Jack Troughton
@partialtomusic.bsky.social
Unix and guitars. And humanism. Unix and guitars and humanism.
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Taste a refreshing Canada Drive - YouTube
A collection of time lapse videos of my drive up north, out west, and back again.
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Im making a playlist on YouTube for the timelapses of the cross-Canada trip I’m taking. I’m going to pin this post for the time being as I continue to add them over time. The playlist is at youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Somehow I'm just completely unsurprised by this. She probably should be referred to as "Linda (Bathory) McMahon".
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Somehow I'm just completely unsurprised by this. She probably should be referred to as "Linda (Bathory) McMahon".
Surely this cannot be!
Oh she straight up lied to the grand jury lol
Mag Judge Fitzpatrick says two statements by Halligan to grand jury "appear to be fundamental misstatements of the law that could compromise the integrity of the grand jury process."
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Surely this cannot be!
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
More American institutions fall.
I think we can safely conclude that it's a problem with the culture. Their culture leads them to knuckle instantly if doing anything else will lead to any kind of discomfort or, even worse, damage to their wallet.
What a pathetic display by the AMA.
I think we can safely conclude that it's a problem with the culture. Their culture leads them to knuckle instantly if doing anything else will lead to any kind of discomfort or, even worse, damage to their wallet.
What a pathetic display by the AMA.
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social the @ama-assn.org has caved to Trump. They invited known grifter Dr Mehmet Oz to give a speech, but, the AMA board/ John Whyte decided to censor all delegates in the following way.
1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.
1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
More American institutions fall.
I think we can safely conclude that it's a problem with the culture. Their culture leads them to knuckle instantly if doing anything else will lead to any kind of discomfort or, even worse, damage to their wallet.
What a pathetic display by the AMA.
I think we can safely conclude that it's a problem with the culture. Their culture leads them to knuckle instantly if doing anything else will lead to any kind of discomfort or, even worse, damage to their wallet.
What a pathetic display by the AMA.
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The New York Times knew that Epstein was a pedo and sex trafficking since 2008. They knew that he and Trump were besties. Dean Baquet, AG Sulzberger, Patrick Healy, Joe Kahn ignored all that and focused instead on a bullshit vomited by republicans (Benghazi, emails) and a book published by Bannon
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The New York Times knew that Epstein was a pedo and sex trafficking since 2008. They knew that he and Trump were besties. Dean Baquet, AG Sulzberger, Patrick Healy, Joe Kahn ignored all that and focused instead on a bullshit vomited by republicans (Benghazi, emails) and a book published by Bannon
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
From the FT: looks like der Drumpfenführer is taking the people's money to bail out his fellow fashistas. So much winning for America's beef and soybean farmers!
I wonder if Milei slicked his willy for him. Seems to be the way these ollie handmaidens make deals.
I wonder if Milei slicked his willy for him. Seems to be the way these ollie handmaidens make deals.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
From the FT: looks like der Drumpfenführer is taking the people's money to bail out his fellow fashistas. So much winning for America's beef and soybean farmers!
I wonder if Milei slicked his willy for him. Seems to be the way these ollie handmaidens make deals.
I wonder if Milei slicked his willy for him. Seems to be the way these ollie handmaidens make deals.
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It's why they want abortion illegal. Because a desperate mother trying to save their baby will put up with really gross stuff. All of their politics that 'dont make financial sense' make sense when you realize they want to create a target rich environment for victim hunting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It's why they want abortion illegal. Because a desperate mother trying to save their baby will put up with really gross stuff. All of their politics that 'dont make financial sense' make sense when you realize they want to create a target rich environment for victim hunting.
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Rod Dreher putting on a hot dog costume as he sits down to type this out..
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rod Dreher putting on a hot dog costume as he sits down to type this out..
Thread's worth reading, even if you're a country fan, because while the country folks take a beating, it's not as much of a beating as the people running the music industry take.
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thread's worth reading, even if you're a country fan, because while the country folks take a beating, it's not as much of a beating as the people running the music industry take.
That election just keeps paying off for New York.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
That election just keeps paying off for New York.
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
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I’d chip in: what happens when you launch a years-long media campaign to convince the public that the anti-austerity/anti-racist movement is dangerously hateful and unacceptable, hand in hand with extremely right wing crackpots, actual fascists and genocide enthusiasts? Does society get less racist.
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’d chip in: what happens when you launch a years-long media campaign to convince the public that the anti-austerity/anti-racist movement is dangerously hateful and unacceptable, hand in hand with extremely right wing crackpots, actual fascists and genocide enthusiasts? Does society get less racist.
The American biz press has become an enemy of the American people.
Hassett's invocation of the Laffer Curve should be your tipoff that this is ALL bullshit.
The best possible explanation for the $2000 tariff rebate idea is that Trump is trying to prep the political ground for losing at SCOTUS, ginning up backlash to his PROMISE to pay back the tariffs.
The best possible explanation for the $2000 tariff rebate idea is that Trump is trying to prep the political ground for losing at SCOTUS, ginning up backlash to his PROMISE to pay back the tariffs.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The American biz press has become an enemy of the American people.
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i just realized what hes describing here is a fundraising email, they sold us out for for the promise of dope ass fundraising emails
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
i just realized what hes describing here is a fundraising email, they sold us out for for the promise of dope ass fundraising emails
The difference.
Makes all the difference in the world.
Makes all the difference in the world.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The difference.
Makes all the difference in the world.
Makes all the difference in the world.
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So many Torontonians love to praise cities they travel to (the plazas! the food culture! the joie de fucking vivre!) and then fight tooth & nail against the things that would enable them to happen here.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So many Torontonians love to praise cities they travel to (the plazas! the food culture! the joie de fucking vivre!) and then fight tooth & nail against the things that would enable them to happen here.
Oh, you know, those guys are just trying to extend the umbrella of absolute impunity over themselves just like the USSC has done over der Drumpfenführer, because Donny being the only one that can just shake down the American people because he was committing crimes just isn't FAIR.
"A spending package expected to be approved as part of a deal to reopen the government would create a wide legal avenue for senators to sue for as much as half a million dollars each when federal investigators search their phone records without notifying them." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Oh, you know, those guys are just trying to extend the umbrella of absolute impunity over themselves just like the USSC has done over der Drumpfenführer, because Donny being the only one that can just shake down the American people because he was committing crimes just isn't FAIR.
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Would watch
joyce carol oates and menswear guy should tape a special together
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Would watch
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Will the real welfare recipients please stand up?
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Will the real welfare recipients please stand up?
“Soooo… tell me, what’s the name of your act?”
“The Aristocrats!”
“The Aristocrats!”
Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future.
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Soooo… tell me, what’s the name of your act?”
“The Aristocrats!”
“The Aristocrats!”
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ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges
Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future.
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges