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Every republic walks a line: liberty for the vulnerable, or power for the mighty. NPR, PBS & WCPE keep me steady. Gardening keeps me grounded; naps keep me honest. I once knew pinto beans, now I know weeds—life keeps us humble.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · Apr 19

Pink Houses dropped just as the Reagan revolution kicked into high gear—a secular prophecy wrapped in heartland rock, calling out the hollowing of the American Dream before most even noticed it slipping away.

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John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (Official Music Video)

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 7h

These hills are prime Antifa territory and should be patrolled on foot. 🙃
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The Hills of San Francisco - AAG

AAG - The Hills of San Francisco - All -

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zeldabizarre.bsky.social @zeldabizarre.bsky.social · 9h

Peace Frog. I think someone wrote a song about that …..

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SPOOKY FORCE GAZETTE 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @spookyforcefrancis.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: It’s official, Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 13h

Area 51

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 1d

John Singer Sargent :
Fumée d’ambre gris
(Smoke of Ambergris), 1880

Oil on canvas
139.1 × 90.6cm | 54-3/4 × 35-11/16in

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Bluesky family! The coffee’s hot, the empire’s ridiculous — and it’s a splendid day to mock their reality with style.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken explains

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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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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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

I too am grilling for clarity and would relish an answer to this question.
It’s a frank question, after all.
Do your wurst — and may the buns be ever in your favor.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Fiction or non-fiction, you illiterate Galilean! Not a third genre in sight!

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to me that the deeper fracture is epistemological: a civil war of reason versus mysticism, in which the terms of truth themselves are under siege.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Asked if another World War is imminent, Dalio said a “civil war of some sort” is developing in the US and other parts of the world with “irreconcilable differences.”

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Ray Dalio Warns of Soaring Debt and ‘Civil War’ Brewing in US

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio reiterated warnings that US government debt is rising too quickly, fueling a climate analogous to the years before World War II.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Rocky: “Boris and Natasha? Antifa? That’s nuts!”
Bullwinkle: “Yeah, and I know nuts!”
Rocky: “They weren’t fighting fascism, Bullwinkle — they were working for it!”

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Koya Abe @koyaabe.bsky.social · 1d

Red dress.

#art #JeanPaulGaultier #fashion #Vogue #VivienneWestwood

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a Bear Sterns moment brewing, or is the mess contained?

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll jump the shark. They always do. And when they do, all this lunacy will end—not with outrage, but with that quiet, collective “oh… this got stupid.”

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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 1d

🤭😂

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

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Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (Official Animated Video)

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🍁Dr. John E Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 1d

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

I used to hang around folks who knew things. Rex 84 and Garden Plot—plans for keeping order when democracy flinched.

Funny if they were right all along. Then again, maybe not.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

So why doesn’t Trump fix the problem by telling the Treasury to mint a stack of trillion-dollar platinum coins with his likeness on them and deposit them at the Fed? 🙃

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.bsky.social · 1d

“The market is saying, ‘You guys are going to inflate away the debt, not now but in the long term.” www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

(BTW, Pam, since I have your attention, you should get some rest. You look tired. Or better yet, get some takeout — preferably Mexican — and reconnect with American culture.)

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

We believe that when people gather around a hot skillet and share a meal, they remember what it means to be human — and that’s the kind of resistance we can all get behind.