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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 · 01/10/2026
"It's mind-boggling..." I'm guessing the subject of that phrase is not fewer vacationers, per se, but rather the CEO of dum-dum who repeatedly makes our nation more and more a banana republic (and arguably a shit hole nation). When do the plane loads of deportees from third-world countries arrive?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth's own military manual, which includes many of his bloviating speeches, also includes a promise from Trump not to fight any "dumb wars". Since many of think he meant "dum" wars, does any of this matter? Is there a smart war on the horizon?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before we destroy humanity and Earth for good, I nominate this 20-year-old classic essay for inclusion in a time capsule, a la Voyager I and II. It's the answer to a Jeopardy question: Why were human beings so stupid that they didn't save themselves? www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
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If only gay sex caused global warming
NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why?
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I trust you. No need to click the link. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
Oh, my gosh, I got the same email! They were talking about me, too! I've been getting these for years, just to stay afloat the idiocracy of the MAGA sewage trough. ericbutterfield.substack.com/p/trumps-ema...
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Trump's Emails: The Endless, Shameless Spam Shakedown
"Elon Musk just said your name," writes Donald Trump...should I send him money for the Official Golden Trump Award? Only the smartest Americans need apply.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whoops. He took the Hypocritical Oath by accident.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Hypocritical Oath.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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 · 19/09/2026
What you get when you think governing a country and its military is a reality TV show.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, Hegseth drastically reduced civilian harm mitigation teams. So, we killed more civilians. Assessments that used to take hours, now take minutes thanks to Palantir software. Stupid and reckless and tragic. Time to ban Bloomberg from the White House press pool.
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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...
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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 · 15/09/2026
"Safety ... safety ... safe ..." This MAGA schtick has only one consistency: Fear-mongering. Remember the fantastically tin-eared speech by Katie Britt in 2024? Ever since, every dystopian turd has been unleashed by Trump, not Dems. Refresh your memory. ericbutterfield.substack.com/p/american-d...
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American Dystopia
In her response to the State of the Union address, U.S. Sen. Katie Britt offered a dark, fearful vision of America's future, rife with violent illegal aliens and cross-border sex trafficking
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just when you thought it could get no weirder ...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Can we get a forecast for claims of climate change hoax? I'm expecting an unprecedented deluge of anti-science dementia.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Live with and embrace A.I. slop, and your thinking gets sloppy. Guess who's the easiest to manipulate and "own" with algorithmic wizardry? That's right—lazy, sloppy thinkers.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The report was typed from a moving golf cart, printed on a portable printer, and delivered at the 18th hole at Mar-a-Lago.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently, we don't even draw that line unless the victim is very, very underage. Sick times.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Does this also mean January 6, 2021, was actually an insurrection? Asking for a dictionary that needs updating.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe we, the voters, didn't mess up. Maybe the 2024 election was stolen. thiswillhold.substack.com/p/update-thi... And, maybe Elon is headed for a gulag. thiswillhold.substack.com/p/musk-unmas...
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Update: Third Whistleblower—Israel, the Stolen 2024 Election, and the Epstein Files
How a transnational crime syndicate is influencing U.S. and global politics, and what it will take to stop it.
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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
That should absolutely be illegal. No one should have to live that close to such horrendous noise.
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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...
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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
Spread the word on the people doing the work to uncover the crime of election fraud in 2024. substack.com/@thiswillhol...
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Today’s Zoom: The 2024 Election Hack and How to Protect the Midterms
Join us for today’s Zoom, where cybersecurity experts will explain how the ballot travels through the election system, break down the 2024 post-tabulation attack vector, and show how we can catch them...
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Signalgate Hegseth's dressing down of four-star generals was idiotic. He's a Nat'l Guard major. His church is the gross, twisted evangelism of Doug Wilson. He bankrupted veterans orgs. I read one of his stupid books so you don't have to: ericbutterfield.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth Is on a Christian Crusade
Trump's nominee for defense secretary thinks public schools are brainwashing kids, and wants to put God in the classroom—and the Left is to blame for everything
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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
You forgot the Muslims and the Haitians (who eat cats and dogs).
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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 · 02/09/2026
Should be mounted on an oil derrick.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The abject cruelty is now a completely baked-in feature. This immoral administration is now circling poop-dropping drones above its own heads. DEI: Dumb, Elitist, Incompetent.
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Eric Butterfield @ebfld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm glad I don't recognize any of these and couldn't give a rodent's back side. Memes are such a huge waste of time. Not sure how people can keep finding entertainment or a split second of enlightenment in them. History will dub this the time of dumb-dumb.
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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-...
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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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