Lyle Peterson
@flyinformation.bsky.social
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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“…and we think it won’t happen again bc the first time we took a bone saw to a reporter seems to have had the desired effect and now no one speaks badly of me and I got an invitation to the White House.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“…and we think it won’t happen again bc the first time we took a bone saw to a reporter seems to have had the desired effect and now no one speaks badly of me and I got an invitation to the White House.”
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I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
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I’m not sure if Trump is in Michael Corleone “settle all family business” mode right now or if he’s going full Al Pacino in the closing scene of Scarface, or if we are at Jack Nicholson “you’re damn right I ordered the Code Red!”
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I’m not sure if Trump is in Michael Corleone “settle all family business” mode right now or if he’s going full Al Pacino in the closing scene of Scarface, or if we are at Jack Nicholson “you’re damn right I ordered the Code Red!”
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No Kings! Just a Cava bag with $50,000 in it. Normal stuff.
#NoKings @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
📍Washington, D.C.
#NoKings @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
📍Washington, D.C.
October 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
No Kings! Just a Cava bag with $50,000 in it. Normal stuff.
#NoKings @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
📍Washington, D.C.
#NoKings @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
📍Washington, D.C.
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I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
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I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
September 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.
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“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social argues. Yet more troubling is the lack of effort from Congress or the courts to curtail the use of such “emergency” powers:
Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social argues. Yet more troubling is the lack of effort from Congress or the courts to curtail the use of such “emergency” powers:
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This idea that somehow rural areas underwrite metros is not only wrong, it’s entirely inverted — and yet it perversely animates basically every element of our current political life.
August 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This idea that somehow rural areas underwrite metros is not only wrong, it’s entirely inverted — and yet it perversely animates basically every element of our current political life.
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A problem that I'm having with mental health care professionals is that my state of mind under consolidating authoritarianism seems extreme to people who aren't paying attention, and that's most people.
August 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A problem that I'm having with mental health care professionals is that my state of mind under consolidating authoritarianism seems extreme to people who aren't paying attention, and that's most people.
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Hannity 2019: I have zero doubt that Russia meddled in the 2016 election…I’m certain they did. Devin Nunes was warning Obama in 2014
Hannity 2025: They all lied. I’m proud that this show got it right. The rest of the media went along with the lie.
Hannity 2025: They all lied. I’m proud that this show got it right. The rest of the media went along with the lie.
July 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Hannity 2019: I have zero doubt that Russia meddled in the 2016 election…I’m certain they did. Devin Nunes was warning Obama in 2014
Hannity 2025: They all lied. I’m proud that this show got it right. The rest of the media went along with the lie.
Hannity 2025: They all lied. I’m proud that this show got it right. The rest of the media went along with the lie.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
July 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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One of the more interesting things to me about this moment in history is the growing number of people who would never in a million years choose a career doing manual labor telling everyone else that they should.
July 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One of the more interesting things to me about this moment in history is the growing number of people who would never in a million years choose a career doing manual labor telling everyone else that they should.
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Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
July 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
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If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
July 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
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I've been seeing people struggling with the fact that Trump campaigned heavily on the Epstein files, so refusing to release them at the last second makes no sense -
-my brothers in Christ, do you not realize that your confusion is caused by your presumption that these people have object permanence?
-my brothers in Christ, do you not realize that your confusion is caused by your presumption that these people have object permanence?
July 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I've been seeing people struggling with the fact that Trump campaigned heavily on the Epstein files, so refusing to release them at the last second makes no sense -
-my brothers in Christ, do you not realize that your confusion is caused by your presumption that these people have object permanence?
-my brothers in Christ, do you not realize that your confusion is caused by your presumption that these people have object permanence?
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/3 So: the answer is nobody is going to stop the regime through normal, traditional, checks-and-balances, constitutional measures — at least not until we get a new and very different Congress.
July 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
/3 So: the answer is nobody is going to stop the regime through normal, traditional, checks-and-balances, constitutional measures — at least not until we get a new and very different Congress.
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So let me get this straight. In two days we went from “the Epstein list doesn’t exist” to “the Epstein list that certainly exists was created by Obama n such”
Ya ok
Ya ok
July 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
So let me get this straight. In two days we went from “the Epstein list doesn’t exist” to “the Epstein list that certainly exists was created by Obama n such”
Ya ok
Ya ok
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Some Republicans have a strange understanding of "Freedom of Religion." They don't realize it's the freedom to practice any religion, no religion, or to say, "That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard" about any of those religions...or any of those not-religions.
July 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Some Republicans have a strange understanding of "Freedom of Religion." They don't realize it's the freedom to practice any religion, no religion, or to say, "That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard" about any of those religions...or any of those not-religions.
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
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Americans have been duped.
Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.
That’s how you make America great.
Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.
That’s how you make America great.
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Americans have been duped.
Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.
That’s how you make America great.
Every other advanced country has universal healthcare, universal education, paid family leave, paid maternity leave, at least 6 weeks paid vacation, living wages, and a commitment to green energy.
That’s how you make America great.
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Maybe they've made hundreds of sequels to "Groundhog Day" but no one knows it yet but Bill Murray
July 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Maybe they've made hundreds of sequels to "Groundhog Day" but no one knows it yet but Bill Murray
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My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".
July 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My translator tells me "thoughts & prayers" is an American political expression that means "we'd rather have a secret police force than a weather service".