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rbreich.bsky.social
What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"Each of my parking spots is precisely three inches longer and two inches narrower than the average parking spot. The designers say it is to save money and be economically friendly, but I know the truth: my only goal is to fuck you up."
I Am a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot and I Am Here to Destroy You
My game begins at once: a team of crack architects and city planners conspire to bring me to your city. People rejoice, and so do I, for the game i...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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mcsweeneys.net
MOM vs. GRANDMA
1:00 p.m. / Living Room
This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
Your Family’s Thanksgiving Fight Schedule
Due to the overwhelming number of anticipated brawls this Thanksgiving, we decided to streamline your day with an Official Family Thanksgiving Figh...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Calling the ABC reporter’s question “insubordinate” explains everything about how Trump sees press freedom.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?

TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally murder us, but I really need you to focus."
Don’t Let the Beasts from Revelation Distract You from Your Expense Reports
Thanks for coming in. Have a seat. I realize there’s a lot going on right now between work and the seven-headed dragon that is here to brutally mur...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jonathanfriedman.com
Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)
My son came home with a Pre-K report card; I read it and was thrilled. My husband read it and was baffled. I read it and anchored on the lines that really matter: "He excels quickly in all his math assignments and has mastered the math and reading concepts presented." My husband focused on the extra full page on "social emotional growth" commentary and looked confused the whole time. "What does any of this mean?" "Nothing," I said. "Ignore it." And then that evening we explained to our son the lesson that is going to get him through his life: "People will put up with many things if you are excellent at math. You're so good at math. We're proud of you." And that was that. There are many important posts going viral today about the tragedy of young men. Combatting the systems that seek to destroy their nature begins in the home, and it begins young. I don't care about the "social emotional growth" of my sons because I know what values we're instilling in them. Telling them what really matters begins with dad and mom. The family can be a reprieve from all the nonsense. It requires constant vigilance, but it's the first step in preparing them for the madness outside. 8:09 AM • 11/11/25 • 1.3M Views
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
racheleallen.bsky.social
The only thing that surprises me about this is that he didn't put "In Trump We Trust."
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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sher12.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people.

Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold.

Priorities.
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
racheleallen.bsky.social
Show me the study, Mike.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 31
Mike Johnson: "With Medicaid, we eliminated the fraud, waste, and abuse. We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program. They were never intended to be there. They're sitting around on their couches playing video games. Yes, that's an actual study."
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social
In a better world, the person with final say-so re. the launching of our nuclear weapons would know the difference between an IQ test and a dementia test.
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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astutepanther.bsky.social
Off-topic, but I'd like to share this update from a Bad Medical Take earlier this year
Jan. 28 2025 Xeet from JacquiDeevoy (@JacquiDeevoy): I told the nurse today that I won’t be taking pills to fix my high blood pressure but will attempt to lower it by eating healthily, not drinking alcohol and doing more exercise. I said I’d rather deal with the cause not mask the symptoms. She shook her head and told me that if my high blood pressure turns out to be hereditary, changing my diet and lifestyle will do NOTHING to help and that my blood pressure will remain high unless I take medication. I was gobsmacked. Honestly, where do they GET these people? Jan. 30 2025 Bad Medical Take Din mamma (svennebananars) posts a screenshot from Facebook: “Once upon a time, in a land not far away at all, a healthy blood pressure was thought to be 100 plus your age. That simple rule of thumb was replaced in 1977 by a cutoff of 160/95 separating ‘normal’ from high blood pressure. That number was then reduced to 140/80 and now a home reading of 130/80 is the target. Do these figures have any basis in health or are they the recommendations of BigPharma in order to sell more pills?” JacquiDeevoy (@JacquiDeevoy) replies: Yes, I know, but mine is consistently higher. It was 170/124 today. That’s quite a common reading for me. Oct. 9 2025 post from JacquiDeevoy (@JacquiDeevoy) on Xitter: Currently in hospital with malignant hypertension and possible TIA mini-stroke. I might take a few days off. See you next week! Much love. [heart emoji] Oct. 10 2025 post from JacquiDeevoy (@JacquiDeevoy) on Xitter: Thanks for all your kind messages and words of support and advice. I seem to have avoided a serious stroke and, after emergency IV drugs, my BP and gone down from 240/154 to 147/100. The symptoms yesterday were scary - I couldn’t read, write, type or speak properly; I couldn’t understand what was being said to me and I kept getting my words muddled. I’d never experienced anything like that before. It was like being drunk but without the singing and dancing. Some minor lesions were spotted in the brain on the MRI scan but these appear to be historical. I’ll find out more tomorrow and then hopefully I can head home. Thanks again for all the love. [heart emoji]
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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lukeplunkett.com
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
racheleallen.bsky.social
Important report on lead in protein powders!
paris.nyc paris martineau @paris.nyc · Oct 14
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
racheleallen.bsky.social
It's my American right to disdain whoever I damn well please, Mike.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 15
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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jesspish.bsky.social Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · Oct 2
This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement
rfksbrainworm.bsky.social worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · Oct 2
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
Pope Leo XIV Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal Austin I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
October 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
racheleallen.bsky.social
First, I had to go to Twitter to confirm this is real. It is. Second, I had to scroll through their other posts, and those made me want to puke because of the white supremacy. Third, this is so fucking cringe.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Oct 1
DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"
Homeland Security @DHSgov "Communist?" DENIED. "Terrorist?" DENIED. "Globalist?" DENIED. Above a meme of a bearded smiling guy, in this case wearing a USCIS hat
October 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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atrupar.com
CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM