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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 7h
Worse. They’d vote for him. This is settled history.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 7h
Worse. They’d vote for him. This is settled history.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 13h
These are impeccable Republican qualifications.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 13h
Oh, Lord, save us!
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
HandyMarket™
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Not that he wouldn’t enjoy watching it.
nbcnews.com
Trump says government won’t livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
Family members of Hasan’s victims will be able to watch in person, Trump said, nixing a plan announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to make the execution widely viewable.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I just can’t imagine assigning a type of consciousness, sentience, and humanity to a machine that would warrant calling machine instructions “slavery.” How is that any different than writing code or even formulas in a Google sheet? A calculator isn’t “smart” at math. It just performs a function.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It’s too bad the Akashic record is mythology.
washingtonpost.com
Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“I'm not used to that, I've never seen something like that in policing.” What a baby. You’re not “policing.” You’re oppressing. If you can’t handle the heat…
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Idea: spend the profits on putting powerlines underground.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I still think they’ll find a way to work around it.
cnn.com
Trump debates calling off livestream of firing squad execution after learning Fort Hood shooter was paralyzed | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump and his advisers are debating whether to call off plans to livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, with Trump having remarked privately that he did not i...
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I have an idea: why not put power lines underground?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“I am the dumbest person in the world with the least observation skills.”
thetimes.com
Laura Loomer: ‘I haven’t got anything from my sacrifice to Trump’
How did Laura Loomer become President Trump’s cheerleader-in-chief? And how come even his own aides cannot split them up? George Grylls meets the 33-year-old ‘influencer’ in Washington
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The only explanation is that Trump never had a “professional” conversation with her, and she’s so stupid, she lacked the self-awareness that she doesn’t possess the most basic skills behind a lectern.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is hilarious. There were no new posts to the conservative sub Reddit for eight hours of course there was no comparable outage with democratic and liberal social media. Republicans hate America because Russia hates America and Russia drives Republicans.
thelondoneconomic.com
Far-right bot accounts 'fall silent' as Ukraine strikes cripple Russian data centres
Three of the biggest data centres in Russia were taken offline this weekend - dramatically changing the social media landscape.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your Republican friends and family are pro-disease. They are disgusting, filthy disease-spreading vermin.
apnews.com
Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten
The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Penn...
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s worse than that. He says the stupidest things and people vote for him.
independent.co.uk
Trump tells fans he could say the stupidest things and they would cheer. They agree.
“I could say the stupidest things, and you’d clap. ‘Oh, I love you so — it’s true,” the president told a crowd in Tennessee.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what happens when you hire people that lack the skills and courage of someone who has an associate degree in criminal justice.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh hot damn
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Mr. Gonzalez … appeared intoxicated and agitated.” That tracks.
nytimes.com
Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California
A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Once, I made a cupcake that looked very sad. I’m sure it was so unhappy. You might accuse me of anthropomorphizing the cupcake, but how do you think that makes the cupcake feel? It tasted pretty good, though. Maybe have some compassion for a sad cupcake that eventually got eaten.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
CHALLENGE: Name a Republican who isn’t fine with rapists.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s heartwarming that states that voted for climate change are seeing their deepest desires realized. They’ve been aggressive about policies that promote climate change. I’m glad to see them bathe in their success. Literally.
apnews.com
Hurricane Isaias lashes the US Gulf Coast with wind and rain as it nears the Florida Panhandle
Isaias is surging toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season is expected to make landfall Friday night over the western Florida Panhandle...
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's getting bad for them when they have to choose between economics and racism, and they choose economics.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What about the Blue Shield death panels?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How could the leader of a party of white supremacists deny that his fellow party member is a white supremacist?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your Republican friends and family are barbarians.
axios.com
Pete Hegseth says the public can watch Fort Hood shooter's execution
Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is "gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be."
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wait… You mean the blanket statement about “men,” doesn’t hold?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In our house, I was the one who was willing to read the same book over and over again, no matter how many times. I have the Sandra Boynton books to prove it.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seriously. Everyone knows this about the Democratic Party already. You don’t have to repeat it.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the Democratic Party is good enough at bringing down the Democratic Party.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think the Democratic Party is good enough at bringing down the Democratic Party.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They really are the dumbest people.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every Republican I know would prefer Elon Musk. And they would not trust a brown doctor. Horrible.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t want you to remember when Trump said he had never heard of, and had nothing to do with Project 2025. I want you to remember the people who warned you he was lying.
huffpost.com
Trump Ominously Says 'Project 2025' Author Has 'Big Surprises' In The Next Few Weeks
What could he be cooking up?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, you're gonna make me go back and play this some more, aren't you?
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What would our crippled CDC do? Tell them to spread it for herd immunity? Cc: @joho.bsky.social
axios.com
Trump: U.S. willing to help Russia with potential pneumonic plague outbreak
"We'll help them as much as we can," Trump told reporters Monday.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I didn’t know he paid a woman hush money for rape and that he was a weekend conservative tv media talking head.”
apnews.com
Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a similar gratitude towards my mother for changing ~my~ diapers.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Focus on polity instead of doing real work.”
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gross.
nytimes.com
Without Saying His Name, Ken Paxton’s Estranged Wife Tells Texans to Vote For Him
In a new ad, the wife of Ken Paxton, who is divorcing him for alleged adultery, tells Texas voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m just relieved that “sicko” doesn’t mean what I thought it was going to mean.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“lightly edited” LOLZ.
time.com
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You mean Super Intelligence!
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Um.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And it’s probably smarter than AI. A robot dog still can’t catch a frisbee.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When you put it this way, Republicans are going to love it.
mediaite.com
Jack Smith: Trump 'Engaged in Serious Crimes' Against US
Jack Smith ripped Trump in his opening statement to a Senate panel, saying his investigation uncovered "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" of "serious crimes."
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ha ha. Farmers voted for the very policies that are causing all of this. Republicans were very clear about their intentions to implement policies that crash economies and destroy farmers. And the farmers voted for them. Boo-hoo.
axios.com
"Brace for losing everything": Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa
Trump's policies have cause severe financial problems for farmers. Iowa is especially vulnerable.
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here, Karl, I fixed it for you:
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you’re fine with Republicans running things, don’t vote for their opponents.
nytimes.com
Pivotal Challenge for Talarico in Texas: Getting Black Voters to the Polls
Black voters largely rejected James Talarico in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Recent interviews suggest the hard feelings may be wearing off.
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