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Charlie

@reanderthal.bsky.social

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Hotelier by marriage (unclogger of toilets), permaculture by night. Dad. Mainer. Once a videographer, aikido & paleo blogger. Socialist libertarian or maybe anarchist. I had listed more interests, but those are for post-emergency times if we get there.

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Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · Jul 9

I found a great book on root cellaring (called Root Cellaring) by Bubel at the dump. Highly recommend if it is available at your dump.

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J H @jpjh88.bsky.social · 4h

People need to start highlighting that Miller is actually the shadow President and the one calling the shots. When it was Musk who was doing it, it caused a rift between them so big that after he was out, Musk was bashing Trump claiming he is in the Epstein files.

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Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · 9h

Hasn't the Cato institute been making some critical statements? I just think it may be easier to castrate the second branch than anything else. Would love to be proved wrong.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · 11h

What about progressives making a temporary alliance with libertarian types to cripple the presidency back into a subservient administrator? That seems do-able and a much less bad outcome than others on the table.

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 20h

I propose a Congressional pensioners' hospital at, like, L'Enfant Plaza. Troop them up & down the Mall daily. Give them special uniforms, hats & sashes. Any member over 62 with at least 30 years of service, or 72 with at least 20, or 82 with at least 10 years of service is eligible for a spot.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 1d

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Are these tariffs ‘Liberation Day 2’?” Or will we get another ‘TACO Tuesday?’

This is how we all talk now. Absurd. 🌮

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Tock-tick.

The Clock Is Ticking

Trump and Putin face a reckoning

open.substack.com

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Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · 1d

It's easier for the first yeast in the fermenter to raise 5 little yeasts on a single earners' salary...

Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · 1d

What if we have reached late stages simply because we are approaching the carrying capacity afforded by our current energy systems? (Peak oil?) Everything is just easier when you have energy to spare. We should expect things to get harder, even if individual specifics seem bewilderingly complex.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

An executive who cannot be removed but whose power is fenced in is one thing. An invulnerable executive whose power has expanded to encompass nearly all of daily life begins to look like a monarch with a defined term. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like?

What if the Constitution *is* a suicide pact?

www.thebulwark.com

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Starfleet Intelligence SCREAM Analyst @daxarian.bsky.social · 1d

“The T-600s had rubber skin. Bright, day glo green coloring. We spotted them easy. But these are new. They look like frogs. Slime, realistic croaking, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait til he moved on you before I could zero him.”

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

2025. Even then there were barely any stores left. even though the worst had not yet come to pass, antifa supersoldiers already ravaged the land, clad in inflatable frog suits. all I can remember from those days - frogs, fire, and ash

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 2d

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

David Noll @david.noll.org · 2d

interesting that if you say the constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate america

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 4d

I just realized that the Portland Antifascist Frog has singlehandedly reclaimed amphibians from the “alt right”. Yet another way he is a Great American.

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

The less elite nepotism we have in politics associated or adjacent to Democratic politics the better. #MEPolitics

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Spotted: Angus King introducing Ron Wyden to his son Angus King III, who is running for Governor

Angus King, an old white man with a moustache, standing next to Angus King III, a younger white man in a black suit, next to Ron Wyden, an older white man in a charcoal blazer

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Charlie @reanderthal.bsky.social · 2d

Have said this before. I think the most plausible optimistic scenario I can believe is an alliance with libertarian types to cripple the presidency back into its original role as administrator

Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 3d

This is really the quintessential failure of progressives, and the area where I think libertarians actually had a point (stopped clock and all): we have such a bad habit of getting fixed on the good things we want to do with government power that we forget that sometimes evil people get ahold of it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

as Goldsmith points out, it's kind of insane no one thought that reigning this in during the Biden years was a good idea:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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