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tomprogers
@tomprogers.bsky.social
· Nov 22
By the time the 2026 elections roll around, people opposed to Trump will have no idea who to trust
Trump & GOP will spend the next 2 years focused on fracturing their political opposition
I predict that GOP will gain seats in House & Senate in 2026
It will be 100% psy-op and sowing distrust
Trump & GOP will spend the next 2 years focused on fracturing their political opposition
I predict that GOP will gain seats in House & Senate in 2026
It will be 100% psy-op and sowing distrust
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The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
Every million dollars in a billionaire's bank account is a job they refused to create.
August 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Every million dollars in a billionaire's bank account is a job they refused to create.
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"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
December 27, 2024 at 5:41 PM
"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
Tomorrow, Minnesota will demonstrate that it is incapable of defending its democracy from the onslaught of organized money. The vote on the SAVE Act will be another dead canary in the coal mine.
Soon we will all be slaves to the dregs of the super-wealthy.
Soon we will all be slaves to the dregs of the super-wealthy.
April 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Tomorrow, Minnesota will demonstrate that it is incapable of defending its democracy from the onslaught of organized money. The vote on the SAVE Act will be another dead canary in the coal mine.
Soon we will all be slaves to the dregs of the super-wealthy.
Soon we will all be slaves to the dregs of the super-wealthy.
Welcome to Grover Norquist's bathtub.
January 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Welcome to Grover Norquist's bathtub.
Democrats will never have power again. The GOP will gain seats in every election at every level in 2026.
Organized Money will make sure of it, and the conspiracy of arsonists they bought to fill up government will stop at nothing to ensure permanent Republican hegemony.
Organized Money will make sure of it, and the conspiracy of arsonists they bought to fill up government will stop at nothing to ensure permanent Republican hegemony.
January 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Democrats will never have power again. The GOP will gain seats in every election at every level in 2026.
Organized Money will make sure of it, and the conspiracy of arsonists they bought to fill up government will stop at nothing to ensure permanent Republican hegemony.
Organized Money will make sure of it, and the conspiracy of arsonists they bought to fill up government will stop at nothing to ensure permanent Republican hegemony.
"When capitalism falls into crisis... its profound flaws generate popular fury... People are right to be enraged, but that anger is being redirected at all the wrong targets. Faith in democracy is crumbling because of a failed economic system"
Dumb people have been fooled into surrendering. RIP USA
Dumb people have been fooled into surrendering. RIP USA
Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair | Owen Jones
Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"When capitalism falls into crisis... its profound flaws generate popular fury... People are right to be enraged, but that anger is being redirected at all the wrong targets. Faith in democracy is crumbling because of a failed economic system"
Dumb people have been fooled into surrendering. RIP USA
Dumb people have been fooled into surrendering. RIP USA
Jeff Bezos' captive newspaper (WaPo) refused to publish this cartoon.
John Roberts decided that money is speech, and that means only money speaks, and only money can speak.
John Roberts decided that money is speech, and that means only money speaks, and only money can speak.
January 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Jeff Bezos' captive newspaper (WaPo) refused to publish this cartoon.
John Roberts decided that money is speech, and that means only money speaks, and only money can speak.
John Roberts decided that money is speech, and that means only money speaks, and only money can speak.
Hijacking the courts is how they subjugated the justice system so they could install Trump. Now their conspiracy of kept judges is doing it again.
January 9, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Hijacking the courts is how they subjugated the justice system so they could install Trump. Now their conspiracy of kept judges is doing it again.
Under the imperial priesthood of John Roberts and his Federalist co-conspirators, the Constitution is "settled precedent"... until it's not.
December 11, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Under the imperial priesthood of John Roberts and his Federalist co-conspirators, the Constitution is "settled precedent"... until it's not.
Government is the only organization that is obligated to be reasonably kind to you even when it has to hurt you
I'm gonna miss that
I'm gonna miss that
November 28, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Government is the only organization that is obligated to be reasonably kind to you even when it has to hurt you
I'm gonna miss that
I'm gonna miss that
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There are now over 180 Verified badges on Bluesky for reporters, media types, and celebrities who are Personally Verified by yours truly!
@guan.dk and I have been hard at work! More badges are coming!
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November 26, 2024 at 6:07 PM
There are now over 180 Verified badges on Bluesky for reporters, media types, and celebrities who are Personally Verified by yours truly!
@guan.dk and I have been hard at work! More badges are coming!
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A complaint I have about Windows 11 is that Microsoft took the dumbest user's UX preferences and forced them all on me.
Every time I open a new part of the OS, I'm confronted with a fresh horror show of incredibly dumb things, half of which cannot be disabled.
What shithead did they make this for?
Every time I open a new part of the OS, I'm confronted with a fresh horror show of incredibly dumb things, half of which cannot be disabled.
