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@kylerudy.com

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Whatever brought you here was a mistake. Another mediocre cis-dude, he/him. 41 years old.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · May 2

Every time I link this, I get a little more earnest about it. We don't have to keep holding back.

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation - Harvard Law Review

For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his...

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1h

I'd love to see comparative studies in MRI scans between religious fundamentalists and Brand Advocates who suffer metastatic consumerism.

I swear, they talk about their trucks the way youth pastors talk about God.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1h

Quote-dunking sucks, but does it qualify as a fight?

That the American left might confuse a heated argument for an actual fight feels like a clue for why the American right has ascended uncontested.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1h

Bold move, going after the Lenape and the Iroquois vote.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3h

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14h

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2h

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 3h

I have never broken a promise I made to myself, and still intend to keep the ones I've made until I die. Overall, this has been a huge mistake and I don't recommend it. Changing your mind, even about serious matters, is an expression of intelligence and humility.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 1d

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

Revelatory for how they view people, as inefficient and overly willful content engines that can be replaced with better-behaved property.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

Really internalized a new wellspring of respect for the women in my life during covid quarantine. Hair is such an investment.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 1d

That is not a teacher anymore than leaded paint is a refreshing beverage. That's way beyond professional malpractice.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

Increasingly convinced that if we want a "strong republican party," we have to stop putting it like that. We have to condemn the existing republican party for what it is. Yeah, I get what Nancy's saying, I just wish she'd stop saying it and start actually pursuing it.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

Also, if he was going to de facto transfer the loyalty of our military to a private party, we would have to burn down the capital. That's a Country's Over, Try Again level failure condition.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Allow me be the first to thank you for ur efforts. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ur

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ur

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

"It makes low quality, soulless, barely novel content, ad infinitum" fits porn and no other industry.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

I'm following Thecla on mastodon, that shit's fire.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 2d

Tankies and reactionaries both yearn to own the libs, because they revile someone who does limited good within limited means rather than hewing to a purity culture that demands violent revolution.

They don't want to make the world better, they want cynicism to preempt pragmatism.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 3d

What I don't get is if hardcore tankies really think raiding detention facilities is the best path forward, if you're not just engaged in performative bullshit, then why do I, the shitlib, have to do it?

Like, shouldn't YOU be doing it?

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 3d

I love bluesky

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Valk @einherjarvalk.bsky.social · 4d

We’re now using ChatGPT.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 7d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 6d

The earnestness really puts a smile on my face. Here's someone trying with their whole heart to do their best and speak the truth as they know it. Bless their heart.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 6d

The endgame of the myth that the acquisition of wealth is proof of virtue was always going to be this, the predatory economy strangling the productive economy for its last few pennies.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 7d

This is something all too rare: A Republican asking himself, 'How would I feel if a Democrat did to me what Trump is doing to Democrats?'

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 7d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

Absolutely. Accepting the surrender of the Confederate soldiers dumb enough to fight for the right to be penniless sharecroppers was a mistake. Accepting the surrender of the plantation owners who played them for fools was a cardinal sin.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

I have a cure for both, but to achieve it, we'll need to burn so much leaded gasoline.

Kyle @kylerudy.com · 8d

They're betting they will get robocops before the rest of us organize to overthrow them, and they might be right. Replacing artists or doctors isn't the play. Replacing ag workers isn't even the play; human skin is incredible.
Put guns on a self-driving tesla, and you're done. Caste beyond conquest.