Michael Netherton
@beyondthestorm.bsky.social
Instructional Designer, Artist, movie-lover, reader and (very) concerned citizen. No dms thanks.
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NEW: NC GOP enacts a "racist" gerrymander. Maine Republicans push a ballot measure to gut mail voting as USPS delays ballots. Trump’s DOJ, led by election deniers, set to deploy agents to state elections.
What legacy media probably missed this week👇
What legacy media probably missed this week👇
This Week at Democracy Docket: Yet Another GOP Gerrymander, While DOJ Moves to Gain Control Over Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW: NC GOP enacts a "racist" gerrymander. Maine Republicans push a ballot measure to gut mail voting as USPS delays ballots. Trump’s DOJ, led by election deniers, set to deploy agents to state elections.
What legacy media probably missed this week👇
What legacy media probably missed this week👇
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Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc
Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off
Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.
n.pr
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc
Add #JonnyQuest robot spider to my Halloween collection this year.
October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Add #JonnyQuest robot spider to my Halloween collection this year.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy.
Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.
Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.
Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire
A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
www.motherjones.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy.
Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.
Too bad that it's basically a gift for one hedge fund manager with ties to Bessent himself.
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The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."
Trump's TikTok deal payment criticized as 'shakedown scheme' by experts
The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."
It is with great sadness that I awake to find #CoxComm no longer has #MeTV listed in the line up for #Pensacola. There aren't a lot of reasons for keeping cable at this point and losing MeTV makes for one less.
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is with great sadness that I awake to find #CoxComm no longer has #MeTV listed in the line up for #Pensacola. There aren't a lot of reasons for keeping cable at this point and losing MeTV makes for one less.
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UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.
UC Berkeley professor warns of 'unprecedented crackdown' on academic freedom
UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.
n.pr
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.
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Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
What Florida Is Doing To Vaccine Mandates Is Sick
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
www.forbes.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
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One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
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Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over import tariffs
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
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One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there”
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August 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
One man, the son of Holocaust survivors, said, “People being kidnapped without arrest warrants, without trial, without recourse, by the president of the United States’s ICE armies ... We are not headed toward an authoritarian fascist government; we are already there”
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Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.
Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America — and CEOs are staying mum
Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.
n.pr
August 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Critics warn that Trump's demands for business leaders to step down, and for the government to take a cut of sales, threaten American-style capitalism.
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President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
August 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
President Trump made false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., during a news conference on Monday as he announced that the administration would take federal control of the police. Here’s a fact-check. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
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"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."
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President Trump's tariffs are expected to cost households an average of $2,400 per year, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University.
They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.
They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.
Cars, coffee and clothing are poised to get pricier with new tariffs
The Trump administration’s latest tariffs are expected to drive up prices for U.S. consumers, with costs rising for everyday items such as groceries and clothes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
President Trump's tariffs are expected to cost households an average of $2,400 per year, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University.
They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.
They estimate food prices could rise more than 3 percent and car prices could rise 12 percent.
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"Trump and everybody around him belong in jail... There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes."
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
"I remember the first time that I saw a little girl, she was eight months old, brought to me—she was sticks and bones and she was dead."
www.motherjones.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Trump and everybody around him belong in jail... There is no sane human being who can look at the situation and not see a pile of war crimes."
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
A doctor in Gaza describes the horror of starvation
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Some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers and shelving years, or even decades, of research into everything from opioid addiction to cancer.
Funding freeze could set research back years, Harvard scientists say
“It's like we have been creating a state-of-the-art telescope to explore the universe, and now we don’t have money to launch it.”
to.pbs.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers and shelving years, or even decades, of research into everything from opioid addiction to cancer.
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If anyone needed a reminder that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than his recent social media posts.
RFK Jr. defends $500M cut for mRNA vaccines with pseudoscience gobbledygook
He clearly has no idea what antigenic shift means.
arstechnica.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If anyone needed a reminder that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no background in science or medicine, look no further than his recent social media posts.
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GOP lawmakers have used the threat of noncitizen voting to justify harsh voting restrictions, claiming noncitizens are illegally swinging elections.
But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.
But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.
States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric.
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
GOP lawmakers have used the threat of noncitizen voting to justify harsh voting restrictions, claiming noncitizens are illegally swinging elections.
But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.
But investigations across the country unanimously concluded one thing: noncitizen voting is a nonissue.
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"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about. But, in fact, he doesn't," Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said of the HHS secretary.
Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine…
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he's talking about. But, in fact, he doesn't," Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said of the HHS secretary.
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Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ
Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story
#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics
Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story
#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics
August 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell DOJ
Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story
#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics
Cartoon by @Andertoon for Raw Story
#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics
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Redistricting happens every 10 years.
But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting.
They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026.
This is a surgical strike on democracy.
Every voter should be pissed.
#MessWithTexas
But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting.
They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026.
This is a surgical strike on democracy.
Every voter should be pissed.
#MessWithTexas
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Redistricting happens every 10 years.
But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting.
They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026.
This is a surgical strike on democracy.
Every voter should be pissed.
#MessWithTexas
But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting.
They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026.
This is a surgical strike on democracy.
Every voter should be pissed.
#MessWithTexas
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The BLS did exactly what it's supposed to do: provide accurate, nonpartisan data. When the numbers showed Trump's "economic boom" was actually a bust (33k jobs vs claimed 291k), he fired the messenger. After all, when it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists.
We’re officially in Donald Trump’s mad king era
All the books that are fit to cook.
www.motherjones.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The BLS did exactly what it's supposed to do: provide accurate, nonpartisan data. When the numbers showed Trump's "economic boom" was actually a bust (33k jobs vs claimed 291k), he fired the messenger. After all, when it rains too much, true leaders fire the meteorologists.