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Carley Carden
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•GA artist •intersectional feminist •learner •quant •hsp
•ilove Iris Murdoch •loud heavy music •prog policy •NBA 🏀
•Virtue ethics in the streets, virtuoso in the Heat (culture)
•All things are connected.
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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · Aug 27
Happy first week of the 2025 US Open (and bday week for Bob + me) to all who celebrate!

I regret there’s not a sold-out run of Pavement shows all week in NY again this year; alas, I’m looking forward to seeing y’all + them in TX in September!

Meanwhile, catch us (forever) in the cheap seats. 🎾♥️✌️
Stephen Malkmus, Bob Nastanovich, and Carley Carden sit on the ground amidst a crowd in the plaza outside Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Queens, New York watching the Daniil Medvedev vs. Novak Djokovic match projected on the big screen in the penultimate set of the 2023 US Open men’s tennis finals. We were cheering for Medvedev, obvi.
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theorymeg.bsky.social
This has been my strategy and I recommend it wholeheartedly. When LLMs write about music everything is vague and could be applied to /any/ piece -- my rubric now says "observations that are not specific to this piece are not awarded any credit" and I can give these the Fs they usually deserve.
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11h
It is literally not your job to mount defensive maneuvers against LLM vomited essays. Give those papers the grades the words deserve (generally it's a 'C'). Take a deep breath and decompress after the sense of disappointment. Move on.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
“Don’t be diabetic and eat better, poors.”

Not an exaggeration, that’s literally Bhattacharya’s plan.

When we said the Great Barrington Declaration smacked of eugenics, this is what we meant.
joho.bsky.social Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 4h
Jay Bhattacharya's plan for a new pandemic is for everyone to suddenly be healthy.
Ultimately, public health agencies encouraging people to take whatever steps they can to improve their health will have a dramatic effect during the next pandemic. Whether simply by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension or diabetes, or getting up and walking more, anything that makes the population healthier will prepare us better for the next pandemic. The best pandemic preparedness playbook for the United States is making America healthy again.
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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zackwag.com
Oh we shitting shitting
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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westerberghs89.bsky.social
Sharter Kit when
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
carleycarden.bsky.social
Okay, let’s start with “starter kit,” and I beg you, please read every comment on every post in this entire thread.

Like, all the way to “forever.”

I strongly encourage you to sit and read beside your cat if possible.

Enjoy! 😘 🧻 🐈‍⬛ ✌️
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h
The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB
A charmin “forever roll” of toilet paper that looks like a damn piece of furniture
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)

3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
Story says: Headline "The Final Day" Then: The Final Day Rachel went to meet with the DOJ lawyers the next day—Thursday, June 26th. That morning, an article came out in the NY Times describing how DOJ lawyers were pressuring me to resign. I still have no idea who leaked the story. At around 1pm on Thursday, I was called by Rachel and the two outside lawyers, Jack and Farnaz, who attended the meeting with Rachel. I was told that the DOJ lawyers were very upset with the leaked story in the Times and that the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA. I also needed my resignation to be effective prior to the students returning. If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate. I was then told that the DOJ had offered an amazing deal—unlike any the lawyers had ever seen, in their words. They were basically willing to grant UVA blanket immunity—all of the inquires and investigations would be suspended, no financial penalties would be imposed, and agencies would be told not to cut off our research funding. They said they had never seen or heard about such a great deal for any university. Rachel praised the lawyers for their astute and savvy bargaining, and I was told this was an amazing deal.
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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realclaudetaylor.bsky.social
You know who has Universal Healthcare provided by the government? Folks in Argentina do and the US taxpayers sent them $40 Billion Dollars so they can keep it. How are your premiums doing?
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
carleycarden.bsky.social
Was about to gleefully smash the repost, but I immediately recalled my dear brilliant poli sci professor ex who was a multi-term city councilman and, like, maybe the youngest ever—certainly the most trustworthy, conscientious, and competent ever—finance committee chair for 2 years we were together.
sirosenbaum.bsky.social sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 5h
I have never sexted with a politician (that I am aware of) and I demand to know why
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
carleycarden.bsky.social
Hah, I LIVED in E. Arkansas for, like, 3 mo in the 00s and took anatomy+physiology at univ and worked lunch AT A TRUCK STOP while my bf did an engr internship at a huge steel mill there, and if I NEVER hear that accent again, it’ll STILL be too soon.

