This old Haus
@thisoldhaus.bsky.social
Retired newspaper guy. History, politics, and legal-news nerd. I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of serotonin.
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Vast sin-concealing chaos
Good riddance, contemptible fascist child-gassing motherf*ckers
Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Good riddance, contemptible fascist child-gassing motherf*ckers
The International House of Pancakes/Piggly Wiggly Peace Prize
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The International House of Pancakes/Piggly Wiggly Peace Prize
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trump heading lower than his approval rating at this point in 2017 — at that time, a historic low for a president at this point in their term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
trump heading lower than his approval rating at this point in 2017 — at that time, a historic low for a president at this point in their term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
Tired: the Marseillaise.
Wired: the Mayonnaise.
Wired: the Mayonnaise.
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Tired: the Marseillaise.
Wired: the Mayonnaise.
Wired: the Mayonnaise.
Man Faints in Metaphor Incident
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Man Faints in Metaphor Incident
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
Say what you will about Trump, he keeps his neck nicely waxed.
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Say what you will about Trump, he keeps his neck nicely waxed.
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What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
What we know, 12:10am
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
[Now in 2 parts]
—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House
—Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win supreme court
—ME vote-restricting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—Krasner & Bragg win
Yes.
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Yes.
Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air - 3rd version (1969)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.
The Parent Trap, Governor Edition: Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger secretly switch states with each other, hijinks and hilarity ensue
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The Parent Trap, Governor Edition: Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger secretly switch states with each other, hijinks and hilarity ensue
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Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
www.nbcnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
You Winsome, you lose some.
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
You Winsome, you lose some.
ChatGPT forgot to add "Thank you for your attention to this matter"
JUST IN: Trump, in chat w/reporters & Truth Social post, says he won't attend critical #SCOTUS arguments this week on his broadest 'Liberation Day' tariff drive truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
ChatGPT forgot to add "Thank you for your attention to this matter"
🎶 Been away so long I hardly knew the hours
Gee I hate this endless night
Darkness at 4:45, my spirit sours
Where's my old therapy light?
I'm back on the SSRI
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back on the SS, back on the SSRI 🎶
Gee I hate this endless night
Darkness at 4:45, my spirit sours
Where's my old therapy light?
I'm back on the SSRI
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back on the SS, back on the SSRI 🎶
November 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🎶 Been away so long I hardly knew the hours
Gee I hate this endless night
Darkness at 4:45, my spirit sours
Where's my old therapy light?
I'm back on the SSRI
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back on the SS, back on the SSRI 🎶
Gee I hate this endless night
Darkness at 4:45, my spirit sours
Where's my old therapy light?
I'm back on the SSRI
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back on the SS, back on the SSRI 🎶
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“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | A jury of my peers agreed that the feds wrongly charged me for watching ICE
I believe that filming what federal agents were doing that day counted as basic human decency.
www.msnbc.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…
Forget the Monroe Doctrine, the Truman Doctrine, the Reagan Doctrine.
This administration persistently propounds The Streisand Doctrine.
This administration persistently propounds The Streisand Doctrine.
An FBI jet allegedly traveled to and from a pro wrestling event Patel’s girlfriend performed at last weekend, according to public flight records.
Kash Patel Lashes Out At Critics After Scrutiny Over Alleged Use Of FBI Jet
An FBI jet allegedly traveled to and from a pro wrestling event Patel’s girlfriend performed at last weekend, according to public flight records.
www.forbes.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Forget the Monroe Doctrine, the Truman Doctrine, the Reagan Doctrine.
This administration persistently propounds The Streisand Doctrine.
This administration persistently propounds The Streisand Doctrine.
I think I don't hate baseball anymore
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I think I don't hate baseball anymore
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At some point, Trump opponents need to comprehend that their job isn't to mitigate the damage Trump is intent on doing (thus saving him from himself) but to highlight it (thus bringing about his self-destruction).
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
At some point, Trump opponents need to comprehend that their job isn't to mitigate the damage Trump is intent on doing (thus saving him from himself) but to highlight it (thus bringing about his self-destruction).
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”