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David
@finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
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Law, politics, history, and German Absolute Idealism.
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finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
Looks like reports of her impending removal were greatly exaggerated
Annie Karni @anniekarni My understanding is that the relentless pressure campaign that has included carrot, stick, good cop, bad cop, has made her even more dug in, suspicious and convinced there's a conspiracy at play. Manu Raju @mkraju . 59m I asked Rep. Lauren Boebert on Sept. 16 if there was "any way" she would take her name off of the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition. "No, she told me 1:24 PM. Nov 12, 2025 : 165.5K Views
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Here’s what I see. There was a legitimate party rebellion after the March debacle. Democratic voters demanded fight. When the time came Democrats fought. They held out for 40 days, the longest shutdown standoff in history. They put health care at the center of the national political conversation and inflicted a lot of damage on Trump. At forty days they could no longer hold their caucus together. And we got this. That’s a sea change in how the congressional party functions. And that’s a big deal. Many people see it as some kind of epic disaster and are making all the standard threats about not voting or not contributing or whatever. That’s just not what I see. It’s a big change in the direction of the fight we need in the years to come that just didn’t go far enough. Yet.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
Hell of a pair of posts
From Random From Follows Barchart@barchart.com Oracle We Have A Problem Debt to equity ratios of Direct Al stocks Shows Oracle above 500% compared to other AI stocks at roughly 200 or below Source: Bloomberg, JPMAM, September 16, 2025 24 FinTwitter 27m RIYADH- ORACLE CEO: NOT CONCERNED ABOUT "AI BUBBLE"
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Fwiw this is what (derogatory) cringe actually looks like. Just pathetic baby-brained shit
Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su Follow it screams "privileged lib" tbh, I could not even begin to imagine a normal person trying to make ends meet caring about this for one secono October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM 3 quotes 30 likes 30 6 rax 'levon honkers' king @raxkinaisd... 2h i quess i didn't realize people were sa precious about the white house! 3 19 1 e Egg @patob.bsky.social : 8m Me on 9/11
October 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
literally this:
image of Graham Platner superimposed onto the hotdog guy meme while stating "we're all trying to find the guy that did this"
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This year's haul from the @princetonupress.bsky.social annual 70% off sale!
Two stacks of books on a desk with monitors, a speaker, and other books in background. The foreground books are The Corportaiton and the Twentieth Century by Langlois; The Power to Destroy, by Michael Graetz; From Development to Democracy, by Slater and Wong; 24/7 Politics, by Kathryn Brownell; and Corporate Crime and Punishment, by Cornelia Woll
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Another win for the mutelist:
Image of a profile on bluesky: "Erica lfill @wickdchiq.bsky.social 34.1K followers 645 following 13.1K Award-winning I Political Columnist . Economist Policy Deconstructionist. PhD in reality TV Never forget I will be vindicated Followed by Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie, .. Muted by "Bad takes on Ukraine R (plus Georgia and Hungary as a bonus)" Bluesky Elder Posts Replies Media Videos Erica Ifill @wickdchia.b ‣ Bluesky Elder S"
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This labeler has served me well
Bluesky profile image spring @electroplasm.bsky.social 857 followers 275 following 25.4K School Zone Speeding Enthusiast Muted by "Bad takes on Ukraine (plus Georgia and Hungary as a bonus)" Posts Replies Media Videos Lists Pinned spring e @electropl...7mo
October 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This administration, upon encountering any problem at all:
Guy in his living room sitting in front of a microphone setup, wearing headphones and very dumb looking sunglasses with thick white rims
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Really essential chart from @gelliottmorris.com latest

open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Chart showing change in approval of Trump among Hispanic, white, and overall voters, broken out by age. Shows all under 65s have declined to a decent degree but especially shows a massive drop among young Hispanic voters at more than -30 points
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Q: isn't this completely unhinged?