Only love for everything Marge Gunderson, tho.
golikehellmachine.com GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h
i am 100% against accent discrimination* with no exceptions**

*okay like 95%
**fargo and arkansas accents make me irrationally and unreasonably angry
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
Need a new Catfish term for people who manage the incredible feat of falling in love, by facetime, with a guy who *is* actually who he says he is, but that is the world's most famously repulsive human man.
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 9h
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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mitchnobis.bsky.social
Hey teacher-writers! I'll be giving a reading/interview in the National Writing Project Teacher Studio on Tuesday at 6:00 PM Eastern! If you're in NWP's online space already, go to events and RSVP for 11/18. studio.nwp.org/posts/928761...
Write Now Teacher Studio
The Write Now Teacher Studio, an open online community hosted by the National Writing Project, welcomes all educators interested in writing, the teaching of writing, and joyous learning both in and ou...
studio.nwp.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
So, skeptical of a screen shot from Twitter, I went through and translated his actual speech myself and it goes WAY HARDER THAN THE SCREEN SHOT SUGGESTS

he mixes in the history of Colombia into the drug cartels and Bernie Moreno into Jeffrey Epstein, it's wild, wild stuff
One hundred years of solitude. The sad story of a lonely country that seems to be killing itself when he is in the midst of life's exuberance, when it erupts like a volcano, both in the Glimpses of vitality, both in nature and in human beings. And that's why we dance the way we do and why we can admire this greenery that surrounds us like perhaps no one else in humanity. So much exuberance that in the midst of solitude we kill each other. In our loneliness, we kill each other. And it has been this way since the beginning. I was 25 on November 7, 1985 and I had been tortured and was being tortured in prison and they ask me to apologize. Why? Because I wanted a different country and thought differently from those who governed Colombia. That is why I am president of the Republic. But why was the Patriotic Union killed? Why were the magistrates killed? Ah, because Pablo Escobar put up the money to take over the palace. Carlos Leder, third or fourth in Pablo Escobar's cartel, confessed that they had nothing to do with it. He's not the doorman or driver of the drug trade, he's one of the kingpins. I shouldn't talk about this, they say. But if it wasn't drug trafficking, why were the judges killed? Because they destroyed everything. Couldn't they speak? Was anyone even trying to speak? What was the reason? And the reason, in my opinion-I could be wrong, of course, in interpreting Colombian history-was simply that the Colombian oligarchy didn't want to distribute wealth to the population. Didn't want to escape that immense social inequality. Losing even a single penny of their wealth seemed terrible to them. And I said, why hadn't the Conservative Party apologized? Because today we are facing the same events. You only have to look at today's newspaper pages to see what's on display. A magazine published a cover featuring me in an orange jumpsuit, which they claim is the same one worn by prisoners in the United States. In other words, we emerged from a peace process that created a constituent assembly. They wiped out an entire Left-wing party, the Patriotic Union, along the way, and those of us who survived won the elections, and now they're telling us again that they're going to kill us. I'm not saying they're going to kill us, but it's the same thing. They want to eliminate this popular alternative and prevent it from winning the 2026 elections again, and they want to do it with violence once more. And so I ask the Conservative Party, is that why it hasn't apologized? Because it wants to repeat and repeat and repeat the sad history of the physical and violent elimination of difference in Colombia, which is not a minority, but a popular majority. And it has always been a popular majority because Gaitdn was a majority, because Rafael Uribe Uribe was a majority, because La Napo was Because we are the majority, they always kill the majority to continue governing as a minority. It's called oligarchy. Is it possible to try to imprison the democratically elected president in the United States, a foreign country? It's not the worst kind of violence, because it's preferable to die fighting on a street corner than to be taken prisoner to a foreign country that has nothing to do with what one believes, but it does have a lot to do with Colombia's history since the beginning of violence. And why am I talking about the Conservative Party? Conservative? Because those who are doing this—and excuse me for not yet properly entering the event, but I have to say it because they are conservative militants who are influencing a gentleman named Bernie Moreno. Moreno. He's the one who says in the magazine that he's giving Trump the way to imprison Petro. Petro is in jail. Do you know why he's doing it? For personal revenge. A vendetta like the mafia. As García Márquez said, "We are killing each other in circles of revenge. We kill each other out of pride, he says in his book. My first debates in Congress were against Mr. Bernardo Alberto Moreno, who robbed the Banco del Pacífico and later he was president of it. And my first debates in Congress were against money laundering. They went against the money laundering that was established by turning the property, the use of the land in the Bogotá savanna, from rural use that belonged to the peasants to to urban use, where they speculated with such harsh real estate interests that they even turned a $300,000 property into the San Simón Hacienda. A 3 billion settlement with a single signature from the minister of Environment, Mr. Andrés Pastrana Juan Me, a paramilitary member, said he collaborated with the paramilitaries. The business belonged to a man named Ángel Gaitán Maecha de Chí, founder of paramilitarism in Colombia and emerald mining. And who was the political leader? Andrés Pastrana, president who also enriched himself with some lots in San Simón. And on what list does Mr. Andrés appear? On the list. No, no, I'm not saying he appears on the list, he appears as a friend of Epstein on the list and now he's sealing the deal. A clan of pedophiles wants to end democracy in Colombia. It's tough, yes, but that's the reality. And to prevent the list from being published, they send battleships to kill fishermen in this city. And they threaten our neighbor, asking whether he's a dictator or not, how can the people of Colombia applaud the invasion of their brother, who isn't the president, but the people of Venezuela? When would we ever be so treacherous and sellouts that we betray