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Michael Sheldon 🌎
@michaelsheldo.bsky.social
Standing up for diversity, equity, inclusion, climate & social justice. InterBeing. Growing fruit & veggies. Parkrunner. Born at 319 ppm.
Apathy is the greatest ally of the authoritarian.
Silence is consent
Inaction is complicity
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BREAKING:

A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Alison Gill @muellershewrote.com
One of the best indie journalists out there. A relentless Maga slayer.
Here reliable sources confirm what’s in the Epstein files is worse than previously known.

www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...
LIVE: Trump COVER UP of DARK PAST BACKFIRES…GOP PANICS!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I’m considerably cheered up. Such a great story!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Great ad. I’m donating now so Aftyn can run it as much as possible.

Join me.

This race is winnable.
🚨OUR NEW AD JUST DROPPED 🚨

Washington is giving billionaires the easy ride—while hard-working Tennessean get a rough ride due to bad policies.

I’m running for Congress to change that. Vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social beginning on Nov. 12 to shake up Washington. Election Dec. 2nd

#TN7 #AftynBehn
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Is Johnson holding out for Tennessee victory and vote of Van Epps Dec 2nd if he wins to scupper the discharge petition?
Everybody who isn't a pedophile supporting fascist should be pushing the boat out for Aftyn Behn right now.

news.ballotpedia.org/2025/11/06/a...
Aftyn Behn (D), Matt Van Epps (R), and four independent candidates are running in the special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District - Ballotpedia News
news.ballotpedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
'There’s a direct link between the poverty Gates claims to care so much about and the wealth he fails to mention'
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Yeah, as if the working class even had a whole cookie in 2025.
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Yaxley-Lennon says “Elon Musk, I’m forever grateful. If you didn’t step in and fund my legal fight I’d probably be in jail,” Thank you, Elon.”

Musk is a friend of Yaxley-Lennon, not yours.
#Teslatakedown
#BoycottMusk

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk makes himself far-right fixture after White House departure
The Tesla CEO once hinted he was done with politics – but he’s been leaning further into the international far right
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."
zeteo.com Zeteo @zeteo.com · Jul 23
"We don't need socialism. We need public-private partnerships."

After Zohran Mamdani's historic primary victory in New York, establishment Democrats are already copying his signature videos. Zeteo produced our own (fake) centrist Democrat featuring Zeteo senior producer @heycappello.bsky.social.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”

IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.

✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/zyip9ee
October 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A prescient warning & the urgency of coordinated action, by @francescabria.bsky.social

'What is emerging is not a planetary commons but a new tech-military complex financed by capital aligned with authoritarian ideologies & legitimised through patriotic rhetoric'

www.noemamag.com/reclaiming-e...
Reclaiming Europe’s Digital Sovereignty | NOEMA
Europe can accept permanent technological dependency, or it can build democratic digital systems rooted in climate commitments, labor protections and social diversity.
www.noemamag.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Elon Musk, an uncharismatic swindler, says Zohran Mamdani is a charismatic swindler.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is the 3rd time I’m reposting this and it may not be the last.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
‘Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.’
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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We deserve a better democracy than this! If you agree, pre-order my new book On Mindful Democracy from Thich Nhat Hanh’s Parallax Press. Here, I forward a radical vision of democracy grounded in everyday acts of #mindfulness, #community, and mutual care.

20% off discount code: MINDFUL20
On Mindful Democracy – Parallax Press
An antidote to political burnout and civic despair: drawing on mindfulness and modern wisdom to cultivate resilience, healthy engagement, and skillful presence in turbulent times
www.parallax.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Let’s go

#NoTrillionaires

See you outside a Tesla showroom on Saturday week (Nov 15)

#TeslaTakedown
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Mark Zuckerberg is fine with his platforms showing users 15 billion scam ads a day.
Investors not so impressed.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Good news from Scotland
The people are rising and reclaiming….

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scottish Parliament passes land reform bill
The legislation is designed to help reduce the concentration of rural land ownership among a small number of people.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This is deeply disappointing from Starmer.

The UK *helped design* this 'TFFF' fund, designed to stop deforestation, and supposedly 'continues to back the fund' (in theory). But now isn't putting any money into it 🤯

How embarrassing for the UK.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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"The momentum is crazy!"
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
‘It’s obvious the real story is the President is babbling nonsensically. That is the story. But that’s not the story you read in the newspaper or see on TV…They won’t show you he’s rambling on and on without any connecting ideas’
If you have 25 minutes to spare, or a portion of it, and the stamina for more bad news, Dr. John Gartner sounding more alarms about Trump's deteriorating mental state:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtO...
‘The smoking gun’ that points to Trump’s cognitive decline | Psychologist analyses Trump
YouTube video by Times Radio
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations!

His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind.

It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM