films Upended Perceptions of Sex and Masculinity

'Boogie Nights and 'Happy Together' broke boundaries as they blew minds.

www.vice.com

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

i believe they respond to things they see on right-wing social media, which they interpret as the spirit of the volk. functionally this means they are betting that total culture war matters more than the fact that they are causing near-universal economic pain and we're 'postmaterial' only to a point

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