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thanks in part to mother nature, it will never rain again - it should do wonders for the GNP doing a math ms somewhere or other current project: inference and expectation in keynes ⚾️🎥🐕🎶

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · Feb 19

math is when you go from big snek to little snek

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1h

It’s go time

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2h

we know - hatman-avatar havin' ass

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2h

more like SUCKS Theorem imo

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2h

This is correct. Also, the Supreme Court is illegitimate.

(It's a big problem!)

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

few large beers

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

did he look like this

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 3h

Hakeem, do you follow me - if so, I'm sorry for some of the mean things I said

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 5h

he's going to claim all of this as personal property

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5h

The current Republican Party will follow Donald Trump absolutely anywhere he decides to take it, including public ownership of the means of production.

Republican socialism: The Trump administration buys a stake in yet another company

Trilogy Metals will receive a $35.6 million "investment," and the federal government will now own a 10 percent stake in the company.

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Big Wonderful Wyoming @wydot.bsky.social · 5h

Walcott Junction (Elk Mountain),
10/8/2025, 6:26:10 PM

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

In some ways this is the government now

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 5h

war...war never changes

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 7h

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ The president is senile and implicated in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein; republicans are covering for him on both of these ♥

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 7h

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒥𝑒𝒻𝒻𝓇𝑒𝓎 𝐸𝓅𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒾𝓃; 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝑜𝓃 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 9h

everyday, you're hearing more and more people demand that elected democrats say the words "The president is senile and implicated in the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein; republicans are covering for him on both of these" on live tv

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone loves Justine Bateman, the anti-AI activist who loves to stand up for what’s right. Now to read about her other political opinions and take a big sip of coffee -

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 12h

we've been posting the 'how do you do fellow kids' meme for years but it's never been more appropriate

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 14h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

This is absolutely happening to the Trump admin, the problem is that the exact same dynamic has brainwashed the media and the Democrats, who are in the same bubbles. If institutions were reacting appropriately to Trump’s authoritarian excesses and demagogic lunacy, he’d be even more unpopular

audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 13h

I might be wrong, but I think their X bubbles have led them to overestimate their own popularity and how much power over the public they've actually consolidated

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 13h

Post Office
Oreana, IL

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

the problem is not messaging, the problem is that in a way unprecedented in my lifetime, people want politicians to lead them in action and tell them what to do beyond showing up to vote in 13 months and every day democratic leaders implicitly say "no thank you, we don't want to do that"

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 18h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

but of course, it's also important that the news media stop reporting on the ravings of a demented and stupid old man's id as if they were anything other than that

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

it's really important that pritzker be brave here, so this is a good sign.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

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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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

the stupidest man in the world is turning us into a flailing pseudo-democracy and it's largely because our leaders are almost universally unimaginative cowards

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...