Michael Springer
@michaelspringer.bsky.social
Human; History professor focusing on early modern Europe, immigration history, library history; pronouns are he/him; 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇩🇪
“Venezuela plans to deploy 200,000 troops for military exercises, including members of paramilitary militias. The defense minister speaks of an ‘imperialist threat’ from the United States.”
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Venezuela beginnt Großmanöver wegen Spannungen mit den USA
200.000 Einsatzkräfte will Venezuela zu Militärübungen heranziehen. Darunter sind auch Mitglieder paramilitärischer Milizen. Der Verteidigungsminister spricht von einer »imperialistischen Bedrohung« d...
www.spiegel.de
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Venezuela plans to deploy 200,000 troops for military exercises, including members of paramilitary militias. The defense minister speaks of an ‘imperialist threat’ from the United States.”
www.spiegel.de/ausland/vene...
www.spiegel.de/ausland/vene...
I drove from Houston to Oklahoma City today and learned there are self-identified Christian Nationalist radio stations. WTF? Who listens to these shitty stations (besides this guy who forgot to make a playlist for the trip)?
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I drove from Houston to Oklahoma City today and learned there are self-identified Christian Nationalist radio stations. WTF? Who listens to these shitty stations (besides this guy who forgot to make a playlist for the trip)?
Best take I have read so far. 🥇
senate twink getting fucked in the senate was actually a metaphor for all of us
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Best take I have read so far. 🥇
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Schumer doesn’t get that, after the outrage in March, the only thing that would redeem him was not giving votes to the GOP this time, sticking it out until they caved.
He thinks he gets points for sticking it out for while this time. But that’s not how it works. The anger is now ten times greater.
He thinks he gets points for sticking it out for while this time. But that’s not how it works. The anger is now ten times greater.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Schumer doesn’t get that, after the outrage in March, the only thing that would redeem him was not giving votes to the GOP this time, sticking it out until they caved.
He thinks he gets points for sticking it out for while this time. But that’s not how it works. The anger is now ten times greater.
He thinks he gets points for sticking it out for while this time. But that’s not how it works. The anger is now ten times greater.
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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
A disappointing night.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A disappointing night.
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As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
The U.S. government is paying $4.4 million to Eswatini to jail people forcibly removed from the U.S. in the notorious Matsapha prison. I think this deserves more press coverage.
www.fr.de/politik/nach...
www.fr.de/politik/nach...
Nach Trump-Deal: Afrika-Zwergstaat inhaftiert Migranten in berüchtigtem Gefängnis
Das Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Matsapha sorgt für Schrecken. Seit einem Deal mit Trump werden dort abgeschobene Migranten inhaftiert – unter fragwürdigen Bedingungen.
www.fr.de
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The U.S. government is paying $4.4 million to Eswatini to jail people forcibly removed from the U.S. in the notorious Matsapha prison. I think this deserves more press coverage.
www.fr.de/politik/nach...
www.fr.de/politik/nach...
Congratulations to the President who has achieved the impossible, or at least what I thought was impossible. No, it isn’t a Nobel prize, but somehow, despite the odds, he found a new legal team that makes the old one look somewhat competent. 🤦♂️
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Congratulations to the President who has achieved the impossible, or at least what I thought was impossible. No, it isn’t a Nobel prize, but somehow, despite the odds, he found a new legal team that makes the old one look somewhat competent. 🤦♂️
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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Washington Co. OR: Just declared an emergency
to protect neighbors from the ICE surge.
$200k is unlocked for community orgs, legal help, and relief.
Strange that we need to have local government
protect us from our own federal government.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
to protect neighbors from the ICE surge.
$200k is unlocked for community orgs, legal help, and relief.
Strange that we need to have local government
protect us from our own federal government.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Washington County declares emergency over increased ICE activity
Hillsboro, Washington County set aside a combined $400,000 to help communities impacted by immigration arrests.
www.opb.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Washington Co. OR: Just declared an emergency
to protect neighbors from the ICE surge.
$200k is unlocked for community orgs, legal help, and relief.
Strange that we need to have local government
protect us from our own federal government.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
to protect neighbors from the ICE surge.
$200k is unlocked for community orgs, legal help, and relief.
Strange that we need to have local government
protect us from our own federal government.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
188 cases this year. Seems the real threat to children is these anti-LGBTQ+ religious leaders.
evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-it-anti...
evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-it-anti...
Is It 'Anti-Christian Extremism' To Note How Often Conservative Christian Leaders Abuse Kids?
According to Trump's Nazis, we sure enough bet it is!
evanhurst.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
188 cases this year. Seems the real threat to children is these anti-LGBTQ+ religious leaders.
evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-it-anti...
evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-it-anti...
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
I can’t. Too much to do before the end of the semester. It can’t possibly be time. Make it stop.
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youtube.com/shorts/5K9Vi...
Frankfurt Sets Up Their 2025 Christmas Tree, Frau Holle
YouTube video by Frankfurt on Foot Tours
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I can’t. Too much to do before the end of the semester. It can’t possibly be time. Make it stop.
youtube.com/shorts/5K9Vi...
youtube.com/shorts/5K9Vi...
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No politics is local www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
No Politics Is Local
State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
No politics is local www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Security wait times at IAH are now at 3 hours. Conventional wisdom is that Americans won’t suffer such inconveniences. For the record, I will endure happily these lines if it means affordable healthcare for so many people.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Security wait times at IAH are now at 3 hours. Conventional wisdom is that Americans won’t suffer such inconveniences. For the record, I will endure happily these lines if it means affordable healthcare for so many people.
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
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“That sounds dangerously close to, Hey, let’s put Congress out of business,” he told me. “Frankly, we’re already hurtling in that direction.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
How Trump Could End the Shutdown on His Own
Will he give a 19th-century law another look?
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“That sounds dangerously close to, Hey, let’s put Congress out of business,” he told me. “Frankly, we’re already hurtling in that direction.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...