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wendellbarnhouse.bsky.social
@wendellbarnhouse.bsky.social
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Retired in 2020 after 45 years in sports journalism. I hate the GOP and Tangerine Palpatine with the heat of 1,000 suns. Still not famous enough for a Wikipedia page.
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Mike Johnson performing a physical impossibility, kissing Trump's ass from a distance of six feet.
"And do you hear that crashing sound in the background. That's a wrecking ball literally destroying the White House. Now everyone gather around so our amazing president can dump a bucket of shit on our heads!"
Mike Johnson at an event for Louisiana college baseball teams: "This president has not only reduced taxes, we've cut fraud, waste, and abuse out of govt. He solved the border crisis, he solved the crime crisis. That's right -- he's also resolving wars around the world."
What are the chances the guy on the left is a prison escapee?
Link Wray and Wraymen
Bower's Signal chat with Halligan reminded me of dozens of circular arguments I've had with MAGA/Trump supporters. It's arguing with someone who claims the sky is green, the sun rises in the west and there's a tooth fairy.
Lindsey Halligan comes off as a rube, a bully, and maybe a rogue here. She asked after conversing to be off the record.— everyone knows it doesn’t work that way. she browbeats Bower w/o explaining what’s wrong, and she sure seems to be hinting about GJ info.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
www.lawfaremedia.org
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You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.
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VLADDY JR IS THE FIRST PERSON IN A LEAFS JERSEY TO WIN A GAME SEVEN IN OVER 20 YEARS
Your Signal chat with Halligan reminded me of dozens of circular arguments with MAGA/Trump supporters. It's arguing with someone who claims the sky is green, the sun rises in the west and there's a tooth fairy. You handled it well. Halligan did not.
And this message IS on the record.
My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
Yes, but we're less than 12 hours since President Loose Shits ordered his construction crew to start demolishing the East Wing.
America has gone almost 48 hours without its president posting a video of himself dumping shit on Americans. 🇺🇸
When you're a racist Nazi and you post your opinions in a group chat, you're too stupid to be anything but someone hired to watch paint dry.
you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
We know Smoltz has never driven anything but an automatic. His brain doesn't engage the clutch before he starts talking.
smoltz just said "he's a one-man wrecking crew but he's had a lot of help" and I'm not gonna make it folks
Each news program has about 22 minutes of “news.” More than half of those 66 minutes are empty calories. It's either overhyping a “possible mass shooting event,” reporting on Far East airplane scares or fluff stories.
Our national media, especially network news has and is failing us.
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That was followed by a package that reported on the East Wing demolition that was dovetailed updates on the government shutdown. The reporter closed the report saying the WH had no comment on Trump going back on his word.
ABC:
Same lead story followed by the AWS outage. The East Wing story was third. Anchor David Muir reported it as “demolition” and that Trump had said the ballroom construction would not interfere with existing WH structures. (Way to go, ABC.)
NBC:
Lead story was the same as on CBS. Louvre, AWS outage, a hunting stand found in tree near where Trump departs AF1 in Florida were first four stories.
The East Wing was the 9th story and lasted 15 seconds. Described as a "dramatic construction project," the report did mention Trump's lie.
CBS:
Lead story was police stopping a possible mass shooting at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. The Louvre heist and the AWS outage first 3 stories.
The East Wing was the 5th story covered. 45-second piece. It was referred to as a "restoration project" and made no mention of Trump's lie.
The construction is part of Trump building a ballroom next to the WH for $250M (private funding, of course). He said when the ballroom was announced that it wouldn’t impact the WH. (Yet another lie.) I decided to assess how the national networks covered the story.
A thread on the state of national news judgment (or lack of):
The argument can be made that the demolition of the White House East Wing that started Monday is a major national story. The White House is a National Historic Landmark and the oldest federal building in our country.
Detroit didn't get a strip sack, but a trip sack. Two officials looking right at the play, no flag.
Widdle boys wanna see boom boom light up bwew sky wit pwetty colors.
What exactly was the reason we needed to fire artillery shells over I-5?

So JD Vance can feel like a real boy?

Couldn’t he and Hegseth have just done some pushups together?
And that’s an insult to garbage.
Tom Emmer and Chip Roy are pieces of garbage.
3 out 4 plays in TB-Det
Weak illegal contact on TB.
2 missed holding calls on Detroit 78 yd TD run
Missed DPI by Detroit on deep pass to Evans (Joe and Troy guessed on Evans injury and didn’t mention missed call.)
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Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.
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Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...