Michael Loughry
@mloughry.bsky.social
Software Engineer on Outlook. Father. Sounders fan.
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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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Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."
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what was “administration pedophile protection project” one too many words
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
what was “administration pedophile protection project” one too many words
In the car with 5yo daughter.
Daughter: “What’s four plus four?”
Me, trying to get her to think through it: “I don’t know, what *is* four plus four?”
Daughter begins starting intently at her fingers like she’s counting.
Daughter, confidently: “Nine hundred!”
Daughter: “What’s four plus four?”
Me, trying to get her to think through it: “I don’t know, what *is* four plus four?”
Daughter begins starting intently at her fingers like she’s counting.
Daughter, confidently: “Nine hundred!”
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
In the car with 5yo daughter.
Daughter: “What’s four plus four?”
Me, trying to get her to think through it: “I don’t know, what *is* four plus four?”
Daughter begins starting intently at her fingers like she’s counting.
Daughter, confidently: “Nine hundred!”
Daughter: “What’s four plus four?”
Me, trying to get her to think through it: “I don’t know, what *is* four plus four?”
Daughter begins starting intently at her fingers like she’s counting.
Daughter, confidently: “Nine hundred!”
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It's not social media or supposed attacks on masculinity that are causing the (largely made up) " male loneliness epidemic."
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
It's that some men choose to be people who nobody in their right mind would want to be around.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation seems to be throwing some shade at ICE.
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Dear Dem Leadership,
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
Holy living fuck. How is this real life?
“Someone called for my execution! I will do nothing about this but please donate to my campaign!”
“Someone called for my execution! I will do nothing about this but please donate to my campaign!”
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Dear Dem Leadership,
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
Stop trying to fundraise off this shit.
Do something about it. Grandstand, make a scene, stall, object to Unanimous Consent. Take this shit seriously and make a goddamn big deal about it because its a goddamn big deal.
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
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To our knowledge, this is the first editorial board in the United States to call for Trump's impeachment.
“Congress should condemn the threats, denounce the rhetoric, and insist that a president who openly promotes executing lawmakers for expressing accurate legal information is unfit to serve…This latest felony is beyond the pale and warrants his impeachment.”
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...
EDITORIAL: Trump's savage call for executing Dem vets in Congress warrants impeachment - Sentinel Colorado
'His behavior is not only reducing the presidency to a treacherous farce, he is rapidly dragging the Republican Party down with him'
sentinelcolorado.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
To our knowledge, this is the first editorial board in the United States to call for Trump's impeachment.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
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Dear U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, I would like to report a public death threat made on social media against numerous members of Congress by a DC resident. Given your zero tolerance policy for such conduct, I trust that you will promptly investigate and prosecute this perpetrator.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Dear U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, I would like to report a public death threat made on social media against numerous members of Congress by a DC resident. Given your zero tolerance policy for such conduct, I trust that you will promptly investigate and prosecute this perpetrator.
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🧵Treason is Self-Impeaching Conduct: An argument based in historical precedent & Constitutional structure. 1/
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧵Treason is Self-Impeaching Conduct: An argument based in historical precedent & Constitutional structure. 1/
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We are live sheeting the press conference for those of you who cannot watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN4...
Our Executive Director is up first
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN4...
Our Executive Director is up first
Remove the Regime: Courage Candidate Press Conference
YouTube video by Citizens' Impeachment
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We are live sheeting the press conference for those of you who cannot watch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN4...
Our Executive Director is up first
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN4...
Our Executive Director is up first
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a message to Congress:
There is one and only position that makes any sense if you really take it seriously: say openly and unapologetically that he must be removed from office. Not just call on people to condemn it, not just fret about norms. He is literally trying to kill you. Act like it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
a message to Congress:
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
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It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
It’s not just that people don’t know there are simpler ways to do things. It’s that they’re being TOLD to integrate Ai into everything. I’m reminded, again, of the radium craze. Radium is not magic and nor is Ai. Both are, unfortunately, harmful.
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Original from @mariyadelano.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 15-17 November 2025
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Approve: 11% (-2 from 8-10 Nov)
Disapprove: 69% (-1)
Net: -58 (-1)
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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I am a lawyer, and... Jesus Christ. This is unfathomable. My expectations for an insurance lawyer becoming a US Attorney were low, but not *this* low.
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I am a lawyer, and... Jesus Christ. This is unfathomable. My expectations for an insurance lawyer becoming a US Attorney were low, but not *this* low.
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as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
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These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
These articles always depend on a bizarre Schroedinger's Seattle: The city is falling apart due to progressive overreach but we should have re-elected the conservative non-socialist who has been in charge for the last four years.