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The more you know, the less knowing the meaning of things means. We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. Nuance deserved an obituary.
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percyhoward @percyhoward.bsky.social · Nov 11
If politicians' success in self-marketing were in any way related to their ability to govern, then we could all just be blissful little consumers and not have to know anything beyond our own interests.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Nov 11
Here’s one of my main takeaways: the point of governing is to make people’s lives better, but the point of politics - especially campaigns - is to give people a story about who to blame for things sucking. It’s a real mistake to confuse one for the other, as I have often done!
percyhoward.bsky.social
"They're just trash."

That's how Maxwell described Epstein's child victims to an acquaintance during the time when she was contracting them for him.
August 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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namwella1961.bsky.social
ABC: Trump is ordering two US Navy nuclear submarines to “appropriate regions" near Russia.

Isn't it great a man who thought nuking a hurricane would change its path has the nuclear codes.🙄
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
August 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
How we know it's Friday afternoon.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Aug 1
NEW: The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed, according to House Oversight Chair James Comer.

Comer said he would agree to delay the meeting after her lawyers requested a postponement — citing a pending Supreme Court petition regarding her case.
August 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
White House reporters need to print out their questions on large placards, one word at a time.

Like Dylan.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 1
Trump avoids answering a question about Epstein, telling a reporter "I don't understand your question"
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
NEW

The family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre and several Epstein/Maxwell survivors are speaking out against Ghislaine Maxwell having been moved to a much better federal prison.
"It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency. Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas. This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar. This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better." Annie Farmer Maria Farmer Sky and Amanda Roberts (family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre) Lanette and Danny Wilson (family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre)
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social
Kamala Harris on what she *didn’t* see coming if Trump took office again.

This hits hard.
Because she’s right.

But it’s not too late.
It’s time to fight harder.

Do not f*cking comply.
SAY NO TO A FASCIST USA!
August 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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percyhoward.bsky.social
Interestingly, the federal prison in Texas she's being moved to is NOT one of the two facilities in Texas that offer treatment programs for sex offenders.

www.bop.gov/inmates/cust...
BOP: Sex Offenders
www.bop.gov
August 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
Improvise, adapt, etc.
digby56.bsky.social digby @digby56.bsky.social · Jul 31
All this stuff is absolute lunacy that in normal times would cause the finance and business world to collapse into chaos. But weirdly, because Trump is so stupid and addled, they're just coasting on the "nothing matters" vibe and maybe even thinking he really can bend reality to his will. Amazing
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 31
Right. There's an actual existing ratified trade deal with S. Korea that is current law!
July 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
This airs at 8 am EDT tomorrow at aljazeera.com/live and then will be repayable at some point at www.aljazeera.com/program/head.... It’ll be better than anything you usually watch in the morning, I’m sure. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social was terrific.
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Senator Durbin and I had some questions about the very unusual Blanche/Maxwell meeting. Here are some of the multiple weirdnesses: 🧵
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
Good questions.

weisradio.com/2025/07/28/d...
July 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
percyhoward.bsky.social
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dockim.bsky.social Dr K @dockim.bsky.social · Jul 29
I do. Stop voting for Republicans.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 29
Kennedy: We don’t need more gun control. We need more idiot control and I don’t know how to do that.
July 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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parkermolloy.com
My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."
Claim:“Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America” 
—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
 Fact check: This snappy talking point is based on numbers that add up, but it’s also a question of comparing apples to oranges. Sanders is drawing on a 2017 report from the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies, which said that three billionaires — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) and Warren Buffett — had total wealth of $248.5 billion, compared to $245 billion for the bottom 160 million of the United States. The wealth of the three men has gone up even more since then.
But people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out whatever assets they might have. So the comparison is not especially meaningful. We once gave Sanders Three Pinocchios when he asserted that the six wealthiest people had more wealth than the half of the world’s population. That was an even more problematic comparison, and we said at the time it was better to focus on inequality within a country.
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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sundaedivine.bsky.social
Mike Johnson is proof God wants us to punch people.
World’s most punchable face.
July 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
Bingo.
thenewthinker.bsky.social Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · Jul 27
Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jul 27
Trump calls for the prosecution of Beyoncé, Oprah, Al Sharpton, and Kamala Harris:
July 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Donald Trump won the state of Texas by approximately 56%

So let's change the rules to the game

Jasmine Crockett
July 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
Case after case, and all these connections explain their over-the-top attempt to whitewash Maxwell.
markjacob.bsky.social Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Jul 25
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Donald Trump’s connections to people accused of child sex abuse go well beyond Jeffrey Epstein. In this thread I note other cases in which people tied to Trump were accused of committing or enabling child molestation. 1/
July 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
Don't forget New Mexico.
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
July 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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beyerstein.bsky.social
Here's Bannon allegedly exploring "actually, it's ephebophilia" as a comms strategy. Weingarten is Epstein's lawyer.
"Bannon snorted loudly over the phone. "All right, okay. So get to the issue, bang. He's been branded a pedophile —while in fact these are not underage or barely underage. I'd rather have that discussion about what is a pedophile than for people just to assume he is one. To the extent that anybody was underage, it was slightly underage and they lied about it. None of them were acting under duress-there were no drugs, no coercion. And there was no trafficking-you were a consumer of sexual services and not a provider. Does the fourteen-year-old look close to eighteen or to fourteen?" "Twenty-seven," said Epstein. "Really?" "These girls, including the fourteen-year-old, worked in strip clubs, massage parlors, they had tattoos. Tattoos and piercings— which, in Florida, require you to be eighteen." "That's helpful. But you're besmirching the victims. The line here is between having to respect the victims and having to show that they are bat-shit crazy or coldly in it for the money. Question: Are there any of these girls, girls who were over eighteen at the time, who would be willing to come forward and defend you... to give context, reasonable context, to what happened?" "That could be a good idea," said Weingarten. "I'm betting that for a lot of these girls the best thing they did in their day was to visit Jeffrey-compared to what they were doing in their miserable lives ... but you can't actually say that..."
July 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
percyhoward.bsky.social
84% of those who gave their opinion don't think he's been open and transparent.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 26
Velshi: The latest fox poll shows 80% of registered voters have been following the Epstein case. Of the people who've been following the case, only 13% believe the Trump administration has been open and transparent. The Epstein scandal will not be going away anytime soon
July 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
Vance is basically pretending to be supportive, but I’m fairly certain he’s working with Murdoch behind the scenes. The elites got everything they wanted from Trump, now it’s in their best interest to try and force him out.

I don’t think it will work, but they seem to be going to try.
July 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.
July 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship."
It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
July 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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lsdaif.bsky.social
The Nazis called this Aktion T4 and it didn’t start with euthanasia, it started w ‘relocation’ and ‘treatment’
Trump signs EO which is his version of Aktion T4 which was a Nazi program where the physically and mentally ill were ‘relocated’ and later euthanized.
July 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM