Mike
@mike1954.bsky.social
Interests: Music, science fiction, books, sports (LSU Tigers, Bruins 🏒, Bengals 🏈, Yankees ⚾️)
Hobbies: Photography, astrophotography, cycling, ice skating, playing drums, learning piano
Blue dot in a red state
Banner pic: Horsehead Nebula from my yard
Hobbies: Photography, astrophotography, cycling, ice skating, playing drums, learning piano
Blue dot in a red state
Banner pic: Horsehead Nebula from my yard
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Mike
@mike1954.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Rosette Nebula, officially designated NGC 2237. Taken from my backyard January 2023, using a monochrome camera and Ha, SII and OIII filters. Featured in my local astronomy club's 2024 calendar.
#Astrophotography #Astronomy
#Astrophotography #Astronomy
Great job, trump administration! The #Medicare website is really fouled up. I can't get plan details for comparison. Can't see coverage for my prescriptions nor add a new prescription. Clicks on many links take me to a blank page. Heckuva job 'Dr' Oz!
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great job, trump administration! The #Medicare website is really fouled up. I can't get plan details for comparison. Can't see coverage for my prescriptions nor add a new prescription. Clicks on many links take me to a blank page. Heckuva job 'Dr' Oz!
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)
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Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. 🫶
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Thank you for your service and your sacrifice. 🫶
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Starving people is a weapon of control. So, too, is controlling and attacking the media, attacking science and higher ed, and using the military against citizens and innocent people. All weapons of control.
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Starving people is a weapon of control. So, too, is controlling and attacking the media, attacking science and higher ed, and using the military against citizens and innocent people. All weapons of control.
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This is my 15th Starter Pack.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is my 15th Starter Pack.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?
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🔥MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS UPDATE🔥
1) Some MA Providers are leaving marketplace.
2) No auto-enrollment if YOUR plan is dropped, you'll have until 12/31 to sign-up OR in 2026 have 80% Medicare Coverage & NO RX PLAN!
3) 1M+ which is an estimated 3% on MA will LOSE their plans.
PLEASE REPOST & SHARE!🔥
1) Some MA Providers are leaving marketplace.
2) No auto-enrollment if YOUR plan is dropped, you'll have until 12/31 to sign-up OR in 2026 have 80% Medicare Coverage & NO RX PLAN!
3) 1M+ which is an estimated 3% on MA will LOSE their plans.
PLEASE REPOST & SHARE!🔥
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🔥MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS UPDATE🔥
1) Some MA Providers are leaving marketplace.
2) No auto-enrollment if YOUR plan is dropped, you'll have until 12/31 to sign-up OR in 2026 have 80% Medicare Coverage & NO RX PLAN!
3) 1M+ which is an estimated 3% on MA will LOSE their plans.
PLEASE REPOST & SHARE!🔥
1) Some MA Providers are leaving marketplace.
2) No auto-enrollment if YOUR plan is dropped, you'll have until 12/31 to sign-up OR in 2026 have 80% Medicare Coverage & NO RX PLAN!
3) 1M+ which is an estimated 3% on MA will LOSE their plans.
PLEASE REPOST & SHARE!🔥
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“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!
October 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!
I’ve never thought Fallon is the least bit funny and whatever interview skills he has are downgraded by his often unclear/mumbling way of speaking.
October 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’ve never thought Fallon is the least bit funny and whatever interview skills he has are downgraded by his often unclear/mumbling way of speaking.
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After the Dallas ICE facility attack, Trump officials cast officers as the victims, seldom mentioning the migrants who were shot.
For some immigrants in Dallas, the response felt like another indignity in President Trump's mass deportation campaign.
For some immigrants in Dallas, the response felt like another indignity in President Trump's mass deportation campaign.
For migrants, Dallas attack — and Trump response — marks another indignity
In the hours after the shooting, Trump officials cast law enforcement officers as the victims and asked people to pray for them — seldom mentioning the migrant victims.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
After the Dallas ICE facility attack, Trump officials cast officers as the victims, seldom mentioning the migrants who were shot.
For some immigrants in Dallas, the response felt like another indignity in President Trump's mass deportation campaign.
For some immigrants in Dallas, the response felt like another indignity in President Trump's mass deportation campaign.
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If you don’t think it’s fair to call Trump/MAGA fascists read this and then get back to me
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you don’t think it’s fair to call Trump/MAGA fascists read this and then get back to me
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As Texas flooded, key staff say FEMA’s leader could not be reached
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator, David Richardson, is often inaccessible, several current and former officials say, raising concerns within the agency.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...
theonion.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
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This is a great account to follow to see what the rest of the world is saying about the U.S. and Trump, plus just a global perspective in general.
Here are some notable headlines from the U.S. and around the world. News this week from CYNC Verity. #DemandDemocacy #DefendDemocracy #Truth #News
Connecting Your News Coverage.
Connecting Your News Coverage.
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a great account to follow to see what the rest of the world is saying about the U.S. and Trump, plus just a global perspective in general.
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Uh huh.
The numbers are officially meaningless now. The regime is just making them up for dear leader and every foreign investor should reconsider the credit risk US debt poses.
The numbers are officially meaningless now. The regime is just making them up for dear leader and every foreign investor should reconsider the credit risk US debt poses.
JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report
Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key data report with no explanation
There is heightened concern about the future of key government statistics, including politicization and accuracy.
trib.al
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Uh huh.
The numbers are officially meaningless now. The regime is just making them up for dear leader and every foreign investor should reconsider the credit risk US debt poses.
The numbers are officially meaningless now. The regime is just making them up for dear leader and every foreign investor should reconsider the credit risk US debt poses.
This administration cares about nothing but money, for themselves and for their oligarch pals.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
#space #astronomy #science
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
#space #astronomy #science
Environmental Exclusions Proposed for U.S. Satellite Industry
In a move that’s concerning astronomers, the FCC has proposed reducing environmental oversight of space-based operations.
skyandtelescope.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This administration cares about nothing but money, for themselves and for their oligarch pals.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
#space #astronomy #science
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
#space #astronomy #science
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Rant warning. I have seen a number of large accounts who are whining because they keep reciting the law and responses to their pronouncement are basically, the rule of law is dead or does not matter anymore. So the whining has become that somehow knowing that the rule of law
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September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Rant warning. I have seen a number of large accounts who are whining because they keep reciting the law and responses to their pronouncement are basically, the rule of law is dead or does not matter anymore. So the whining has become that somehow knowing that the rule of law
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ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.