Michael Gardiner
@aliclick.bsky.social
Art Director/Printer. Dad. Granddad. Husband(the gay kind). Arts. Travel. Architecture. History. Music. Film. Books. Board games curious. Shiny things.
Pinned
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December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Brian Eno: Before And After Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Brian Eno: Before And After Christmas
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The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
www.axios.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
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Imagine doing that much cocaine and not even bothering to make Popeye (1980).
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Imagine doing that much cocaine and not even bothering to make Popeye (1980).
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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They tried to give the White House a comment and were rebuffed but Bari Weiss has Stephen Miller's personal cell number for some reason and he answers calls from her
Critical voices on the CECOT story, like Stephen fucking Miller.
December 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
They tried to give the White House a comment and were rebuffed but Bari Weiss has Stephen Miller's personal cell number for some reason and he answers calls from her
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Watch this, also stop watching 60 Minutes. Frontline > 60 Minutes amd Bari Weiss.
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Watch this, also stop watching 60 Minutes. Frontline > 60 Minutes amd Bari Weiss.
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc?...
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"Look, in fairness, I was talking to a group of racists and Nazis, and I needed to sound like them to get them on my side because no one has ever loved me, probably due to my lack of anything approaching human decency or a moral core. But what we should really be talking about is Joe Biden's failed
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"Look, in fairness, I was talking to a group of racists and Nazis, and I needed to sound like them to get them on my side because no one has ever loved me, probably due to my lack of anything approaching human decency or a moral core. But what we should really be talking about is Joe Biden's failed
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According to Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's favorability has fallen by 150% since January.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
According to Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's favorability has fallen by 150% since January.
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@jwomack.bsky.social And after Waylon’s rendition of MacArthur Park had me on the verge of tears, Steve Brown introduced me to this, and equivalent experience of an entirely different flavor
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
Todd Snider plays Sympathy for the Devil (Rolling Stones)
YouTube video by scbret
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December 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
@jwomack.bsky.social And after Waylon’s rendition of MacArthur Park had me on the verge of tears, Steve Brown introduced me to this, and equivalent experience of an entirely different flavor
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=382T...
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
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The new trailer for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel is wild. Is Keith Richards in this one?
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The new trailer for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel is wild. Is Keith Richards in this one?
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Trump’s Golden Age.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump’s Golden Age.
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Thanks so much, @tribelaw.bsky.social ! Coming from you, that's huge and gratifying praise.
Harry Litman’s essay is the best thing out there about what SCOTUS will do in Trump v. Slaughter, argued Dec 8. Sure to be shredded is the FDR-era decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. But Litman goes much deeper and lays out the broad range of implications:
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
SlaughterHouse 9
The Unitary Executive Theory Ascendant – Sort of
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thanks so much, @tribelaw.bsky.social ! Coming from you, that's huge and gratifying praise.
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith:
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces kill[ing] the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who ‘were clinging to the smoldering wreck.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cold blooded murder.
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The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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This is actually a fascinating “cost of labor in the tech sector” dataset…
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is actually a fascinating “cost of labor in the tech sector” dataset…
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up: