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A Synthesizing Interdisciplinarian, blogging about public policy, applied economics, languages, games, and the intersections thereof. Mostly following Starter Packs. Mostly.
β¦what the country must have been like when, as today, any damn fool little American boy might grow up to be President, but when the President had to actually run the country!"
βKurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
"And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics and government lived side by side, but touched almost nowhere. He stared at President Jonathan Lynn and imagined with horrorβ¦
03.08.2025 18:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.
31.07.2025 20:00 β π 10083 π 3658 π¬ 169 π 982YUGE Depression
02.08.2025 02:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0prescient (from 3 months ago)
01.08.2025 23:32 β π 1486 π 291 π¬ 47 π 6It's called [moving hands around] Stagflation. Ok? When I heard that I said wow, what a word. You have stag and flation and they're coming together like you've never seen. But we'll be eating beautiful toothpaste sandwiches and our teeth will be stronger than perhaps ever before
01.08.2025 15:20 β π 1109 π 120 π¬ 29 π 4I will neither sell pierogi to Alan Dershowitz nor rank Cuomo, this i swear
01.08.2025 00:49 β π 28 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1gwen: yeah, ppl need to realise that class consciousness comes from when experience of class conflict makes you realise you're being exploited, not simply from your life sucking and your needs not being met.
declining standards of living doesn't in-itself cause consciousness, struggle is required.
Nationwide free gym memberships for all! Some enterprising Coloradoan run against Bobo on that platform, please!
01.08.2025 00:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A post from Jaju Pierogi that says "In solidarity we will also not be serving pierogi to Dershowitz."
Pierogi makers united against fascism
31.07.2025 23:58 β π 3753 π 657 π¬ 14 π 107The FBI has surveillance video filmed near Epsteinβs prison block on the night of his death thatβunlike the video released to the publicβis not missing a minute of footage.
29.07.2025 14:54 β π 61 π 15 π¬ 5 π 1The short timeline is:
Summer 2000: Epstein "steals" Virginia Giuffre and turns her into a sex slave
October 2002: Trump tells New York, "t is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
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This is a mind-blowing admission. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-trump-...
29.07.2025 18:57 β π 2647 π 978 π¬ 197 π 78Define abject systemic failure:
The fact the fossil fuel industry has KNOWN it is driving humanity to extinction since 1954, but in 2025 is ALLOWED to ignore scientists & just carry on drilling to enrich shareholders, & is then gifted $TRILLIONS in taxpayer subsidies to do so.
Woohoo, I have page proofs for my book!
28.07.2025 11:56 β π 4969 π 379 π¬ 125 π 19Yuval Abraham ...7al" β’ 34m Odeh just died. Murdered. Yuval Abraham ..x 7a1' β’ 2h An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy.
An Israeli settler sanctioned by the European Union just shot and killed one of the Palestinian activists and filmmakers a part of the No Other Land crew
28.07.2025 18:40 β π 4117 π 2348 π¬ 39 π 81Only the people united in class solidarity taking disruptive direct action can change this rapid descent into fascist oligarchy. Nobody is coming to save you, not the treasonous duopoly, not the courts. The people have to unite and destroy the billionaires.
25.07.2025 16:28 β π 107 π 55 π¬ 7 π 2BOYCOTT SKYDANCE AND PARAMOUNT.
27.07.2025 01:07 β π 611 π 151 π¬ 50 π 10Perfect: Jeffrey Dahmer ate a lot of people but βalso often ate chickenβ
26.07.2025 20:44 β π 64 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0Yet Another trade βdealβ from Trump that leaves tariffs much, much worse than before he took office. What a joke.
27.07.2025 17:46 β π 802 π 152 π¬ 19 π 2Jake Tapper is wrong on a fairly important date. USA Alex Acosta signed a secret plea deal w Jeffrey Epstein in September 2007 that was only made public in June 2008. In the interim, Epstein transferred $48M in investments to Leslie Wexner. First & last page of Epstein plea deal:
27.07.2025 14:16 β π 399 π 178 π¬ 25 π 517 million people might lose their healthcare but at least your tax dollars will be going to good use in other very, very important ways.
27.07.2025 17:07 β π 12868 π 5646 π¬ 594 π 310When I am done with someone you will never hear from me again, I will never check on what youβre up to, none of that.
This culture of people making fake profiles or stalking someone who cut them out of their life, etc. is weird and shows how much people lack self control & respecting boundaries.
Ghislaine Maxwell doesnβt deserve to ever be free. She felt no remorse for those girls and never has. This is a great example of how pick me women harm children and women. He would have never had access to those girls without her. She was also a participant in their abuse.
25.07.2025 21:33 β π 1317 π 321 π¬ 38 π 16here's today's post: "even the podcast bros know heβs guiltyβ β itβs finally obvious to everyone: thereβs an Epstein cover-up
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Epstein survivor Teresa Helm: "I saw framed photos of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein with presidents in their homes."
25.07.2025 15:51 β π 10329 π 3115 π¬ 298 π 120If you're an adult and you believe this, you are by definition a stupid person.
25.07.2025 16:56 β π 1613 π 246 π¬ 67 π 7This is grotesque. A civil society group effectively being destroyed utterly meritless litigation because of expression that antagonized a politically-connected billionaire. Who ludicrously claims to be a champion of free speech.
25.07.2025 17:04 β π 3079 π 1045 π¬ 11 π 21Yes. Somebody, for some reason, forged a perfect Trump drawing and signature 20 years ago to politically damage a guy who was not in politics. Makes perfect sense.
25.07.2025 17:38 β π 1843 π 338 π¬ 87 π 17