Auld Black Jack
@freejack.bsky.social
You know that "People, people who need people.." song? ...I'm not one of those people.
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Auld Black Jack
@freejack.bsky.social
· Dec 7
The GOP will misrepresent S.S. as a Investment with a poor ROI in an attempt sell their privatization scam.
This video is from the era of GWB's failed attempt, so the figures are dated but the program is accurately described.
Please share to combat GOP disinformation.
youtu.be/Tts2uTWt6e8?...
This video is from the era of GWB's failed attempt, so the figures are dated but the program is accurately described.
Please share to combat GOP disinformation.
youtu.be/Tts2uTWt6e8?...
Oh, fer fooks sake...
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Oh, fer fooks sake...
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This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
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On Monday afternoon, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told Hell Gate that the NYPD infiltrating and spying on courtwatch groups would not be acceptable under his administration.
hellgatenyc.com/nypd-spying-...
hellgatenyc.com/nypd-spying-...
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
On Monday afternoon, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani told Hell Gate that the NYPD infiltrating and spying on courtwatch groups would not be acceptable under his administration.
hellgatenyc.com/nypd-spying-...
hellgatenyc.com/nypd-spying-...
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Washington state officials confirm H5N5 avian flu patient has died from infection
All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Washington state officials confirm H5N5 avian flu patient has died from infection
All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
All previous human avian influenza infections had been caused by H5N1 and were relatively mild.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
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3 studies: Nirsevimab highly effective against severe #RSV in infants; intervention boosts uptake
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
3 studies: Nirsevimab highly effective against severe #RSV in infants; intervention boosts uptake
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
Exactly. Mamdani knows he's going to be dealing with enough ratphucking from establishment billionaires, publishers ( #FTFNYT #FUCKFOX), Dem politicians, etc.. come Jan of next year. He doesn't need crazy Grampa Donnie lobbing flaming bags of shite also.
Went down to DC & took away his matches.
Went down to DC & took away his matches.
Matt Stoler is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. Zohran went because everyone knows that Trump's going to try sending the national guard into NYC in January to derail Zohran's time as hizzoner, not to validate Matt Stoler's extremely credulous personal politics.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
12th grade girls are now less likely to say they want to get married someday
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
1993: 83%
2023: 61%
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
NYPD Confirms Involvement in FBI Probe Targeting Volunteer Observers in Immigration Court
An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.
www.thecity.nyc
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The NYPD confirmed its involvement in a counterterrorism investigation that spied on a private Signal chat of volunteer observers monitoring ICE activity inside NYC’s immigration courthouses.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
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Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
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House Republicans are “probing Wikipedia, a longstanding MAGA target” (8/31/25) www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Republicans are probing Wikipedia, a longstanding MAGA target
House Republicans are probing the online encyclopedia over claims of foreign manipulation, anti-Israel bias and antisemitism.
www.msnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Funny how Patti Smith has a better understanding of the housing crisis than Ezra Klein (actually, no, that doesn't surprise me at all, but I liked seeing it in print) - gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Funny how Patti Smith has a better understanding of the housing crisis than Ezra Klein (actually, no, that doesn't surprise me at all, but I liked seeing it in print) - gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
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Trump if Mamdani was WH chief of staff:
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Trump if Mamdani was WH chief of staff:
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MAGA reacts to Trump’s meeting with Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
MAGA reacts to Trump’s meeting with Mamdani.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This has escalated
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This has escalated
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NJ leaders who hated on congestion pricing notably silent on PATH fare hikes https://gothamist.com/news/nj-leaders-who-hated-on-congestion-pricing-notably-silent-on-path-fare-hikes
NJ leaders who hated on congestion pricing notably silent on PATH fare hikes
The PATH fare hike affects far more New Jersey commuters than the MTA's congestion pricing tolls. But it's received far less scrutiny from Garden State politicians.
The PATH fare is set to rise from $3 to $4 over the next four years. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NJ leaders who hated on congestion pricing notably silent on PATH fare hikes https://gothamist.com/news/nj-leaders-who-hated-on-congestion-pricing-notably-silent-on-path-fare-hikes
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Everyone needs to put this on blast.
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Everyone needs to put this on blast.