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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 8h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 6h

Ah ha. Thank you!

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 13h

Me looking at America’s media and business elites in 2025

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 13h

Pith! That word was hanging just outside my ever-shortening mental reach

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 13h

Not gonna believe this guy started Christianity unless he can document his disputes with James the Just

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10d

"started Christianity"

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 13h

A few years ago, something like this came up, and I recall @evilrooster.bsky.social writing to conservatives something like, “Congratulations, you are a ’cafeteria Catholic’ too” — that being one of their standard insults for pro-choice liberals.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14h

I always find this dynamic weird. If you think the Pope is the Vicar of Christ and God’s annointed representative on Earth, presumably you should stop complaining and follow his lead. If you don’t think that… why are you Catholic?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 14h

“Pity” might be the real abbreviation of a real science term, or a simple typo. I choose to believe it is neither of those things. And I hope you’re no longer friends with a woman who wouldn’t pity a frog smdh

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 14h

Blaster of Muppets.

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 14h

God help me, Boebert.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14h

I always find this dynamic weird. If you think the Pope is the Vicar of Christ and God’s annointed representative on Earth, presumably you should stop complaining and follow his lead. If you don’t think that… why are you Catholic?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 22h

If I wrote an article about how Johnny Cash seemed uncool I would just look at what I wrote and then walk into jail or the sun, maybe both.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 23h

wtaf are you talking about

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 22h

“The Court also concludes one should not be a little bitch about losing a rap battle.”

Josh Russell @jrussjruss.bsky.social · 22h

NEWS: Federal judge tosses out Drake's defamation suit against record label over Kendrick Lamar's diss track "Not Like Us."
"Because the Court concludes that the allegedly defamatory statements in “Not Like Us” are nonactionable opinion, the motion to dismiss is GRANTED."

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve liked Porter since she was bringing charts to Congress, but this is electoral incompetence. The question is tendentious, but the answer is simple, “I’m going to say, ‘Donald Trump is ripping you off,’ because he is. And then ‘Vote for me’ to stop the robbery.”

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

I have it on good authority the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa goes to a different school

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 3d

We have over 16 centuries worth of historical data on Christians building/aligning with empires and doing awful things to each other and others.

Stop insisting that bad actors are not “real” Christians.

Humbly sit with the fact that many real Christians do not follow Jesus. 1/6

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

A History of Social Media in Much Less Than One Volume, by 👇

Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 2d

I say this with all the tender, loving care I can muster…

Some of y’all are not good enough at reading to want to argue as much as you do on the internet.

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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 1d

dear anti-theists: learn what pluralism is, and do it.

In the comic, a man shouts "I don't like thing!" while an angel descends from the heavens and hands him a slip of paper that reads "OK," before flying back up.

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

Torn from the headlines!!!! My latest, which may provide you, beloved skeeps, with some bitter catharsis if nothing else

The Men Who Hold High Places Gave in Early

YouTube video by Jim Henley

youtu.be

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 1d

In these days of evil presidentes
Workin for the clampdown

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

I am never going to be a fan of a politician. That way lies disappointment. But Pritzker right now is the person I think is calibrating it right.

This isn’t negotiating about social security with W. You either get that or you don’t.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 2d

I’m rooting for us being Portugal

Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t see “give women all the power” as much as I did in younger days. We’ve had enough examples of inhumane female leaders that only very naive people still imagine women bring some essentialist virtue to powerful positions.

james @james.claims · 2d

I truly don’t understand “give women all the power” in response to “men should not have all the power”

No-one should have all the power.

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Rhapsody in BOO! @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. Our lives will have been in like a lamb, out like a lion.

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