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Temple Drake
@templedrake.bsky.social
Lover of music, punk, jazz & everything in-between. Believer in equality & respect for all people except nazis. Perennially disappointed by Democrats.
Aircraft mechanic by trade, artist by nature. Use AI get, blocked.
#LeftisBest
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November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm thinking we should start having die ins on the steps of congress. When their policies are going to kill us we should just start letting our poor, elderly & disabled bodies pile up like cord wood on the steps.
Of course, people receiving chemo, dialysis, need life saving surgery, etc, just cancel your insurance but be sure you have a burial or cremation plan.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm so depressed
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
They know the AI bubble is about to pop, they are counting on the population being so desperate that we will stop fighting the billionaires if only they will allow us to eat.

Shit is seriously going to hit the fan.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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People need to realize the sad truth about Schumer et al. Similar to the Usha Vance narrative, you gotta stop pretending they’re unfortunate victims of the circumstance… they’re actually into it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Hmmm.........so, you mean we can't vote our way out of this?
Shocking.
The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Dem leaders *could* have spent the past half decade going in front of cameras saying "trans rights are human rights, disabled people are worth keeping alive, genocide is a crime," etc.

Even without a majority. No magic wand needed, just a camera.

They didn't. They did the opposite.
August 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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You should be replaced. ASAP
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
As if there is anyone to take call on a Sunday.

Fuckers.
What the actual fuck, Chuck?

Call @schumer.senate.gov NOW at (202) 224-6542 to let him know: We cannot afford another Schumer surrender. #HoldTheLine
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Yes, specifically by Stuart Butler. He's now at Brookings, which says something about the political spectrum.

www.brookings.edu/people/stuar...
Stuart M. Butler | Brookings
Stuart Butler is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, Butler spent 35 years at The Heritage Foundation as director of the Center for Policy Inn...
www.brookings.edu
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's wild to me that so very little conversation has ever been honestly had about how the "affordable care act" was basically written by the Heritage Foundation.

The tweeks the Obama admin tried to make were either never implemented or have been un-done. And ppl wonder why we are in this mess.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 5d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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hey guess what

you can criticize a person's behavior without using slurs or being racist about it

even an entire organization, or a government, without using slurs, or being racist about it

a system is a system and a demographic group are people

this seems hard for some people to understand
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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If you want to ruin your weekend with a very deep dive into the career of Josef Mlot-Mroz, a precursor to today's trollish, fame seeking sociopaths of the far right, then this piece I wrote a while back is for you. rightlandia.ghost.io/the-anatomy-...
The Anatomy of American Fascism, part 1: Fascist Foot Soldiers and their Patrician Funders
Introducing Jozef Mlot-Mroz, Salem, Massachusetts' most famous Nazi troll (ca. 1960-2000) and the wealthy Exeter/Harvard law grad named Richard J. Cotter who secretly funded his exploits
rightlandia.ghost.io
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Why the fuck is everyone saying "food stamps" instead of "nutrition aid"???

They haven't been called food stamps since the 1980's. It's the rhetoric the right uses to demonize poor ppl.
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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whatever pillars of society that fear & hate havent already destroyed, ai snakeoil is going to finish.

please make sure your pensions arent invested in disingenuous tech companies because when that bubble bursts it's us who are paying for it.

youtu.be/55Z4cg5Fyu4?...
Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard
YouTube video by Adam Conover
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Colleagues, I say this with utmost care and love: Using AI slop* does not improve your slides. To the contrary, they make you come across as sloppy. Please resist!

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*I mean this very literally, as in AI-generated images that have hallucinated non-words and nonsensical details in them.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Fam - why shouldn't I dislike Gene Wilder?
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
All Fall Down
A fantastic cocktail with fall flavors, this would be a great choice if you are looking for something different to serve w/the pie course after turkey dinner.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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they need to bulldoze the company. Burn it right to the ground and hold the company leadership personally accountable for all the harm caused by this ghoulish dishonest thieving company.
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Granted, Trump's hostility to the postwar global order means he may consider ludicrous actions that most other presidents wouldn't.

But more generally, it's always a mistake to seek monocausal explanations for complex political, economic and geopolitical dynamics.

It's never all about one thing.
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM