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King of Make Believe

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A speck of dust clinging to a speck of dust attempting to comprehend the limitless and timeless within a speck of time that is life. Location: Potholed Elysian Field, just north of the Gulf of MEXICO, Earth, Milky Way. 🙏🕊️🗽🇵🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🌎🌏🌍🟧

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · Nov 12

Why the anonymity? Well, I have a career to protect that would be in jeopardy if some people knew what I really think. Spyboy? Probably not what you think. It's a Mardi Gras Indian term. It's what I started with. I do love the current moniker. That will probably remain.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 46m

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 54m

I prefer reminding people that "A.I." is averaging intelligence - statistical models for the averaging of the (unlicensed) creative work of actual humans.

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I can't tell if this is just mainstream mediocrity, or the interviewer trying to trigger a reaction. I fear the former.

David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...

SIMON: What?

SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...

SIMON: You imagine that?

SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.

SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.

SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.

SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Tresa @tresaharbin.bsky.social · 10h

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 10h

Meanwhile, this real MS-13 pedophile gang member continues to escape justice.

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 10h

N'awlins.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

it’s all just a grift

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HoldMyWine @penelopepitstop.bsky.social · Nov 13

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump: "Why did Jack Smith plant classified manilla folders and take photoshoots on the floor of my father's office? Why?"

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22h

"My Republican colleagues are likely not actually outraged at Jack Smith’s perfectly legitimate act of seeking four-days of phone records related to these crimes; they are outraged that anyone investigated the President’s insurrectionary plans on January 6 at all."

House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 22h

NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell issued the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s investigation and prosecution of Trump and his co-conspirators for their criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Ranking Members Raskin, Swalwell Statement on Senate Republicans’ Misdirected Outrage Regarding DOJ’s Investigation of the Criminal Conspiracy to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election

Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ latest attacks on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation and prosecution of Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election:

democrats-judiciary.house.gov

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Release-the-Epstein-Files @esepajaronegro.bsky.social · 23h

Jimmy Kimmel should host the same Epstein victims that showed up to the Capitol steps -that Trump tried to silence by deploying military jets to do flybys- on his show to talk about their experiences.
Then go on 'The View', & any/all of the news outlets again.
Keep the heat on.
Power to the Sisters✊🏽

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 22h

Is democracy a good thing?

Mike Johnson: "I wouldn't know anything about that."

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 23h

If Jesus returned as prophesied in the Christian Bible, he's probably rotting in a death camp prison in El Salvador where Donald Trump sent him.

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus would be rotting in an El Salvador prison if he were here today. MAGA wouldn't even recognize his message of caring for the poor, healing the sick, and treating your neighbor the way you'd like to be treated.

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 1d

Stiffing workers is on-brand for Donald Trump.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1d

The opinion is significant, #legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 1d

Because Donald Trump stiffing workers is on-brand.

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King of Make Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social · 1d

Because Donald Trump stiffing workers is on-brand.