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dougmasson.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Hoosier. Citizen. Lawyer. Due process is where you go to see if what is said is so.
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There we go.

submitted 7 hours ago • 209 comments

Revisiting a bunch of classic hardcore at the gym, and a reminder: If the hardcore punk band’s guitarist looks anything like this, you are going to die in the pit.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Come on, DoJ, how hard can it be to find someone willing to sign their name to a load of absolute bullshit that blatantly ignores court orders in front of a judge already hinting that holding officials in contempt is the likely next step here.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

you have to judge these things on a scale. Is it as big as George Clooney reporting that Biden is old? As big as Tim Walz mixing up what month he was in Hong Kong in 1989? As big as ANTHONY WEINERS LAPTOP?

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

Trump administration proclaims impotence against El Salvador.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I'll miss Lilly at IU and good luck to her!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Indiana's state leaders have expressed a lot of love for Hungary and Viktor Orban. I'm sure they regard this bit of cruelty as feature and not a bug.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I remember when the common wisdom was that we were controlled by corporations. If only. What we’re seeing now is so bad for business that’s clearly not the case.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 4 days ago • 432 comments

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 5 days ago • 1938 comments

160 years ago today.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The table is set for a liquidity crisis. All the pieces are there -- real economic damages of uncertain magnitude, huge pressures to abandon US financial markets and a bizarrely erratic policy environment to justify capital flight. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 6 days ago • 396 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Weird, weird people out in the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

These people are so fucking weird.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

submitted 7 days ago • 249 comments

Huh. Sew my head to the carpet. They didn't even wait for their national abortion ban, did they? From @tristansnell.bsky.social email this morning:

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I miss Infrastructure Week.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the sick thing is, we have an actual policy that was revitalizing US manufacturing without relying on the nimble hands of underpaid 10yo wastrels it’s called the Inflation Reduction Act and they are shoving it into the wood chipper

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

America won’t be great again until our American children are toiling away in Nike sweatshops.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I am guaranteeing you all have relatives you can forward this to and who will benefit from it.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

It's strange how a tax on the wealthy to build the American infrastructure and health care is too expensive but we can vanish 3 trillion in wealth in 2 days. What would have cost less?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments