David Houghton
@dfhoughton.bsky.social
Linguist, programmer, honest person.
All in on DEI. Proud to be woke. Friend and parent of queer folk.
All in on DEI. Proud to be woke. Friend and parent of queer folk.
Every accusation is a confession: a theory
These guys are too dull-witted and unimaginative to think of crimes they haven't themselves committed. Also, they're too vain to admit anyone is better than them. So they imagine everyone has committed their crimes.
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These guys are too dull-witted and unimaginative to think of crimes they haven't themselves committed. Also, they're too vain to admit anyone is better than them. So they imagine everyone has committed their crimes.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Every accusation is a confession: a theory
These guys are too dull-witted and unimaginative to think of crimes they haven't themselves committed. Also, they're too vain to admit anyone is better than them. So they imagine everyone has committed their crimes.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
These guys are too dull-witted and unimaginative to think of crimes they haven't themselves committed. Also, they're too vain to admit anyone is better than them. So they imagine everyone has committed their crimes.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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David Ellison knows what Trump wants on CNN—and he’s willing to give it.
If Paramount acquires Warner instead of Netflix and the Ellisons fulfill their promise to Trump, we could see Trump blatantly using them to shape the entire media landscape—from CNN to TikTok—in his own image. trib.al/Qmi31pW
If Paramount acquires Warner instead of Netflix and the Ellisons fulfill their promise to Trump, we could see Trump blatantly using them to shape the entire media landscape—from CNN to TikTok—in his own image. trib.al/Qmi31pW
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
David Ellison knows what Trump wants on CNN—and he’s willing to give it.
If Paramount acquires Warner instead of Netflix and the Ellisons fulfill their promise to Trump, we could see Trump blatantly using them to shape the entire media landscape—from CNN to TikTok—in his own image. trib.al/Qmi31pW
If Paramount acquires Warner instead of Netflix and the Ellisons fulfill their promise to Trump, we could see Trump blatantly using them to shape the entire media landscape—from CNN to TikTok—in his own image. trib.al/Qmi31pW
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Actually, Saudi Arabia is covering Kushner's travel expenses
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Actually, Saudi Arabia is covering Kushner's travel expenses
"if you think of unregulated social media as dangerous drugs, as you should, then we’ve become a nation in which drug lords control much of government policy. ... They have enough power to dictate U.S. foreign policy, punishing our erstwhile allies .."
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
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December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"if you think of unregulated social media as dangerous drugs, as you should, then we’ve become a nation in which drug lords control much of government policy. ... They have enough power to dictate U.S. foreign policy, punishing our erstwhile allies .."
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Leaded gas gave us a crime wave. (RIP, Kevin Drum.) Maybe bendy plastic is giving us an anomie wave and malfunctioning gonads.
Maybe the two together gave us MAGA.
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Maybe the two together gave us MAGA.
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‘Everywhere chemicals’ are in our food, decades after scientists recognized dangers
A large body of science has linked phthalates to a variety of serious health conditions, including premature birth and infertility.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Leaded gas gave us a crime wave. (RIP, Kevin Drum.) Maybe bendy plastic is giving us an anomie wave and malfunctioning gonads.
Maybe the two together gave us MAGA.
wapo.st/4rPOfNY
Maybe the two together gave us MAGA.
wapo.st/4rPOfNY
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
The mainstream free press is dying in the US. Google and Facebook sapped away its profitability. Now oligarchs are snapping it up to turn into propaganda vehicles. And not even US oligarchs.
The Republicans are killing this country.
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The Republicans are killing this country.
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The mainstream free press is dying in the US. Google and Facebook sapped away its profitability. Now oligarchs are snapping it up to turn into propaganda vehicles. And not even US oligarchs.
The Republicans are killing this country.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
The Republicans are killing this country.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
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Nothing says we are MAGA now like sidelining actual journalists while showcasing a partisan activist in a prime time event. Trump must be thrilled by the Ellison network's latest move towards propaganda and away from fact based journalism. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Nothing says we are MAGA now like sidelining actual journalists while showcasing a partisan activist in a prime time event. Trump must be thrilled by the Ellison network's latest move towards propaganda and away from fact based journalism. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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If you love this country, if you want it to thrive, if you want it to be a positive influence on the world despite our current fallen state, you will not vote for Republicans.
Republicans bring us only shame. Conservatism is poison. People can enjoy it as they do alcohol. It feels good. It kills.
Republicans bring us only shame. Conservatism is poison. People can enjoy it as they do alcohol. It feels good. It kills.
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If you love this country, if you want it to thrive, if you want it to be a positive influence on the world despite our current fallen state, you will not vote for Republicans.
Republicans bring us only shame. Conservatism is poison. People can enjoy it as they do alcohol. It feels good. It kills.
Republicans bring us only shame. Conservatism is poison. People can enjoy it as they do alcohol. It feels good. It kills.