our own blood? Are the people of Ecuador, Panama, or Venezuela not our own people? And then they want the president to do what Duque, the coward, wanted to do: lend Colombian lands so that a brother country with the same history as us could be invaded from there, because Bolívar was born there and came to die here in this city. No, President of Colombia, you cannot do that, President cursed by future generations, because you will never be forgotten as... And I do not belong to those who wanted to kill Bolívar. The Venezuelan government has made many criticisms, I'm critical, but I'm not making fun of the people of Venezuela, nor did I build a trap for the people of Venezuela to fall into. an invasion that is only after their oil, what they want is more greed and violence to make this beautiful corner of the South American continent a Syria, an Iraq, a Libya full of slaves, selling black slaves again, right? list of Epstein's friends that he doesn't want to appear in the United States. They want to use us here with the violence so that the people of the United States do not think about their own government, but rather xenophobia, racism, and the ideas of the superior race and other false ideas, and they use us to avoid discussing their own problems The president of Colombia has denounced drug traffickers for decades. And the drug traffickers he has denounced were always in political power. They were always in political power in Colombia, in the state. And now they accuse us of being drug traffickers. Hypocrites. any of the Colombian senators and Colombian politicians who went to Miami to try to build the road by which they could forcibly remove the elected president of Colombia It is popularly known as being full of relatives and businesses of drug traffickers. Drug traffickers' business. And Marco Rubio doesn't want to believe it, well, believe it. even though he also has a relative who is a drug trafficker. They're all coated in it at their core. I believe, and I hope I'm not wrong, to that insult that conservatives of Andrés Pastrana, a friend of Epstein, its business partners, through the brother, Senator Bernie Moreno, in the United States And how do we Colombians respond to such a massive anti-democratic insult? Such treason against the homeland by those who already sold Panama for 13 million dollars and they stole the money. How do you respond to that? And I can't say more while remaining coherent. And I ask the people who are here, who are listening to me and beyond, because we have to go from village to village, from municipality to municipality, that not only are there elections coming in which I cannot participate, but there is a defense of dignity, of national sovereignty, that when they come here to threaten us, I do not accept threats, we are going to rise up by the millions because the prophecy is true. And we are jaguars, males and females, we are jaguars. We will be jaguars dancing for the dignity of Colombia. We will be jaguars dancing to revive Bolívar, who is still anchored there, in that fascist monument they erected in his honor at the Quinta de Bolívar. We will be jaguars to end the 100 years of solitude. Millions will rise up here, unarmed. against the threat of those linked to the list of pedophiles we will not allow to operate. We will build democracy, we will build dignity. And I'm not talking about Trump, who shouldn't be mistaken, I'm talking about Andrés Pastrana, who orchestrated this slander against the President of Colombia through his friend Bernie Moreno and his brothers, who are the thieves who were in his government, involved in the Banco del Pacífico scandal and the land grabs in the Bogotá Savannah, denounced by the current President of the Republic. I ask for forgiveness on behalf of the State so that they may revive their dead through it. It is a way of reviving. All of it. It's a way to revive. We all know it. We don't die; the energy continues. The second law of thermodynamics in physics states: Nothing is created or destroyed, it is transformed. And the energy of these thousands of people who, as members of the Patriotic Union and having dreams from 1982 to 2000, that energy is here again, multiplied thousands of times over. Now we are millions. Now they can't kill us. Now we are the heart, the hope of We are the heart, the hope of the people of Colombia. Now we are a flag raised high and we will not let them insult it. We will not allow them to spit on her in blood. We will rise up in dignity with the the hands of millions and millions will stop the pedophiles. Thank you very much for listening to me.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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anticharisma.bsky.social
The only JRE I fuck with is Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
carleycarden.bsky.social
just realized my all-time winning % in NBA fantasy hoops has already slipped to .789, and now I’m feeling ready for a big comeback
carleycarden.bsky.social Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 2d
Idk if it’s me or the seasonal depression talking rt now, but I’m thinking I might fuck around and give up (at least a lil’ of) my .796 all-time winning percentage in NBA fantasy hoops for sleep this season ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Also, btw, for anyone who said Mountainhead was too unrealistic... um... this is straight out of Mountainhead.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.
Message: Btw. Argentina next to collapse Sender: Time: 08/30/18 08:13:08 AM (557334788) Flags: 1060865 Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: 64BF837C-6122-4C34-9A5C-896F809D1196 Message: Need a populist HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025753 Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 08/30/18 08:13:20 AM (557334800) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: D3AECA63-918A-43D1-B504-C726502B98CC Message: ripe Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Message: Whole South America Brazil Venezuela Argentina. Don't know why they are so dirty given the fact that there are so many maids Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 08/30/18 08:14:58 AM (557334898) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: 6AAFE5F8-E07A-48AE-93F1-ABA2F8499B5D Message: soon to be the best investment of a lifetime Sender: Time: 08/30/18 08:15:09 AM (557334909) Flags: 1060865 Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: 2EC971E9-426B-4188-BE22-AlFEBFCEC52E Message: Brazilian parartrooper my man Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 08/30/18 08:15:13 AM (557334913) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: 2FC018A1-0160-4E77-93F3-A91EC47D86CC Message: Venezuela. More oil reserves than Saudi Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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peytonfarquhar.bsky.social
Basic social goods ensure that girls don't have to be raped to get braces.

