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@jppierce.bsky.social

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Every republic walks a line—liberty for the vulnerable or power for the mighty. NPR, PBS, and WCPE keep me steady. Gardening grounds me; naps keep me honest. I once knew beans, now I know weeds. I’m not funny, but I sure as hell amuse myself.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · Apr 19

Pink Houses dropped just as the Reagan revolution kicked into high gear—a secular prophecy wrapped in heartland rock, calling out the hollowing of the American Dream before most even noticed it slipping away.

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John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (Official Music Video)

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 10h

Put in a good word for me, if you will.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 10h

Kindness requires it.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 10h

Thought dust was dead skin. Turns out it’s mostly dirt.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 10h

It’s called the Sun Microsystems Epiphany.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 11h

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Sesame Street: Z Zebra Song

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 11h

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Yo-Yo Ma Performs at the Re-opening of Notre-Dame de Paris

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15h

Them: “Portland is a war torn hellscape!”

Portland:

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

Man, this one’s gonna hit the South hard.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

It’s not like your dad didn’t try to warn everyone.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

This monograph interrogates the symbiotic relationship between virtue and vegetables, examining how the fiber of the body sustains the faith of the soul in an age of performative purification. JP, ABD

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

The Life of Kale: Intestinal Fortitude in the Pursuit of Beauty — a critical inquiry into fiber, faith, and cleansing the body electric.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

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John Anderson Swingin'

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 12h

Greed.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 13h

Who could’ve guessed Scott Bessent was that generous?

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 13h

Isn't most of it waste oil that is used to manufacture biofuel?

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 13h

There’s no populism quite like Gray Panther populism—fueled by Medicare, grandkids, and the knowledge that life in prison just isn’t much of a deterrent.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

It never ends...

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Statistically speaking, hope remains within the margin of error.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Houston, we have a problem. China's pissed.

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed.

Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money.

Watch.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sending you to HR.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

What Deadwood teaches us is that in the end, Al’s brutality feels almost moral beside Hearst’s: he’s the dark conscience of a town discovering that evil no longer needs a villain, just capital.

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JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Ask your dad how Cotton Mather’s doing.

JP @jppierce.bsky.social · 1d

Monday’s squirrel is full of schemes,
Tuesday’s squirrel is full of doubt.
Wednesday's squirrel is full of ?

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welladriansays.bsky.social @welladriansays.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump handshake trolls

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otterhat.bsky.social @otterhat.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it, but I need this goddamn primate in my life.

The orange one.

Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 1d

He made it look easy