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.
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An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
Russia’s Smuggled Grain Finds New Market in Saudi Arabia - bellingcat
New grain route identified from sanctioned Crimean port that Russia is eyeing in latest peace deal.
www.bellingcat.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This entire article is positive about Trump Gold Cards. It contains positive quotes about it from Trump, Lutnick and a CEO. It contains no quotes from the many critics of the program. This is sandwiched between 6 posts about Erika Kirk. CBS is lost.
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Trump has made America a place people fear, a place people don’t like, don’t trust, don’t want to do business with, and don’t want to visit. He’s made America a place people laugh at, a place that’s cruel & bigoted. America, under Trump, is no longer a destination. It’s a place to be avoided.
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Trump has made America a place people fear, a place people don’t like, don’t trust, don’t want to do business with, and don’t want to visit. He’s made America a place people laugh at, a place that’s cruel & bigoted. America, under Trump, is no longer a destination. It’s a place to be avoided.
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid
December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid
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Assignment for public defenders, immigration lawyers, civil rights lawyers, and legal academics: use the phrase "Kavanaugh stop" in briefs and law review articles. The first few times, use scare quotes and cite articles that use that term.
We can get this in a published opinion in no time.
We can get this in a published opinion in no time.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Assignment for public defenders, immigration lawyers, civil rights lawyers, and legal academics: use the phrase "Kavanaugh stop" in briefs and law review articles. The first few times, use scare quotes and cite articles that use that term.
We can get this in a published opinion in no time.
We can get this in a published opinion in no time.
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Warren: "The president says here's what he thinks should happen to CNN. If that doesn't make your hair stand up, I don't know what does. That's him saying, 'You've got to make a deal w/me. That might involve a $1m a dinner & buying crypto & getting rid of a pesky news outfit I don't like'"
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Warren: "The president says here's what he thinks should happen to CNN. If that doesn't make your hair stand up, I don't know what does. That's him saying, 'You've got to make a deal w/me. That might involve a $1m a dinner & buying crypto & getting rid of a pesky news outfit I don't like'"
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This is not the way a market economy works. It is the way a system of state or kleptocratic capitalism works.
Warren: "The president says here's what he thinks should happen to CNN. If that doesn't make your hair stand up, I don't know what does. That's him saying, 'You've got to make a deal w/me. That might involve a $1m a dinner & buying crypto & getting rid of a pesky news outfit I don't like'"
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is not the way a market economy works. It is the way a system of state or kleptocratic capitalism works.
Everyone had fun dunking on the stupid participation trophy, ignoring the “pro quo” hiding there - that for a handful of cheap-ass trinkets, corrupt crooks got to get away with their crime
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everyone had fun dunking on the stupid participation trophy, ignoring the “pro quo” hiding there - that for a handful of cheap-ass trinkets, corrupt crooks got to get away with their crime
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Everything Trump touches is transactional.
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Everything Trump touches is transactional.
The moment we are in becomes easier to understand when you accept that we are living under the control of a senile mob boss with a trillion-dollar-a-year military under his control
Mob bosses execute people who talk shit about them. Or who don’t pay the protection money. Or just because.
Mob bosses execute people who talk shit about them. Or who don’t pay the protection money. Or just because.
These MAGA stooges that are now impersonating the Pentagon press corps? According to this story, they're also being deployed as shadow operatives to go after the real reporters looking into DOD officials.
1/ MUST READ: @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, MAGA influencer—and newly minted member of DOD press corps—Jack Posobiec threatened to smear him.
Quite the coincidence!
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Quite the coincidence!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The moment we are in becomes easier to understand when you accept that we are living under the control of a senile mob boss with a trillion-dollar-a-year military under his control
Mob bosses execute people who talk shit about them. Or who don’t pay the protection money. Or just because.
Mob bosses execute people who talk shit about them. Or who don’t pay the protection money. Or just because.
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Along these lines stuff like this really drives home the point that these people are just total clueless dummies and shouldn’t be allowed to have this much say in how the world runs
"datacenters in space" is SO stupid that I feel like it's like a cry for help, like those seven tech dipshits on the group chat whence this sprung are saying "please, take all this money away from us, it's nothing but trouble, we can't handle it"
I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Along these lines stuff like this really drives home the point that these people are just total clueless dummies and shouldn’t be allowed to have this much say in how the world runs
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One thing that @thefarce.org and I found when working on a video on tariffs is this superb podcast, which is totally lowkey, mostly two host reading off futures, in between debunking the bullshit the Administration tries to feed farmers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cT...
Clueless and LYING!! China Soybean "Commitments" and the White House
YouTube video by Grain Markets and Other Stuff
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One thing that @thefarce.org and I found when working on a video on tariffs is this superb podcast, which is totally lowkey, mostly two host reading off futures, in between debunking the bullshit the Administration tries to feed farmers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9cT...
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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Erika Kirk is getting an entire prime time Town Hall on CBS to discuss faith, grief and loss
The 4 kids who died last weekend in the Stockton shooting won’t get a mention
The hundreds of other school shootings won’t get a mention
The political assassination of Melissa Hortman won’t get a mention
The 4 kids who died last weekend in the Stockton shooting won’t get a mention
The hundreds of other school shootings won’t get a mention
The political assassination of Melissa Hortman won’t get a mention
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Erika Kirk is getting an entire prime time Town Hall on CBS to discuss faith, grief and loss
The 4 kids who died last weekend in the Stockton shooting won’t get a mention
The hundreds of other school shootings won’t get a mention
The political assassination of Melissa Hortman won’t get a mention
The 4 kids who died last weekend in the Stockton shooting won’t get a mention
The hundreds of other school shootings won’t get a mention
The political assassination of Melissa Hortman won’t get a mention
I see what you did there
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I see what you did there
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The NYT invented a Parkinson’s diagnosis for Biden but had nothing to say about this at all
Seriously! The media just dropped the whole story after this. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...
Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files
Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The NYT invented a Parkinson’s diagnosis for Biden but had nothing to say about this at all
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"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"After her hearing ended, three-year-old Lucy cuddled her teddy bear as she walked back from the lawyer’s table and took a seat.
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
Moments later, the next child was called up to face the judge..."
coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...
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Trump bankrupted the farmers through his idiotic tariffs and now he’s going to give them your tax money to make up for his abject stupidity.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Trump bankrupted the farmers through his idiotic tariffs and now he’s going to give them your tax money to make up for his abject stupidity.
Life under a Mob Boss
"Fear and obey" wow.....
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Life under a Mob Boss
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"Fear and obey" wow.....
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Fear and obey" wow.....
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Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."