Chris McCoy
scipiogemini.bsky.social
Chris McCoy
@scipiogemini.bsky.social
he/him/his, Gen X, queer, poly, socialist, communist, atheist/polytheist. If you're following me for something profound, I will let you down frequently.
Free Palestine.
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The vast majority of people will never care about an issue untill they are personally affected. Some people will start caring when a loved one is harmed, but for most people, it will take impacting them directly.
If it wasn't abundantly clear before, it should be by now, everyone who is against releasing the Epstein files, is *in* the Epstein files.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
December 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
As long as a single child needs SNAP benefits, as long as a single veteran is unhoused, as long as a single parent needs to work more than 1 job to put food on the table, the top marginal tax rate should be 100%
December 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
That's exactly what the regime wants to happen. It's eugenics. They believe everyone with any illness is unworthy of living, and should be removed from the gene pool. The second fastest way to do that is to make health care prohibitively expensive so their illness literally kills them.
Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Imagine if you could group 340M Americans together under a single negotiator. Imagine the sheer might of that single payer to drive down prices.
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The only reply these anti-birthright citizenship people deserve is "You first".

As in, "If you're so against birthright citizenship, let's revoke your birthright citizenship first".
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Journalists need to start asking Republicans, "If the next Democratic President gave the order to have you personally shot, would you still be telling soldiers they must follow orders?"
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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You cannot prove a negative. You cannot prove that X does not cause Y. That's not how proofs work.

The burden of proof is to show that X causes Y. So far there is no proof that vaccines cause autism.

Stating otherwise is not just disinformation but malinformation.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Every conservative accusation is a confession.
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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THIS IS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING!

Please watch and share as Starbucks baristas demonstrate outside the company's biggest distribution hub.

They're on DAY 7 of their strike. Baristas and their allies are protesting Starbucks’ serious and unresolved unfair labor practices.

REPOST IF YOU SUPPORT THEM
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Legitimate reasons
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"You tried to hide wrongdoing, therefore it is only logical to conclude that wrongdoing worth hiding occurred."

Destroying evidence is illegal.

This should be an automatic guilty verdict.
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The case for overthrowing Trump.
The case for overthrowing MAGA.
The case for overthrowing the entire Republican Party.
The case for overthrowing literal Nazis on our own damn country.
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
My most woke opinion is that people convicted of (or even charged with) any crime should not lose any of their rights.

If all the state has to do to take away your rights is charge you with a crime (even if they have to make up a new one in order to target you), no one has rights.
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.

She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Moderate Democrats were always going to cave.

The shutdown was always going to be performative. It not a matter of if, but when.

Establishment Democrats were always going to give the fascists everything they want, because they personally benefit from fascism.
These are the Senate Democrats who voted to reopen the government
After reaching a bipartisan deal, Senate Democrats finally gave Republicans the votes needed to advance a government funding measure.
www.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This post fundamentally misunderstands that conservative extremism, fascism, and racism are actually more American than liberty or justice.

We cannot move forward until we can accurately identify the root problem.

We cannot move forward until we stop pretending, and face who we really are.
Democrats need to call Republicans what they are: un-American. Every Republican going along with Trump’s destruction wears that label, and it’s time to make them own it. Watch LP’s Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My pronouns are she/her but I’m about to identify as a fucking problem for establishment Democrats.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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As long as a single child needs SNAP benefits, as long as a single veteran is unhoused, as long as a single parent needs to work more than 1 job to put food on the table, the top marginal tax rate should be 100%
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The largest lobby to keep Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the US Chamber of Commerce, which is not a federal agency, but a 501(c)(6), an NGO.

They lobby on behalf of businesses, and want to keep DST so that you spend more money before it gets dark.
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Someone needs to make an info graphic of exactly how much each specific billionaire is "saving" in taxes and list the federal programs that add up to that amount.

Like, Elon Musk is saving $700M in taxes, and XYZ program cost $700M, so we gutted this program to give that money to Elon instead.
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It's similar to drug testing welfare recipients, which was also not effective, and ended up costing more than it saved.

They don't care that it doesn't work. It's about shaming poor people, and maintaining the poverty-to-prison-to-slavery pipeline.
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I'm genuinely surprised when people are shocked that our soldiers who are trained to follow orders and to kill, follow orders to kill.
The military is obeying orders to murder. WTF!
October 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Your daily reminder to listen to black women.
Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM