Paul Howard

Paul Howard

@phoward8020.bsky.social

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Least surprising legal news of the day.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social

NEW: Citing 'other matters of national importance,' Trump cancels his pre-election deposition in defamation suit he filed over BBC documentary. He was to be questioned under oath on Friday. Trump's lawyers say he can't spare time for at least next 2 months www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Vote like your life depends on it. Because it does.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

“WE HAVE TO SHOVE ACCOUNTABILITY DOWN THEIR F***ING THROATS.” 🔥🔥 Katie Phang delivers a fiery sign-off on today’s episode of Sidebar with Katie Phang: “I don’t want any of you to ever think that we can’t get through this. But I want us to thrive, not just survive.”

Haters gonna hate, but why they gotta do it in my Discover Feed, @support.bsky.team?

Bête ennuyeuse@mockgod.bsky.social

You don't need a folding apple with worse specs, higher prices and zero innovation. it's past time to recognise that apple is the tesla of phones; no innovation, coasting on reputation and mistreating their customers in every way they can imagine.

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Cheat like hell is the Trump family motto.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

The president ordered supporters to raise their right hands, proclaim him the greatest president in history, and promise to “cheat like hell” before warning nonvoters that they would “go to hell.”

Absolute insanity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

He’s not wrong, though—9/11 *was* a long time ago. I don’t remember every detail, either. For instance, I know that Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, & The Hulk were there with me rescuing people, but I can’t recall if Hawkeye & Black Widow were there, too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago

What a disgusting thing to say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

at least she admits it -- Rep. Lisa McClain defends the NRCC spending money on Max Miller despite horrific abuse allegations, says "divorces are ugly" and "I support anybody with an R by their name"

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The real winner of the Michigan vs Western Michigan game was Rutgers. They are suddenly no longer the most embarrassing thing in the B1G this week.

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Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”

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macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

I hate the term “common sense” (in part because it’s anything but common), but anyone who’s lived through the past 45+ years in the US should know this instinctively. 👇

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

PSA: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Someone in the White House press corps needs to ask him if he believed this was real when he posted it, and then follow up with a “Why then, did you post it?!”, whether the answer is yes or no.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump posts AI slop with the caption, “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”

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🧵🧵🧵Here’s a thread with 10 fairly obscure examples of Trump’s derangement and dishonesty. See if you’re familiar with all 10. 10 BATSHIT TRUMP FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW 🧵1. Last year, Trump reposted a Truth Social user’s claim that Joe Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robotic clone.

nytimes.comTrump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone (Gift Article)President Trump reposted another user’s false claim that the former president had been “executed” in 2020 and replaced by a robotic clone.

Me, sitting down to watch the Seahawks preseason game: “Yo! Let’s go! Seahawks, baby!!” 💙💚 Also me, after watching the first two commercials, from the “Department of War” and “Freedom250.org”: "I think I’ll go clean the garage or something.” 😕

This is actually just common sense at this point. Anyone actively working against single-payer is doing so solely for their own financial benefit.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

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Is anyone else getting sick and tired of seeing all these bullshit pie-in-the-sky posts about some new world-changing eco-technology, with an obviously AI-generated picture, but without a single citation or an iota of context? And who are the gullible rubes who keep responding, “Ooh, amazing! 🤩”??

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Eerily similar to the verbiage on the Access Hollywood tape, except instead of bragging about assaulting women he’s talking about pilfering historical artifacts, most of which we will likely never see again.

OK, I get blocking someone for posting replies that you don’t like, but seriously dude? You’re locked down a little tight when you block someone BEFORE they’ve even had a chance to post the reply. 🙄

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I’ve been yelling about it this all year. Municipalities still act like these are unfortunate incidents instead of what they are. They’re attacks on critical infrastructure. We’ve underinvested in modernizing essential systems and infrastructure while degrading cybersecurity.

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This is not breaking news. I already know this. How do I tell BlueSky to stop showing me 15 different posts with the exact same message every fucking day.

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I obviously didn’t waste my time watching this speech live, so I appreciate others who are willing to provide these snippets of humiliation.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Think of the saddest thing that happened in your childhood, multiply it by 100, and see how it compares to these 36 seconds

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I miss knowing there's an Anthony Fauci in charge of health. A Hillary Clinton or Antony Blinken handling things internationally. A Pete doing things for transportation. A Lloyd Austin handling defense. A Haaland protecting our lands. I miss knowing adults are in the room. Or at least non-traitors.

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Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

WIRED@wired.com

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

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to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber

Apropos of nothing

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

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This is from a draft press release that even DHS didn't have the stones to release and it did not include any evidence of actual voting by non-citizens. But you don't find this out until the third graf. I thoroughly hate it when people say "do better," but Christ Almighty Politico, do better.

JFC

2021-Free until now 🌊🍂🎃@patricia-ann.bsky.social

Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle 👀🚨😐 “Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district.” apnews.com/article/seat...