@humanmachinery.bsky.social
Dear US government:
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Dear US government:
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The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Writing in The American Prospect, @rickperlstein.bsky.social said, "If you are interested in how the American right went insane, TalkingPointsMemo.com is your actual publication of record."
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August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Writing in The American Prospect, @rickperlstein.bsky.social said, "If you are interested in how the American right went insane, TalkingPointsMemo.com is your actual publication of record."
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"Every Black person with a good job is actually inferior" is pretty much logically indistinguishable from "Every Black person is inferior."
July 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Every Black person with a good job is actually inferior" is pretty much logically indistinguishable from "Every Black person is inferior."
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination
USDA Ends Key Support for Black Farmers Amid Trump Anti-DEI Orders
The agency will no longer use the term "socially disadvantaged," saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ended key support for Black farmers and will no longer use the term “socially disadvantaged,” saying it has sufficiently addressed historic discrimination
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Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
July 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.
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It’s why the reactionary freaks and the eugenicists hate her and are so intent on portraying her as stupid and a DEI hire: she cuts through their obvious bullshit in a way that calls out their hypocrisy and discomforts the heroic fantasy they have self constructed for themselves.
She is brilliant. But most liberals in prominent roles are very intelligent. What's different is that Jackson does not seem obsessed with seeming reasonable/bipartisan/moderate/civil ...the various code words for adapting to the sensibilities of other elites. She is courageous and principled.
I am so happy we have such a brilliant woman to be filling this role.
July 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It’s why the reactionary freaks and the eugenicists hate her and are so intent on portraying her as stupid and a DEI hire: she cuts through their obvious bullshit in a way that calls out their hypocrisy and discomforts the heroic fantasy they have self constructed for themselves.
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The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare.
Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
July 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare.
Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
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"Are you going to take off those headphones so we can discuss this like mature adults, Harry? Or, are you just going to sit there like a petulant child?”
July 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"Are you going to take off those headphones so we can discuss this like mature adults, Harry? Or, are you just going to sit there like a petulant child?”
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Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
July 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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yes. the democratic donor base is the educated PMC, employees in public unions, and older upper-middle class/lower-level rich libs. the GOP donor base is ~300 rich cranks.
one development which people have simply not noticed over the past four years is that the republican party does not have donors anymore
July 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
yes. the democratic donor base is the educated PMC, employees in public unions, and older upper-middle class/lower-level rich libs. the GOP donor base is ~300 rich cranks.
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I mean, shit happens.
July 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I mean, shit happens.
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People who are Emboldened by abuse manipulation and exploitation are a special kind of evil
Funk Flex Calls Out Cassie Post-Diddy Acquittal: ‘I Don't See U as a Victim'
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/jael...
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/jael...
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
People who are Emboldened by abuse manipulation and exploitation are a special kind of evil
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I now have more followers here than Jake Tapper, who once called me a troll.
Who's the troll now, bitch?
Who's the troll now, bitch?
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I now have more followers here than Jake Tapper, who once called me a troll.
Who's the troll now, bitch?
Who's the troll now, bitch?
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One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event.
We told you this would happen.
We told you this would happen.
June 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
One of JK Rowling's TERF friends was just arrested for assaulting a pregnant woman and a 10 year old child. She threatened to post pictures of them on Facebook calling them pedophiles for being at a LGBTQ event.
We told you this would happen.
We told you this would happen.
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“Why don’t young people vote?”
“No, not like that!!!”
“No, not like that!!!”
June 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Why don’t young people vote?”
“No, not like that!!!”
“No, not like that!!!”
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The Dem party got a HUGE WIN in NYC and they've spent EVERY DAY since criticizing the guy who got them the win. That's all you need to know. We see you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. You're not slick.
June 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Dem party got a HUGE WIN in NYC and they've spent EVERY DAY since criticizing the guy who got them the win. That's all you need to know. We see you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. You're not slick.
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at some point, and i say this without hyperbole or hysteria, we are about to become one of the few major nations that i am aware of to give virtually nothing to its citizenry except the boot. virtually every other country at least pretends it some sort of obligation to its people
RON JOHNSON says Trump and Senate leaders agreed to back Rick Scott's amendment to phase out the 90% Medicaid match for expansion population under the ACA.
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
"We can't afford it," said Johnson, expressing confidence they can get the votes.
Guts part of Obamacare...
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
at some point, and i say this without hyperbole or hysteria, we are about to become one of the few major nations that i am aware of to give virtually nothing to its citizenry except the boot. virtually every other country at least pretends it some sort of obligation to its people
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Let’s be very clear about what Mamdani actually said that establishment assholes are claiming is “antisemitism”. He then went on to say he believes antisemitism targeting Jewish New Yorkers is very real and he’s working in community with us to fight it. This is a MANUFACTURED Islamophobic scandal.
Literally nothing. He refused to condemn the phrase “globalize intifada” because he said the word intifada had a lot of different meanings and he’s not going to be like Trump and criminalize language. And then he said it’s not language he’d personally use.
June 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Let’s be very clear about what Mamdani actually said that establishment assholes are claiming is “antisemitism”. He then went on to say he believes antisemitism targeting Jewish New Yorkers is very real and he’s working in community with us to fight it. This is a MANUFACTURED Islamophobic scandal.
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2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
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In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong. https://youtu.be/Bnd0eSuxu84?si=Iw9SwyzxCB9MXBpb
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ag
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June 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong. https://youtu.be/Bnd0eSuxu84?si=Iw9SwyzxCB9MXBpb
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you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.