dissentmagazine.org/article/cock...
Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark - Dissent Magazine
As infamous pick-up artist Roosh himself admits in "Don’t Bang Denmark," Nordic social democracy doesn’t support his kind.
dissentmagazine.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
This is color-evasiveness at its finest. They aren’t blind or ignorant to race. They are banning discussions of it to hoard power. They evade race to protect themselves while rewarding whiteness.
victorerikray.bsky.social Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 1d
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”

These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
November 14, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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propublica.org
Six young Black moms were allegedly killed by suspects who were on probation but not being monitored in person by probation officers because of a warrant out for their arrest.

Their deaths left 12 children without mothers.

In partnership with @wpln.bsky.social
She Begged for Help. This State’s Probation Gap May Have Put Her in Danger.
Tennessee probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months. Temptress Peebles was one of six mothers who...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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mel.bzky.team
deeply intrigued by the fact that the current conservative line of defense is "hey he wasnt so bad, the girls he raped could have been even younger. its almost like he raped adult women, which as we all know is moral and good"
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
carleycarden.bsky.social
controversial take, perhaps, but I’ll die un million de petites morts on the “‘Roads’ is the hottest song on Portishead Dummy” hill
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d
like one out of three elder millennials lost their virginity to portishead. what the fuck are you talking about.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow: ‘I can’t think of any worse music to make love to than ours’
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
carleycarden.bsky.social
as if I ever even open it
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d
seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
Oh so they are doing torture torture
juliedicaro.bsky.social Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 1d
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all. Plaintiffs are in the process of hiring an IT contractor. Plaintiffs’ contractor will meet with the government’s ESI Liaison (with attorneys on the phone) to attempt to work through issues concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved. While Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage,
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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rlspang.bsky.social
I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...

Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.

One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
(via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)
email from Elise New to Woody Allen: Dear Woody, Tel: Fax As I know Jeffrey has told you, I really enjoyed our conversation on the plane last spring about William Carlos Williams's "This Is Just to Say." You offered a reading of the poem that seemed to me completely persuasive and plausible and, yet, also, one that is not strictly dictated or delimited by the lines themselves. These are lines that seem to me unusually open to divergent readings-- including, for instance, a reading much more coaxing and seductive; another, much more defensive and manipulative; another, much more about language itself as a mode of sharing. I left our conversation wanting to explore with you the aggressive (or maybe mock aggressive) reading you gave, as well as the way this poem, perhaps more than many, sustains so many readings. You helped me think about Williams's poem as it seems in some ways more like a "script" than a poem, a poem written in such a way as to be turned by different voices in different directions, a poem that might even be "directed" by the reader. I'd love to hear you read the poem again and, if you are willing, to discuss it a bit with me on camera for my upcoming Massive Open Online Course on American poetry.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
The finest analysis that people with veneers have to offer.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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leonardpierce.bsky.social
A lot of you are going to be tempted to say "I bet Karl Marx didn't predict capitalism falling into the hands of a cabal of pedophilic freaks" and I am here to tell you that he absolutely did
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM