Paige Rutherford
@infopaige.bsky.social
truth and beauty seeker • knowledge enthusiast • not crazy about this zeitgeist, tbh
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
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November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
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guy just loves to dance
and by "dance" I mean "use public spaces to extort billions of dollars from his fellow oligarchs using the carrot of access to the most glamorous trappings of the state and the stick of threats to use the IRS and armed stormtroopers to crush those who dare resist him"
and by "dance" I mean "use public spaces to extort billions of dollars from his fellow oligarchs using the carrot of access to the most glamorous trappings of the state and the stick of threats to use the IRS and armed stormtroopers to crush those who dare resist him"
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
guy just loves to dance
and by "dance" I mean "use public spaces to extort billions of dollars from his fellow oligarchs using the carrot of access to the most glamorous trappings of the state and the stick of threats to use the IRS and armed stormtroopers to crush those who dare resist him"
and by "dance" I mean "use public spaces to extort billions of dollars from his fellow oligarchs using the carrot of access to the most glamorous trappings of the state and the stick of threats to use the IRS and armed stormtroopers to crush those who dare resist him"
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Your high cost of groceries and skyrocketing health insurance premiums will have to wait. The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom and Bribery Emporium is the president's top priority.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Your high cost of groceries and skyrocketing health insurance premiums will have to wait. The Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom and Bribery Emporium is the president's top priority.
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
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AND it is a very ugly sign of soul rot because it means your moral and intellectual compass is essentially outsourced to an amoral and at best superficially thoughtful elite.
You can tell yourself you're a Very Special Boy because you get invited onto all the NPR shows but. How sad for you.
You can tell yourself you're a Very Special Boy because you get invited onto all the NPR shows but. How sad for you.
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
AND it is a very ugly sign of soul rot because it means your moral and intellectual compass is essentially outsourced to an amoral and at best superficially thoughtful elite.
You can tell yourself you're a Very Special Boy because you get invited onto all the NPR shows but. How sad for you.
You can tell yourself you're a Very Special Boy because you get invited onto all the NPR shows but. How sad for you.
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Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
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surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
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Trump has functionally declared himself king. He is claiming the power to tax & spend, declare war, occupy cities & states, control if/when/how any elections occur, personally use state assets, declare guilt or innocence. Republican Congress & Supreme Court have rubber stamped his unchecked power.
August 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Trump has functionally declared himself king. He is claiming the power to tax & spend, declare war, occupy cities & states, control if/when/how any elections occur, personally use state assets, declare guilt or innocence. Republican Congress & Supreme Court have rubber stamped his unchecked power.
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Anyone who says that this is losing message needs to contend with the fact that it has been a winning message for at least 3 decades for Republicans.
It is a politically unpopular thing for Democrats to say—among Republicans, because they know it wins. It's what everyone else is thirsty for.
It is a politically unpopular thing for Democrats to say—among Republicans, because they know it wins. It's what everyone else is thirsty for.
August 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Anyone who says that this is losing message needs to contend with the fact that it has been a winning message for at least 3 decades for Republicans.
It is a politically unpopular thing for Democrats to say—among Republicans, because they know it wins. It's what everyone else is thirsty for.
It is a politically unpopular thing for Democrats to say—among Republicans, because they know it wins. It's what everyone else is thirsty for.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick).
Senate passed it 51-50.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk
The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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Watch this. It’s important.
June 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Watch this. It’s important.
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As America declines, it's necessary for capitalism to steal away our rights, protections, and privileges, and what MAGA is doing is shoving us into an existence where people should expect no help or protection from the government and life is expected to be brutish and short.
June 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
As America declines, it's necessary for capitalism to steal away our rights, protections, and privileges, and what MAGA is doing is shoving us into an existence where people should expect no help or protection from the government and life is expected to be brutish and short.
Truly disgusting.
This man, Judd Stone, has argued some of Texas' most evil cases in front of the Supreme Court. He defended the state's abortion bounty hunter law, sought to dismantle tribal sovereignty, and repeatedly asserted Texas' right to seize control over the southern border and immigration policy from Biden.
Just in: Texas' former solicitor general has left the AG's office amid sex misconduct allegations and a lawsuit outlining his apparent, months of detailed disclosures to colleagues about his sexual obsession with watching an asteroid anally rape the agency's No. 2 attorney in front of his kids.
May 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Truly disgusting.
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Each of these is false. Most interpersonal violence is perpetrated by people who know each other, and scope of death/property crime caused by people with money/power dwarfs all other harm. Interpersonal violence is at historic lows, and all evidence shows more state repression doesn't make us safe.
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Each of these is false. Most interpersonal violence is perpetrated by people who know each other, and scope of death/property crime caused by people with money/power dwarfs all other harm. Interpersonal violence is at historic lows, and all evidence shows more state repression doesn't make us safe.
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The core lies shared by Dems, Reps, and the New York Times are: (1) that greatest threats we face come from poor people (especially people of color), immigrants, and strangers; (2) that violence is always increasing; (3) that state violence/repression/punishment are the solution to make us safe.
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The core lies shared by Dems, Reps, and the New York Times are: (1) that greatest threats we face come from poor people (especially people of color), immigrants, and strangers; (2) that violence is always increasing; (3) that state violence/repression/punishment are the solution to make us safe.
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Most Americans have no concept of the scope ($10+ Billion in daily corruption) & impact (undermining our national security, economy, democracy) of Trump’s corruption, because Corporate Media intentionally suppresses as to not appear anti-Trump.
May 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Most Americans have no concept of the scope ($10+ Billion in daily corruption) & impact (undermining our national security, economy, democracy) of Trump’s corruption, because Corporate Media intentionally suppresses as to not appear anti-Trump.
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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Leavitt's job is to be the dumbest person on earth and to reflexively lie about everything no matter how much it makes her look like the dumbest person on earth. It is a disgrace to civilization that anyone records her words.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Leavitt's job is to be the dumbest person on earth and to reflexively lie about everything no matter how much it makes her look like the dumbest person on earth. It is a disgrace to civilization that anyone records her words.