Michael Clark
@smintheus.bsky.social
Ancient historian, temple attendant for three dainty-pawed gods who sometimes make their epiphanies. Looking for more honesty and less malice in politics, but getting this thing instead.
there is so much μ in cows
there is so much Ψ in tires
there is so much Gamma in the ballpark, specifically Tropicana Field among all possible ballparks, due to it being the home stadium of the Tampa Bay Rays
am I doing this right
am I doing this right
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
there is so much μ in cows
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If you're looking for a place to donate groceries, I found out my local community college has a food bank for students and community members. You may want to check out your local colleges.
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you're looking for a place to donate groceries, I found out my local community college has a food bank for students and community members. You may want to check out your local colleges.
The story of the Iliad involves a fight over control of a slave. The South African master race guy doesn't see slavery.
lol man is such a dipshit he’s recommending the Iliad and posts the odyssey. 💩
Definitely the two fattest, baldest, most physically laughable fucking nerds on the planet know alpha
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The story of the Iliad involves a fight over control of a slave. The South African master race guy doesn't see slavery.
If Republicans genuinely wanted to reduce govt health care spending they'd crack down on Medicare Advantage fraud.
Or just eliminate Medicare Adv & fill the gaps in original Medicare.
Or let Medicare establish reasonable drug prices.
And they would def ensure ppl like Sen. Rick Scott go to jail.
Or just eliminate Medicare Adv & fill the gaps in original Medicare.
Or let Medicare establish reasonable drug prices.
And they would def ensure ppl like Sen. Rick Scott go to jail.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If Republicans genuinely wanted to reduce govt health care spending they'd crack down on Medicare Advantage fraud.
Or just eliminate Medicare Adv & fill the gaps in original Medicare.
Or let Medicare establish reasonable drug prices.
And they would def ensure ppl like Sen. Rick Scott go to jail.
Or just eliminate Medicare Adv & fill the gaps in original Medicare.
Or let Medicare establish reasonable drug prices.
And they would def ensure ppl like Sen. Rick Scott go to jail.
I'd like to suggest that Democrats stop nominating people who socialize only w/ the very rich. The problem w/ NH's senate delegation can be identified by looking at where they live - in the first & third richest towns in the state. Median incomes there are 3 times as high as in my middle class town.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'd like to suggest that Democrats stop nominating people who socialize only w/ the very rich. The problem w/ NH's senate delegation can be identified by looking at where they live - in the first & third richest towns in the state. Median incomes there are 3 times as high as in my middle class town.
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"And rather than explain to these very real constituents that Republicans have sidelined us completely and created an authoritarian regime, I nodded and said, OK, you probably know more about it than I do."
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"And rather than explain to these very real constituents that Republicans have sidelined us completely and created an authoritarian regime, I nodded and said, OK, you probably know more about it than I do."
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Tappin' the sign, sadly.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tappin' the sign, sadly.
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“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”
Trump gives Democrats the middle finger as they are voting to capitulate to him. This is what Americans should expect when whenever the Justice Department decides that high crimes are too trivial to bother prosecuting any Republicans for.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says
A Justice Department official says President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s e...
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump gives Democrats the middle finger as they are voting to capitulate to him. This is what Americans should expect when whenever the Justice Department decides that high crimes are too trivial to bother prosecuting any Republicans for.
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Private business jet travel "accounts for 1 in 6 flights in US airspace". Instead of cancelling commercial flights, the FAA could restrict private jet traffic. But they haven't, because the ballroom barons aren't interested in solving problems.
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Commercial flights hit by US shutdown as calls grow to ground private jets
Flights have been cancelled or delayed, impacting 40 major US airports
www.aljazeera.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Private business jet travel "accounts for 1 in 6 flights in US airspace". Instead of cancelling commercial flights, the FAA could restrict private jet traffic. But they haven't, because the ballroom barons aren't interested in solving problems.
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
I'm Shaheen's constituent. I called and said to her today 'Why can't you just retire immediately instead of continually betraying us to Trump?' No response bc she's so busy getting ready to betray us again that she has no time to talk to constituents.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I'm Shaheen's constituent. I called and said to her today 'Why can't you just retire immediately instead of continually betraying us to Trump?' No response bc she's so busy getting ready to betray us again that she has no time to talk to constituents.
Tell me no one is actually in the senate chamber at the moment without telling me no one is in the senate chamber.
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tell me no one is actually in the senate chamber at the moment without telling me no one is in the senate chamber.
