Dave LaFontaine
@davelf.bsky.social
Lead UX Designer, Author of various "... for Dummies" books, globetrotting professor, started as a newspaper reporter back when that was still a thing. Still cantankerous, mostly funny.
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Meanwhile, over on Fox News ... they live in the Eternal Now Where Trump is always winning because he says he is, of course he is, don't pay any attention to ... What was I saying?
Pixar Finding Dory: Short-Term Memory Loss
ALT: Pixar Finding Dory: Short-Term Memory Loss
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Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d ago
Republicans wrote the Big Ugly Bill to funnel cash to billionaires — and they used your grandmother's Medicare as the piggy bank. Half a trillion in cuts start January 1. Vote them all out. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
When is the last time he took a real walk outdoors? This barely mobile chucklefuck hasn't lumbered more than a few feet from whatever vehicle was hauling his shit-encrusted ass around in years.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
"Stormfront guide to recruit on Reddit instructed recruiters to not be blatantly racist and instead “just ask questions” Steve Bannon: power of “rootless white males” who spend all their time online and could be radicalized "can activate that army. They come in Gamergate and get turned onto Trump"
"Turning Point USA and Young America’s Foundation (both heavily pro-Trump)—are propped up with cash from wealthy conservatives. Ben Shapiro gilded by a number of conservative billionaires, many of who...
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhite supremacists on Reddit and 4chan brag about the RETVRN Western Civilization architecture for the "normies" while grooming susceptible "weaponized autism" men with race-baiting crime videos of minorities "The left will recognize our dogwhistling but centrists won't believe them" screenshots:
"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Very short notice, but I just saw this. The MyPillow guy is getting dragged into Minnesota's campaign finance court for giving away pillows as campaign promotions at a 4th of July parade, allegedly in violation of a law prohibiting the provision of monetary value to win votes. Hearing in 10 mins!
![MEMORANDUM
Respondent in this matter is a candidate for the position of Governor of Minnesota,
which has a primary election scheduled for August 11, 2026, and a general election
scheduled for November 3, 2026.3 The Complaint alleges that on July 4, 2026,
Respondent rode on a trailer featuring signs supporting Respondent’s campaign in the
Delano Fourth of July Parade in Delano, Minnesota.4 The Complaint alleges that
Respondent and one other unidentified individual threw pillows to spectators along the
3Campaign Complaint (Complaint) at 2 (Jul. 22, 2006).
4Complaint at 5.
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parade route.5 The packaging of the pillows had “Mike Lindell for Governor” printed on
them.6 The Complaint alleges that the pillows distributed by Respondent were MyPillow
products with an approximate retail value of $34.95.7 The Complaint asserts the pillows
distributed at the parade constitute a violation of Minn. Stat. § 211B.13, subd. 1](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreihvervkuuxyx57ainkpmb7esokt3abq7jnkmcqb4utzggxprksf5q)
In Venezuela, the army used to drive around poor neighborhoods in convoy, a school buses, stopping young men on the street and asking for their ID papers. If they didn’t have them, they grabbed them, stuck them on the bus and they were in the army now.  thedailybeast.com/putins-despe...
Succinct, to the point and utterly terrifying and infuriating in equal measure This is what being covered by a mobster feels like Verdict first. Trial later (but it’s a sham) open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
We’ve all been taking our shoes off for decades in airports on the 1 in a billion chance someone puts a bomb in their shoes but we won’t do a fucking thing to address climate change in case the people who dedicated their lives to studying it know what they’re talking about
Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.
Hearn should immediate sue the Government for $10 Billion, or whatever the hell Trump sued others for. Absolutely outrageous lies and weaponization of biased, partisan judiciary that has zero credibility.
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Will the Sunday shows do anything about the people who lied to their faces about this? Doug Burgum got indignant when Dana Bash doubted the 350-foot-long knifing story. Will CNN hold him accountable or just invite him back like nothing happened?
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
“Schneider fits into a hyperspecific trope that has emerged in recent years: that of the conservative-leaning comedian who romanticizes Texas, finds out it’s not quite the place he (it’s always a he) imagined, and then rants about how Texas has failed him.”
Sharia Law Is Not Coming to Texas, No Matter What Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo, Says
No, Rob Schneider doesn’t live here. But he has a lot to say about our state’s supposed fall to Islamic forces.
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SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Hegseth: “We’ve got Americans coming back from overseas in coffins from a war they lied us into.”
"We can now see the difference between students contesting speech—that is, open debates about the value of certain speech on campus—and real authoritarian suppression of speech, because the latter is happening every day in America. " newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won.
The right spent years trying to convince us that campus lefties were authoritarians in waiting. But then an actual authoritarian became president.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is set to introduce legislation to create a new federal agency to investigate corruption in response to President Trump’s administration ahead of the midterm elections.
Schumer pitches new federal agency to investigate corruption
The new bill is part of the Democrats’ effort to articulate a legislative agenda ahead of the midterm elections.
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If Biden fell asleep as often in the middle of the day at public meetings and events like Trump, Fox would have aired it nonstop day in and day out. But we know they won’t show Trump sleeping. But how much do the other networks show Trump falling asleep and why isn’t more often?
It's insane he wasn't immediately fired on January 6 after writing this.
not a fan of this argument. two obvious implications: a) we should cut Medicaid so fewer people are eligible or b) big corporations should fire anyone on Medicaid immediately popular.info/p/taxpayers-...
Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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140 soldiers wounded just last week seems like kind of a big deal.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Iraq taught us a painful lesson: When politicians rush into war with no exit strategy, working-class Americans pay with their lives. And now Trump is circling the drain into another never-ending war.
Why isnt the pay for Trump pardons scandal a bigger every day news story It sure seems like Trump is doing it in plain sight to make people numb to it before he pardons Ghislane Maxwell The millions of dollars victims who were screwed out of $ because of corrupt pardons needs to be a bigger story
The facts haven’t changed: there’s no evidence of interference in the 2020 election. Trump knows he can’t defend his record, so instead he’s trying to sow doubt in the very system that voters will use to hold him accountable.
