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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 6h

They’ve got medication for that now

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 6h

*CHINA'S WANG SAYS TRADE FACES RISING UNCERTAINTY, DIFFICULTIES

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 7h

This isn’t very good

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 7h

Me (watching “Burnt Offerings”, nudging date): those are the burnt offerings

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 8h

This guy has more confirmed kills than Chris Kyle

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 9h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 12h

🎶Gotta know when to hold em
Know when to fold em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 18h

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 12h

We are going to win

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 12h

Let them make cuts until the DoJ building is a Spirit Halloween, who cares - none of this matters if the executive branch can get away with ignoring congress

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

Congress needs to defend the power of the purse and republicans need to be the ones who sign off on the kneecapping of their own monarchist project

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13h

Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stalemate in Congress.

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

bit.ly

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 13h

Classic Pynchon

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14h

Some of them also just like doing it

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14h

Endless, pointless cruelty

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12d

"They will experience the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence." is @democrats.org message, they just don't know it yet.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14h

Just like me fr fr

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h

my model has no idea what should be in a crotch so sometimes it just speculates

francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 14h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly if Stancil were to put the appropriate nuance on his posts to make them factually correct instead of just a good diagnosis of a certain tendency of internet lefty psychopathology he wouldn’t be nearly as fun of a character on here

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s go
This is the way

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

When people claim to be voting based on some problem that doesn’t exist, be it food price inflation, crime increases, or immigrant caravans, “they’re lying and/or misinformed” IS the most parsimonious explanation.

“They’re expressing sublimated anger over something else” is much more convoluted.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

no, the idea that America is the root of all evil in the world, or that Americans are uniquely greedy or whiny or materialistic or whatever, these are other ways of calling America exceptional. so much of the fringe left is just fixated on America in the mirror image of the way MAGA is

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

This is how we win

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Our volunteers have been 3D printing whistles for ICE watch. Make your own today at 7016 N Clark St in Rogers Park from 12-3pm!

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says all kinds of shit - I wish people would stop treating his posts as if they actually effected the outcome they’re about

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

They could have boiled the frog but they were literally too stupid to figure it out

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I think in general the GOP has completely misread what recissions have done. There's literally no reason for dems to cave if Russ Vought can just do whatever the fuck he feels like.

There's no benefit for them, no higher ground. The politics are murky enough it doesn't matter.

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of internet left commentary is premised on the assumption that all things are actually simple and any complexity or ambiguity is owed to mystification or ruling class conspiracy

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 1d

@grok is this legal

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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