Thomas Neuburger ✍️
@thomasneuburger.bsky.social
Essayist, poet, novelist. Byline @ SF Chronicle, Common Dreams, Naked Capitalism, DownWithTyranny, others.
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For those who don't know, crossing the US border without authorization is a misdemeanor, and being present in the US without documentation is not a crime.
Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…?
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
For those who don't know, crossing the US border without authorization is a misdemeanor, and being present in the US without documentation is not a crime.
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Looking for Greater Fools to dump off their holdings. The government is the Greatest Fool, or, in this case, the Greatest Crook.
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Looking for Greater Fools to dump off their holdings. The government is the Greatest Fool, or, in this case, the Greatest Crook.
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They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
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Deregulation Was Never About “Freedom”—It Was About Permission to Poison
They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
hartmannreport.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
They turned clean air into “socialism,” turned polluters into victims, and turned America into a profit center with our kids as casualties…
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Get in, get out, get rich. Leave the wreck for someone else.
"No wonder AI backers today are fighting against regulation of any kind. They want us to help pay for it while they reap the profits."
See also: oil and gas industry.
See also: oil and gas industry.
Energy future shouldn’t be held hostage to myths
In a December 6th commentary, Gordon Tomb, a senior fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, argued Pennsylvania must weaken environmental and energy regulations to attract data centers. It’s a famili...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Get in, get out, get rich. Leave the wreck for someone else.
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"No wonder AI backers today are fighting against regulation of any kind. They want us to help pay for it while they reap the profits."
See also: oil and gas industry.
See also: oil and gas industry.
Energy future shouldn’t be held hostage to myths
In a December 6th commentary, Gordon Tomb, a senior fellow with the Commonwealth Foundation, argued Pennsylvania must weaken environmental and energy regulations to attract data centers. It’s a famili...
www.sungazette.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"No wonder AI backers today are fighting against regulation of any kind. They want us to help pay for it while they reap the profits."
See also: oil and gas industry.
See also: oil and gas industry.
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Rick Steves 😍
Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents
Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Rick Steves 😍
Hansen: Global Warming Acceleration Confirmed
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Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales
When our grandkids are adults, gathered around 2110 fires, what tales they will tell!
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December 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hansen: Global Warming Acceleration Confirmed
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“The rebellion against the rich & their misrule has been treated by national Democrats as a threat to the status quo, from which they get rich. Thus they force the rebellion to be led by Trump, where it’s badly misused.”
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The Frog or the Scorpion: Who Caused the Mess We're In?
And why it matters
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“The rebellion against the rich & their misrule has been treated by national Democrats as a threat to the status quo, from which they get rich. Thus they force the rebellion to be led by Trump, where it’s badly misused.”
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“If economics is to serve humanity rather than excuse its injustices, it must unlearn Mankiw’s lesson & begin again: not as the science of self-interest, but as the ethics of shared prosperity.”
Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
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Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be ...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“If economics is to serve humanity rather than excuse its injustices, it must unlearn Mankiw’s lesson & begin again: not as the science of self-interest, but as the ethics of shared prosperity.”
Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
Economics questions: The Greg Mankiw question
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
And that's being kind
The Reagan age, during which a neoliberal rhetorical style associated with Reagan shaped both GOP & Dems, ran from 1980-2016, clearing the way for the even more dishonest Trumpocene. Newsom can’t decide whether he wants to rhetorically be like Trump or Reagan. Neither choice supports democracy.
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
And that's being kind
What will happen if the Right wins absolutely?
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If the Right Wins Absolutely, What Will They Do?
The Hard Right isn't one Right. There's no single ideology. So who's poised to win?
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December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What will happen if the Right wins absolutely?
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How to live well with climate inevitability. As with that (below), so with this.
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Ali (@alicomsos)
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December 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How to live well with climate inevitability. As with that (below), so with this.
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The average thickness of #Arctic sea ice reached a new all-time minimum this year (in this dataset)... 📉
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December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The average thickness of #Arctic sea ice reached a new all-time minimum this year (in this dataset)... 📉
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December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data
Highly recommend reading @eroston.bsky.social's latest story @bloomberg.com on the Zillow/climate drama, available here with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Highly recommend reading @eroston.bsky.social's latest story @bloomberg.com on the Zillow/climate drama, available here with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data
Property owners and buyers need more information on climate dangers. But pinpointing them is hard, even for experts.
www.bloomberg.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data
Highly recommend reading @eroston.bsky.social's latest story @bloomberg.com on the Zillow/climate drama, available here with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Highly recommend reading @eroston.bsky.social's latest story @bloomberg.com on the Zillow/climate drama, available here with a gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
When the hell did Bluesky start insisting on ages?
