Your Friend Michael
@michaelpg.bsky.social
We could be doing so much better than this.
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." -Joe Biden, who never actually wanted people to hold him to that ...
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." -Joe Biden, who never actually wanted people to hold him to that ...
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You've asked, you've begged, (you haven't this is rhetorical), and here it is: An Andor/Dril Season 2 Thread! Since I put half the EU in the Season 1 thread (embedded below), I'm instead going to focus on our special boy, Syril Karn.
(Spoilers for Andor S2 follow)
Fig. 1 - Syril at the office.
(Spoilers for Andor S2 follow)
Fig. 1 - Syril at the office.
Man the Jacobin contributor to Atlantic staff writer pipeline sucks.
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Man the Jacobin contributor to Atlantic staff writer pipeline sucks.
This was his reel for Ant-Man lol.
This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.
February 12, 2026 at 11:17 PM
This was his reel for Ant-Man lol.
Jfc
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Jfc
District 9, advance screening. So fuckin good.
Have asked this before and always like the responses. What are your biggest “I saw that in the first run cinema” flexes? Couple of mine:
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Office Space (1999)
February 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
District 9, advance screening. So fuckin good.
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all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this
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Why did the FAA just close the airspace over El Paso for the next several days?
FAA grounds all flights to and from El Paso until Feb. 20
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a temporary flight restriction halting all flights to and from El Paso, including commercial, cargo, and ge
kfoxtv.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Why did the FAA just close the airspace over El Paso for the next several days?
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I do not think 11M Cubans should all starve and die because the US is still mad that they once almost got a little communism in there
February 11, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I do not think 11M Cubans should all starve and die because the US is still mad that they once almost got a little communism in there
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Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
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When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
St@ncil cultivating "internal ice sources" like...
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
St@ncil cultivating "internal ice sources" like...
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"Others say that this action is destructive. ... What is destructive is the insidious belief that the world outside your front door is to be treated with suspicion; that every passerby is a potential threat; that every neighbor is a potential enemy"
good @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social today
good @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social today
Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer
Home and life improvement.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"Others say that this action is destructive. ... What is destructive is the insidious belief that the world outside your front door is to be treated with suspicion; that every passerby is a potential threat; that every neighbor is a potential enemy"
good @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social today
good @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social today
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there is a hundred million dollar bet, backed by powerful companies and people, that you will ignore the anti-trans shit, the Epstein shit, the blatantly evil manner in which this woman acts, the stuff that sucks in the original property ITSELF so You Can Feel Ten Again
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 PM
there is a hundred million dollar bet, backed by powerful companies and people, that you will ignore the anti-trans shit, the Epstein shit, the blatantly evil manner in which this woman acts, the stuff that sucks in the original property ITSELF so You Can Feel Ten Again
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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Either everyone has due process or nobody has due process. It really is that simple.
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Either everyone has due process or nobody has due process. It really is that simple.
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But fwiw DSA membership is still quite small. It is also unfathomably much bigger than pretty much every other dues paying political organization outside of labor unions. This is largely because civil society in the US is uniquely hollowed out and parties basically do not exist
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
But fwiw DSA membership is still quite small. It is also unfathomably much bigger than pretty much every other dues paying political organization outside of labor unions. This is largely because civil society in the US is uniquely hollowed out and parties basically do not exist
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Interesting rhetoric from AOC here
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Interesting rhetoric from AOC here
I don't know what song I'm gonna play when It Happens, but this is the song I'm thinking about It Happening to...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWO...
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I don't know what song I'm gonna play when It Happens, but this is the song I'm thinking about It Happening to...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHWO...
I'm a white nerd from park slope and I was dancing to Daddy Yankee in middle school because this city makes you cooler by osmosis.
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I'm a white nerd from park slope and I was dancing to Daddy Yankee in middle school because this city makes you cooler by osmosis.