Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 6h“Whaddaya want from me, dad? Damn machines taking all our kitty jobs away…” 000
Reposted by Dave LaFontainejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10hthe idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead 804295517
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10hAs proof of his genius, he offers a story in which he realized that if they added 1 to 1775 it would give them the number 1776. No, I'm being completely serious. And his mouthbreathing crowd applauds that basic math like the man split the atom. 1381841344
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral. 351598401
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A chart covering the latest Kushner/Witkoff grift. 12394215
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Truly cannot believe Dems aren’t making Musk a bogeyman. Richest man alive. Massive body count. Overt support for ethnic cleansing. Deploying his massive wealth to exert political power all over the world. Suppress speech. He’s what Rs pretend Soros is times a million. 55914
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026FLORIDA — @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon ♥️ : “I was a single mom for 12 years. I struggled. I was able to purchase a home for me and my daughter because the government did the right thing… Trump cut those programs. Those lived experiences are why I fight. You got me crying on TV.” 381731497
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineNatalie Wyatt-Brown @nataliewb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is so true. I figured this out in Constitutional Law after reading several Scalia opinions where the outcome always happened to align with his political beliefs. 21223
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...liberalcurrents.comWe Have No Supreme CourtThe philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court. 1142875752
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Morning kitty break: achieved He would maul me, but I still would try a belly rub Maybe 010
Reposted by Dave LaFontainejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25661171138
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/10/2026The Trump administration's scare tactics ahead of the midterms have hit a usual refrain: "migrant caravan." In reality, it's about 600 people (mostly families) who are 1,000 miles from the border. Just when gas prices keep climbing, Trump world is looking for a distraction. This is their attempt. 1452912979
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"revenge for Nixon" explains a rather significant amount of GOP skulduggery in the 21st century www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...wsj.comExclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw DealA revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly. 21694115
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineSally The Luddite @calamityjane516.bsky.social · 01/10/2026👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻💥💥💥🎯🎯🎯 False Rape Claims Ruining Men's Lives is my favorite trope right after the Persecuted Christian trope. 062
Reposted by Dave LaFontainerm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is really good. “The correct way to practice politics in 2026 is to read The New York Times but remember that much of the essential news to save our democracy has been fit to print elsewhere.” 17626
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“LMAO” zeteo.com/p/top-republ...zeteo.com📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a DudSwin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again. 54968120
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineSki the Madman, Pro-choice, Pro-justice, Anti-fascist @severalmadmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Jack Smith wasn't at that Atlanta Hawks game But Trump was in DC on January 6th And he was on Epstein's rape island a lot more 6652197
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineThe Lever @levernews.com · 01/10/2026From @davidsirota.com: Wall Street just said the quiet part out loud. Apollo's chief economist warned if households moved cash to higher-yield accounts, banks could lose cheap deposits they rely on. Translation: the system depends on paying you almost nothing. www.levernews.com/the-financia...levernews.comThe Financial System Can’t Afford To Treat You FairlyOne of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that giving you a better deal could destabilize American banking. 2209
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineAkallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Oligarchs have a ton of House Rules these days. 0164
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9853242180
Reposted by Dave LaFontainePublic Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Big Tech executives donated over $227 MILLION to Trump's Super PAC and pet projects. Their payments bought them a seat at Trump's roundtable to regulate AI. We can hardly trust them to create the technology, let alone regulate it. These tech oligarchs are out of control. 25933
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026Bellingcat is a non-profit and the ability to carry out our work is dependent on the kind support of individual donors. If you would like to support our work, you can do so here: www.bellingcat.com/donatebellingcat.comThe truth belongs to everyone. Help us find it. - Donate to bellingcatEvery membership directly supports our investigations and global community work. 06614
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Good lord. What's next? "If we shove every man, woman and child in the state of Texas into the gas chambers, crime will fall to 0%! I will single-handedly solve crime in Texas forever! #MAGA!" #NYT: "Trump's innovative crime-fighting initiative draws interest" 000
