Michael Sims
@peltast1.bsky.social
The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat...
Politics / USA / Canada / Tech / Civil Liberties. Veteran. Not on anyone's team except for good governance.
Politics / USA / Canada / Tech / Civil Liberties. Veteran. Not on anyone's team except for good governance.
I cannot express to people enough that any time you read someone promoting AI, or crypto, or gambling, they're getting paid for doing so (whether disclosed or not).
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I cannot express to people enough that any time you read someone promoting AI, or crypto, or gambling, they're getting paid for doing so (whether disclosed or not).
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Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old
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“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”
Current state of AI discourse: One group is looking at Teddy Ruxpin and saying "it has godlike intelligence and will take over the universe", and then a second group saying "no, that won't happen", and then the first group berating the second.
Also everyone in the first group is getting paid.
Also everyone in the first group is getting paid.
February 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Current state of AI discourse: One group is looking at Teddy Ruxpin and saying "it has godlike intelligence and will take over the universe", and then a second group saying "no, that won't happen", and then the first group berating the second.
Also everyone in the first group is getting paid.
Also everyone in the first group is getting paid.
If you have to say you're legitimate, it means you aren't.
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
If you have to say you're legitimate, it means you aren't.
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
This is what the US Congress is up to - passing laws to refund taxes paid by one single company on golf cart tires between 2009 and 2016.
#USSB2874: A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of golf cart tires.
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 2025-09-18
Sponsors:
- Republican: 1
- Democrat: 1
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 2025-09-18
Sponsors:
- Republican: 1
- Democrat: 1
More Info
SB2874: A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of golf cart tires.
www.congress.gov
February 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
This is what the US Congress is up to - passing laws to refund taxes paid by one single company on golf cart tires between 2009 and 2016.
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots
OpenAI fired one of its top safety execs, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product.
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI told her the term was related to her sexual discrimination against a male colleague.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination
Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.
www.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots
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i will believe AI has been achieved when these tech bro creeps build a sex bot that chooses on its own not to fuck them
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
i will believe AI has been achieved when these tech bro creeps build a sex bot that chooses on its own not to fuck them
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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
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So, to wrap up today's insanity:
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
February 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
So, to wrap up today's insanity:
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...
If all the things that will not happen, this will not happen the most.
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM
If all the things that will not happen, this will not happen the most.
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The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party.
He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.
Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.
He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.
Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party.
He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.
Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.
He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.
Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.
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"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.
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US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’
US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’
Restaurants face one-star reviews and less business in an already precarious industry. Some restaurateurs fear speaking out as immigrants themselves
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM
US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’
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lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 PM
lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous
There's not much that can be done to rehabilitate this level of depravity in public officials.
Ron Johnson on Alex Pretti: "They got their martyrs, didn't they? They got their martyrs. I think it's sick."
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
There's not much that can be done to rehabilitate this level of depravity in public officials.
Chuck Schumer: "We're asking ICE to do nothing"
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Chuck Schumer: "We're asking ICE to do nothing"
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…to kill Dems, and not once did I hear: the right needs to cool it with the political violence or else you’ll give Ron Klain the excuse he craves to declare martial law and imprison Dan Scavino.
February 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
…to kill Dems, and not once did I hear: the right needs to cool it with the political violence or else you’ll give Ron Klain the excuse he craves to declare martial law and imprison Dan Scavino.
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An additional very important point: AIPAC never mentions Israel in its attack ads (for obvious reason) & instead hits whatever negative thing polls best.
In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski w/ $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.
And it worked! It destroyed his numbers.
Pragmatic Dems will...
In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski w/ $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.
And it worked! It destroyed his numbers.
Pragmatic Dems will...
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
An additional very important point: AIPAC never mentions Israel in its attack ads (for obvious reason) & instead hits whatever negative thing polls best.
In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski w/ $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.
And it worked! It destroyed his numbers.
Pragmatic Dems will...
In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski w/ $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.
And it worked! It destroyed his numbers.
Pragmatic Dems will...
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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In Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson also suggested doing this (and extra-judicial killings) as a required tactic for dealing with anthropogenic climate change
i'm waiting for NATO member states to realize that black-bagging like a dozen rich freaks could do wonders for the whole geopolitical situation
February 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson also suggested doing this (and extra-judicial killings) as a required tactic for dealing with anthropogenic climate change
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The decision by two Bay Area DAs to pursue felony conspiracy charges against student protesters has critics concerned about the growing push to suppress protest. “That’s really concerning for the health of our democracy.”
In Bay Area, Felony Charges Against Student Protesters Prompt Free Speech Concerns
Local prosecutors are seeking felony-level charges against pro-Palestine demonstrators. Even if they don’t stick, critics say the response is harsh and could chill protests.
boltsmag.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The decision by two Bay Area DAs to pursue felony conspiracy charges against student protesters has critics concerned about the growing push to suppress protest. “That’s really concerning for the health of our democracy.”