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John Alton

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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 4h
Also something like ten or 100 times more likely to be shot at their desks than compete with/against a trans athlete.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 16h
HE'S CRAZY HE'S CRAZY HE'S CRAZY Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Gag columns don’t often do it for me, but this one is great
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
they call me Amazon drone because I just made a strange delivery to the pool www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud
A very uncomfortable 14 minutes
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judge sez: Hey leopard, stop eating faces.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Poor flack, I bet they gargle Borax after saying this shit.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think there’s usually less swing between parties and more swing between voting and not voting. Of course, gross criminality, incompetence and treason can change that.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Natalie changes his diapers. Dirty job, but you know he’s not gonna do it.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Grand Old Pederast
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Because real dogs would bite them.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So the Trumpies have stolen $1.5 TRILLION and refuse to give it back unless we vote for them. Maybe some hard-working journalist can ask a Republican about this brazen theft.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Looks to me like another impeachable offense - using federal funds contrary to how they were appropriated.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like Dumb, he thinks Super ends with a B.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That there’s an impeachable offense: failure to faithfully carry out the nations laws.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/m... Sounds like another failure to faithfully execute the nation’s laws …
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Trump says he’s ‘banning’ CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House | CNN Business
President Donald Trump claimed Friday that he is “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House,” though there was no immediate indication his administration had taken steps to follow throug...
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cybe... Starting to think these bots are nuclear weapons and need to be shut down pronto while folks figure out how they should be deployed.
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Exclusive | Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tariff checks, too.
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Me when my thumb is blocking the lens.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump Admins latest move to bring vote by mail sabotage plan to SCOTUS is a good example of the absolute necessity of breaking the current Court's corruption. This is transparently unconstitutional. Even if it weren't some version of Purcell wld require not rushing something so poorly planned ...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Imagine if every story abt DHS' hunt for election fraud included, as boilerplate, "instances of INDIVIDUAL voter fraud are rare, but Donald Trump was charged w/election fraud in 2023, Elon Musk is being sued for election fraud, & GA says Musk broke election law." edition.cnn.com/2026/08/31/p...
Still, the administration has touted alleged election fraud arrests. Last week, the Justice Department announced that a Honduran national who was legally living in the United States had been arrested and charged with fraudulently registering to vote and falsely claiming to be a US citizen.

“Today’s arrest is the first of many to come,” First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement.

Mullin, meanwhile, has positioned himself as a leading enforcer of Trump’s voter-fraud crackdown. Earlier this summer, his department announced an audit of public voter rolls had identified more than 250,000 registered noncitizens in just four states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.

“One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin told reporters at the time, warning that election officials who fail to secure the midterms could face fines or even jail time.

But the numbers have, thus far, proved far less definitive than DHS initially suggested. The department publicly claimed it had found nearly 16,000 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls. But behind closed doors, the department acknowledged to the state’s top election officials that it had “confirmed” just 185 of them, according to internal records reviewed by CNN. Another 6,200 were labeled “higher confidence matches” — but still required further vetting.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Doubt the leopard kept that face down.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ah yes, the old man says. The legend of mitch mcconnell. some say he still haunts these halls late at night. Others say he never existed at all, that he was just a story somebody made up.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Playbook | None of my sources report any contact with Mitch McConnell, except for Natalie Harp, who says that in a recent two hour call, the Kentucky senator assured her that Trump totally wants to marry her but is playing hard to get.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All of this 👇
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We’re all tired of waiting for the big reveal. Just become a conservative asshole already.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This has been my question too. We spend into oblivion but don’t seem prepared to fight a six month war.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This has been my question too. We spend into oblivion but don’t seem prepared to fight a six month war.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Makes me wonder, though: if the US military burned through this many conventional munitions in such a short space of time against a relatively minor opponent, how did they think they were going to sustain ops against China?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy week, everyone!
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We will continue this conversation after therapy, hormone treatments and reassignment surgery. And maybe a Time Machine because by then White will be pushing 40.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Peak woke McCarthyism would mean he lost his job and was begging on the street.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump says he knows more about grass than anyone else in the world I’m not surprised.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
When I want to know what is NOT happening in the world, I listen to Donald Trump.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump took the 5th more than 400 times. He answered one question: his name. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of his business practices
An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
… in case you’re wondering how Trump made a billion+ as president…
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I bet she’s really concerned now.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The next Dem presidential candidate should propose a sliding scale for corporate tax rates tied directly to the percentage of their employees who receive SNAP or other public benefits The Walmarts and McDonalds' of the world have sucked us dry for far too long now by not paying people a living wage
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I am partway through Ezra Klein's interview of Morris Katz, and I find it noteworthy that neither of them has observed that women in the campaign saw the danger signs when Katz didn't. Also, all his "outsider" candidates are men. Back to it to see if this dawns on either of them.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Pfft. They didn’t mean it then, either.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Sometimes you buy clothes that don’t fit. apnews.com/article/auct...
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Wilt Chamberlain Lakers jacket found by a teen at a thrift store fetches over $89,000 at auction
A warmup jacket worn by Wilt Chamberlain during the 1972 NBA finals that was found in an Oregon thrift store fetched over $89,000 in an auction that closed Monday.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think today’s historians look at the present and become jealous of future historians.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is a useful--and painful--Q&A for Haitians who are set to lose Temporary Protected Status this Friday. It includes questions like: -- What happens to my U.S.-born child if I am deported? -- Can I still drive? -- Should I tell my children what is going on? www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Haitians are set to lose TPS benefits on July 24. Here is what they need to know
The U.S. Supreme Court decision could also affect other TPS designations, since the justices ruled that the decisions over immigration protections are not reviewable barring constitutional rights viol...
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Cute rodent alert.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/07/2026
A witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination lived long enough to appear on TV: in 1956, 96-year-old Samuel Seymour appeared on a game show called I've Got A Secret. [kottke.org]
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TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness
In 1956, 96-year-old Samuel Seymour appeared on a game show called I’ve Got A Secret…his secret was that he saw Lincoln’s assassination when he was five years old. Mind-blowing…the Civil Wa
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Legal restrictions are important, but when you work in an amoral environment, cheating feels ok. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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White House Teleprompter Operator Probed Over Alleged Bets on Trump Speeches
Kalshi said it was cooperating with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after flagging wagers that made more than $100,000.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Mint a couple thousand. Present a dozen or so to Trump and toadies. Destroy the rest. The intact coins are worth millions. It’s just another grift.
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John Alton @john-alton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Once again, when this president flaps his jaws it only means he wants to sit atop the news cycle another 24 hours. He starts events, but then reality leaves him far, far behind.
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