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Dave LaFontaine

@davelf.bsky.social
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Lead UX Designer, Author of various "... for Dummies" books, globetrotting professor, started as a newspaper reporter back when that was still a thing. Still cantankerous, mostly funny.

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 6h
“Whaddaya want from me, dad? Damn machines taking all our kitty jobs away…”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
As 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.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’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.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A chart covering the latest Kushner/Witkoff grift.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly 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.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FLORIDA — @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.”
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Natalie Wyatt-Brown @nataliewb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This 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.
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Bill 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...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Morning kitty break: achieved He would maul me, but I still would try a belly rub Maybe
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not 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.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The 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.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @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/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Sally 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.
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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 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.”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“LMAO” zeteo.com/p/top-republ...
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📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud
Swin’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.
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Ski the Madman, Pro-choice, Pro-justice, Anti-fascist @severalmadmen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack 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
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The Lever @levernews.com · 01/10/2026
From @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...
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The Financial System Can’t Afford To Treat You Fairly
One of Wall Street’s biggest firms just acknowledged that giving you a better deal could destabilize American banking.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Oligarchs have a ton of House Rules these days.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow 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.)
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Big 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.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/10/2026
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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good 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"
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Veronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just 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.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026
To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/05/2025
while 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)
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville 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.”
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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...
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The Next Front — The Atlantic
The Baltics are getting ready for a Russian attack.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: 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.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, 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.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If 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.👇
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MAD 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
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Kevin 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/...
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Putin’s new bombardment of Kyiv has a terrible logic
A Russian terror campaign aims to cripple the capital even before winter hits
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wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lawyer: ChatGPT, generate a summary of the proceedings. ChatGPT: No worries, boss.
A scene from the Simpsons' casino episode where Homer assures Marge that he has a photographic memory. When we see how he remembers the town meeting, Marge has green hair in rollers, Homer has muscles like a bodybuilder, Apu has three heads, and Flanders wears a baseball glove. The attendees include an elderly man in a polka-dot bikini, a man with a penguin on his head, an alligator in a suit, and a woman whose head is on a spring like a jack-in-the-box.
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Zach Rapport @zachrapport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When a beat guy tells you Jennings is currently practicing RG with the ones
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 30/09/2026
It’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.
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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who gets custody of the balloons?
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’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.
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Liberal 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."
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Healthcare in The Reconstruction Papers
One of America's most intractable problems.
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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thedailybeast.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 
We are experiencing higher than average call volumes. Please know your face is important to us and a leopard will be with you as soon as possible. 
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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not 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.
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Fletcher Cari Fletcher
ALT: Fletcher Cari Fletcher
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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.
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How Dare You Outrage
Alt: How Very Dare You Outrage
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, 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.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. 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.👇
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are not dealing with people who are acting in good faith.
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Khashoggi'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...
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Trump’s ‘unrestrained ignorance’ is leaving Americans exposed to new 'viruses': expert
President 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,...
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