Michael Clyne
@thenoteheleft.bsky.social
Human, lefty, photography enthusiast, and music lover. Epileptic. Front range, CO.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fallsroad/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fallsroad/
Reposted by Michael Clyne
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 3:24 AM
The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.”
No longer catching illegal criminals, now militarized to go after lawful citizens exercising free speech.
No longer catching illegal criminals, now militarized to go after lawful citizens exercising free speech.
February 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
@aliciamenendez.bsky.social ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.”
No longer catching illegal criminals, now militarized to go after lawful citizens exercising free speech.
No longer catching illegal criminals, now militarized to go after lawful citizens exercising free speech.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Minneapolis was economically devastated by Operation Metro Surge, writes James Beard-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, suffering $10-$20 million in weekly losses.
"This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...
"This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...
Congress, Don’t Give DHS a Blank Check to Undermine Our Local Economies
This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Minneapolis was economically devastated by Operation Metro Surge, writes James Beard-winning Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, suffering $10-$20 million in weekly losses.
"This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...
"This isn't just immigration enforcement. This is economic sabotage wrapped in racism."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/congres...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences
Pam Bondi throws a fit:
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 AM
People who speak like this under oath to our elected Representatives in the People’s House should face actual legal & professional consequences
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Last week, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota teachers union, filed a FEDERAL LAWSUIT against Kristy Noem, DHS, and ICE to stop the government from terrorizing students. Did you hear about? Probably not. We need to uplift their bravery. Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Last week, Education Minnesota, the Minnesota teachers union, filed a FEDERAL LAWSUIT against Kristy Noem, DHS, and ICE to stop the government from terrorizing students. Did you hear about? Probably not. We need to uplift their bravery. Watch here: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
If the hype were true, practical use would be self-evident and the companies involved would not be trying to shove it into literally every possible aspect of consumer tech regardless of consumer desire, nor would the biggest hype men be the same people involved with crypto and NFTs.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
If the hype were true, practical use would be self-evident and the companies involved would not be trying to shove it into literally every possible aspect of consumer tech regardless of consumer desire, nor would the biggest hype men be the same people involved with crypto and NFTs.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Police lie so often that lawyers have a term for it:
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
Testilying.
Keep that in mind when moderate Democrats say that ICE and CBP agents should be held to the same standards as police.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...
in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"
"Beers on me"
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here
Affidavit for Fulton County FBI raid is out & begins with massive red flag, noting that "criminal investigation originated from referral sent by Kurt Olsen, [Trump's] Director of Election Security & Integrity"
Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM
My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here
Reposted by Michael Clyne
“The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election," says @markwarner.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
February 10, 2026 at 10:04 PM
“The newly unsealed affidavit shows this search originated from the frivolous claims of Kurt Olsen, an attorney who traffics in debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election," says @markwarner.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Probably unfair to rats to compare Libertarians to rats fleeing a sinking ship here
February 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Probably unfair to rats to compare Libertarians to rats fleeing a sinking ship here
Reposted by Michael Clyne
What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
x.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:42 PM
What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent.
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance.
x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Shocked. Shocked, I say, to find that Abundance is, in fact, a smuggle for tech fascism.
Courtesy @levernews.com
Courtesy @levernews.com
![A On the payroll. A new "pro-growth" centrist Democrat dark money group — pushing for, you guessed it, deregulation — has turned up on Capitol Hill, and it's being led by a former lawmaker-turned-lobbyist for OpenAI, the Big Tech behemoth behind ChatGPT. In 2025, former Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-III.) also lobbied on behalf of Oracle, the computing giant led by MAGA megadonor Larry Ellison, and the Solana Policy Institute, a cryptocurrency advocacy group.
• Bustos will now serve as president of Next American Era, a nonprofit aligned with the anti-progressive Abundance movement to "[make] it easier to build and to generate opportunity" by cutting so-called red tape.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:776hcssquwcv2ihpptzvttxj/bafkreidhysao5mrqlsbjy5x5opwrtv47x6jkwvt6yprevdric4aubqn2fq@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Shocked. Shocked, I say, to find that Abundance is, in fact, a smuggle for tech fascism.
Courtesy @levernews.com
Courtesy @levernews.com
Reposted by Michael Clyne
The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
February 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks
2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections
Reposted by Michael Clyne
Author of the "research" that was reportedly the basis of the Fulton County election raid:
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Author of the "research" that was reportedly the basis of the Fulton County election raid:
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
"In 2004, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."
www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
Reposted by Michael Clyne
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Michael Clyne
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
Reposted by Michael Clyne
weird how the guy who got rich by making a website to stalk girls now makes glasses to record girls without their consent. probably a coincidence
February 9, 2026 at 12:21 AM
weird how the guy who got rich by making a website to stalk girls now makes glasses to record girls without their consent. probably a coincidence