Paul Michel
@paulmichel.bsky.social
Artless Jesus, Tripoli Boys
Musician that will occasionally post about his bands, but mostly just reposts progressive political stuff
Musician that will occasionally post about his bands, but mostly just reposts progressive political stuff
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Paul Michel
@paulmichel.bsky.social
· Nov 28
LITTLE PIGS
Artless Jesus · The Assorted Grievances of Artless Jesus · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
this is the snotty punk band I'm in open.spotify.com/track/2mWDvo...
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I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.
October 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social you have some time for misanthropic prose?
Having trouble locking down my DC book date Nov 5. Anyone on here happen to run a store/bar venue that could host a reading?
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social you have some time for misanthropic prose?
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
this fuckin demand that the people who been calling this shit out need to now defer to people who were asleep at the wheel. nah
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
this fuckin demand that the people who been calling this shit out need to now defer to people who were asleep at the wheel. nah
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There's that old Samuel Johnson quote, "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
October 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's that old Samuel Johnson quote, "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
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Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.
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Current and former national security officials describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Current and former national security officials describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.
all of them.
all. of. them.
all. of. them.
i have decided i am in the mood to kick up some low stakes drama. and here it is. you people would collapse to your knees weeping if you knew how many fashionable restaurants use those pre peeled garlic cloves you hate so much
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
all of them.
all. of. them.
all. of. them.
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Kristi Noem Looms In Background During Entire Episode Of ‘90 Day Fiancé’ https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-looms-in-background-during-entire-episode-of-90-day-fiance/
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Kristi Noem Looms In Background During Entire Episode Of ‘90 Day Fiancé’ https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-looms-in-background-during-entire-episode-of-90-day-fiance/
I love that all these opps actually end up making the candidate cooler
Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.
Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over
Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.
nymag.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I love that all these opps actually end up making the candidate cooler
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Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is shocked that zionists tortured Palestinian hostages to death, stole organs, and desecrated corpses. Again.
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...
Clear evidence of brutal torture: Condition of Palestinian bodies released from Israeli prisons demands urgent int’l investigation
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is deeply shocked by the horrific condition of Palestinian bodies handed over by the Israeli army after being detained during the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6889/Clear-evidence-of-brutal-torture:-Condition-of-Palestinian-bodies-released-from-Israeli-prisons-demands-urgent-int’l-investigation
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is shocked that zionists tortured Palestinian hostages to death, stole organs, and desecrated corpses. Again.
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...
euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...
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New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
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we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 AM
we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues
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a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
defector.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
💯 to everything in this article
Biden could have ended this by early 2024. he chose not to prospect.org/world/2025-1...
Joe Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure
It’s America’s worst foreign policy disaster since the invasion of Iraq.
prospect.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
💯 to everything in this article
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The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
October 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.
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I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.
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watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily
💯
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.
October 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.
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The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.
October 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.