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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow). The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing...

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"The median age of a Fox News viewer is 68, and liberals have joked about the network 'brainwashing' their conservative parents. But rightwing social media content has effectively targeted and radicalized younger people, who — unlike the typical Hannity-obsessed grandpa — can vote for the next...

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4/🚨It gets worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well. https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

#bluesky #tescreal

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Ruh-roh. Among those unhappy with the corporate media and their lie-telling in favor of one Donald Trump is the Almighty Deity: "In their obsession with treating both sides as equally bad, corporate media has once again gone full evil. They scrutinize whatever they can invent about Kamala. They...

on Sep 5

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8/From Bluesky's press release: "[Blockchain's] Kinjal Shah will join our board. Kinjal shares our vision for a social media ecosystem that empowers the people who use it, and we are glad to have her support as we invest in driving the adoption of decentralized...

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Krystyna (@krystyna@toad.social)

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5/Eric Adams was a frequent guest on Pierce's jet. Steve Bannon helped Pierce raise $60mm from Goldman Sachs 20 years ago for his "World of Warcraft" mining arbitrage play, Internet Gaming Entertainment. So you probably don't want anything to do with Bluesky long...

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📄 NEW: “Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse” The election is top of mind, but the debt ceiling remains an existential threat to the global economy — and Thiel’s network is signaling US debt default in Q1 2025. The dollar and your savings are at...

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Attached: 1 image A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the...

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Another piece of eloquent testimony from a brilliant Black man that won't be taken seriously by lots of us as we engage in the futile game-playing of the circular firing squad: "America deserves everything it is about to get. ... The conversations about who is to blame, the hand-wringing about...

on Mon, 5PM

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"America did this. America, through the process of a free and fair election, demanded this. America, as an idea, concept, and institution, wanted this. And America, as a collective, deserves to get what it wants. ... Now that he is here, we deserve our fate, because the most fundamental truth...

on Mon, 3PM

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It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it? And Black women in particular. That's what's going on right now, of course, in the orgy of recrimination mounted by those blaming Democrats, and a Black woman, Kamala Harris, for the triumph of fascism in the recent election. Blaming Democrats for...

on Mon, 3PM

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A friend of mine who has a Ph.D. in church history, is an ordained minister, spent years as a dean of a seminary, and has published a number of books, emailed me today to say the following: "As I think about the hostility [Trump] expresses about immigrants I am reminded of the 1880's and...

on Sun, 10PM

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Attached: 1 image Rogan claims Musk knew who won the Elections "4 hours before the results" thru an app he created. All of the undervotes are Election Day votes. Harris was ahead going into the election. Trump’s margin in every swing state appears to be based entirely on under votes. Chances...

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Sabina :toad: (@Sabina@toad.social)

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"When the dust settles, I expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasn’t the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. ... It requires education and discernment to separate fact from fiction, and often that's lacking. That’s the...

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10 concrete things you can do RIGHT NOW to make a difference: 1. Get your fucking covid vaccination fall booster. It's not just important for you, it's important for everyone around you. I'm serious get it now if/while you still can. 2. Wear a fucking quality respirator. Be consistent about...

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lin11c (@lin11c@toad.social)

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I'm just wondering if lead in the pipes has created a populace in the US that is mentally stunted. Has anyone done a study on this? It is known that lead in children will damage their brain. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/us-lead-industry-history-water-crisis

on Sat, 8PM

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"Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration." ~ Christian Hetzner #Trump #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #deportation #prison...

on Fri, 8PM

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Many people emailed me to ask how to manage potential financial uncertainties in 2025. I wrote up a brief two page summary; this is not financial advice, but it offers a summary of the risks and how, potentially, to...

on Nov 8

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"Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time. … 52 percent of white American women showed us who they are: Trump supporters." ~ Malcolm Ferguson #fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future /28 https://newrepublic.com/post/188061/white-women-harris-trump-exit-polls

on Nov 8

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"I never want to hear the words 'America is better than this' again. I never want to be told about America’s better angels. I want honesty. I want an admission of exactly who we are as a country, and let’s be damn clear about that definition:" ~ Rex Huppke #fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump...

on Nov 7

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"America’s long term, festering reactionary racism and white supremacy has threatened democracy throughout US history." ~ Noah Berlatsky #fascism #cruelty #USA #Trump #future /6 https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harris-anti-incumbent-backlash-2024

on Nov 7

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For some of us now, for many of us, the question is, How will we survive? Or, Will we survive? #fascism #future /1

on Nov 6

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"Final tally: acc to data from Ad Impact, Republicans spent nearly $215M on network TV ads that paint trans ppl as a national threat. This figure doesn't incl. cable or streaming ads. There're 1.6M trans ppl age 13+ in the US." -C Parks $215M have been wasted on ads based on lies & bigotry....

on Nov 5

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"Here’s an early prediction: Donald Trump will unilaterally declare victory sometime this evening." ~ Joyce Vance #KamalaHarris #Trump #election /1 https://joycevance.substack.com/p/election-day

on Nov 5

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And Tim Alberta, offering an inside scoop from Trump's team and close advisors about how Trump and his campaign unraveled as time went on, also hits on the word "chaos": "The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos...

