Michael Loughry
@mloughry.bsky.social
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Michael Loughry
@mloughry.bsky.social
· Feb 6
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross” goes both ways. Calling the U.S. a irredeemable hell hole cedes ideological ownership of American identity to the fascists. The U.S. is imperfect but not irredeemable and they don’t get to decide who is American.
America is an ideal, a promise it has sometimes strived for but has always fallen short of. Even if I recognize that failure, I believe in the promise, and I’m not handing over that promise to a bunch of fucking fascists.
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hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
Romance alert: Trump's reckless tariffs have Valentine’s Day costs up across the board:
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
Roses 🌹16.6%
Chocolates🍫 18.7%
Ribeye 🥩 25.4%
Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%
February 14, 2026 at 6:19 PM
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:49 AM
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before
that this is their response is extremely encouraging
that this is their response is extremely encouraging
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before
that this is their response is extremely encouraging
that this is their response is extremely encouraging
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
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Why is the head of an agency charged with preventing terror attacks talking openly about meddling in our elections?
Impeach Kristi Noem
Impeach Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Why is the head of an agency charged with preventing terror attacks talking openly about meddling in our elections?
Impeach Kristi Noem
Impeach Kristi Noem
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Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
February 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
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Wine moms with Molotov cocktails is now the moderate position on ICE.
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Wine moms with Molotov cocktails is now the moderate position on ICE.
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Let’s be honest about what’s happening.
He’s talking about taking control of how elections are run, after losing elections he didn’t like.
Our elections are run locally on purpose. Decentralization protects voters from intimidation, political interference, & power grabs by any one administration
He’s talking about taking control of how elections are run, after losing elections he didn’t like.
Our elections are run locally on purpose. Decentralization protects voters from intimidation, political interference, & power grabs by any one administration
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Let’s be honest about what’s happening.
He’s talking about taking control of how elections are run, after losing elections he didn’t like.
Our elections are run locally on purpose. Decentralization protects voters from intimidation, political interference, & power grabs by any one administration
He’s talking about taking control of how elections are run, after losing elections he didn’t like.
Our elections are run locally on purpose. Decentralization protects voters from intimidation, political interference, & power grabs by any one administration
This thread from a civil-attorney-turned-immigration-attorney due to the ICE/CBP surge in Minnesota is illuminating and enraging.
The people carrying this out, as well as those who stand idly by and let it happen, deserve to rot in hell.
The people carrying this out, as well as those who stand idly by and let it happen, deserve to rot in hell.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
1/
February 12, 2026 at 6:25 AM
This thread from a civil-attorney-turned-immigration-attorney due to the ICE/CBP surge in Minnesota is illuminating and enraging.
The people carrying this out, as well as those who stand idly by and let it happen, deserve to rot in hell.
The people carrying this out, as well as those who stand idly by and let it happen, deserve to rot in hell.
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
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As your rep, I would move to impeach and convict Pam Bondi. No one, not even the Attorney General, is above the law when they shield the powerful and ignore victims seeking justice.
Article can be found on NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Article can be found on NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
February 11, 2026 at 7:57 PM
As your rep, I would move to impeach and convict Pam Bondi. No one, not even the Attorney General, is above the law when they shield the powerful and ignore victims seeking justice.
Article can be found on NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Article can be found on NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Intolerable. Unjust. Tyrannical. Evil.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Intolerable. Unjust. Tyrannical. Evil.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
Liam Ramos was just the tip of the iceberg.
And elected Republicans support it. The party of child concentration camps.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Canada has stood with America when we were at our lowest, has fought and died in wars alongside us, has done everything a nation could to help and be amicable with another. And now America has gratuitously stabbed Canada in the back, and continues to do so. Things can never be the same again.
With Friends Like These
To defend itself from Trump's thuggery, Canada must seek new friends.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Decent people see friendship as a matter of mutual respect and support, with reciprocal obligation borne out of decency.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
Trumpists see only “do what we say or we’ll hurt you,” a disturbed 12-year-old bully’s conception of strength.
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It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
It is deeply distressing that Democrats open negotiations with "ICE should follow the constitution" the GOP is like "lol nah" and that's the story.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
I see people defending Democrats sometimes like "what are they supposed to do?" Our constitutional republic is falling. Act like it, for starters.
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i got stuck explaining fascism to an 8-year-old who had seen the word on a protest sign.
explaining gay is trivial.
explaining gay is trivial.
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
i got stuck explaining fascism to an 8-year-old who had seen the word on a protest sign.
explaining gay is trivial.
explaining gay is trivial.
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Incarcerating people who have not been convicted of a crime and who are not accused of a crime is a violation of basic civil rights and the definition of a concentration camp.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Incarcerating people who have not been convicted of a crime and who are not accused of a crime is a violation of basic civil rights and the definition of a concentration camp.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
Locking up people because of where they were born goes against American principles.
Wasting taxpayer dollars on cruelty.
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There are clear parallels between the Holocaust and the current state of our country's immigration policy.
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
February 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
There are clear parallels between the Holocaust and the current state of our country's immigration policy.
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
For more information: www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.