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Jack Letourneau

@jlet.bsky.social
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Formerly southeastern MA, now upstate NY. 2½ oz gin, ¾ oz dry vermouth, 2 dashes orange bitters, 6–8 ice cubes. Briskly stir one minute, strain into chilled glass, express and discard lemon twist.

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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 1h
What’s the opposite of “mind-boggling”? If I had citizenship anywhere else, I would also stay way the hell away from the United States.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same-sex bathrooms, OMG!!!!!!!!!!
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hmm, I think I have Serious Concerns.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nicolas Cage “You don’t say?” meme [VAMPIRE’S KISS (1998)]
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
LITTLE PIG MAN: Okay, yes, we did slam dunk the US economy into the toilet for the first half of the term but that just means the odds are looking great for the second half!
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos.
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I still think it would be better if the dumbest asshole on earth and the President of the United States were two different people
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Go Sox.
“My dialect” map of the United States: New England and eastern New York are “Most like you”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thinking about how dissonant Hakeem Jeffries saying "we have 5 working groups on affordability" is with the completely reasonable demand for righteous judgment on those who have wronged us
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Look at this pathetic list. WORKING GROUPS. Where is “nonstop subpoenas and public hearings on the worst political corruption and malfeasance in American history”? Jeffries is not fit to hold the gavel.
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“We have a warrant for your arrest.” “That’s not a warrant, that’s a Chinese take-out menu.” “HE’S RESISTING ARREST!” [batons, tasers, etc.]
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
JuSt CoMe HeRe ThE LeGaL wAy
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Over the last year, my household lost, on average, a hundred dollars or more a week with the grocery store. No more!
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny?
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Take it to the bank, boys. This one’s just like Bart!
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Prosecution for the ones we can prove broke the law, firings for the ones you can prove went against policy, rural Canadian border in winter, rural Texas desert in summer until they quit for the rest.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/08/2026
every day, every hour, brings us images that are totally beyond the powers of parody
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 05/08/2026
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
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Em, midly @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 30/07/2026
Consistency has its value, but doing a bad thing consistently is not actually better than being good somewhat inconsistently
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
F-F-F-F-Free market pricing??? But that would be un-American!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The reason Zohran scares the shit out of them so much is that they think this sort of technocrat FDR liberalism/market socialism will *work* and be popular, not that it will fail and be unpopular. They're afraid that he will be a good mayor not a bad mayor.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
zohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The iLiminator
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I know this is divisive and unpopular with those all-important centrist white suburban voters, but don't think it makes us safer to spend half our civic budget on a murder gang.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them.
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026
No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The chair of the Maine Democratic Party said on @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social last night that each day that passes where Platner doesn't drop out makes it harder for them to execute a good and fair plan to replace him. What a fucking asshole.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
>Everybody use AI or you're fired >Wait stop it's too expensive >Don't use it for menial tasks >Only use it for important work stuff >If you're going to use it for important stuff make sure it's correct >Let me know if you have any questions!
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
transform your ass out of the senate race please and thank you
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
hot dog man dot gif
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Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Massachusetts is about as pure of a distillation of America as you can get. It's where the country started, it's filled with precious national history, it's a paragon of education and civic engagement, it's filled with the loudest and most irritating people alive.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Jack Letourneau @jlet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I SURE HOPE IT DOES NOT HAPPEN
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