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Unceded Nowass land, CT, USA Mom - wife - permaculturist - herbalist 🌱 Among the trees. /|\ Very angry, very left & trying to be nice. To make a living, I’m a marketer. Don’t believe a word I say. pfp not me - by Juliana Stein on pexels

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

The corporatist state is literally a seething mass of mating snakes.

Black rock owns vanguard owns oracle owns morgan stanley owns black rock owns open AI owns fidelity owns vanguard… own politicians who own morgan stanley owns oracle owns…

When you actually say it out loud, you sound 🍌🍌🍌

a pile of snakes are laying on the ground near a rock

Alt: a pile of snakes are laying on the ground near a rock

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Glenna Wiseman @glennawiseman.bsky.social · 14h

This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

“The repeal of the [clean energy] tax credits alone may push electricity prices almost 10 percent higher than they would be otherwise by 2029, according to National Economic Research Associates, a consulting firm.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | This Is Why Your Energy Bills Are Going Up

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 11h

Slow horses

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Cenocheesecakebytes

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13h

Keep going.

www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 12h

Schmuck bucks

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration does not care about doing illegal things. Part of the reason is that lawsuits take years and they don't care about anything hat far off. And if they have to pay money big deal.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 22h

Okay but like, does she get a say or is it just assumed that’s how the cursed manor house will be kept in the family

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

7 year old just hijacked the speaker with his Minecraft soundtrack

Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

This second glass of wine is tasting like the neighborhood gets to participate in this Ozzy appreciation kitchen dance party.

Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

This second glass of wine is tasting like the neighborhood gets to participate in this Ozzy appreciation kitchen dance party.

Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

No one with their full faculties believes the lies about Portland that Trump and his ghouls are spewing. They don’t.

They don’t have to believe it, they just need to repeat it until it’s held as a self-evident truth. That is the very marrow of propaganda.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

Moi aussi, bien sûr

Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

MISQUAMICONNECTICUT WILL BE OURS FOR BODY SURFING!!!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

Sinuses seem like a body part made to be massaged when necessary to aide in their function, but you can’t because they’re in your fucking face so they just hurt like a bastard every time you cough or sneeze or breathe too much.

Anyway, I’m obviously having a normal time today.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking vampires.

Amazon got a 100 percent property tax abatement... and has fires on the regular.

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First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

When I typo my own name 🤌👨🏻‍🍳

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

That’s pain au chocolate and yes 🙌

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Connecticutting @connecticutting.bsky.social · 1d

I am in another state entirely and cannot fathom how we’re all just going about our daily lives right now.