It is going to take so long to restore our reputation as a country that does the right thing after we've tried everything else. Right now we are one of the world's villains, alongside Russia, Hungary, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. We are a cautionary tale to the world.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It is going to take so long to restore our reputation as a country that does the right thing after we've tried everything else. Right now we are one of the world's villains, alongside Russia, Hungary, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc. We are a cautionary tale to the world.
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
bsky.app/profile/kevi...
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.
LOL
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are literally thousands of articles about these topics and, to my knowledge, none have been written by Alex Karp or Palantir.
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in an ideal world the democrats would have an insta-party reaction to all developing news. flood the zone on everything. everything should have an immediate dem reaction/take/quote. as it is the party slumbers through each media cycle, barely responding to anything and hardly instigating a thing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
in an ideal world the democrats would have an insta-party reaction to all developing news. flood the zone on everything. everything should have an immediate dem reaction/take/quote. as it is the party slumbers through each media cycle, barely responding to anything and hardly instigating a thing.
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In some ways Johnson feels worse than even Trump and Vance, who are just a narcissistic criminal and a narcissistic striver, respectively. They may be awful people but they still feel human. Johnson feels like a walking representation of the uncanny valley, like a ski suit being operated by ants.
Mike Johnson: "We've had one of the most productive Congresses in the history of the institution."
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In some ways Johnson feels worse than even Trump and Vance, who are just a narcissistic criminal and a narcissistic striver, respectively. They may be awful people but they still feel human. Johnson feels like a walking representation of the uncanny valley, like a ski suit being operated by ants.
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Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia
The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia
The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, the Cambridge Analytica co-founder doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Bannon Comes Clean and Reveals His Alliance with Putin’s Fake Holy Russia
The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The cat is out of the bag. Now Bannon’s proximity to Epstein and his plans for European subversion are exposed, he doubles down on his support for Putin and Dugin
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Note who is missing from this table?
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
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America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
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Today in Brussels, Rustem Umerov briefed Nat Sec advisors of Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Finland, and the United Kingdom on the peace talks in Geneva and Miami. There were also representatives of the EU and NATO.
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Note who is missing from this table?
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
America.
Because we have taken Russia’s side.
bsky.app/profile/ones...
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You know the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)? Venerable research institution, respected worldwide?
Trump has put an oil executive in charge of it & changed its name to the "National Laboratory of the Rockies."
It's so embarrassing being American these days.
Trump has put an oil executive in charge of it & changed its name to the "National Laboratory of the Rockies."
It's so embarrassing being American these days.
News Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Laboratory of the Rockies' | NREL
www.nrel.gov
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
You know the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)? Venerable research institution, respected worldwide?
Trump has put an oil executive in charge of it & changed its name to the "National Laboratory of the Rockies."
It's so embarrassing being American these days.
Trump has put an oil executive in charge of it & changed its name to the "National Laboratory of the Rockies."
It's so embarrassing being American these days.
This is interesting, but Josh is wrong about "micro-states" not signing on the abolishment of the electoral college. These micro-states have signed on: VT, ME, RI, DE, HI, NM. These ones haven't: WY, MT, SD, ND, UT, AK, WV. It's not the size that's the issue.
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Rethinking Federalism in a Time of Trump — A Response to Tom Nichols
Recently, Tom Nichols — the dissident or lapsed conservative who is a...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is interesting, but Josh is wrong about "micro-states" not signing on the abolishment of the electoral college. These micro-states have signed on: VT, ME, RI, DE, HI, NM. These ones haven't: WY, MT, SD, ND, UT, AK, WV. It's not the size that's the issue.
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"First he targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans: citizens of this country who were born elsewhere, particularly in what Trump contemptuously calls the 'third world.'"
It's no longer about "borders." It's about ethnic cleansing.
It's no longer about "borders." It's about ethnic cleansing.
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"First he targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now, he’s attacking naturalized Americans: citizens of this country who were born elsewhere, particularly in what Trump contemptuously calls the 'third world.'"
It's no longer about "borders." It's about ethnic cleansing.
It's no longer about "borders." It's about ethnic cleansing.
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Dan Bongino just posted a list of shitty things (like shifting FBI away fr public and corruption to hunting migrants, releasing details of criminal investigations and lying about what they show, and eliminating diversity) that he's proud of.
One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec.
Alarming!
One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec.
Alarming!
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Dan Bongino just posted a list of shitty things (like shifting FBI away fr public and corruption to hunting migrants, releasing details of criminal investigations and lying about what they show, and eliminating diversity) that he's proud of.
One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec.
Alarming!
One of them is putting AI in charge of NatSec.
Alarming!
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"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself"
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”
The latest from George F. Will:
The latest from George F. Will:
Opinion | This moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself"
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70s curriculum going hard.
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
70s curriculum going hard.