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineVeronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just occurred to me that it’s a good thing Jack Smith was actually at a basketball game that day and they could prove it during the hearing because they were all gearing up to feast on the headline for weeks if not years. The headline was all they were after anyway. 972079314
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible. 25945247
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2025while it's tempting to grab people by the lapels and scream YOU FUCKING MORONS at them, it's more ignorance than malice I think. and that is downstream of a completely fucked info environment (and yes, some extremely poor personal choices) 2854438
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691714607
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“If a seagull shits in the harbor, we know what it had for breakfast, we know where it nests, and we know when it last went to Russia.” apple.news/AsVQPL1bPQ4S...apple.newsThe Next Front — The AtlanticThe Baltics are getting ready for a Russian attack. 010
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BREAKING: The Federal Reserve's independent watchdog said it found no reasonable grounds to believe there was a violation of federal law — despite Trump's claims — in that multibillion-dollar renovation project Jerome Powell led that drew short-lived scrutiny from prosecutors. 16863206
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America. 15980473612
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If for no other reason, vote against every Republican in November because they never stop blaming Biden, and now Obama, for all their fuck ups. They never take responsibility for anything.👇 2125669
Reposted by Dave LaFontainecaptain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround 1941887
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineKevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 30/09/2026“Putin has gone even crazier,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Economist. “He ordered attacks on everything civilian. They want people to be afraid of going to the supermarket.” www.economist.com/europe/2026/...economist.comPutin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logicA Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits 810763
Reposted by Dave LaFontainewade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lawyer: ChatGPT, generate a summary of the proceedings. ChatGPT: No worries, boss. 1114
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineZach Rapport @zachrapport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When a beat guy tells you Jennings is currently practicing RG with the ones 2101
Reposted by Dave LaFontainerobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive 1879178
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineIan Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026It’s so gracious of him to hog 20 hours of airtime a day. He does it selflessly for everybody else. He can’t help it if he’s so popular, that’s just the way it is. 1201
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’ve been wondering whether this was less about the shock of watching Schmitt get pantsed than it was about realizing that you’re the next Republican questioner, and your script was based on following up this accusation, and now you have nothing. 1870594
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026"It is impossible to overstate the extent of the harm that has been done to our system of developing, providing, and paying for medical care in this country. The effects will be felt for generations. Few areas, therefore, are more in need of complete reconstruction."liberalcurrents.comHealthcare in The Reconstruction PapersOne of America's most intractable problems. 22111
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026thedailybeast.com/fuming-trump... Leopards. Faces. As always, it was ok as long as someone else, they didn’t like who was gay or Muslim or some fancy pants college professor that got hurt  000
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not that this matters. Your story & headline do not unring the bell. Fox News, OANN and Newsmax have dined out on this story for 6 months, and it is taken as bedrock truth by everyone right of center. Good work gullible guys. Fell for it again.static.klipy.comFletcher Cari FletcherALT: Fletcher Cari Fletcher 000
Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“I haven’t touched grass in 12 years, so I think TikTok is reality, and this is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.” Oh this resonates so hard. Fake outrage merchants monetizing minutiae all the way down.static.klipy.comHow Dare You OutrageAlt: How Very Dare You Outrage 020
Reposted by Dave LaFontainec0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847571599
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 899264609095
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We are not dealing with people who are acting in good faith. 210611
Reposted by Dave LaFontaineKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Right now Trump is leaving America exposed to dangerous viruses: digital, biological and diplomatic,” Tom Friedman wrote. “Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump.” www.rawstory.com/trump-midter...rawstory.comTrump’s ‘unrestrained ignorance’ is leaving Americans exposed to new 'viruses': expertPresident Donald Trump’s “unrestrained ignorance” is leaving Americans exposed to three dangers, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman warned Tuesday.In a scathing column,... 1318460