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Rupert Chapman
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Archaeologist and Lover of English Literature
Sunday thought
The rot at the top
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November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
How Florida—Yes, Florida—Complicates Trump’s Obamacare Attacks
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How Florida—Yes, Florida—Complicates Trump’s Obamacare Attacks
Republicans claim fraud is inherent in the Affordable Care Act. The Sunshine State shows the problem isn’t about the law.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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JD Vance — begs folks to be patient with an economy he admits is bad. Trump — brags it’s the greatest ever.

I’ve said it so many times, Republicans stay synced and on message even when the message is a lie, but this slip tells a story.

There’s chaos behind the scenes and the wheels are coming off.
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Utterly lawless
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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What a nonsense equivocal take. He’s deeply weak and at the end of the road. Lashing out ineffectively (Epstein) or acquiescing embarrassingly (Mamdani) will be his only choices going forward. And she’s politically smart to get off a sinking boat via the power of no. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
Trump Shows His Power, and Greene Reveals His Weakness
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November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Exactly. Nazi porn bar where propaganda reigns.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Farmer: “Do we need a Trump?”

Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social at 6pm as they go LIVE to unpack Trump’s Ukraine–Russia “peace plan”.
Maybe the farmer will finally get his answer.

Link in the replies👇
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Why did the Kremlin choose @Axios as their vehicle to manipulate US foreign policy by laundering their propaganda, and what are they going to do about it?
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A troubled solicitor is found skewered with a giant wooden skewer. Suspicion falls on Cocklake’s amateur drama group, frightened that the discovery of a valuable musical manuscript sold cheaply at an auction might threaten Midsomer’s anomalous murder rate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Is he posting his DMs to Bondi again?
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Axios has a lot of explaining to do.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Lubbock Will Remove Buddy Holly-Themed Crosswalk After Federal Crackdown
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November 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
What If the Most Dangerous Man in the Administration Isn’t Donald Trump?
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What If the Most Dangerous Man in the Administration Isn’t Donald Trump?
The U.S. government is now pushing misinformation.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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JD Vance on the same morning Trump calls for execution of elected Democrats: "He's not a violent person:"
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade
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Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade
The industry bought a president. Bad investment?
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November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I almost hope Trump does this, just for the volcano it would uncap.
And then direct Bondi to declare it all "national security" or "part of an active investigation"
November 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social: Humiliated Trump's dictatorship over Republicans is coming apart with the Epstein vote youtu.be/svoaBLhc8O0?...
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM