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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“ @nytimes.com casts doubt on the increasingly likely outcome of the midterms so when MAGA baselessly claims election fraud they can pretend they’re being reasonable” challenge:

NYT Headline: Why This Election Could Be More Complicated for Democrats Than Polls Suggest The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.
November 3
Photo Caption: President Trump at a rally in Nebraska on Monday. The Republican Party is defending seats even in states that Mr. Trump won by double digits in 2024.
By Reid J. Epstein
Reporting from Washington

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This post? This post only explains that you didn’t understand the analogy. Hopefully my post above clarifies it. The apple isn’t your vote. The first apple is the Gaza genocide and the second apple is the other terrible consequences of electing fascist.

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Of course not eating an apple is an option.
If someone tries to make me eat an apple I will treat it like the threat to my life it is and act accordingly.
I do not ever have to eat an apple because others are.
We don't have to vote either. We don't have to vote for who you want Your analogy is shite

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We dislike LSU for throwing one of their players under the bus. But Minaeva isn’t exactly criticizing the war or distancing herself from Russia. Based on Russian youth athletics, I suspect a top athlete who played professional ball in Moscow is probably solidly pro-Kremlin. Per Koval:

Quote from Kate Koval’s press release: "My father serves in the Ukrainian military and takes tremendous pride in defending his country against Russian aggression. For me, this war is not distant or abstract. People close to me have been killed and wounded in Russian attacks, and places where I grew up and first began playing basketball have been destroyed by missile strikes.
"The timeline of this situation and the deeply personal effect it has had on me, my family, and those we care about who continue to live through and fight this war ultimately made me question whether LSU remained the right place for me.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A president desperately stifling the free press in a democracy is inherently weak - afraid that the voters will discover the truth of his failures and turn against him. But @nytimes.com invariably characterizes Trump as powerful. Another way our press distorts reality in service to Trump.

New York Times headline:

How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Apparently his suggestion to rename New Mexico is “prompting pushback” as opposed to being complete whackadoodle nonsense providing more evidence that he’s an incompetent moron. @nytimes.com insists on covering crazy as sane.

From NYT website: “Trump Floats Renaming New Mexico as 'New America, Prompting Pushback
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the presidents efforts to alter geographic names.”

Image caption: “President Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. Over the weekend, he shared a map of New Mexico on social media with the word "Mexico" crossed out with a red X and replaced with"America."

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh, just a rogue Amazon Prime plane targeting a fleet of Tesla Cybercabs. Probably nothing to worry about. . .

Image of the front quarter of a damaged Amazon Prime cargo plane that left the runway at Miami International and crashed near a fleet of parked Tesla Cybercabs.

Image by Dave Gibbons from his and Frank Miller’s dystopian graphic novel “Give Me Liberty” of a huge bob’s Big Boy-esque battle robot trampling through the Amazon to ensure American beef companies can clear jungle to graze cattle needed for fast food burgers.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The cool thing about a screenshot of headlines for advocacy-group-commissioned polls is that you don’t need to defend methodology. And none of these polls grapple with the likely impact on reliable liberal Zionist voters. Anyway, independent post-election polls told a different story. 1/2

Bar chart from Tufts/CIRCLE Youth poll showing foreign policy (in the Middle-East, Ukraine, etc.) ranked well below other issues (Economy, Jobs. Healthcare, Education, Abortion, Immigration and Climate Change) for young eligible voters, and even lower for the portion of those who did not end up voting in ‘24.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

According to Claude, it’s Mr. Boddy.

Claude prompt: Who is the man in the portrait behind Tim
Curry?
Reply: This is from Clue (1985), with Tim Curry as Wadsworth. That portrait isn't a real historical figure - it's a prop painted to look like Mr. Boddy, dressed in the same clothes as Wadsworth. It's a deliberate visual hint planted by the filmmakers that Wadsworth and Mr. Boddy are connected - a clue toward the Ending C" twist that Wadsworth is secretly Mr. Boddy.

Still of the character “Mr. Boddy” from the movie “Clue”.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sure, sure. So why is a Gang of 8 member meeting with the “special envoy for peace” to discuss domestic policy? Even Jeffries isn’t claiming he was acting in his capacity as a member of the Gang of 8. It’s a silly claim that you guys think helps your argument that this was appropriate. It doesn’t.

From The Hill: Jeffries said that Kushner reached out to him first, and he accepted so the pair could discuss affordability. His post emphasized, however, that House Democrats have pushed the Trump administration on issues including tariffs, the Affordable Care Act, nutritional assistance and more.
"I shouldn't have to say it, but I am. No one is going to get a pass," he said. "We're gonna follow the facts, apply the law, and be guided by the Constitution beginning on day one. And hold the crooks accountable."