on Nov 5

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TO SPLIT THE WORLD IN TWO: A CLOSING ARGUMENT This election isn’t just about the future of the United States, it will determine the future of the world. It is a linchpin in a strategy to split the world into two warring factions; the side that wins will own the future. The vision offered by...

on Nov 5

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As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect: "For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about...

on Nov 4

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"The American people want to stop the chaos and end the dramala with a cool new stepmamala. … Keep Kamala and carry onala." ~ Saturday Night Live #KamalaHarris #SaturdayNightLive #SNL /1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-rqlU4ZWw

on Nov 3

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"In this moment, … it is clear that women have electoral and political power over more than abortion rights. The 1980 election was the first one in which the proportion of eligible female voters who turned out to vote was higher than the proportion of eligible men. It was also the first one in...

on Nov 3

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Attached: 1 image The New York Times eviscerates #TFG in their new op-ed. “It’s time to vote. Donald Trump is a threat to democracy — a case that the New York Times editorial board has made repeatedly. Here’s why, in 110 words.”...

on Nov 3

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"Kamala Harris’s miraculous 100-day sprint to the finish line is now in its final kick, and the only one gasping for air is her pathetic opponent. She is positively burying him. … Look, Jimmy Carter didn’t hold on this long, just to lose …" #Trump #KamalaHarris /2

on Nov 2

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"Jesse Watters said that he would consider his wife voting for Kamala Harris the same as if she was having an extramarital affair. The Fox News co-host told panelists on The Five that if he discovered second wife, Emma DiGiovine, was secretly backing the vice president, it would be 'D-Day' for...

on Nov 2

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The Trump campaign has been a freefall into the abyss. 'Eating cats & dogs' was insane. The 'garbage man' photo op was insane. The economic so-called policies are insane. Calling for mass deportations is insane. Calling for Liz Cheney's execution is insane. The closing argument is doubling down...

on Nov 2

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Attached: 1 image ‘All hell has broken loose’: Inside Musk’s high-stakes pro-Trump door-knocking effort." When corruption & lies are your MO, expect your team to do likewise. We won't shed a tear for Republicans' bungled GOVT effort. They deserve it. Money can't buy good canvassers, it's...

on Nov 1

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"The 2024 election is in part about whether women can be free and equal citizens of this republic. Right now too many cannot. … [MAGA men furious that their wives may vote independently of their control] want marriage to be an inherently unequal relationship with a subordinate wife and an...

on Nov 1

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"But Trump, who has boasted of sexual assault and been found liable for it, did not stop there. He went on to say that he had told his advisors, 'I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.'" #Trump #women #gender #abortion /2

on Oct 31

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'The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy' reads the headline in today's Wall Street Journal. This is the most criminally under-reported story of the election cycle. The Biden-Harris administration has been, economically speaking, walking on water.

on Oct 31

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"If Trump wins, it isn’t going to be because Kamala Harris gave a bad answer to a question on The View. It will be because some large percentage of the American public looked at these two candidates and decided that they wanted Trump." ~ Jonathan V. Last #Trump #fascism #Republicans...

on Oct 29

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#SurveillanceCapitalism An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements President Biden, presidential rivals Trump & Harris, & other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use. Some USSS agents use the...

on Oct 29

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Attached: 1 image "Elon has been hinting at this in his stupid little speeches. News people need to make a bigger deal out of it: Trump is now not only campaigning on open racism, but explicitly promising economic devastation, as some kind of healthy reset. Musk admits that he & Trump will...

on Oct 29

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"On Sunday at MSG, Donald Trump engineered what will be seen by political analysts and later by historians as the coup de grâce that killed forever his prospects of being president and may well have set him on a post-election course on which he finally may be held accountable for his...

on Oct 29

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"Ironically, extremist movements within secure democracies are usually the ones actually destined for the garbage heap. That results from a simple fact: In order to keep the show going and the money flowing, extremism has to keep out-extreming itself. In an attention economy like this one, the...

on Oct 29

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#TFG’s vile, fascist MSG KKK2 rally signalizes an incitement to violence. “Speakers at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally unleash ugly rhetoric.” #USPol #KKK #MSG #Racism #Misogyny #Xenophobia #Bigotry #WhiteNationalism #Hate https://www.axios.com/2024/10/27/trump-madison-square-garden-rally

on Oct 27

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"this is the Fermi paradox moment, that unless a civilization can transcend competitive evolution and find a different pathway, which recognizes entangled co-evolutionary landscapes, I think it tends to fall and die because it actually goes into competition to the point where mutually assured...

on Oct 27

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🇺🇸Vaniaji For Harris/Walz (@Vaniaji@toad.social)

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Attached: 1 image With a latte going on in the world beyond our control, take a little cat time break, espresso yourself and smell the coffee… #HappyCaturday ❤️☕️🐈‍⬛❤️

on Oct 26

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"Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way. I don’t know the answer to the chicken-or-egg question — whether media coverage is leading public perception or vice versa — but the...

on Oct 26

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"The Washington Post, too, has seen about 2,000 subscribers bow out, and fourteen of the newspaper’s columnists called the decision not to condemn Trump’s threats to the 'freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution' 'a terrible mistake.' Cartoonist Ann Telnaes published a blacked-out...

on Oct 26

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