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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️

@foghorn453.bsky.social

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Economics major, office drone, center-left, Irish-American guy, amateur history buff, 🦬 Buffalo Bills fan, Yellow Dog Democrat. Unassimilated Irish immigrant, apparently. Proud hater of weirdo Silicon Valley Ulster-Scots Nazis.

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · Nov 10

-Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
When you back that azz up

Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · Nov 10

don't call me big daddy i am working on my weight as best i am able to do so but last week carol brought in those pastries to work and your dinners are so delicious i overeat baby so just call me by my first name when you back that azz up

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · Nov 10

you a pretty fine woman better make sure you drink enough water, get enough sleep and remember to stretch for longer periods than you used to before engaging in vigorous backing that azz up

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 7h

I'm still confused by this though, and the explanation that Grassley "misspoke" still doesn't pass the sniff test

Sen. Grassley confuses DC over whether he will handle electoral certification

Sen. Chuck Grassley implied that he and not Vice President Mike Pence would handle certification of the Electoral College results, before quickly walking back the remark.

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 7h

That doesn't sound right

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 9h

My confederate neighbor told me the submarine keeps drowning his sailors so I asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to the navy and gets new sailors afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding sailors to the ocean and then his commanding officer started crying

“The confederacy sent into action the world’s first combat submarine, the CSS Huntley, which sank three times in trials, drowning the crew each time (including its inventor Horace Huntley) before sink a blockade ship near Charleston in 1864 while going down itself for the fourth and last time”

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 8h

CSPOA in shambles

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 8h

What happens to the legal system if supreme court rulings are accepted in some federal courts but not others? Nothing good, I bet

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 8h

I think Reynolds v. Sims has to be mentioned in the conversation somewhere. Applying "one man, one vote" to state legislatures is an important development

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 8h

One thing they could do is treat every unexplained shadow docket ruling as being a one off with no precedence elsewhere. Sure, their intent might be absolutely obvious because they're RW ideologues, but then again, it could be specific to the case. Who can tell if they don't spell it out?

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 8h

He's not really the President, Republicans in Congress have given up all pretense to oversight and just basic constitutional obligations, and the so-called supreme court isn't practicing law

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 16h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 11h

I think the general public thinks the immigration system is a lot more lenient than it actually is

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 11h

If a bunch of companies decide to start passing on the full cost of tariffs to consumers next year, you're gonna see a lot of nostalgia for the Biden economy

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 11h

Obviously a lot of people hated the Biden economy, just like people hated the lackadaisical recovery under the Obama administration, but Trump has been coasting so far on his predecessor, just like in Term 1. But that's not gonna last forever

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

so, like, i know it’s trite and cliche to point out, but the NYT printed hundreds of stories about clinton’s email security and she wasn’t even president

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

isn’t truth social just a defederated mastadon instance?

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12h

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 12h

The US recovery from COVID-19 in international comparison | Brookings

The U.S. is significantly outperforming its G10 peers in the economic recovery from COVID-19, Robin Brooks and Ben Harris find.

www.brookings.edu

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 14h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14h

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder:

"Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 13h

Let the speculation begin and/or continue!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 19h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 21h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 13h

I have 51 tabs open now

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 20h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 13h

Maybe pair it with a generalized reduction for everyone else?

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 13h

One way of addressing this is to limit older taxpayers' property tax exemptions (keeping in mind there are tradeoffs here!)

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 19h

I accept that every policy debate can easily turn into, maybe essentially is, really a plane of psychic warfare about who feels good and whose trauma is being centered but I reserve the right to be annoyed about it.

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to spray part of the pan so it came out of the pan in a few pieces. I had to glue it back together with frosting

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 1d

How long are we going to be plagued by that "The Secret" balderdash?