L. M. Blythe
@loganspun.bsky.social
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Just another wannabe.
Just another wannabe.
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Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.
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Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?
The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.
trib.al
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.
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The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
September 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.
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So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.
August 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.
I mean I never met the guy but I bet I could take him on
August 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I mean I never met the guy but I bet I could take him on
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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One hell of a thread if you want picture after picture of Americans saying "fuck no" to Donald Trump's bullshit.
Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen...
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
April 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
One hell of a thread if you want picture after picture of Americans saying "fuck no" to Donald Trump's bullshit.
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the addition of the pride flag at the end is such the perfect representation of why we critique rainbow capitalism. he doesn’t give a shit about queer people but only when he has to pivot to try to turn a profit. otherwise he has no problem throwing queer folks under the bus
April 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
the addition of the pride flag at the end is such the perfect representation of why we critique rainbow capitalism. he doesn’t give a shit about queer people but only when he has to pivot to try to turn a profit. otherwise he has no problem throwing queer folks under the bus
Hell yes!
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
April 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hell yes!
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Many on the DOGE team are from Elon Musk’s world in Silicon Valley.
We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.
We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections
If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.
wrd.cm
March 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Many on the DOGE team are from Elon Musk’s world in Silicon Valley.
We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.
We’ve mapped out a list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to.
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Earlier this week, WIRED reported that Mike Waltz left sensitive information exposed via Venmo.
Then, we found four other Venmo accounts that have been leaking data and appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the SignalGate group chat.
Then, we found four other Venmo accounts that have been leaking data and appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the SignalGate group chat.
Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public
WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
wrd.cm
March 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Earlier this week, WIRED reported that Mike Waltz left sensitive information exposed via Venmo.
Then, we found four other Venmo accounts that have been leaking data and appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the SignalGate group chat.
Then, we found four other Venmo accounts that have been leaking data and appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in the SignalGate group chat.
If I see this, I’m ignoring everything you have to say.
March 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If I see this, I’m ignoring everything you have to say.
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Musk has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding. This is the world that the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance deregulation efforts have created.
Elon Musk Is Demolishing the Rationale for Citizens United
The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.
newrepublic.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Musk has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding. This is the world that the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance deregulation efforts have created.
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we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
March 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them
I swear you could pour the entire Democratic Party into a glass and slurp them through a straw
March 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I swear you could pour the entire Democratic Party into a glass and slurp them through a straw
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Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider--who signed an NDA!--is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book
Mark Zuckerberg might be in his post-fact-checking-era. But that hasn’t stopped Meta from going after the author of Careless People.
www.wired.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Meta probably realizes that all-out war on this book will only help its sales. But they are furious that an insider--who signed an NDA!--is going White Lotus on them, showing what it's like on the inside. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Earlier today I shared a video of a 600-pound octopus squeezing itself through a very small opening while the video narrator explained that it could do so thanks to its lack of bones. I joked that it could easily slide into a butt.
That octopus had more of a spine than Schumer.
That octopus had more of a spine than Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Earlier today I shared a video of a 600-pound octopus squeezing itself through a very small opening while the video narrator explained that it could do so thanks to its lack of bones. I joked that it could easily slide into a butt.
That octopus had more of a spine than Schumer.
That octopus had more of a spine than Schumer.
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It's jarring how absolutely none of the rightwing lives in reality
The "F.U.R.R.I.E.S ACT" bill from Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville) would prohibit "non-human behavior" in Texas schools, including but not limited to:
-Litterboxes
-Tails
-"Leashes, collars, other accessories designed for pets"
-"Barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises"
-"licking oneself"
-Litterboxes
-Tails
-"Leashes, collars, other accessories designed for pets"
-"Barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises"
-"licking oneself"
March 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's jarring how absolutely none of the rightwing lives in reality
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"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."
Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."
Why do I look
so surprised when I look
in the mirror and I look
stronger than I look?
so surprised when I look
in the mirror and I look
stronger than I look?
March 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Why do I look
so surprised when I look
in the mirror and I look
stronger than I look?
so surprised when I look
in the mirror and I look
stronger than I look?
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I'm losing patience for "B-but if Trump dies, then we get Vance/Elon/DeSantis/etc and he's WORSE cuz he's MORE EVIL AND LESS DUMB" doomerism, not because doomerism isn't understandable in these trying times but because it totally misreads the "Oops! All scheming viziers!" nature of the trump court
March 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'm losing patience for "B-but if Trump dies, then we get Vance/Elon/DeSantis/etc and he's WORSE cuz he's MORE EVIL AND LESS DUMB" doomerism, not because doomerism isn't understandable in these trying times but because it totally misreads the "Oops! All scheming viziers!" nature of the trump court
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"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."
Beware Trump’s Talk of Coming “Emergencies”
Far-right rhetoric is suffused with dark talk of impending calamities. It’s a favorite trope of autocrats who are, themselves, the calamity.
newrepublic.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."
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My first non-comic book in ten years, Grimm and Grimmer, comes out at the end of February. An irreverent re-telling of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. On 3/5, I will be at Powell's in Portland to talk about the book & the power of fairy tales have on our imagination with Brian Michael Bendis!
January 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My first non-comic book in ten years, Grimm and Grimmer, comes out at the end of February. An irreverent re-telling of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. On 3/5, I will be at Powell's in Portland to talk about the book & the power of fairy tales have on our imagination with Brian Michael Bendis!
The universe is a poor substitute.
The earth cannot catch me when I stumble.
The stars cannot guide my way when I'm lost.
The moon cannot pull me into a hug.
The sun cannot sing, "You are my sunshine."
The earth cannot catch me when I stumble.
The stars cannot guide my way when I'm lost.
The moon cannot pull me into a hug.
The sun cannot sing, "You are my sunshine."
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The universe is a poor substitute.
The earth cannot catch me when I stumble.
The stars cannot guide my way when I'm lost.
The moon cannot pull me into a hug.
The sun cannot sing, "You are my sunshine."
The earth cannot catch me when I stumble.
The stars cannot guide my way when I'm lost.
The moon cannot pull me into a hug.
The sun cannot sing, "You are my sunshine."