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Boy_meets_UFO @quietecho.bsky.social · 5h

This is what it looks like when someone feels both besieged and unaccountable (mostly the latter)

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 6h

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 5h

Oz is pretending to be stupid because he knows Trump has no idea about the math and will fly into a rage if this is made obvious. He's feigning acalculia and ignorance to protect Trump's flimsy, over-inflated ego.

He should just say it's a 15,000% discount. That would make Trump very happy.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 5h

Oz pretending to be stupid so Trump won't feel so alone.

Behold, impossible arithmetic!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Dr Oz: "You'll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10. I don't know what the math is on that. We can't even calculate it. It's too high to calculate."

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. The Republicans -- all of them -- own this. They have always owned it. They have the power to reign in the atrocity. They choose not to.

SCOTUS, the House, the Senate. And all the Republican governors who say nothing. All the Republican state officials who say nothing. It's on them.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 7h

It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes", but where everyone except a tiny cabal around him are shouting, "Hey, you're buck naked and it ain't pretty", and a tiny cabal around him are trying to shout louder so the naked emperor can't hear.

David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 7h

Small frightened, angry men who don't know what they're doing. Competent administrations doing the right thing are not afraid of the press. This shows consciousness of guilt -- either of malfeasance or fuckuppery.

David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 7h

The Administration look like so many frightened, angry, incompetent buffoons. I hope the backlash from this and the other daily atrocities is sufficient to knock the orcs and despoilers out of power long enough for us to reform SCOTUS and begin rebuilding.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 8h

I don't think most of these raging hypocrites recognize their own hypocrisy. They aren't idiots, but all their smarts are devoted to arguing their own case in the moment, not consistency, logical rigor, or principles. They mime principled argument and devotion to the truth.

David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 8h

> The people who positioned themselves as champions of free speech never actually cared about the principle. They cared about weaponizing the concept to attack their political opponents while laying groundwork for their own censorship regime.

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Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…

You may recall a year or so ago, when Mark Zuckerberg whined to Jim Jordan about how the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain… content.” Or maybe you re…

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 9h

Will SCOTUS Rig the House? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...

Will SCOTUS Rig the House?

I read a group email from Capitol Hill yesterday essentially predicting the...

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans are attacking the 1st Amendment* and the 9th Commandment, yet only 52% disapprove.

For decades to come many dissertations will be written trying to explain this.

* Also most of the rest of the amendments when they apply to anyone other than themselves.

David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 10h

> YouGov poll released this week found that 55% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance, including 46% who “strongly disapprove.” On average, recent polls show about 52% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance.

Only 52%?!

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 11h

He knows different kids. 25- to 40-year-old kids.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 11h

Either their bodies are really big or their heads are really small. Or a combination of the two.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 12h

Skeletors stick with skeletors.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

They should melt down all his "gold" tchotchkes and cast a new Epstein-Trump friendship statue. Put that in place of the arch.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB.

But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.

So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

Are permits involved beforehand? Are they backfilled in afterwards? I just assumed there was no law and people just jumped to do what he demanded.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

A name for the myriad Trump scandals.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

It's small potatoes relative to other crimes, but it's symbolic defilement. We need to wash Trump's filth off the nation.

All these monuments are monuments to him. To restore our pride we need to at least get rid of these brands he has left on our civic body.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

> there’s no question that democracy is ... menaced by a ... small population of monsters who bestride and dominate the country and the planet and can only be constrained by the most concerted acts of public will.

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The Age of Monsters, Part 2

I titled a recent Editors’ Blog post The Age of Monsters. I’ve...

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1d

Republican officials and leaders need to stop having secret group chats that someone later exposes. This happened again, and the creepy crawlies under this particular rock were, in a word, insane. My write up and mini-rant in today’s piece, link in the replies.

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