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Eric Butterfield

@ebfld.bsky.social
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I write about culture, politics and human behavior in the age of algorithms and digital nonsense seeking problems that don't exist.

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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 3h
Don't worry. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Like Ronald Reagan himself said, the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." And, now we can add: And I know everywhere you've been.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 23h
Whoops. He took the Hypocritical Oath by accident.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 23h
The Hypocritical Oath.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 23h
I thought the MAGA GOP was all about safety. Apparently, only when it's their imaginary scourge of dog-eating or criminally violent illegal immigrants (lies that pay off). If it's computational crimes of real import, they can't be bothered, because there's money to be made in wearing blinders.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Move next door to a data center, Mike. I'm listening to a street cleaner pass my house right now. It only happens once a month. If it happened 24 hours every day and night, I'd feel very different about it. Add contaminated water and a higher energy bill and, no, there's nothing Chinese about it.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are we just a banana republic now or a verifiable shithole country?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's another reminder... nothing has changed in the minds of the MAGA enablers. I picked apart the lunacy of this argument when it first smacked me across the face. ericbutterfield.substack.com/p/yes-jan-6-...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I can't believe they have the nerve to still call it the Department of Justice. Given all the other renamings, why don't we just go with Department of Just Desserts?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump is, for once, correct. There certainly has never been a time like this in the United States.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does Trump even exist if the press pool isn't there to lavish him with attention?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is this his happy place—pretending to be ignorant of all of Trump's flagrant pardons of con artists, grifters, and criminals...the exact kind of people he surrounds himself with?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So not surprised ... our A.I. gurus seem to enjoy flying metal kites in a lightning storm. ericbutterfield.substack.com/p/should-i-t...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Crappy ballroom. Algae-invested pond. Whipsaw tariffs, worsening inflation, ICE thugs, tacky gold leaf, and on and on and now this. Trump can't even keep an arts center open. Ah, promises of "America first" and endless "winning". Remember that in the voting booth—if you can even get to one.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Of course, the Kennedy Center was in fine fiscal shape until Trump defiled it with his "culture" war and unparalleled business acumen. Clearly, the Kennedy Center needs fake wrestling stupidity and martial arts blood sport. Trump = bankruptcy. Duh. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
projects.propublica.org
John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Former heroin addicts say the darndest things.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe he's thinking that this would have been beneficial for the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln? As in, he demeans minorities and women and minorities as beneficiaries of DEI. But, if the women on board had a higher sex drive, the ship wouldn't have been so desperate for a port stop in Thailand. Winning!
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are the aspirational beacon of the free world.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hegseth was a known boozer accused of sexual assault, who had bankrupted two veterans organizations while spending company money on his own entertainment. His evangelism is disturbing. Doesn't sound like a secretary of defense to me. Oh, wait, he was on Fox News. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
newyorker.com
Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being rep...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Somewhere in here is greatness and winning. I'm not sure where exactly just yet, but it's in there. Might require choking on a chicken bone to find it, but it's there.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Exactly what I've thought ever time I've had to suffer through a quote from Steven Cheung and every other Trump parrot offering deflection, insult, and a demonization of the reporter.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh, my, God, the butthurt is real.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Brilliant on so many levels. Excuse me while I go walk on water.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Corporate media breaks wind again...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm still waiting for the hillbilly asshat to explain how it is he joined a church he knew to have run a decades-long pedophilia ring. What message does that send to his children? God works in very mysterious ways, and now J.D. might tip off the End Times. Enjoy the cultural heroin.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I really enjoy having to turn off automatic looping GIFs every time I log into Bluesky. The repetition of a mindless video clip is enlightening. Really. I do. It's great.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let's talk election fraud. This Will Hold is doing some serious digging. The numbers make no sense--Trump winning in swing states on an abnormally high number of ballots voting Trump but Democrat all the way down the ballot. Smell something fishy? substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
She Won: The FBI Opened a 2016 Probe To Determine If Trump Was a Russian Asset
The Epstein-Thiel timeline connecting Russian operatives, the Trump campaign, and the effort to hijack the 2016 election.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apparently, they've forgotten that our health dept. is run by an attorney who was addicted to heroin, our education dept. is run by a fake wrestling exec., our VP converted to Catholicism post-pedophilia ring revelations, and our TV-trained sec. of defense rose only to major in the National Guard.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yet another complete waste of time. Renaming bodies of water is one of the dumbest things an autocrat with a middling intellect need bother himself with. But, he's not golfing, so at least there's that.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I second the motion.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The cruelty is complete. Even a Christian convert fleeing the brutal theocracy in Iran can’t get asylum. This woman was sent to Panama. If the “thoughts and prayers” crew won’t accept her, who? We are no longer the shining city on the hill. Congratulations, Canada. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
nytimes.com
Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home
Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Apparently, "a country trying to enforce its laws" is a fine rationale for violating people's rights, ripping up habeus corpus, justifying unlawful detentions without access to an attorney, gulag conditions for those detainees, and, quite frankly, murder. If all that isn't authoritarianism, what is?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's absolutely hilarious that this repeated blaming, essentially says: "I'm sorry, but we really just can't figure out how to undo past legislation and have no idea how to lower prices. We're just not smart enough."
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"...I only want to bring you joy...You are all that matters to me. I don't ever want to let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and my Protector in this life."
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That Biden guy. He just made sure we can't do anything right...forever.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They might even have stormed the White House in a "day of love", sworn they weren't racists, waved a gold bible around, set up a Kool-Aid stand selling cologne and golden sneakers and other tacky products, and pooped on the Oval Office desk while claiming they were saving the country.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Fiscal conservatives"...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Trump Tower in Atlantic City overlooked housing projects. The lamps were crudely bolted down to the end tables—I couldn't move them closer to read in bed. Two identical prints of a saccharine landscape painting hung sadly over the bed. The aesthetic of losers.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nice job by Tech Influence Watch tracking Trump's obvious quid pro quo. influence.citationneeded.news/analysis/qui...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Meanwhile, the Trumps made $1.4 billion. Figured it out yet, MAGA?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Well, we all know it's not a book.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don't mean to be unsympathetic, but what exactly did these people think they were voting for under Trump? Ice cream socials with international flair and good will toward your fellow man?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Family values coalition.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
According to "fiscal conservatism", it's all Biden's fault.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Apparently, he's shaking with both hands. Who does that?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How does an editor justify this headline when the story says Hong lost by a "razor-thin margin"? How is that a stunning loss? What is stunning is that Hong came astronomically close to winning. Democratic Socialists are chalking up wins in multiple states, in mayoral races.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The criminality is staring us in the face.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump should be the man living in prison squalor.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump Media lost nearly $240 million in Q2. No wonder Trump is selling early access to his market-shaking bloviating and mind-changing idiocy. Brilliant! The DJT stock, which reached nearly $100 per share on the backs of the deluded MAGA Kool-Aid drinkers, is now worth less than $8.40. WINNING!
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Today's disappointing news...apparently, only the billionaire grifters are pitching in enough to prop up MAGA.
Donald Trump in Make America Great Again hat, above an email solicitation from a PAC asking for twenty dollars and twenty-six cents.
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