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John Hausman

@thisoldhaus.bsky.social
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Retired newspaper reporter/writer. Politics, history, legal news, language.

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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 2h
Super Incompetence
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 5h
And now this: GOP "staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Eric Schmitt a warning: The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department ... were 'unvetted.' ... Schmitt used the texts anyway." www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Over on Threads, an Eric Schmitt post from earlier this morning praising the “Protect College Sports Act” at this moment has 24 likes and more than 1.6 thousand comments. That’sa spicy ratio.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Know you no ball, sir, at long last? Have you left no knowledge of ball?
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, wow, wow. New Marist University poll -- they're highly respected -- has Sherrod Brown up 51%-43% over Jon Husted. Also, for governor, Amy Acton up 50%-44% over Vivek Ramaswamy.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric "Dirtbag" Schmitt busted by Win McNamee for Getty Images
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meanwhile, back at the Axios
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is delicious
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Two of the people said Olsen had become frustrated by pressure from Justice Department officials in Washington to increase the pace of the investigation and secure grand jury indictments. The third person said Olsen left after issues arose with his security clearance."
washingtonpost.com
DOJ probe into Trump foes sees another prominent departure
Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation Monday.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This was a fun find, I thought. NYT report on the Wright Brothers more than two years after their first flight. "Not more than a dozen persons have been in the secret." Interestingly, no mention of the historic December 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The leopards are mauling from inside the house
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At this point Trump is giving nearly everyone the ick.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh, for gods' sake, now NBC News has posted a *story* about the "iced coffee debate." If there's one thing I despise in journalism it's stories about crap trends that only exist on social media.
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Lizzlepants 🐒 @lizzlepants.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if I can’t bring my favorite cat to the job interview I’m not goin
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I miss the good old days of Twitter when the most serious subject of discourse was whether "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was unforgivably offensive.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So many Republican candidates in recent days have broken with Trump that it’s as if a secret memo went out announcing that the floodgates were officially open," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
newyorker.com
The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2027: a whole subculture of iced-coffee truthers has emerged on social media.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I suspected she was the Boutros/DOJ/Trumpist scapegoat, whatever her own actions. The "investigating 20 years of conduct" (i.e., from the pre-Trump era) was the tell.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, it’s propaganda, and good for WaPo putting the word in the headline, which almost nobody else did. They should remove the damn quote marks though. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’
A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Old enough to remember when a Mad Magazine parody called him Bishop Fulton J. Showbiz
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Leopards, etc.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No joke. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/white-hous...
status.news
The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Grand Rapids
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call me, Ishmael
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My fear too
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Except that it will have Costco gold trim superglued to it
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It still somehow had the capacity to shock me when the president & VP just openly boast that we are using military force to steal the resources of other countries. They evidently assume the general public will not consider this shameful & appalling. We’ve sunk very low indeed if that’s true.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A miracle of nature: 6'3" Donald Trump stands beside 5'11" Xi Jinping www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
nytimes.com
Trump and Xi Meet Amid an Uneasy U.S.-China Trade Truce
Beyond warm meetings between their leaders, the countries are engaging in tit-for-tat measures that call into question the stability of their arrangement.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New poll by American Research Group, one of the highly rated “select” pollsters by the NYT, has Trump at 29% approval. We’re at Nixon in summer 1974 levels.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Twenty months down, twenty-eight to go. Five/twelfths over.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Biltong, 🐝?
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This was my first thought, too. Arch villain.
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From a former State Dept. lawyer who specialized in the law of armed conflict
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you, Mr. President
Gas prices reported September 19 in far-western suburbs of Chicago
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Brainrötterdaemerung
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
J.D. Vance gives Republicans their winning campaign slogan: GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Republicans in swing states and districts should def be campaigning on Trump's top issues: --Ballroom --Triumphal arch --Putting his name on Kennedy Center --Trade war w Canada (esp in Michigan, Maine) --A.I. & data centers for everyone --Messing with vote by mail --War with Iran --Fuel prices
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. Regular unleaded gas in St. Charles, Illinois (far western Chicago suburb), is *$4.99.9* per gallon, at a Meijer, one of the cheaper spots around here. A couple days ago I filled up for $4.30-something. I blame Joe Biden.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poor Donald. He thinks everyone he appoints is his employee. When he can't fire disobedient ones like Warsh, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett, it really twists his wattle.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington Sun (formerly NOTUS) going for the gold.
An email subject from The Washington Sun. It reads: Bestiality in Show
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everything Trump touches dies.
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John Hausman @thisoldhaus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He should definitely make Republicans run on this
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