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Funny, that’s not what any of the articles i’ve read say this meeting was about. So what dot gov website are you referencing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

FROM NYT: During the recent meeting, the pair discussed housing, immigration and the high cost of living as potential areas of common ground. Mr.
Kushner suggested that Mr. Jeffries should meet with the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, two people with knowledge of the meeting said.
The likelihood of any compromises between the White House and Democrats on those issues seems remote.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lots of incredible albums here. A couple I’m surprised I haven’t seen that were revelatory for me when I first heard them.

LCD Soundsystem’s self-titled album with disco ball on the cover.

Album cover for Arcade Fire’s Funeral with drawn hand holding quills over a wood grain background.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If Natalie was there she’d fix it, but we already know he can’t bring her anywhere with fast vehicles out of fear she might try to keep up on foot. . .

Natalie Harp running after Trump’s golf cart caravan on foot in Scotland.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@nytimes.com Aaron Boxerman telling us he learned about the relationship between Bibi and Trump two months ago, considering nothing about their relationship was “dizzying and unpredictable” before then.

out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed." It was a rare public break with Mr. Trump, with whom Mr. Netanyahu has had a dizzying and often unpredictable partnership.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Impossibly stupid. I can’t understand how anyone can worry about DSA calling for free buses and affordable housing when there’s a goddamn fascist in the white house. Infuriating.

NYT: “Moderate Democrats Prepare for
'War' Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are "deeply troubling" and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ernie sooo desperately wants Rocky to play.

Little white fluffy dog (Ernie) trying to get a little black dog (Rocky) to play in a yard. Ricky is just sitting and basking in the sun while Ernie prances around.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Taking my son for his driving test today and apparently in NY you just show up at a random street corner in the Bronx. No office, no booth, no one with a name tag, just a little street sign to let you know you’re in the right spot. So strange.

Photo taken from the passenger street of a car parked on the side of a Bronx street behind a student driver car and below a street sign reading “Licensed Applicants NYS road test.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ernie was too hot to wait for the groomer so I trimmed him myself. It was an odyssey, beautiful and terrible. I’m convinced patches of hair grew back as I worked. And by the end I had more hair on me than Ernie had when we started. Anyway, now he looks like he’s been scrapping with large rats.

A scruffy, recently-shorn small white dog sits looking up at the camera with his mouth open, tongue slightly out and his tail wagging happily (he’s about to get a treat). He is next to a big pile of white hair.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reminded me of this Airbnb I stayed at a few years back when I took this vid.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Rocky is not a basking hound and has no formal training in basking. He’s just . . . an extraordinary prodigy. We’re so proud of him. 😭

Image of a small black gray and brown dog lying upright on brightly sunlit green grass, raising his face to the warm sun with his eyes closed, ears back and tail curled.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Rocky takes his turn glaring disapprovingly while Ernie gets a well-deserved rest. Exhausting. For the sake of these doggos I hope there isn’t much extra time in the match.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

USA scores! Ernie hops up on the couch to let me know he’s having none of it and he doesn’t like it one bit. Then he retreats to a safe distance where no one can pet him to glare disapprovingly. He is a complicated creature.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Ernie and Rocky watching me watch sports. They’re watching me because they can’t wait until it’s over and I pay attention to them again.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Everything in its right place . . .

Photo of a brightly and tastefully decorated room with an upholstered chair in the foreground and a fluffy (and a little dirty) dog partly visible curled up underneath. In the rear of the frame a miniature-sized dark gray dog with upward-pointed sharp black ears rests on a light colored pillow on a large contemporary armchair upholstered in bright green fabric.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Welthauptstadt Americana. Fascists are all the same.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Make it make sense. If 20 votes are required to pass legislation and there are 38 Senators (19+19), what ties is the Lt. Gov. going to break? Nonbinding resolutions? Motions of order? Or is the 20 vote threshold more like the filibuster - a purely procedural hurdle?

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thinking of an America when we had presidents who made us so proud that even our heroes were thrilled to meet them.

LBJ visiting astronauts training for moonshots at the Manned Space Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston, 1968.

President Kennedy awarding the Distinguished Service Medal to Alan Shepard Jr., 1961

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I am so tired of seeing this shit take. I don’t actually think we need to find a woman to blame for this predicament. Ginsberg did more to advance justice in her lifetime than most could do in dozens. It’s not her fault America elected a monster to appoint her successor. Cut out the scapegoat BS.

Screenshot of a reply to a post on BlueSky about SCOTUS gutting the VRA that reads: “Ginsburg not retiring and letting Obama pick her replacement is partly why we're here.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Infuriating. TN systematically punishes its cities for their politics and diversity. The impacts are felt most by the urban poor, who are disproportionately Black. The TN GOP just seized Memphis’s school system. Now they want to eliminate its representation in Congress.

Screenshot from NYT website: Republicans Want Tennessee's Last Democratic House District Republicans sliced Nashville into three G.O.P.-leaning congressional districts in 2022. After the Supreme Court decision on voting rights, Memphis could be next.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Almost like the VRA was doing what it was supposed to do! And if anyone wonders why Black representation increased so quickly in the ‘90s, it was because the Supreme Court handed down Thornburg v. Gingles in ‘86, establishing a framework for VRA Section 2 violations. 1/2

NYT Graphic showing surging Black House membership after the VRA below a tweet from David Heath reading “This New York Times graphic explains why the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Deeply un-American. “Students are neither catechized on the Commandments nor taught to adopt them,” the ruling said. “Nor are teachers commanded to proselytize students who ask about the displays or contradict students who disagree with them.” They’re on the wall of every classroom! Required by law!

NYT Headline: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the law does not violate the Constitution. The plaintiffs said they planned to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The boys love spring. Rocky in the sun, Ernie in the shade. Some things remain right with the world.

Picture of two small dogs in a bright sunroom. Rocky is dark and scruffy with big ears and lounges in the sun on a pillow on a large green armchair. Ernie is white and fluffy and lays in shadow on a blue rug in front of the chair.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oh look. My first two posts in this thread. In which I explain why serving in Unit 8200 when you are 20 does not mean you are a spy 30 years later. Betcha never saw that coming.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Possible our replies crossed. You deleted the reply you say came first, but I didn’t see any reply from you in my notifications until after I posted my original reply to your Israeli spy article at 12:52 and I responded when I saw it a little after 1pm. And it’s you. You are still spamming replies.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yesterday I placed my first Trump “I did that” sticker next to the price on a gas pump and today I am mourning the relatively sane, non-sticker-placing-and-running person I used to be. . .

Image of a sticker of Trump pointing and looking up that reads “I did that” that I impulse-bought and placed on a gas pump yesterday.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Finally. Good on the UK. I hope Ye eventually gets the help he needs, but until that happens and he accounts for his behavior, he should be a pariah. He is dangerous.

Screenshot of NYT: “U.K. Bars Ye Over Antisemitism, Months Before Major Festival Performances Entry to the country is being denied to the rapper”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Incredible night with Hamilton Leithauser at the Carlyle.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

So now we’re going to pretend Trump wasn’t running the economy into the ground BEFORE he started a couple of wars of choice that upended energy markets? Memory-holing tariffs and trade wars? Why is the American press so broken?

NYTimes headline:
“For Trump, a Promised Economic Boom Collides With the Costs of War”
Sub: “President Trump had envisioned a growing economy and improving fortunes for American families in 2026. That appears at risk with the war with Iran.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

@nytimes.com does an entire piece on the proliferation of Trump’s portrait throughout DC and never once uses the term cult of personality or discusses the obvious comparisons to dictators and strongmen. They treat it like a silly public interest piece on the evening news. Baffling.

Screenshot of NYTimes app with headline “All the President's Portraits; President Trump's image — in paint and pixels, on posters and sculptures — is ubiquitous inside the White House, and beyond.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I can only hope that some other media group seizes the opportunity to pick up a huge amount of creative talent that will otherwise get squandered in Ellison’s fascist-adjacent media empire.

NYT Headline: Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Unfortunately our forefathers foresaw this with startling clarity and still failed to build a system that prevents it.

When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty— when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity-to join in the cry of danger to liberty-to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion —to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may "ride the storm and direct the whirlwind."
— Alexander Hamilton August 18, 1792

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Rocky is a rare mix of 3% poodle, 2% Chihuahua and 95% Fraggle.

A very disheveled small brown dog with wiry hair, big ears and his tongue just peeking out.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have guessed, Trump did not say “MAGA has no room for antisemites.” That’s what the NYT says Trump said after Trump ACTUALLY said “I think we don’t like them.” Which is basically the opposite of a definitive “no room for” them. JFC they just can’t help themselves.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Another beautiful day marred by dog-on-dog violence. When will it stop?

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Honestly feels like they’re just writing copy for the Trump campaign at this point. “Fulfilling his vow to avenge . . .” are you kidding me?

NYT Breaking News
“American forces struck dozens of suspected
ISIS sites in Syria, fulfilling President Trump's vow to avenge two U.S. soldiers killed by the group.”

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