Michael Hughes
@mhughes.bsky.social
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Michael Hughes
@mhughes.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Musk always makes me think of this story from Kurt Vonnegut:
At a party he asked Joseph Heller how he felt that their host, a hedge fund manager, made more money in a day than he had earned from Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have. ENOUGH.”
At a party he asked Joseph Heller how he felt that their host, a hedge fund manager, made more money in a day than he had earned from Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have. ENOUGH.”
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Can we get an EP-STEIN FI-LES CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP chant going at AEW Blood and Guts tonight fam 🤼
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Can we get an EP-STEIN FI-LES CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP chant going at AEW Blood and Guts tonight fam 🤼
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I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Right now is when democrats have leverage. Trump’s approval rating is 37%, America is blaming republicans for the shutdown, the election was a landslide. THEY NEED YOUR VOTES. If you can’t extract healthcare subsidies right now you’re just a complete bitch. Unfit for leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Right now is when democrats have leverage. Trump’s approval rating is 37%, America is blaming republicans for the shutdown, the election was a landslide. THEY NEED YOUR VOTES. If you can’t extract healthcare subsidies right now you’re just a complete bitch. Unfit for leadership.
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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you guys have to see the shit that the VA Senate president pro tempore is posting on Twitter man, this was on her main account
i've never been so locked in for a state legislator before
Senator L. Louise Lucas i would die in battle for you
i've never been so locked in for a state legislator before
Senator L. Louise Lucas i would die in battle for you
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
you guys have to see the shit that the VA Senate president pro tempore is posting on Twitter man, this was on her main account
i've never been so locked in for a state legislator before
Senator L. Louise Lucas i would die in battle for you
i've never been so locked in for a state legislator before
Senator L. Louise Lucas i would die in battle for you
Jeffries endorsing Mamdani:
October 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Jeffries endorsing Mamdani:
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At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.
In another more accurate way, he’s not.
Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."
October 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In another more accurate way, he’s not.
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Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.
October 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.
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Chuck Schumer should be focused on fighting Donald Trump and protecting healthcare for millions of Americans, not meddling in a Maine primary.
DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.
DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.
October 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Chuck Schumer should be focused on fighting Donald Trump and protecting healthcare for millions of Americans, not meddling in a Maine primary.
DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.
DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.
I have received 6 Janet Mills fundraising texts from 6 different numbers since she announced she is running this morning. So of course I just donated to @grahamformaine.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I have received 6 Janet Mills fundraising texts from 6 different numbers since she announced she is running this morning. So of course I just donated to @grahamformaine.bsky.social
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politico’s owner must have put in a call to the editors over the weekend, because their top articles on shutdown are comically one-sided against dems after reporting over the weekend that house republicans are starting to crumble
October 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
politico’s owner must have put in a call to the editors over the weekend, because their top articles on shutdown are comically one-sided against dems after reporting over the weekend that house republicans are starting to crumble
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Thinking about the people in my life who don’t see this as a dealbreaker.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thinking about the people in my life who don’t see this as a dealbreaker.
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fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:
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October 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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That whole thing had a strong energy of “If ya gotta talk about it, ya ain’t got it.”
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
That whole thing had a strong energy of “If ya gotta talk about it, ya ain’t got it.”
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The problem with billionaires is not that they’re masters of society steering all events around them, but they’re just as gullible, stupid, misinformed, and hapless as any dummy off the street but they have massive resources to waste on pointless and destructive misadventures
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The problem with billionaires is not that they’re masters of society steering all events around them, but they’re just as gullible, stupid, misinformed, and hapless as any dummy off the street but they have massive resources to waste on pointless and destructive misadventures
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If you're a voter abroad or know one, it's time to start thinking about voting in November.
ESPECIALLY if you're in PA, VA, NJ, and CA.
www.votefromabroad.org
ESPECIALLY if you're in PA, VA, NJ, and CA.
www.votefromabroad.org
Vote from Abroad: Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens
Vote from Abroad: Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens
www.votefromabroad.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If you're a voter abroad or know one, it's time to start thinking about voting in November.
ESPECIALLY if you're in PA, VA, NJ, and CA.
www.votefromabroad.org
ESPECIALLY if you're in PA, VA, NJ, and CA.
www.votefromabroad.org
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if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼
September 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼
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A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
@robschamberger.bsky.social I’ve got a spot in my home office reserved for when you finally do Eddie Kingston:
September 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
@robschamberger.bsky.social I’ve got a spot in my home office reserved for when you finally do Eddie Kingston: