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@themiddlewest.bsky.social

NE -> East Coast. Progressive politics and college football. Nebraska forever.

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Right now the Epstein files are revealing that top people in tech, entertainment, and academia formed a real-life heterosexual pedophile crime ring. Epstein himself was a switchboard operator connecting every prominent man accused of sexual misconduct toward women during the MeToo movement.

22.02.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to kill somebody and get away with it, the best option is to hit them with your car.

22.02.2026 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

we are going to win

21.02.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2030    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 7

It is so incredibly humiliating that this dumb motherfucker is running a society of 350 million people into the dirt because he's scared of dying.

20.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 732    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5

These guys are the same guys who will 100% of the time when asked who the elites are, point to a minimum wage trans barista instead of the literal richest man on earth. Who they think is their ally, helping them battle the elites.

21.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about that "ai art is punk rock" is we've seen it before.

These exact same guys a decade ago were saying Trump was the punk rock candidate, then they said crypto was punk rock, then NFT's were punk rock, that Meta was punk rock.

They basically just think punk rock means Jeff Epstein.

21.02.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 791    πŸ” 157    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 36
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
X.com
Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was"
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BREAKING NEWS
TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA
'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar X.com Trump notes his crowd is more enthused about bigotry than they are for tax cuts: "It's amazing how strongly people feel about that. I talk about cutting taxes, people go like that, I talk about transgender everybody goes crazy. Five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was" LIVE GREENSBORO, NC cc # 45 our Children. 5:45 PT LIVE BREAKING NEWS TRUMP SPEAKS IN NORTH CAROLINA 'UNABOMBER' TED KACZYNSKI, 81, FOUND DEAD IN PRISON. GO TO NEWS 5:49 PM β€’ 6/10/23 β€’ 14M Views

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor."

Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

21.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4231    πŸ” 1374    πŸ’¬ 76    πŸ“Œ 59

The past few months have done wonders for making people across the spectrum realize the government has an endless well of money that it’ll never use to make our lives better.

21.02.2026 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 193    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

I’d suggest one of the issues here is that AI implementation has not been an organic, bottom-up process. Since 2022, its boosters have been tech titans and media folks who got waaaaay ahead of the demand for this technology and began imposing the features and infrastructure on an unconvinced public.

21.02.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1012    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 41

The tragedy of John Fetterman is that he used to dress like a slob but have an encouraging spirt, making him an Oaf of Rugged Individuality, one of America’s great oaf groups. But now he dresses like a slob and whines all the time, making him an Oaf of Misery

21.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 9784    πŸ” 1084    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 63

The purple area contains all of the highest volume posters, this could be an extinction-level event for non-New Yorkers hearing about the weather

21.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 571    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7

The government is planning to raise the age at which you can be called an oldhead. Here’s what you need to know

21.02.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I still don't understand how this isn't the headline everywhere. If Biden or Obama said the words, "I'm allowed to destroy the country" Fox News would be giving tips on where to buy pitchforks and torches.

21.02.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3303    πŸ” 919    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 43
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The only way to respond to real estate vultures

(I don’t even know what state 9997 Melbourne St is in)

21.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The overall fundraiser is over $150k, and y'all have contributed more than $1000 for me to match (+follows/reposts)!

Let's keep it going; this weekend, sign up for a membership with or make a donation to The 51st (any amount!) - and I'll match it *and* send $50 to a food bank of your choice.

21.02.2026 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.

The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

21.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3818    πŸ” 1343    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 15

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen

21.02.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2644    πŸ” 437    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 5

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

20.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4160    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 54
It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

β€œYou're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

20.02.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4624    πŸ” 1463    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 54

If we get enough people on Twitter saying he’s too big of a wimp to go skydiving, maybe we can make it happen

20.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The guy who’s functionally illiterate going into his 80’s, bankrupted 6x, impeached 2x, convicted on 34 counts of fraud in NYS & spent much of his adulthood lusting after his own daughter and hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, says SCOTUS β€˜embarrassed their families’. It Depends.

20.02.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1979    πŸ” 579    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol this is great

20.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AOC’s First Encounter With the Gaffe Industrial Complex - Truthdig Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t a presidential candidate (yet), but the mainstream media is sabotaging her like one.

AOC gave a speech on the threat of fascism, and media that aided its rise was happy to duck the topic to invent a presidential campaign they could fail on arrival. But "she's not one of us" doesn't do much when that's already her argument.

20.02.2026 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 369    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

"Almost without resistance" has this motherfucker not seen anything out of Minneapolis?

20.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I know this website hates this lady and I know she's made some bad votes, but I hope she sticks around for another 20 years. I want politics to be more boring, but with the occasional chart like this. I want ONE Manic Pixie Jim Traficant in Congress.

the problem is when you have 200. One is fine.

20.02.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5

definitely one of the stranger things about AI that I am not sure anyone predicted is that they are not β€œsoftware,” that they are bad at doing math and computer stuff directly, but that one of their main uses is using your computer for you, again, not β€œbeing” a smart computer Γ  la Commander Data

20.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The Matrix: 1999 was the peak of Earth’s civilization

Me in 2026: Ok they did have a point

20.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this β€” and his rambling gets worse β€” and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.

20.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3053    πŸ” 927    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 43
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Bluesky should not get into this idea that blocking you is a problem. You can be blocked for any reason. You can be blocked because your pfp is annoying. You can be blocked because your vibe sucks.

If you take this personally I think that’s also a reason you can be blocked.

20.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7003    πŸ” 1711    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 293

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