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Hendrik Michael
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Researching journalism & media change, storytelling & strategic communication.
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it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Look at those happy faces! Carefree times for all the wrong people.
Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Clavicular were all in a night club in Miami singing and dancing to the Kanye song "Heil Hitler" which they requested be played.
January 18, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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jesus christ
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An incompetent scene. DT's people are oblivious. There is no way to secure Venezuela unless they have a ton of boots on the ground. Continued bombing and assaults alone either strengthen the powers that be or the systems in place degrade to a point where the country collapses into civil conflict.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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So good.
This is a real headline on the New York Times website.

Support independent media.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Matt Gaetz, James O’Keefe, and Laura Loomer have replaced the Pentagon press corps.

I am not kidding. Look at the thread below.

One of the military’s most critical lines of accountability is now a closed-circuit conspiracy carousel.
moments after Matt Gaetz asks a question at the Pentagon press briefing, Laura Loomer gets her turn
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Scandalogy 6: Power, Protest and the Politics of Emotion will be at HAW Hamburg. Call for papers is now open: www.haw-hamburg.de/scandalogy/. Abstracts from all corners of the #commsky welcome! Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
HAW-Hamburg: Scandalogy
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October 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Wenn man TV-Interviews zur NRW-Wahl sieht, fällt auf: Der AfD-Begriff „Altparteien“ ist inzwischen im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch angekommen.
Das ist, was Politikwissenschaftler*innen mit Normalisierung meinen (zu der wir uns die Finger blutig schreiben seit Jahr & Tag 🙄).
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Save to assume Trump has destroyed $100's of billions of US over the next few years between trade & investment & high-skilled immigration & tourism. But I bet those ICE agents had some much fun coming up with racist nicknames to shout while tortoring legal foreign workers bsky.app/profile/carl...
September 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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People are homeless because they can’t afford rent.

Because capitalism wrings out every piece of productivity from people while just barely maintaining their survival so they can continue to work.

Because suffering on the streets is a threat to make you go clock in.

It’s not a personal failure.
September 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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My god…
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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„Grenzdebil“
taz.de taz @taz.de · Sep 3
Harald Welzer attestiert der politischen Klasse einen „grenzdebilen Zirkelschluss"
taz.de/Titelessay-v...
(Ein Beitrag aus der aktuellen @tazfuturzwei.bsky.social )
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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$50 says that’s Stephen Miller wearing his skin
Trump leaves the White House this morning

(Andrew Caballero/Getty)
September 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Dass Menschen ganz von selbst 'rechts' werden, weil sie sich ohnmächtig fühlen, Zukunftsängste haben, ihre Privilegien sichern und ihre Frustration an Schwächeren ausleben wollen, um sich selbstwirksam zu fühlen - diese schon 80 Jahre alte Analyse ist einfach zu hoch für das deutsche Feuilleton...
Bekanntlich muss die Linke einfach die Bluse zumachen, dann hören die Rechtsextremen von ganz allein wieder auf.
August 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It’s incredible how all these quislings spend their time saying Trump’s dictatorial actions are “distractions” from how unpopular he is when…dictatorial actions are obviously necessary to consolidate power despite being unpopular.
Jeffries on Trump planning a military crackdown in Chicago: "We should continue to support local law enforcement and not simply allow Donald Trump to play games with the lives of the American people as part of his effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction because he's deeply unpopular"
August 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Monstrous
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM