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Ghost of Tom Joad
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“Presidents of the United States do not get to exercise ‘plenary’ authority under Title 10. That’s something they seize, if they are basically staging a coup. Committing treason.”

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Presidents of the United States do not get to exercise “plenary” authority under Title 10. That’s something they seize, if they are basically staging a coup. Committing treason. The only outright, unmitigated plenary authority granted to the president involves pardons and reprieves, a power specifically delineated in The Constitution.
October 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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“You're not a contradiction in terms when you're the one writing the terms. It's a lesson I wish younger people - sorted into boxes not only by social pressure, but by panopticon data miners - understood through experiences beyond life as prey.” ~ @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
You're not a contradiction in terms when you're the one writing the terms. It's a lesson I wish younger people - sorted into boxes not only by social pressure, but by panopticon data miners - understood through experiences beyond life as prey. If the seas shall rise, let the mass of unknowability rise too. - Sarah Kendzior
August 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The City Inside, by Samit Basu.

What happens when people spend all their time online following influencers while their government becomes more authoritarian. 😵‍💫
Photo shows cover of the book The City Inside, by Samir Basu. The cover depicts a stylized cityscape of rooftops with colorful designs, and a Taj Mahal-like structure on the horizon
July 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Passage to Marseille

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
Humphrey Bogart with a machine gun in the poster for the film, Passage to Marseille
March 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Watching THX 1138 with an updated perspective 😬
February 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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If you see this, quote with a horror movie you ❤️
February 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Looks familiar…
Portrait of Alfred Krupp by Arnold Newman
February 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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🌟🌟🌟🌟

Thanks for the great read, and the jump scare on the pages after ‘a note about the author’ @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 😳
February 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Ok Let’s see how that’s worked in similar historical moments
February 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Gustave Mark Gilbert was an American psychologist known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg trials.
I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy. G. M Gilbert
January 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Captain America states there are NO good nazis
January 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more by Lord George Gordon Byron
January 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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I lack words to describe how much I hate AI. Perhaps AI will come up with some plagiarized ones to provide me” - @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
I had a nightmare that all new phones came with cameras that refused to capture reality. Instead, they changed photos to AI without telling you. As a result, your memory deteriorates, and as time passes, you never know if what you saw is real. Now that was just a dream — but it’s in line with the future tech oligarchs are designing. They want control not only over your material possessions and political activity but your imagination and privacy. Guard them with your life. Avoid AI as much as possible. They want to replace you and make you its servant and their servants. They are not only trying to annihilate reality, but to make reality so unattractive that you will not mind it being replaced. They seek to create the ideal fascist subjects: pliant, uncreative, unnoticing.
January 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Yes to The Water Knife
Also: The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
December 27, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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The best Mary Poppins
December 25, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Brian please
December 22, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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When you feel the dagger
December 16, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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This is weird and good and I am enjoying it
Cover of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
December 12, 2024 at 1:12 AM
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Anton Chigurh?
December 7, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Unanimous Goldmine
November 29, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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😼
November 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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November 12, 2024 at 11:15 PM