Hell of an intrusion, say I.
Hell of an intrusion, say I.
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the hell did Bluesky start insisting on ages?
Hell of an intrusion, say I.
Hell of an intrusion, say I.
Phil, you're a godsend. Thanks!
“Warren was wrong; billionaires couldn’t be tamed. The wolf made a meal of its guards & went back to its work: the business of eating us all.”
The Beast That Can’t Be Killed - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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The Beast That Can’t Be Killed - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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The Beast That Can't Be Killed
Capitalism survives another attempt to save it
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December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Phil, you're a godsend. Thanks!
Discussing the Epstein Big Picture on 'The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen'
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Discussing the Epstein Big Picture On 'The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen'
The real Epstein story is about power. Underage sex was just the entertainment — avidly pursued, certainly, but not the main point.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Discussing the Epstein Big Picture on 'The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen'
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@nharnie.bsky.social
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“From lesser lights to greater, from murderers to comedians, the praise continues.”
The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney
The nation's bipartisan chiefs meet to mourn the dead. Not all of the dead. Just their own.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“From lesser lights to greater, from murderers to comedians, the praise continues.”
The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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The System That Produced Dick Cheney Honors Dick Cheney - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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My twins just texted. They're bringing over their homemade pumpkin pie bars and I'm drooling.
So that's pie AND pie bars.
I need nothing else.
So that's pie AND pie bars.
I need nothing else.
November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
My twins just texted. They're bringing over their homemade pumpkin pie bars and I'm drooling.
So that's pie AND pie bars.
I need nothing else.
So that's pie AND pie bars.
I need nothing else.
Flock cameras are computers, and they're very easily hacked. Check out the list of vulnerabilities.
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Flock Camera Vulnerability: It's Worse Than You Think
By pressing a button, you can be 'root' on a Flock. And that's just the start.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Flock cameras are computers, and they're very easily hacked. Check out the list of vulnerabilities.
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One good thing about Bari Weiss is that she articulates the worldview of the 0.00001% with total clarity, and thereby makes it obvious that they are dangerously out of their minds.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One good thing about Bari Weiss is that she articulates the worldview of the 0.00001% with total clarity, and thereby makes it obvious that they are dangerously out of their minds.
Climate news...
The water that submerged the church in Iznik for more than 700 years has receded due to climate change. 🥲
Basilica emerges from lake, illuminating early Church life in Turkey.
Known as the Basilica of the Holy Fathers, it marks the site of one of the early Church's most important gatherings which took place in Nicaea 12 years after the Roman Empire legalised Christianity in AD 325
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Known as the Basilica of the Holy Fathers, it marks the site of one of the early Church's most important gatherings which took place in Nicaea 12 years after the Roman Empire legalised Christianity in AD 325
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November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Climate news...
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EVERYONE wants a serious wealth tax that starts to rebalance things.
NO ONE believes politicians will allow that to happen.
NO ONE believes politicians will allow that to happen.
This weeks #Budget2026
Labour must not go back to workers and communities and make them pay again. They must show whose side they are on. #WealthTax
Labour must not go back to workers and communities and make them pay again. They must show whose side they are on. #WealthTax
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
EVERYONE wants a serious wealth tax that starts to rebalance things.
NO ONE believes politicians will allow that to happen.
NO ONE believes politicians will allow that to happen.
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“‘Age of exploration’ is polite. ‘Age of exploitation’ is more accurate. Since, as you’ll see, that’s the most common thread. Man’s inhumanity to man, globally expressed.”
Introduction: ‘To Govern The Globe’ - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Introduction: ‘To Govern The Globe’ - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Introduction: 'To Govern The Globe'
A view from the edge of the cliff
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November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“‘Age of exploration’ is polite. ‘Age of exploitation’ is more accurate. Since, as you’ll see, that’s the most common thread. Man’s inhumanity to man, globally expressed.”
Introduction: ‘To Govern The Globe’ - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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Introduction: ‘To Govern The Globe’ - @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
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