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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 4h

Alternative theory: looking like you've sold your soul to the devil makes you do things that someone who'd sold their soul to the devil would do. You do stuff to look like you deserve the evil on your face. You already look unredeemable, so you have some fun. youtube.com/shorts/Te001...

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my most peasant-coded belief

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 7h

I present to you the president of the United States! bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Yes!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can read Jamal’s work here. It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post. Rest in peace, Jamal. And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...

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Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post

Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, had been writing a column for The Post since last year.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

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ICE Totally Telling The Truth This Time About Another Guy They Shot In The Back, You Guys

Loathsome bully cowards.

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

Wemby is something else, man

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Frenemy of the People @frenemyofthepeople.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bad: socialists Good: sociopaths And that’s the GOP campaign strategy in a nutshell.

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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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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I imagine this dynamic is ubiquitous. Minority X thinks, "Am I safe here? Was that a joke? Is that racism? Are these people actually my friends? Do they have my back if things get bad?" It must be exhausting and dispiriting, and it must cost you opportunities invisibly. bsky.app/profile/maur...

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Djehuti Khonshu @djehuti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If 99 bad cops fail to stop 1 bad cop, you have 100 bad cops

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0

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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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This…

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not the winning message he thinks it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Temu Joe McCarthy

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

to be fair, "being angry at getting told something they don't want to hear" is the foundational ethos of conservatism

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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are not being governed. We are being looted.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026

A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials — including the Kennedy Center — was blocked Monday night in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

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GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center

The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t trust the media, it’s biased” and “uncle Bill sounds pretty convincing” sit really comfortably next to each other with way too many people, especially when the vectors to deliver bullshit to *you* through uncle Bill are essentially unlimited.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I didn't have her arrested for not paying the $50. I had her arrested for not coming to court when I sued her for not paying the $50. Plus she was in arrears on other bills, so she's a person of low character." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/roger...

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Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition

I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.

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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well worth watching. Also, why won't youtube let you share directly to Bluesky? youtu.be/pRs2Xu1FWR4?...

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How many slaveholders were there, really?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026

Whoa. Fetterman accidentally admits he’s a Republican—before he caught himself. QUESTION: “Why not become an independent?” FETTERMAN: “Because I’m a lifelong, uh, Republican.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing how humans can hold onto racist hate for infinite generations, but no one can remember why everyone was so excited about vaccines one adult human lifespan ago.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Clearly the timing is not coincidental,” says Susan Collins. Is she talking about a defense contractor giving her campaign $150,000 after the head of her PAC promised she’d get them a big federal contract? Or is she talking about Trump getting elected and the FBI’s bribery probe going away?

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026

"Trump plans to use this monstrous new facility to dazzle donors and fête the strongmen he so admires. In clear, bold visual language, the ballroom declares 'I am the state.'" (from October 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...

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Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...

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Mostly True News @mostlytruenews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If Obama started a state run TV channel with his name on it Republicans would have sucked their own balls off so they could squeal about it at a higher pitch.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

like, the kind of corruption that not even john roberts could pretend isn’t real

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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