Mike Lowder
@mclowder.bsky.social
Deafflatusized sailor; fermenter of chiles; retired attorney. I spend most of my time with dogs.
Director of Corporate Awesomeness at ANTIFA.
Immigration is good; and the US needs it.
https://bsky.app/profile/mclowder.bsky.social/post/3ked3qi33tc2d
Director of Corporate Awesomeness at ANTIFA.
Immigration is good; and the US needs it.
https://bsky.app/profile/mclowder.bsky.social/post/3ked3qi33tc2d
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Who could have seen this coming?
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Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.
MEPS seems to be gone as of now. This is very bad. These are critical pieces of data about health care and they belong to the American public.
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Increasingly concerning that the Trump Admin is obliterating data so we can’t document what they’re destroying. In this case, gold standard tracking of health care access, insurance coverage and costs. It’s a study that will help us understand the impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill.
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Senate Armed Services chair:
December 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Senate Armed Services chair:
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When they die and go to hell, I wish that they’ll be next to a leaf blower in the morning and a dude talking loudly on his cell about “business” like at the airport for the rest of their days. And the only wine is Two Buck Chuck.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
When they die and go to hell, I wish that they’ll be next to a leaf blower in the morning and a dude talking loudly on his cell about “business” like at the airport for the rest of their days. And the only wine is Two Buck Chuck.
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If you voted to confirm Pete Hegseth, the murders are on you.
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you voted to confirm Pete Hegseth, the murders are on you.
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Signs you might be far white authoritarian party (#3269):
Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Signs you might be far white authoritarian party (#3269):
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Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3268):
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3268):
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Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.
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Olena Zelenska shared that Kremlin is resisting to provide any information on stolen Ukrainian children, herewith violating the Vienna Convention
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Olena Zelenska shared that Kremlin is resisting to provide any information on stolen Ukrainian children, herewith violating the Vienna Convention
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Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Until he starts calling for immediate resignations & impeachments, it's all sort of meaningless words. Shift the Overton window by calling it all what it is & demanding Congressional Republicans who also swore oaths to uphold the Constitution & control both houses fulfill them.
Sen. Kelly: “President Trump is trying to silence me. Threatening to kill me for saying what is true. And he sent his Secretary of Defense after me. And it's not going to work.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Until he starts calling for immediate resignations & impeachments, it's all sort of meaningless words. Shift the Overton window by calling it all what it is & demanding Congressional Republicans who also swore oaths to uphold the Constitution & control both houses fulfill them.
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a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
December 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
a real tell in all of this is that the trans instructor wasn't alone in trashing this essay! a whole other person also said they agreed completely that it sucked. but as far as i can tell only the trans person is getting punished. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
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He played golf on four of the past six days. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
Leavitt: "The NYT took about 1/3 of the president's daily calendar & schedule & said that he's doing less than he did in his first term, or he might not be fit for the job. That is unequivocally false and it's deeply unfortunate that the story was written ... he is taking meetings around the clock"
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
He played golf on four of the past six days. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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For all of his pre-2017 complaints about Obama's golf habit over eight years in office, Trump's passed that total in less than five.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For all of his pre-2017 complaints about Obama's golf habit over eight years in office, Trump's passed that total in less than five.
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We’re a full month into ACA Open Enrollment.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We’re a full month into ACA Open Enrollment.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
Families are scrambling to figure out how they’ll afford to pay double, triple, and even quadruple in premiums.
But Republicans are still uninterested in joining Democrats to stop these disastrous price hikes.
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Within just a few hours of getting this feedback, the student *emailed the fucking governor*. Her mom is all over Xitter posting like mad. I mean, are you new here? This coordinated RW attack is a pattern, and if you aren't paying attention to this context, I can't take you seriously. Do better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Within just a few hours of getting this feedback, the student *emailed the fucking governor*. Her mom is all over Xitter posting like mad. I mean, are you new here? This coordinated RW attack is a pattern, and if you aren't paying attention to this context, I can't take you seriously. Do better.
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People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.
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BREAKING: Bronze Star winner appears in federal court, accused of flag burning near White House
Supporters arrive as updated charges are filed ====>
youtube.com/shorts/LUqBW...
Supporters arrive as updated charges are filed ====>
youtube.com/shorts/LUqBW...
BREAKING: Bronze Star winner appears in federal court, accused of flag burning near White House
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
BREAKING: Bronze Star winner appears in federal court, accused of flag burning near White House
Supporters arrive as updated charges are filed ====>
youtube.com/shorts/LUqBW...
Supporters arrive as updated charges are filed ====>
youtube.com/shorts/LUqBW...
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"I know nothing about the former Honduran president who was jailed for smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the US and who I vowed to pardon yesterday." An if Biden did it for the ages. bsky.app/profile/atru...
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"I know nothing about the former Honduran president who was jailed for smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the US and who I vowed to pardon yesterday." An if Biden did it for the ages. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A great way to avoid future chaos? Congress should mandate proportional representation.
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Chaos Reigns as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A great way to avoid future chaos? Congress should mandate proportional representation.
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
No more endless legal limbo.
No more gerrymandering.
Easy peezy lemon squeezy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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I agree with this critique although I will add that my critique (additionally) is that these stories do not discuss STATE VIOLENCE, like, you know, the goons kidnapping folks on the street and leaving children in the car.
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I agree with this critique although I will add that my critique (additionally) is that these stories do not discuss STATE VIOLENCE, like, you know, the goons kidnapping folks on the street and leaving children in the car.
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Also, the essay provides no evidence that the student read the assignment; it's--generously--four copies of the same ~150 words of content standing on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat with a sign that says "I is 600 word essay" and it's OBVIOUSLY WRITTEN IN BAD FAITH.
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Also, the essay provides no evidence that the student read the assignment; it's--generously--four copies of the same ~150 words of content standing on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat with a sign that says "I is 600 word essay" and it's OBVIOUSLY WRITTEN IN BAD FAITH.