The Decline
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The jester will see you in his office now.
"Fellow members
Club “We've got ours”
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his and I've got mine
Meet The Decline"
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"Fellow members
Club “We've got ours”
I'd like to introduce you to our host
He's got his and I've got mine
Meet The Decline"
Elbows way up!
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Trump isn’t some aberration. He’s the conservative movement’s logical and inevitable—and intentional—endpoint.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Trump isn’t some aberration. He’s the conservative movement’s logical and inevitable—and intentional—endpoint.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
The movement was always an AstroTurf propaganda effort by anti-democratic corporate interests and scions from wealthy families that preferred fascism to Roosevelt.
A good general rule, works very well in all matters
A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.
February 8, 2026 at 12:34 AM
A good general rule, works very well in all matters
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"So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. "
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 6, 2026 at 2:09 AM
"So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. "
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Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
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I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "We hit 'em. And we want to hit 'em right, sir, and we want to hit them from the top! East, west, north, south. Sir, they won't know what the hell! And we'll knock them out. We did it politically correct. Five years."
February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
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He just tweeted it out …
February 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
He just tweeted it out …
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We should make billionaires extremely sad
in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔
February 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
We should make billionaires extremely sad
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You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:21 PM
You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Two sides of the same coin - the inevitable result of concentrating power in an oligarch class and allowing them to be above the law. When control over institutions, public policy, health, education etc isn't about competence or expertise but who you know, everything collapses into grift and empire.
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Two sides of the same coin - the inevitable result of concentrating power in an oligarch class and allowing them to be above the law. When control over institutions, public policy, health, education etc isn't about competence or expertise but who you know, everything collapses into grift and empire.
The entire problem with the Trump/MAGA/Republican approach in a nutshell: even if you can beat anyone, you can't beat everyone, hell, you can't even beat a handful most of the time.
MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
The entire problem with the Trump/MAGA/Republican approach in a nutshell: even if you can beat anyone, you can't beat everyone, hell, you can't even beat a handful most of the time.
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We start using people like this as an example of how extreme wealth destroys people’s brains. He was going to be a sick-o regardless, but the wealth gave him the means to be an absolute monster.
Look at Thiel chasing his anti-Christ windmills, all these people are certifiable. Take their money.
Look at Thiel chasing his anti-Christ windmills, all these people are certifiable. Take their money.
February 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
We start using people like this as an example of how extreme wealth destroys people’s brains. He was going to be a sick-o regardless, but the wealth gave him the means to be an absolute monster.
Look at Thiel chasing his anti-Christ windmills, all these people are certifiable. Take their money.
Look at Thiel chasing his anti-Christ windmills, all these people are certifiable. Take their money.
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they said the main epstein guy was going to lock up all the epstein guys, they were as wrong about all this as you can get and you dont have to pretend otherwise
January 31, 2026 at 7:52 PM
they said the main epstein guy was going to lock up all the epstein guys, they were as wrong about all this as you can get and you dont have to pretend otherwise
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
News media don't report the news, they make them. They decide what is a scandal and what isn't, what will be buried and covered up.
Most journalists want to do a good job, but they report to rich owners who use their ownership to their own benefit.
It's the institutions that are failing us.
Most journalists want to do a good job, but they report to rich owners who use their ownership to their own benefit.
It's the institutions that are failing us.
January 31, 2026 at 6:21 PM
News media don't report the news, they make them. They decide what is a scandal and what isn't, what will be buried and covered up.
Most journalists want to do a good job, but they report to rich owners who use their ownership to their own benefit.
It's the institutions that are failing us.
Most journalists want to do a good job, but they report to rich owners who use their ownership to their own benefit.
It's the institutions that are failing us.
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congrats to maga for protecting and putting the entire epstein list into positions of power i guess
January 31, 2026 at 1:39 PM
congrats to maga for protecting and putting the entire epstein list into positions of power i guess
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The man who spent his entire adult life on campus of #Stanford until a year ago to a podcast booth in DC is talking about "elites breaking public trust"
Between David Brooks news and this I feel like I'm in the upside down, where the most pampered men on the planet are the downtrodden "common man"
Between David Brooks news and this I feel like I'm in the upside down, where the most pampered men on the planet are the downtrodden "common man"
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of N.I.H., was called a “fringe epidemiologist” during the Covid era. On this episode of “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat that the elites broke the public’s trust, and now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.
Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’
Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.
nyti.ms
January 29, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The man who spent his entire adult life on campus of #Stanford until a year ago to a podcast booth in DC is talking about "elites breaking public trust"
Between David Brooks news and this I feel like I'm in the upside down, where the most pampered men on the planet are the downtrodden "common man"
Between David Brooks news and this I feel like I'm in the upside down, where the most pampered men on the planet are the downtrodden "common man"
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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The regime-affiliated oligarchs who bought up Twitter, the Washington Post, CBS, and TikTok didn't do so to turn a profit.
They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.
They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.
Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice | Defector
The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the…
defector.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The regime-affiliated oligarchs who bought up Twitter, the Washington Post, CBS, and TikTok didn't do so to turn a profit.
They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.
They are taking control of the media to limit the public's ability to resist authoritarianism and oligarchy. If they run the outlets into the ground, that's fine.
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.
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I wouldn’t have to beat you so hard if you simply complied with this beating
Over the last 48 hours, the talking point on the right has solidified; the only reason that we are seeing violent clashes against ICE is because of sanctuary policies and failure to cooperate from city officials who are fanning the flames.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
Take a look; it's wild how quickly they're all adopting it.
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I wouldn’t have to beat you so hard if you simply complied with this beating
Actually, there should be consequences for being wrong. There has to be consequences for being this wrong.
It's literally the only mechanism for accountability in a society where the powerful and affluent act with impunity.
Just follow those who got it wrong all along and STFU.
It's literally the only mechanism for accountability in a society where the powerful and affluent act with impunity.
Just follow those who got it wrong all along and STFU.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Actually, there should be consequences for being wrong. There has to be consequences for being this wrong.
It's literally the only mechanism for accountability in a society where the powerful and affluent act with impunity.
Just follow those who got it wrong all along and STFU.
It's literally the only mechanism for accountability in a society where the powerful and affluent act with impunity.
Just follow those who got it wrong all along and STFU.