What shithead did they make this for?
November 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
A complaint I have about Windows 11 is that Microsoft took the dumbest user's UX preferences and forced them all on me.
Every time I open a new part of the OS, I'm confronted with a fresh horror show of incredibly dumb things, half of which cannot be disabled.
What shithead did they make this for?
Every time I open a new part of the OS, I'm confronted with a fresh horror show of incredibly dumb things, half of which cannot be disabled.
What shithead did they make this for?
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DO NOT TOLERATE ANY FAKE PATTON OSWALTS
@pattonoswalt001.bsky.social AND @pattonoswalt4.bsky.social ARE NOT THE GENUINE ARTICLE
@pattonoswalt001.bsky.social AND @pattonoswalt4.bsky.social ARE NOT THE GENUINE ARTICLE
November 24, 2024 at 1:07 AM
DO NOT TOLERATE ANY FAKE PATTON OSWALTS
@pattonoswalt001.bsky.social AND @pattonoswalt4.bsky.social ARE NOT THE GENUINE ARTICLE
@pattonoswalt001.bsky.social AND @pattonoswalt4.bsky.social ARE NOT THE GENUINE ARTICLE
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I would love to read a detailed story about this subject.
If any assignment editors are reading -- I bet a full accounting of all the financial support Elon Musk and his companies received from the federal government would make for great reading when he inevitably tells all the poors they have to start making sacrifices.
November 23, 2024 at 11:58 PM
I would love to read a detailed story about this subject.
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A billionaire talking about getting by with less is why we should have never gotten rid of guillotines
Here one of Elon Musk's lickspittles explains their plan: Persuade regular Americans to accept huge cuts to Social Security and Medicare so that billionaires can get gigantic tax cuts. I don't think they'll be able to pull it off, but we'll see.
November 23, 2024 at 8:08 PM
A billionaire talking about getting by with less is why we should have never gotten rid of guillotines
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📌I'm a Navy vet, and was the Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that covers the troops and their families overseas.
📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it.
(And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it.
(And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
WARNING SHOT
The America-attacking Trump is coming for our military, and then US ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
📌I'm a Navy vet, and was the Managing Editor of Stars & Stripes, the editorially independent newspaper that covers the troops and their families overseas.
📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it.
(And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
📌I wish to GOD I never had to write this, but you REALLY need to read it.
(And if you are asking what to do, share it. Information is POWER.)
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A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
November 23, 2024 at 5:17 PM
A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
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kinda wild how the left wants everyone to have rights and the right wants to be the only ones left
November 3, 2024 at 11:42 PM
kinda wild how the left wants everyone to have rights and the right wants to be the only ones left
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I have a sports metaphor story for this!
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
This does not mean “don’t worry about it,” or even that “it’s just a distraction.”
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
It means fight, delay, push back, express doubt, and do anything you can to remind anyone who’ll listen that Trump and Trumpers threaten all sorts of things and hope you’ll jump out of the way.
Don’t forfeit.
November 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
I have a sports metaphor story for this!
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I have a younger brother who was a very competitive baseball player as a kid. Was on all the local travel & developmental squads.
One of his coaches had a very interesting and counterintuitive (to me) philosophy of the game, as it was played at that level.
I wonder how many Democrats are still sending Jeff Bezos half their paychecks by buying all their junk from Amazon
November 23, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I wonder how many Democrats are still sending Jeff Bezos half their paychecks by buying all their junk from Amazon
This is a very dangerous path to go down
If the public accepts this hacker's unverified materials, that opens the door to accept whatever future hackers provide
And now that Trumpputin will be in power, most of the best-resourced hackers will be working to help villains destroy democracy
If the public accepts this hacker's unverified materials, that opens the door to accept whatever future hackers provide
And now that Trumpputin will be in power, most of the best-resourced hackers will be working to help villains destroy democracy
A hacker apparently has the Gaetz Report.
I'm sure Musk and MAGA will call this free speech, right, like the Hunter Biden laptop?
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...
I'm sure Musk and MAGA will call this free speech, right, like the Hunter Biden laptop?
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/u...
November 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
This is a very dangerous path to go down
If the public accepts this hacker's unverified materials, that opens the door to accept whatever future hackers provide
And now that Trumpputin will be in power, most of the best-resourced hackers will be working to help villains destroy democracy
If the public accepts this hacker's unverified materials, that opens the door to accept whatever future hackers provide
And now that Trumpputin will be in power, most of the best-resourced hackers will be working to help villains destroy democracy
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Please read this whole thread
So may be the most important lesson here is that, if you want to have a chance at avoiding future fascism or other forms of totalitarianism, is that when it comes to certain populists tactics, of identifying minority groups to dump on and to energise your supporters with, 31/
November 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Please read this whole thread
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control