Michael Newman
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Michael Newman
@abmindprof.bsky.social
Sociolinguist
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“A multi-agency operation targeting child sex predators led to the arrest of eight individuals over the last two weeks,” the department said in a release published on Friday. The release lists the names of 38-year-old Tom Artiom Alexandrovich and seven others.
Paul’s right, it’s unreal how little traction this story has gotten.

www.mediaite.com/crime/israel...
August 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Anyone notice how Musk is in so many ways an alien and how Trump equally falls into the predictor category and how their whole fight has a whoever wins we lose vibe?
June 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Because they’re pathetic losers who pay consultants to indulge their worst instincts?
Why aren’t Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst “you can die” bill?
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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“If they get a next time”
May 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Other night on MSNBC Sean Patrick Maloney was kinda saying it was bad politics for Dems to take on Trump over Kilmar Abrego Garcia

He worked in the Clinton White House. In general the Bill Clinton people really don’t understand the moment
New polling just out from the New York Times is even worse for Trump on this issue. By a -21% margin, Americans disapprove of how Trump has handled the case of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
April 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”
April 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Sure Trump is crashing the public market, and children are dying of preventable diseases because Trump put a confidence man in charge of our government health agencies! The fury, I feel right now cannot be properly expressed.
April 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The same Republicans who blocked funding for Veterans Suicide Prevention, Health Benefits, Wounded Veterans Job Security, Veterans Retraining, Disabled Veterans Home Accessibility, and the Veterans Business Center are the same Republicans who found $113 MILLION for Trump's birthday parade.
a large group of soldiers are marching in formation
ALT: a large group of soldiers are marching in formation
media.tenor.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
April 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The Revolution will be AI-icized
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are
February 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Why Former Followers Of Her Guru Fear Tulsi Gabbard As Director Of National Intelligence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/why-for...
Why Former Followers Of Her Guru Fear Tulsi Gabbard As Director Of National Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to Chris Butler, a controversial spiritual leader with extreme...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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CJR has a fair-minded piece on why I left the Times. All in the past now; I'm basically full-time on Substack www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
www.cjr.org
January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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If they’re dumb enough to believe scammers, why would they be smart enough to know they’re being scammed?
November 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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New podcast: President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics.
Documenting the Assault on Disinformation and Hate Speech Research | TechPolicy.Press
Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School at Duke University.
www.techpolicy.press
November 24, 2024 at 3:53 PM