Mike
@brankspace.bsky.social
Ennea Type 4 | Leo | SJW | Hands to the plow | libsoc | broadly anti-tyrant | BLM |he/him🌹
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Cavin’ Kaine
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Cavin’ Kaine
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Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Oh is woke back? Has it risen from the dead? Did the people rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number? Is the old world dying? Is the new world struggling to be born? Babe, wake up, now is the time of monsters.
Listen, in light of Platner - I’m advocating that white dudes running for political office have to do at least one hot tub interview with Zach Galifianakis or if he’s not available that guy from the hot take train interviews.
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Listen, in light of Platner - I’m advocating that white dudes running for political office have to do at least one hot tub interview with Zach Galifianakis or if he’s not available that guy from the hot take train interviews.
You know what else came down and crashed the system? A Worthy Sacrifice - the original AWS - Jesus Christ
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
You know what else came down and crashed the system? A Worthy Sacrifice - the original AWS - Jesus Christ
@govpritzker.illinois.gov talks big when it comes to stopping Trumps overreach but can’t seem to rein in his own state police.
Police escalated the situation here in Broadview incredibly quickly. Saw multiple brutal arrests. ISP jabbing protesters with their batons like battering rams.
Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.
Here ISP lifts @katmabu.bsky.social by her feet to flip her over a concrete barrier.
October 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@govpritzker.illinois.gov talks big when it comes to stopping Trumps overreach but can’t seem to rein in his own state police.
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it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient
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WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
September 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.
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So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
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The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
September 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
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Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
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It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump.
Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.
Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.
"Dunn’s attorney says he tried to turn himself in, but instead, 20 officers came to his home to arrest him."
Just think about that for a minute.
Just think about that for a minute.
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance.
His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed.
Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed.
Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump.
Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.
Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.
I don’t want to incentivize billionaires to do the right thing like pampered little Fauntleroys. They should be met with legal demands and statutes that don’t rely on their questionable goodwill. Tax them, force corporations to pay living wages. Wealth hoarding is a societal and moral failing.
August 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don’t want to incentivize billionaires to do the right thing like pampered little Fauntleroys. They should be met with legal demands and statutes that don’t rely on their questionable goodwill. Tax them, force corporations to pay living wages. Wealth hoarding is a societal and moral failing.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
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Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass?
That’s just evil and cruel.
That’s just evil and cruel.
Republican Congressman Bresnahan recently sold his stock in Centene, a Medicaid health care provider. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale.
His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass?
That’s just evil and cruel.
That’s just evil and cruel.
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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Democratic politicians & consultants should spend less time yapping about the effect of random leftist social media posts on their branding, and more time dealing with the Democratic Senator taking a pro-Trump position with a mere 16% popular support then adding, for flair, the language of genocide.
June 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Democratic politicians & consultants should spend less time yapping about the effect of random leftist social media posts on their branding, and more time dealing with the Democratic Senator taking a pro-Trump position with a mere 16% popular support then adding, for flair, the language of genocide.
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"Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) on Monday filed a joint resolution to Congress to “direct the removal” of the U.S. armed forces from any involvement in Israel’s war on Iran, and to prevent a unilateral decision by President Donald Trump to enter the war."
good. every democrat should back him.
good. every democrat should back him.
June 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) on Monday filed a joint resolution to Congress to “direct the removal” of the U.S. armed forces from any involvement in Israel’s war on Iran, and to prevent a unilateral decision by President Donald Trump to enter the war."
good. every democrat should back him.
good. every democrat should back him.
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The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.
June 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes
They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few
There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two
This parade is kinda mid
Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve
They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few
There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two
This parade is kinda mid
Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve
June 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the strolling of the dudes
They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few
There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two
This parade is kinda mid
Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve
They ambled up the street today before the crowds so few
There wasnt much to see maybe an abram tank or two
This parade is kinda mid
Glory glory what a bullshit way to serve
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That arc toward justice won't bend itself
January 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
That arc toward justice won't bend itself
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We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.
We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
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June 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo.
We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
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If you're not bringing Articles of Impeachment to remove Noem, or you're not going to grind the Senate completely to a halt, then really, don't bother. We don't need speeches.
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
June 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If you're not bringing Articles of Impeachment to remove Noem, or you're not going to grind the Senate completely to a halt, then really, don't bother. We don't need speeches.
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this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are
not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally
shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are