Michan Connor
@michanconnor.bsky.social
Ex-academic who never kissed Epstein's ass for money or told a reporter Epstein was brilliant to cover my shame at kissing a pedo's ass for money
Not a six-figure beltway political consultant.
Opinions do not reflect those of my day job or anyone else
Not a six-figure beltway political consultant.
Opinions do not reflect those of my day job or anyone else
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We don't talk about it this way, but the US government's choice to pursue austerity in the 2010s was a truly monstrous crime -- yet another crime for which none of the guilty elites paid any penalty at all, not even reputational.
The Struggle for the Fed | Trevor Jackson
The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?
www.nybooks.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:50 PM
We don't talk about it this way, but the US government's choice to pursue austerity in the 2010s was a truly monstrous crime -- yet another crime for which none of the guilty elites paid any penalty at all, not even reputational.
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This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Rubio openly saying that western civilization is *christian* culture exclusively while dog-whistling to the German far right seems like a danger sign for Jewish ppl? maybe?
too bad the adl has decided that you can't be antisemitic as long as you support the genocide of Palestinians.
too bad the adl has decided that you can't be antisemitic as long as you support the genocide of Palestinians.
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Rubio openly saying that western civilization is *christian* culture exclusively while dog-whistling to the German far right seems like a danger sign for Jewish ppl? maybe?
too bad the adl has decided that you can't be antisemitic as long as you support the genocide of Palestinians.
too bad the adl has decided that you can't be antisemitic as long as you support the genocide of Palestinians.
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There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
I also am baffled that people are assuming this super checkered barely known guy will be super progressive as though we're not living in a post Fetterman universe.
It's nuts that these are the two candidates the respective wings of the Maine Dems have coughed up. I am positive there are, somewhere in the state, a moderate who's not 97 years old and a progressive who doesn't have nazi tattoos.
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
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medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday
The descendant of mercenary deadbeats who couldn’t hack being given stolen land to help subjugate Ulster and had to go try it in America. That tracks
Similarly, JD Vance claiming Scots-Irish heritage seems to have missed the point that the Scots-Irish as a group were largely despised in Ireland as usurpers of traditional Irish landowners serving the crown. Their traditions of discrimination against Catholics fueled the Troubles.
February 15, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The descendant of mercenary deadbeats who couldn’t hack being given stolen land to help subjugate Ulster and had to go try it in America. That tracks
Invited JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN, CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER, to his VALENTINES DAY PARTY
Just days after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was exposed for his complete lie about cutting off contact with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, yet another Trump official was discovered to be in the Epstein files. trib.al/Q6lCrD8
February 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Invited JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN, CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER, to his VALENTINES DAY PARTY
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“Has more or less this exact same thing happened before, and what does the general disinclination to remember that suggest?” are a pair of questions imo people should ask more
February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
“Has more or less this exact same thing happened before, and what does the general disinclination to remember that suggest?” are a pair of questions imo people should ask more
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The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism
Why does he suck so bad
Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"
February 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Why does he suck so bad
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Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.
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“It’s like going to battle with half your generals in place.” Of the 27 institutes and centers that make up NIH, 16 were missing permanent directors as of Friday, when staff received news of the latest departure. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
National Institutes of Health faces leadership vacuum as director positions sit open
More than half of the NIH's institutes and centers don’t have permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape the agency. The latest departure came on Friday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
“It’s like going to battle with half your generals in place.” Of the 27 institutes and centers that make up NIH, 16 were missing permanent directors as of Friday, when staff received news of the latest departure. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
Huh the international sporting cabal sucking up to fascists now I’ve seen it all
From @theathletic.com: The Olympics’ store has sold out of the T-shirt that features artwork from the 1936 Berlin Games, which Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used to promote their antisemitic and racist regime.
Olympic store sells out of controversial T-shirt promoting Adolf Hitler’s 1936 Games
An IOC spokesperson said they "acknowledge the historical issues of 'Nazi propaganda'" related to the Berlin competition.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Huh the international sporting cabal sucking up to fascists now I’ve seen it all
Imagine if Geert Wilders came to Congress and said Cuban refugees were ruining western civilization in America and then Marco Rubio thanked him and deported his parents
It’s very weird that the US keeps telling Europe they should be whiter
Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Imagine if Geert Wilders came to Congress and said Cuban refugees were ruining western civilization in America and then Marco Rubio thanked him and deported his parents
Perfectly normal shit
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Perfectly normal shit
I proclaimed yesterday to be Gavin Newsom Fuck Off Day but it looks like a holiday weekend
I cannot think of an image that more succinctly displays how much dems are in bed with fascism and it wasn't even a mean leftist parody. Newsome just did this of his own accord.
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
I proclaimed yesterday to be Gavin Newsom Fuck Off Day but it looks like a holiday weekend
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It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.
February 14, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's so striking to me all the essays about the death of the humanities and who and what to blame and blah blah blah and the answer is pretty much the undergraduate business major and everything it represents.
Jesus Christ is chatterton a dimwit
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Jesus Christ is chatterton a dimwit
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What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.
February 14, 2026 at 12:35 AM
What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.
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“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
Sounds accurate to me.
Sounds accurate to me.
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🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
I guess all the morons staffing every office on earth can be replaced with AI and we won’t know the difference
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 1:03 PM
I guess all the morons staffing every office on earth can be replaced with AI and we won’t know the difference
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to me it seems bad that broad critiques of "conspiracy theories" and other modes of ostensibly feverish, vulgar, unrealistic, fantastic, insufficiently nuanced thinking etc are deployed alongside a fawning push for the mass adoption of downright goofy language association machines
February 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM
to me it seems bad that broad critiques of "conspiracy theories" and other modes of ostensibly feverish, vulgar, unrealistic, fantastic, insufficiently nuanced thinking etc are deployed alongside a fawning push for the mass adoption of downright goofy language association machines
Huh it’s almost like you have to be a sociopath to do reputation defense for the worst predators on earth. And also for Jeffrey Epstein
February 13, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Huh it’s almost like you have to be a sociopath to do reputation defense for the worst predators on earth. And also for Jeffrey Epstein