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Publius Maximus
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Giant nerd. I will like your selfies and reblog your pets.
Jacobite Pretender for Tumblr clout.

DNI if Jim Sensenbrenner

I use a pronoun labler and would like if you did too:
https://bsky.app/profile/pronouns.diy
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Alex Bolton @alexanderbolton Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she stepped away from talks on ending shutdown because it became clear it wouldn't deal with health care crisis. Slotkin said deal “has got to do something concrete on health care and it's hard to see how that happens." 2:49 PM Nov 9, 2025 771 Views
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The GOP has been saying for months "give up your leverage and then we'll negotiate".

Which is obviously stupid.

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NEW -- LINDSEY GRAHAM says no way they'll extend premium subsidies for even a year. "And to my Democratic friends, we're not going to extend this program for a year, because that would be unfair to the taxpayer. That would continue a health care system that's out of control. It would enrich health insurance companies even more.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This is basically what the Democrats have been asking for, right? Chuck's deal here is just "GOP capitulates and we all go home", right?

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Chuck Schumer standing at a podium in the Senate
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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One of the traps in ORCS MUST DIE: bees. You can drop bees on orcs.
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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I'm sorry. You.... Don't want to spend money to build new development????

I'm writing in Tiny Baby to vote against this clown.
Elected Experience It has been my privilege to serve as your commissioner and continue to: "Address your concerns, *Keep rates one of the lowest in the state, "Control financial sustainability during explosive growth, "Protect the health of your family and environment, *Use no ratepayers' money for new development, "Maintain secure water and cyber security infrastructure.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Been listing to West End Girl on repeat.
Meme of a woman using a tuba to press another woman up against the wall. The tuba holding woman is labeled "Lily Allen". The other woman is "David Harbour". The Tuba is labeled "Who's Madeline"
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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No. Blippi is a demon who haunts my nightmares.

Ms Rachel is his Nemesis. The chosen one to slay Blippi in solo combat via children's entertain.

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Tim Poole tweets: Ms Rachel is a demon who harms children. Keep your kids away from this shit Complex Pop Culture Tweets: Ms. Rachel criticized the government for cutting SNAP food aid. (Screenshot of Ms Rachel post on Instagram) PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ARE CHRISTIAN AND WANT TO CUT SNAP, JESUS SAID TO FEED THE HUNGRY. -MS RACHEL VIA INSTAGRAM IMAGINE SLASHING SNAP, THE PROGRAM THAT HELPS CHILDREN IN THE US NOT GO HUNGRY. WHILE SENDING BILLIONS IN WEAPONS TO ANOTHER COUNTRY TO KILL CHILDREN. -MS. RACHEL VIA INSTAGRAM
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Tag yourself!
4 dudes in tracksuits, holding baseball bats. They're standing in front of the logo from Matt Fraction's Hawkeye run.
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This is absurd. Terrifying. We have a technology that doesn't perform as advertised, backed with the exact financial shenanigans that caused the 2008 crisis.

And the administration that killed 1,000,000 Americans with Covid.

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don't want to formally take on debt-that is, directly ask investors for loans-because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell-a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta's rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called "tranches" based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the "innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta's data center projects.")
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. Elon Musk The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. Hannah Arendt
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Uh oh! Someone confused their dad with the government!

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first-mate prance @bocxtop it's cool how the govt told us raising the minimum wage would make a burger be $20 and now a burger is $20. but min wage is the same
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Hope this helps!
Demon, a black and white tuxedo cat, looking magnificent on a table she's not allowed on.
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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It's interesting that the demand is for Democrats to cave, rather than for the GOP to expand ACA subsidies.

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New: @Delta calls for clean CR to reopen government "Delta Air Lines implores Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government so that our air traffic controllers, TSA and CPB officers charged with the safety and efficiency of our national airspace can collect the paychecks they deserve. Missed paychecks only increases the stress on these essential workers, many of whom are already working mandatory overtime to keep our skies safe and secure. It's thanks to these federal employees that Delta is able to carry more than 500,000 daily customers on 5,000 daily flights. A system under stress must be slowed down, reducing efficiency and causing delays for the millions of people who take to the skies every day." 12:08 PM 10/30/25 3.6K Views
October 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Demon, a black and white tuxedo cat, looking magnificent next to a laptop.
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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This is amazing. Literally NONE of these are democratic policy proposals.

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Abolish the police -64% -55% Abolish prisons Provide free health care to undocumented immigrants -49% Lower the voting age to 16 -49% Cut police budgets by 10% -48% Get rid of tracking in public schools -39% -33% Increase refugee admissions Restore affirmative action in college admissions -26% Abolish the death penalty -22%
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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olofahere Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that al// the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to f cking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Wake up babe: new "second worst person in Home alone 2" just dropped.
Rob Schneider @RobSchneider X.com FYI... There were NO Children's Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren't sick. Readers added context The first Children's Hospital in the United States was in 1855, and earlier in other parts of the world
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Is that the actual fasces on his shoulder???
Very close up of a man's shoulder. Has a tattoo that says "1919" under what appears to be the actual fasces that the fascist party was named after. I can't express how blurry this picture is. I might be wrong.
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Hopefully there's more context here. But like.

This shit is why I don't trust Bernie Sanders.
John Bresnahan @bresreports 4/ When pressed on Platner's Nazi tattoo, Sanders lashed out at the "corrupt campaign finance system" adding "We don't have enough candidates in this country that will take on the powers that be and fight for the working class." 1:44 PM Oct 21, 2025 985 Views
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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People say that bluesky is a bubble, but like. We're aware of what Donald Trump is doing. And also what 7 million Americans are doing in response.

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willy @willystaley 98 X.com Just insane thing for a NYT editor to say publicly: Maybe this is an artifact of Elon's stewardship of this website, but the "No Kings" stuff - the language, the iconography, even the notion that Trump wants to be a *monarch* - is just totally foreign to me. I don't know where it comes from. Definitely not here. 11:11 PM 10/16/25 760K Views
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I don't want to start beef, so I'm screenshoting and replying:

Yes. Lincoln was racist. He also founded a political party based on the abolition of slavery.

He was racist. He was the most progressive person who could be elected president.

He was racist. Progress is not made by perfect people.
Arnold Schwarzenegger went on Bill Maher and said that Lincoln gave "the blacks" the right to vote. "Lincoln made sure that the blacks got the right to vote. The Republican Party made sure that the blacks become citizens of the United States." Not enough people know Lincoln was fucking racist.
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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As shitty as the Cybertruck is (and it really is hideous), I really do appreciate that it's completely unlike anything else on the road.

It should absolutely be a testbed for GOOD ideas, instead of being a dangerous eyesore on the road.

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What do you like about the truck? What I love about the truck is just how it's so polarizing. The shape of it, the body of it, the manufacturing technique with the body panels and everything. I just love that it's completely outside of the box. And are you married? I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle
October 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Reminder: Kennedy voted with the Majority in Bush V Gore. That decision was wrong on both facts and law. It gave us the Bush presidency and accelerated our slide into fascism.

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Concerned about the country In an interview with NPR to be aired in October, Kennedy said that he is "very worried" about America today. "We live in an era where reasoned, thoughtful, rational, respectful discourse has been replaced by antagonistic, confrontational conversation," he said, adding that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Indeed, he says that he is worried even about the tone of some Supreme Court opinions. "It seems to me the idea of partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter," he said. "And my concern is that the court in its own opinions...has to be asked to moderate and become much more respectful.
October 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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This is utter bullshit. We are citizens of a Republic. Keeping the Republic is our job- it's literally there in the name.

The Democrats did their job as a political party. They ran candidates on the "fascism is bad" platform. Too many citizens didn't find that compelling. Now we're here.
"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator! October 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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