With Republicans & esp this fraud it's our own special version of Cretan philosopher Epimenides' Paradox ("all Cretans are liars"). If Mike Johnson says he'll uphold an agreement w/ Democrats, he's lying as always. If he says he won't agree to it, he's assuming Democrats know he lies abt everything.
So, he's heard about the deal? That's odd.
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
With Republicans & esp this fraud it's our own special version of Cretan philosopher Epimenides' Paradox ("all Cretans are liars"). If Mike Johnson says he'll uphold an agreement w/ Democrats, he's lying as always. If he says he won't agree to it, he's assuming Democrats know he lies abt everything.
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11 million people are dying because of Trump's cuts to USAID. if you cannot stand up to him because of flight cancellations *he is being blamed for* you do not deserve a position in government
My read of it (with very incomplete information) is scoring more political points would have required destroying Thanksgiving travel and at least 10 Dem Senators don’t have the stomach for that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
11 million people are dying because of Trump's cuts to USAID. if you cannot stand up to him because of flight cancellations *he is being blamed for* you do not deserve a position in government
Trump is waging a brutal war on Chicago and Durbin is bending the knee to him? Says it all about Durbin's fitness for office.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Trump is waging a brutal war on Chicago and Durbin is bending the knee to him? Says it all about Durbin's fitness for office.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
Being eager to double down on the cruelty seems to be by far the most prized attribute among the MAGA crowd. It's why Kristi Noem wanted readers of her book to know that, fresh from killing her puppy Cricket, she decided to drag her smelly goat down to the same gravel pit and pump bullets into it.
Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Being eager to double down on the cruelty seems to be by far the most prized attribute among the MAGA crowd. It's why Kristi Noem wanted readers of her book to know that, fresh from killing her puppy Cricket, she decided to drag her smelly goat down to the same gravel pit and pump bullets into it.
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Angelina Jolie deserves a lot of respect for using their position at UN ambassador to highlight civilians suffering in conflict, particularly as she also calls out other conflicts that frankly are being ignored until there’s a massive war crime, like Sudan.
Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Angelina Jolie deserves a lot of respect for using their position at UN ambassador to highlight civilians suffering in conflict, particularly as she also calls out other conflicts that frankly are being ignored until there’s a massive war crime, like Sudan.
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If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If the political opposition doesn’t put these ICE & CBP institutional criminals in prison, annihilate their budgets, purge the datasets and repeal their authorities, this will keep happening. And that opposition will reveal itself as a false, controlled opposition that is no less predatory on people
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This is deeply fucked up and cruel.
“.. The Agriculture Department issued the command in a late-night Saturday memo .. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.”
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
@tonyromm.bsky.social #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is deeply fucked up and cruel.
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ICE is being sued by survivors of human trafficking and domestic abuse, including Merlos, who was detained with her children and her 71-year-old mother, according to the complaint.
Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/nation-...
Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/nation-...
www.sacbee.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ICE is being sued by survivors of human trafficking and domestic abuse, including Merlos, who was detained with her children and her 71-year-old mother, according to the complaint.
Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/nation-...
Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/nation-...
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Now the Dutch—even the very rightwing Dutch—are tasking themselves with preserving US history our own American fascists want o erase.
Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located).
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
www.nrc.nl
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Now the Dutch—even the very rightwing Dutch—are tasking themselves with preserving US history our own American fascists want o erase.
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US cuts funding for Hungary’s Szabad Európa, one of its last independent outlets, days before Orbán’s WH visit as Trump ally Kari Lake slashes Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, steps watchdogs call “a gift to autocrats.”
Kari Lake Cuts U.S.-Funded Hungarian Outlet, Handing Authoritarian Orbán Win Before Trump Meeting
Kari Lake’s decision to cut funding for Hungary’s U.S.-backed Radio Free Europe branch came just two days before Viktor Orbán’s White House visit,
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
US cuts funding for Hungary’s Szabad Európa, one of its last independent outlets, days before Orbán’s WH visit as Trump ally Kari Lake slashes Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, steps watchdogs call “a gift to autocrats.”
A wisteria vine that tried to ensnare someone who paused for a few minutes in its vicinity. Their beautiful blossoms in spring have entrapped many an unsuspecting home owner.
Hiking with the kids yesterday, came across this vine that had grown into a knot.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A wisteria vine that tried to ensnare someone who paused for a few minutes in its vicinity. Their beautiful blossoms in spring have entrapped many an unsuspecting home owner.