A:
Prison abolition cartoon featuring a comic book representation of the author of OP image story stating, "I don't answer those questions anymore?"
September 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Block this lying asshole
Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky... Follow #BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously voted to make Charlie Kirk's birthday a "National Day of Remembrance." Bipartisan unity to honor Kirk... but still nothing on gun violence, healthcare, or families crushed by bills. The bar for "leadership" isn't low - it's underground. Pathetic.
September 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A sample of his earlier work:
4:09 Post Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social Follow Bluesky Elder Will Stancil is 100% unaware that the United States backed Hitler in WW2 until We smelt the wind change and backed the winner at the last minute. Of course he is. He's a fucking monstrously stupid fuck. ( WlillStancil @whstancil.bsky.social : 5h # Bluesky Elder this stuff honestly treads really close to the kind of Hitler revisionism you see on the far right currently April 20, 2025 at 11:11AM 8 Everybody can reply 22 reposts 72 quotes 220 likes Q 100 94 ( 220 HudsonRiverCroc @hudsonrivercroc.b... . now Bluesky Elder This take is so bad, lm going to block you. Write your reply D
September 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social I think I have a potential next episode for you
Image of a case open at the top, looking down inside. The case is filled with boxes of Dr. Siegel's Cookie Diet: Diet Controlling Cookies. Something about the man in the lab coat on the cover conveys a certain sadness and shame that makes me think a terrible story is behind this item.
August 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Gonna need some analysis of the symbology here on this banner on an HHS building
Image of a government building, gray and unadorned except for a colorful thin banner along one side displaying, like, dancing we-are-the-world type images of diverse people and like rainbows and clouds and stuff. Seen from across the street in daytime.
August 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Fucking plague-bringers

www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
HHS, CMS Eliminate Financial Pressure Tied to Hospital Staff Vaccination Reporting WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today announced additional repeals of federal policy that financially rewarded hospitals for reporting staff vaccination rates – an incentive that was coercive and denied informed consent.“Medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person - never on a financial bonus or a government mandate.” said Secretary Kennedy. “Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science, and speak the truth-without fear of punishment.”
August 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I actually found this expansion pack the other day lol:
July 31, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Image of a jet ski rider from behind the rider, a man with curly hair, on the open ocean. Caption text is "me on my way to Fiji to get Huda off that island myself since the producers won't"
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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People also ask about:
Google search results for Azealia Banks, showing various basic life stats like fate of birth and news stories. Middle panel states "See also: Jeffrey Esptein"
July 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Interesting
The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ending in death over the past three decades. But of the 70 cases reported in the United States over the past 18 months, only a single death occurred, leaving experts puzzled at how to explain the phenomenon. A new study published Wednesday adds weight to an argument that the immunity people have developed to the virus that caused the most recent flu pandemic, an H1N1 virus that emerged in 2009, has induced some cross-protection that may be making it harder for H5N1 to infect people, and mitigating the severity of the ensuing disease when such infections occur.
July 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Fake emails about alleged good changes in student loans already underway, despite the fact, of course, that the bill is extremely damaging to the student loan system
Image of an email on a phone screen. Larissa Pignatelli with the Student Loan Debt Department. This is not the first time we've tried to reach you. Your case has been flagged as TIME- SENSITIVE, and we've xhausted our attempts to rotify you. Our records indicate that you may be eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness under the new 2025 guidelines. We attempted to each you at home, but no response was eceived. lf we do not hear back from you within 24 M Forwara
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Half the FDA press releases may as well be Infowars blog posts

www.fda.gov/news-events/...
An oficial website of the United States government FDA NEWS RELEASE FDA Halts New Clinical Trials That Export Americans' Cells to Foreign Labs in Hostile Countries for Genetic Engineering G More Press Announcements For Immediate Release: June 18,2025 P The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced an immediate review of new clinical trials that involve sending American citizens' living cells to China and other hostile countries for genetic engineering and subsequent infusion back into U.S. patients - sometimes without their knowledge or consent.
June 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Oof and that first one purports to be a former prosecutor and AP reporter. Second caught by my ever-handy mutelist for bad takes on Ukraine
Image of the profile of Steve Dill. Banner image is a legal text, balance on a table; behind them more legal tomes of various colors and gold trim. Steve Dill @keyboardhero.bsky.social 181 followers 122 following 236 post Former Prosecutor and Associated Press reporter. Proud Army veteran. Retired competitive rower.
May 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Yeah and you can see it becoming a problem when there's follow ups like this in the quoted thread. We should take these issues seriously but part of that means not taking this outfits "MQL" and saying it is equivalent to "the bare minimum"
Post with a link to the book There is No Place for Us Text of post is "When say the rise the "working homeless" isn't some marginal phenomenon, this is what I mean. Millions of Americans are working-and working, and working some more-and *still* can't afford even the bare minimum."
May 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM