Michael Loughry
@mloughry.bsky.social
Software Engineer on Outlook. Father. Sounders fan.
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Michael Loughry
@mloughry.bsky.social
· Feb 6
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross” goes both ways. Calling the U.S. a irredeemable hell hole cedes ideological ownership of American identity to the fascists. The U.S. is imperfect but not irredeemable and they don’t get to decide who is American.
America is an ideal, a promise it has sometimes strived for but has always fallen short of. Even if I recognize that failure, I believe in the promise, and I’m not handing over that promise to a bunch of fucking fascists.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Intolerable. Unjust. Tyrannical. Evil.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Intolerable. Unjust. Tyrannical. Evil.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Canada has stood with America when we were at our lowest, has fought and died in wars alongside us, has done everything a nation could to help and be amicable with another. And now America has gratuitously stabbed Canada in the back, and continues to do so. Things can never be the same again.
With Friends Like These
To defend itself from Trump's thuggery, Canada must seek new friends.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
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It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
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i got stuck explaining fascism to an 8-year-old who had seen the word on a protest sign.
explaining gay is trivial.
explaining gay is trivial.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
i got stuck explaining fascism to an 8-year-old who had seen the word on a protest sign.
explaining gay is trivial.
explaining gay is trivial.
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Incarcerating people who have not been convicted of a crime and who are not accused of a crime is a violation of basic civil rights and the definition of a concentration camp.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Incarcerating people who have not been convicted of a crime and who are not accused of a crime is a violation of basic civil rights and the definition of a concentration camp.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
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There are clear parallels between the Holocaust and the current state of our country's immigration policy.
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
February 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
There are clear parallels between the Holocaust and the current state of our country's immigration policy.
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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LEADERSHIP SUCKS. Minnesota murders, Epstein obstruction. Everyone in Congress is complicit if they're not bringing articles of impeachment. And it starts with Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson.
Ruin their day. citizensimpeachment.com/action/
Ruin their day. citizensimpeachment.com/action/
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February 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
LEADERSHIP SUCKS. Minnesota murders, Epstein obstruction. Everyone in Congress is complicit if they're not bringing articles of impeachment. And it starts with Hakeem Jeffries and Mike Johnson.
Ruin their day. citizensimpeachment.com/action/
Ruin their day. citizensimpeachment.com/action/
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I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.
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according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 6, 2026 at 6:48 PM
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
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“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:
There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:
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A smaller version of this is producing a massive measles outbreak, and rumors of horrific human rights abuses. ICE is proposing concentration camps on a horrific scale.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A smaller version of this is producing a massive measles outbreak, and rumors of horrific human rights abuses. ICE is proposing concentration camps on a horrific scale.
Billionaires are a policy failure.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Billionaires are a policy failure.
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Why would I stop protecting my neighbors now? You’ve already fucked up my life a ton, now I gotta see this shit through.
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Why would I stop protecting my neighbors now? You’ve already fucked up my life a ton, now I gotta see this shit through.
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I'm hoping shit like this helps open the eyes of people saying Chuck is doing the best he can. Do you see now why new rules or best practices (or laws!) can't be part of the ICE spending bill? It's gotta be gutted whole. It just obstinance or ignorance to stand ten toes down on it at this point
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I'm hoping shit like this helps open the eyes of people saying Chuck is doing the best he can. Do you see now why new rules or best practices (or laws!) can't be part of the ICE spending bill? It's gotta be gutted whole. It just obstinance or ignorance to stand ten toes down on it at this point
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I think the Olympic ideal of peace and harmony is best captured by a room full of people, all from different countries from across the globe, booing JD Vance together.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
February 7, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I think the Olympic ideal of peace and harmony is best captured by a room full of people, all from different countries from across the globe, booing JD Vance together.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.
May he be greeted by such vocal harmony every day.