Michael Pachter
michaelpachter.bsky.social
Michael Pachter
@michaelpachter.bsky.social
Proud to be woke because I care about social justice. Paying taxes is a high class problem. Vote because you care about others and recognize that other people can do well and make society better
Pinned
I broke down and joined here. Looking forward to carrying on the good fight
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Is the final death of VR here? Pachter Factor Live 62 with @michaelpachter.bsky.social is NOW FREE on YouTube! Meta has been losing billions every year and it just made huge cuts to its VR division. Have we reached the end of the line for VR?
#VR #AR #MetaQuest3 #SteamVR
youtu.be/0muTIzbKsbQ
January 24, 2026 at 1:11 AM
“for possible criminal liability”

She died. Hard to hold a dead person criminally liable for anything
!!!!

"Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
January 24, 2026 at 1:07 AM
All of this ICE activity in Minnesota and Maine makes me wonder when they will start to crack down on all of those illegal Canadian immigrants

Racial profiling gonna be hard, tho
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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🚨RENDITION DEATH SENTENCE 🇮🇷

👉 An Eastern 777 loading right now in Mesa, Arizona may be carrying homosexual men to Iran where they face almost certain execution 😲

azmirror.com/2026/01/23/g...
Gay asylum-seekers set for deportation to Iran fear execution in their home country
Two gay men from Iran who sought asylum in the U.S. are set to be deported out of Mesa and fear they will be executed in their home country.
azmirror.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Amazon has refused critics access to view the multi-million-dollar vanity project ahead of its opening next weekend, where it's projected to bomb.

trib.al/1Mn1dDA
White House Launches Desperate Bid to Save Melania’s Movie
The White House is doing all it can to try and save the first lady’s film from an embarrassing and expensive disaster.
trib.al
January 23, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Paid agitators don't do 30 below zero.
January 23, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I find it amazing (ridiculous) that ICE is in MINNESOTA to fight back against all of the violent criminals Biden let slip across the border to CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA and TEXAS
January 23, 2026 at 11:18 PM
We should trade Florida for Alberta
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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One of the funny things about this is that if Trump hadn't done that stupid "51st state" stuff and imposed all those tariffs, right now Pierre Poilievre would be prime minister and Trump's biggest international hype man
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from . . .
January 23, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
January 23, 2026 at 7:39 PM
I am truly inspired by the Minnesota protesters

They are being pepper sprayed, shot at, dragged out of their cars and arrested, and yet their numbers keep growing

Impressive and effective
January 23, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The real problem I have with the “worst of the worst” MAGA/ICE mantra is that they attempt to justify it by saying it is OK to deport 99 innocent immigrants if they catch 1 violent criminal

They have it EXACTLY backwards

And that, fellow babies, is the BASIS for Constitutional due process
January 23, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Watching MSNow with Republican talking heads consistently saying “10 million illegals” flooded across the border during Biden’s term

Those were encounters and include all of the people turned away. Most estimates say 1.7 - 2 million actually made it in

Nobody correcting them.
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
100% this 👇
In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance lectured Appalachians for being lazy bums. He lectured "childless cat ladies" he claimed were unhappy. Now he's lecturing every woman with a white collar job for living a meaningless life.

Such a smug, condescending jackass. No wonder everyone hates him.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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As an immigrant who spoke only Spanish as a kid, I can see myself in Liam Ramos and so many other children who are being terrorized by ICE. My anger and fury is real, and I look forward to hauling all those responsible in front of the oversight committee when I’m chair.
January 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
AMC pulled it from my local 12 plex
I am surprised it is not less than zero
Exactly zero seats sold for these screenings of the Melania doc this afternoon.
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I would love to see Jared Kushner awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Beating a dead horse here, but the Republicans on Oversight were asking ridiculous and faux outraged questions about why Jack Smith didn't "notify" the reps and Senators whose phone records he subpoenaed

To give an example, let's pretend a Mafia boss orders his troops to rob a bank . . . /1
January 23, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Nobody should care about my movie opinion, but I loved Sinners and Frankenstein and really enjoyed Bugonia. One Battle After Another--not so much. Sean Penn was phenomenal in an intentionally over the top role, however

If you're looking for a small gem, see Caught Stealing (free on Netflix)
January 23, 2026 at 4:29 PM
From Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview at Davos.

Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank said this: “It takes time to build trust. It doesn’t take much time to erode it. Trust has been eroded — maybe a little bit, maybe a lot.”
January 23, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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no matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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I think the better question is, what is the matter with anyone who voted for him?
Honestly, what’s the matter with him?
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I love these stories of the masked snowflakes in ICE
Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 AM