Michael E
@michaeleichner.bsky.social
Occasional badass.
World is scary but as The Doctor says “Scared is a superpower”
Liberal. GenX. Consumer of things. Enthusiast. No time for bullies. Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Among other stuff ex JD, Ultimate for CUT.
Social introvert; ADHD; likes to explain. #landback
World is scary but as The Doctor says “Scared is a superpower”
Liberal. GenX. Consumer of things. Enthusiast. No time for bullies. Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Among other stuff ex JD, Ultimate for CUT.
Social introvert; ADHD; likes to explain. #landback
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Congratulations to 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado for convincing the United States to back her violent overthrow of her government.
The kids slept in til 830 and I turned off my alarms time to look at my phone and see what fresh hell I’ve woken up to today and….
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Congratulations to 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado for convincing the United States to back her violent overthrow of her government.
He still doesn’t understand the word “asylum”
Trump claiming on Fox News that Venezuela emptied out its jails and mental institutions into the United States as justification.
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
He still doesn’t understand the word “asylum”
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Someone in our back alley decided to ring in the New Year with gunshots. Appears no one was injured but police are outside investigating. Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Someone in our back alley decided to ring in the New Year with gunshots. Appears no one was injured but police are outside investigating. Happy New Year!
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It’s remarkable how quickly Vance and his cohort have gone from “Trump could be America’s Hitler” (derogatory) to “Trump could be America’s Hitler” (not derogatory).
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
It’s remarkable how quickly Vance and his cohort have gone from “Trump could be America’s Hitler” (derogatory) to “Trump could be America’s Hitler” (not derogatory).
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Likely KL will resign soon. Or stay on in some sort of weird “trad mom” flex. But the thing I’ve learned is that there’s always someone worse waiting in the wings. They kept getting worse after Sean Spicer.
She’s concerned her pressing schedule lying for trump will interfere with her wife and mom duties.
How soon until Karoline Leavitt submits her resignation?
How soon until Karoline Leavitt submits her resignation?
December 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Likely KL will resign soon. Or stay on in some sort of weird “trad mom” flex. But the thing I’ve learned is that there’s always someone worse waiting in the wings. They kept getting worse after Sean Spicer.
New Years Eve party was cancelled. Introvert in me is “yay” but I’m more disappointed: I was looking forward to socially-acceptable way to have a few too many, and now I feel the need to do something special in-house. Ideas gratefully accepted!
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New Years Eve party was cancelled. Introvert in me is “yay” but I’m more disappointed: I was looking forward to socially-acceptable way to have a few too many, and now I feel the need to do something special in-house. Ideas gratefully accepted!
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The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
NYT confirms some sort of action: “American officials said that Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that it was eliminated, but provided no details. Military officials said they had no information to share, and the CIA declined to comment. The White House declined to comment.”
Trump Says the U.S. Struck a ‘Big Facility’ in Campaign Against Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The American people deserve to know the details and the legal justification when their military blows up things in foreign countries.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
But that transparency isn't happening because the dictator Trump sees the military as his, not ours.
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These guys truly think they’re Aragorn or Gandalf or Legolas, when they’re really, at best, Saruman or Shelob or Grima Wormtongue. Mostly they’re replacement-level orcs who can’t read a book.
It’s not just “we decided to name our company after the personification of evil.” It’s also “we decided to name our home security company after the personification of evil who was so vainly proud of his vigilance that he let his home get invaded in the most catastrophic way possible.”
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
December 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
These guys truly think they’re Aragorn or Gandalf or Legolas, when they’re really, at best, Saruman or Shelob or Grima Wormtongue. Mostly they’re replacement-level orcs who can’t read a book.
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2022 was an amazing time
December 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
2022 was an amazing time
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Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it.
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thread. This is a crucial thing for non-Christian Americans to understand. Most Christian Nationalists think it’s an act of kindness on their part to tell you that you will be going to hell if you don’t convert. It’s incomprehensible to most of them that they’re being bigots.
I call this one “The Immaculate Pocket Dial”
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I call this one “The Immaculate Pocket Dial”
Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Right Scum that is going everything possible to destroy our country, but I WISH were failing badly… Thank you for your attention to this matter!
December 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Right Scum that is going everything possible to destroy our country, but I WISH were failing badly… Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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wild that this simultaneously implicates Trump and contains some of the best evidence that Epstein actually killed himself
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
wild that this simultaneously implicates Trump and contains some of the best evidence that Epstein actually killed himself
Big day in the Carlson household… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Tucker Carlson named ‘Antisemite of the Year’ by Jewish civil rights group
Conservative broadcaster accused of ‘divisive, hateful, and dangerous rhetoric’ by StopAntisemitism
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Big day in the Carlson household… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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I've said it before, I'll say it again:
If you were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and hurting children, I don't care WHO you are, or what party you belong to.
If you hurt kids, you don't belong to ANY party except the pedo party.
And you belong in prison for life.
PERIOD.
If you were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and hurting children, I don't care WHO you are, or what party you belong to.
If you hurt kids, you don't belong to ANY party except the pedo party.
And you belong in prison for life.
PERIOD.
December 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
If you were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and hurting children, I don't care WHO you are, or what party you belong to.
If you hurt kids, you don't belong to ANY party except the pedo party.
And you belong in prison for life.
PERIOD.
If you were hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein and hurting children, I don't care WHO you are, or what party you belong to.
If you hurt kids, you don't belong to ANY party except the pedo party.
And you belong in prison for life.
PERIOD.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Venezuela and Greenland became states before DC and Puerto Rico? I mean, not funny ha ha but…
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wouldn’t it be funny if Venezuela and Greenland became states before DC and Puerto Rico? I mean, not funny ha ha but…
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Ask Dr. Oz how much he'd pay to get his back.
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ask Dr. Oz how much he'd pay to get his back.
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This constant argument that politicians cannot change public opinion and are just slaves to opinion polls based on interviews with people who have been soaked in right wing propaganda is one of the dumbest things going today.
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This constant argument that politicians cannot change public opinion and are just slaves to opinion polls based on interviews with people who have been soaked in right wing propaganda is one of the dumbest things going today.
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We have popular consensus on many gun safety measures but a democracy problem preventing passage. So long as one party (insulated by gerrymandering) remains in the thrall of a paranoid anti-government cult allergic to social responsibility, we will be stuck in the endless loop of death and paralysis
the gun lobby only partially accounts for failure to enact national common sense gun laws. We cannot ignore the role played by a reactionary ideology antithetical to US progress and reform, badly ignorant of our history and dependent on judicial fiat to get its way.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Two Countries
Two responses to gun massacres
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We have popular consensus on many gun safety measures but a democracy problem preventing passage. So long as one party (insulated by gerrymandering) remains in the thrall of a paranoid anti-government cult allergic to social responsibility, we will be stuck in the endless loop of death and paralysis
The great North Dakota/Venezuela territorial war.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The great North Dakota/Venezuela territorial war.
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Shameless plug alert!
If all this talk about Originalism is starting to get on your nerves, I have some truly goofy satire to offer you. I have a story in this book and it's possibly the most original take on the Original Sin of Originalism ever 😜
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
If all this talk about Originalism is starting to get on your nerves, I have some truly goofy satire to offer you. I have a story in this book and it's possibly the most original take on the Original Sin of Originalism ever 😜
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Shameless plug alert!
If all this talk about Originalism is starting to get on your nerves, I have some truly goofy satire to offer you. I have a story in this book and it's possibly the most original take on the Original Sin of Originalism ever 😜
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
If all this talk about Originalism is starting to get on your nerves, I have some truly goofy satire to offer you. I have a story in this book and it's possibly the most original take on the Original Sin of Originalism ever 😜
www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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The things Susie Wiles says in this wide-ranging, year-long interview are some of the most bizarre, crackpot self-delusions I’ve ever read from someone in Trumpworld.
Consider: “The people that are inordinately interested in Epstein are....not the MAGA base.”
Fucking seriously, Susie, you lunatic?
Consider: “The people that are inordinately interested in Epstein are....not the MAGA base.”
Fucking seriously, Susie, you lunatic?
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The things Susie Wiles says in this wide-ranging, year-long interview are some of the most bizarre, crackpot self-delusions I’ve ever read from someone in Trumpworld.
Consider: “The people that are inordinately interested in Epstein are....not the MAGA base.”
Fucking seriously, Susie, you lunatic?
Consider: “The people that are inordinately interested in Epstein are....not the MAGA base.”
Fucking seriously, Susie, you lunatic?