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Dave LaFontaine
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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Mariah and Nicki had that famous spat on American Idol and now we know FOR DAMN SURE Future Miss Maga was the instigator youtu.be/56Gs2BM0YQE?...
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"Donald Trump Is Newly Accused of Rape – and Epstein Allegedly Helped 👀" The president faces horrific new sexual assault claims linked to the old friend he just can’t escape. Plus: a new national poll of Arab Americans shows Democrats slowly winning back their support. First Draft from Zeteo:
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MOTHER JONES: “THEY WENT TO JARED… Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats and sell out America.” And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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There was a brand new allegation that the president raped a woman in the 1990s yesterday and it appears to not be on the NYT homepage at all right now
It is short and so I assume they are looking into things but it is... interesting... that the NYT piece on the new House Dems report on Trump ties to Epstein simply does not mention the brand new rape allegation and says whatever this is instead www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...
Lately, when I’ve asked my friends in security how AI has affected them, they just get quiet “There’s a decades-long backlog of bugs in software written without much review or scrutiny—which was more or less fine so long as there was a very small no. of skilled hackers” apple.news/A5EBLR6fPSFq...
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Replying to @trg-commentary.bsky.social
have been thrown out and the only way how Trump could have been installed as the new "president" is by destroying democracy, turning full dictator and never have an election again for as long as his fatass lives. That would have been the consequence. It was not just that "one time". And that is
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AIPAC's super PAC funded attack ads through groups with progressive-sounding names. Here are a few of them: 👩 Elect Chicago Women ⚖️ Pro-Choice Majority Action 🗳️ Elect Democratic Women None of the ads disclosed AIPAC’s role.
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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.
chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek
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"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls [are] smearing an actual child rape survivor." "It is a microcosm of the broader Trump agenda: professing support for the vulnerable while shielding their abusers." @crampell.bsky.social on the GOP's vile ad in Ohio.
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conservatives in washington state want freedom and small government in the form of state-mandated genital exams for high school students: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Latinos Are Now America’s Most Important Swing Voters www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/u... And yet the Consultant Class ignores Spanish-language media, especially the digital entrepreneurs that are reaching the young connected Latino audiences 
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Replying to @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“we’re going to lay the massive, MASSIVE failures and unmoored valuations of bitcoin, Tesla, SpaceX, twitter, META, Google, Oracle and NVIDIA at the feet of coming democrats. Our embedded TBTF companies will use our completely unearned valuations to acquire the cash needed to buy the remaining dead”
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In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.
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Obama: "You got the defense sec who is like a laser focused on important matters like the jawline & testosterone level of our troops, and livestreaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate that manly warrior spirit. How much time do you think this man spends in front of the mirror?"
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Idaho’s abortion restrictions have “made it impossible to recruit other OB-GYNs to the area,” a doctor told The Tribune. “I’ve been on the verge of having to quit because I don’t have the support I need. I can’t be on 24/7. I’ve tried. It doesn’t work.”
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Earlier I meant to share the NYT version of the story about Trump stealing Alaska's natural gas and giving it to Russia. Here's that story, the same story as FT. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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