November 22, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Shoulder day shouldered.
I really think every gym should have a backscratching machine
I really think every gym should have a backscratching machine
March 11, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Shoulder day shouldered.
I really think every gym should have a backscratching machine
I really think every gym should have a backscratching machine
Greg Abbott's 'backscratching' with Elon Musk exposes GOP 'power trifecta': legal analyst #RawStory
www.rawstory.com
Greg Abbott's 'backscratching' with Elon Musk exposes GOP 'power trifecta': legal analyst
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October 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Greg Abbott's 'backscratching' with Elon Musk exposes GOP 'power trifecta': legal analyst #RawStory
When I say scratch my back,
Scratch my damn back 🙌🏼
~ #masochist ~ #backscratching ~ #kayofsunshine ~
Scratch my damn back 🙌🏼
~ #masochist ~ #backscratching ~ #kayofsunshine ~
January 10, 2026 at 8:35 AM
When I say scratch my back,
Scratch my damn back 🙌🏼
~ #masochist ~ #backscratching ~ #kayofsunshine ~
Scratch my damn back 🙌🏼
~ #masochist ~ #backscratching ~ #kayofsunshine ~
oh yes, and corrupt AF
"Sometimes Trump’s love of dictators seems rooted in elementary backscratching corruption.
...
Perhaps the most important reason for Trump’s flattering of Xi, though, is that Trump sees international relations as a matter of self-aggrandizement."
"Sometimes Trump’s love of dictators seems rooted in elementary backscratching corruption.
...
Perhaps the most important reason for Trump’s flattering of Xi, though, is that Trump sees international relations as a matter of self-aggrandizement."
September 28, 2026 at 12:43 PM
oh yes, and corrupt AF
"Sometimes Trump’s love of dictators seems rooted in elementary backscratching corruption.
...
Perhaps the most important reason for Trump’s flattering of Xi, though, is that Trump sees international relations as a matter of self-aggrandizement."
"Sometimes Trump’s love of dictators seems rooted in elementary backscratching corruption.
...
Perhaps the most important reason for Trump’s flattering of Xi, though, is that Trump sees international relations as a matter of self-aggrandizement."
Attention All Bears ⚠️ Group Backscratching Starts in 10 Minutes
October 31, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Attention All Bears ⚠️ Group Backscratching Starts in 10 Minutes
Wu Jingzi's classic novel The Scholars (1750) is about the scheming and mutual backscratching involved in both ditching your small town job for a bureaucratic position and in maintaining that position once you've gotten it.
April 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Wu Jingzi's classic novel The Scholars (1750) is about the scheming and mutual backscratching involved in both ditching your small town job for a bureaucratic position and in maintaining that position once you've gotten it.
In the end Biden’s administration was a failure for the same reason Trump’s was. A refusal to believe in equality in favor of helping out friends. From Hunter to Israel to protectionism, Biden’s backscratching played nicer, but he didn’t believe in universal justice anymore than Trump did.
December 2, 2024 at 6:58 PM
In the end Biden’s administration was a failure for the same reason Trump’s was. A refusal to believe in equality in favor of helping out friends. From Hunter to Israel to protectionism, Biden’s backscratching played nicer, but he didn’t believe in universal justice anymore than Trump did.
Very true for like magazine writers and pundits who clearly operated in a mutual backscratching society before social media
January 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Very true for like magazine writers and pundits who clearly operated in a mutual backscratching society before social media
Bros like a bear
#Rotorthewalrus #rotorwalrus #walrus #Rotor #Backscratching #Jockstrap #Boxershorts #boxers #underwear
#Rotorthewalrus #rotorwalrus #walrus #Rotor #Backscratching #Jockstrap #Boxershorts #boxers #underwear
November 15, 2023 at 9:39 AM
Bros like a bear
#Rotorthewalrus #rotorwalrus #walrus #Rotor #Backscratching #Jockstrap #Boxershorts #boxers #underwear
#Rotorthewalrus #rotorwalrus #walrus #Rotor #Backscratching #Jockstrap #Boxershorts #boxers #underwear
metaphor alert for the incoming admin- paid backscratching!
A small but growing field of back scratchers are making a living off their nails, hoping there’s a healthy market of people who will pay $100 or more an hour to do what a spouse or wooden spoon will do for free
How to Make $100 an Hour Scratching Someone’s Back
Professional scratchers say they help people achieve a level of relaxation that is beyond the reach of a spouse or wooden spoon
www.wsj.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:34 PM
metaphor alert for the incoming admin- paid backscratching!
i’m sure there’s agent backscratching happening here too. it is what it is. when i look at this massive list of candidates the more i really do think they’re gonna go through this whole process just to end up with Anonymous Millennial White OC
January 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM
i’m sure there’s agent backscratching happening here too. it is what it is. when i look at this massive list of candidates the more i really do think they’re gonna go through this whole process just to end up with Anonymous Millennial White OC
I’ve seen some mutual backscratching for matching fund deadline goals this past weekend, but that’s it. They need to get their united front act together pronto. bsky.app/profile/jool...
A bunch of dedicated public servants nobody knows vs. a monster with name recognition. If their egos preclude them from seeing the necessity of amplifying the #dontrankcuomo effort, they don’t deserve to win. And I say this as an active supporter of many of them. @dreamfornyc.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’ve seen some mutual backscratching for matching fund deadline goals this past weekend, but that’s it. They need to get their united front act together pronto. bsky.app/profile/jool...
Former private attorney here, who graduated first in my law school class and clerked at the Supreme Court.
$3,780 an hour is not a normal rate for attorneys. Even now. And that's not a "complex bankruptcy" rate.
This is some backscratching corrupt bullshit.
$3,780 an hour is not a normal rate for attorneys. Even now. And that's not a "complex bankruptcy" rate.
This is some backscratching corrupt bullshit.
#ICYMI: Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Former private attorney here, who graduated first in my law school class and clerked at the Supreme Court.
$3,780 an hour is not a normal rate for attorneys. Even now. And that's not a "complex bankruptcy" rate.
This is some backscratching corrupt bullshit.
$3,780 an hour is not a normal rate for attorneys. Even now. And that's not a "complex bankruptcy" rate.
This is some backscratching corrupt bullshit.
If we're talking about blurbing books again, can we agree that some people blurb only books they like, regardless of whether they know the author?
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
January 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If we're talking about blurbing books again, can we agree that some people blurb only books they like, regardless of whether they know the author?
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
The assumption that it's all just backscratching is pretty dismissive of the people who try to do this unpaid labour with some integrity, imho.
All plays are political in what they choose to represent, but a nakedly political play - one that concerns how institutional power affects people - must implicate the audience somehow. Or else it’s just backscratching.
July 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
All plays are political in what they choose to represent, but a nakedly political play - one that concerns how institutional power affects people - must implicate the audience somehow. Or else it’s just backscratching.
An MP, a billionairess, and a journalist are rather grassing themselves up. That's quite the backscratching relationship.
May 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
An MP, a billionairess, and a journalist are rather grassing themselves up. That's quite the backscratching relationship.
Which, to be clear: their corruption is and always has been evident in many other arenas. What's come as a shock is the extent to which powerful people are willing to break their very expensive digital toys out of a combination of greed, idiocy, panic and naked political backscratching/capitulation.
February 5, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Which, to be clear: their corruption is and always has been evident in many other arenas. What's come as a shock is the extent to which powerful people are willing to break their very expensive digital toys out of a combination of greed, idiocy, panic and naked political backscratching/capitulation.
When i can’t find my good backscratching stick
March 9, 2024 at 7:17 PM
When i can’t find my good backscratching stick
Just published in @goodauth.bsky.social: my piece on what I call “authoritarian backscratching” - quid-pro-quo policies between dictators - and how it helps authoritarian regimes survive. goodauthority.org/news/what-is...
What is authoritarian backscratching – and why is this a threat?
Quid pro quo policies help authoritarian regimes stay in power.
goodauthority.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Just published in @goodauth.bsky.social: my piece on what I call “authoritarian backscratching” - quid-pro-quo policies between dictators - and how it helps authoritarian regimes survive. goodauthority.org/news/what-is...
There's a concerted / coordinated effort by Dems to shore up Schumer after the vote. Political backscratching.
The NYTimes piece was probably also part of it.
The NYTimes piece was probably also part of it.
March 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
There's a concerted / coordinated effort by Dems to shore up Schumer after the vote. Political backscratching.
The NYTimes piece was probably also part of it.
The NYTimes piece was probably also part of it.
"oh no you didn't scratch my back back you're not supposed to go against our backscratching system this is disgusting"
When asked about Nithya Raman entering the mayoral race, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez said that she's "disgusted" by Raman's decision. Rodriguez added that she considers Raman's campaign against Mayor Karen Bass a "backstabbing of an ally."
June 3, 2026 at 4:15 AM
"oh no you didn't scratch my back back you're not supposed to go against our backscratching system this is disgusting"
Bollox. He gives them a luxury golf course & they give him a luxury jet for his personal gain. Mutual backscratching does not a mighty dealmaker make.
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Bollox. He gives them a luxury golf course & they give him a luxury jet for his personal gain. Mutual backscratching does not a mighty dealmaker make.
And they’re taking massive amounts of tax payer money to enrich their mutually backscratching circle of criminals. youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6C...
The Immigration-Industrial Complex Trump WON’T tell you about
YouTube video by David Pakman Show
youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
And they’re taking massive amounts of tax payer money to enrich their mutually backscratching circle of criminals. youtube.com/watch?v=Wn6C...