Piper Gates
@pipergates.bsky.social
Per aspera ad astra.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Bafta?
Give this man a Pulitzer
Give this man a Pulitzer
Arguably the greatest thing ever committed to print
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bafta?
Give this man a Pulitzer
Give this man a Pulitzer
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If it’s the Golden Age & everything is great & the economy is booming & Trump has ended all wars & slayed inflation & everyone is happy & drug prices are down & his approval is at 71% & everyone hates Dems, why would they need to do mid-decade gerrymandering to hold the House?
August 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
If it’s the Golden Age & everything is great & the economy is booming & Trump has ended all wars & slayed inflation & everyone is happy & drug prices are down & his approval is at 71% & everyone hates Dems, why would they need to do mid-decade gerrymandering to hold the House?
On this holiest of days, let us give thanks for the ever-dwindling blessing of shit that's funny enough to break through the paralyzing horror of 2025.
These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle 🙏
These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle 🙏
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
On this holiest of days, let us give thanks for the ever-dwindling blessing of shit that's funny enough to break through the paralyzing horror of 2025.
These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle 🙏
These days laughter isn't just medicine, it's a miracle 🙏
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We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
weird
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
August 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
weird
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Oh no! This paragraph in Autocracy, Inc. is prescient AF.
Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy:
When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power.
They will destroy to maintain control.
Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy:
When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power.
They will destroy to maintain control.
August 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Oh no! This paragraph in Autocracy, Inc. is prescient AF.
Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy:
When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power.
They will destroy to maintain control.
Anne Applebaum writes about the "Maduro model" of autocracy:
When an autocrat is perfectly willing to destabilize & rule over a failed state with economic collapse - if it means he can stay in power.
They will destroy to maintain control.
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Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
1/
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
1/
August 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
1/
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
1/
Hear ye, hear ye
THE BIGGEST HORROR HIT OF THE SUMMERE FROM A24:
• Builte on theft and plundere
• Fed by the destructioun of the Earthe
• Seductyve to managers who value profit over actual art
• Hungrye to replace qualitye writinge wyth crappe
Yn theatres everyewher:
*GEN A.I.*
• Builte on theft and plundere
• Fed by the destructioun of the Earthe
• Seductyve to managers who value profit over actual art
• Hungrye to replace qualitye writinge wyth crappe
Yn theatres everyewher:
*GEN A.I.*
August 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Hear ye, hear ye
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Revised jobs number for June now has the US adding 400 billion jobs
August 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Revised jobs number for June now has the US adding 400 billion jobs
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“The Roberts court is simultaneously corrupt, extreme, pliant and incoherent. It is the worst court imaginable facing the worst president in American history, with a rubber stamp Politburo serving him, while trampling the Constitution.”
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
The Roberts court: a hive of grievance from powerful men
Appeasement has a price.
steveschmidt.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The Roberts court is simultaneously corrupt, extreme, pliant and incoherent. It is the worst court imaginable facing the worst president in American history, with a rubber stamp Politburo serving him, while trampling the Constitution.”
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-robert...
A balm for our battered souls
youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
Tiny Chef's Meditation
YouTube video by The Tiny Chef Show
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A balm for our battered souls
youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
youtu.be/CboKuAjuKCM?...
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"It's only pedantry if you're right. Otherwise it's just sparkling fuckheadedness."
July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"It's only pedantry if you're right. Otherwise it's just sparkling fuckheadedness."
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Agree w the sentiment but struggle to think of a single example of a secular right-wing predator, as in someone in the magasphere with zero ties to the Christian right.
When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable.
Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable.
Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
The Epstein story is getting all the attention but the rot is much deeper. Both "Christian" and secular variants of right-wing ideology attract, excuse, & reward sexually abusive men.
This week alone: Kindred (AK), Walters (OK), Capriglione (TX)
And oc Trump, Hastert, Moore, Gaetz, Cawthorn, etc
This week alone: Kindred (AK), Walters (OK), Capriglione (TX)
And oc Trump, Hastert, Moore, Gaetz, Cawthorn, etc
July 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Agree w the sentiment but struggle to think of a single example of a secular right-wing predator, as in someone in the magasphere with zero ties to the Christian right.
When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable.
Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
When your religion decrees women to be property, sexual abuse is inevitable.
Honestly surprised it's technically still illegal.
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Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
July 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
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"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship."
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship."
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
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Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.
That's it. That's the post.
That's it. That's the post.
July 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.
That's it. That's the post.
That's it. That's the post.
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If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
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'Hello human, nice to meet you'
July 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
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The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
July 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
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Jupiter.
In infrared.
In infrared.
July 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Jupiter.
In infrared.
In infrared.
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Dem leadership should appoint an official Alt Press Secretary to give briefings after every one that Karoline Leavett does and just break them down lie by lie
maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂
maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂
At this point, you should be embarrassed if your outlet has done nothing over these tumultuous six months to get itself barred by the administration.
The Wall Street Journal is speaking truth to power, but you're still on good terms with these assholes? Yeah, be proud of that.
The Wall Street Journal is speaking truth to power, but you're still on good terms with these assholes? Yeah, be proud of that.
Really difficult to make the argument that any reporter still in the White House pool isn't at best a scab and at worst a propagandist. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dem leadership should appoint an official Alt Press Secretary to give briefings after every one that Karoline Leavett does and just break them down lie by lie
maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂
maybe THAT’S the job we give Colbert 😂
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stock market reaches all time highs on news that trump has arrested jerome powell and is dangling him upside down over a pit of alligators
July 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
stock market reaches all time highs on news that trump has arrested jerome powell and is dangling him upside down over a pit of alligators
Tim & JVL React: Mehdi Hasan BODIES 20 Far-Right Clowns
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
July 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM