Mike Check
@check1check2.bsky.social
Your drink doesn't go there
Pinned
Mike Check
@check1check2.bsky.social
· Dec 27
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
Another reason Grants Pass should be reversed.
Reposted by Mike Check
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
Reposted by Mike Check
Remember when they fired the president of Harvard for… two inadequate citations in her 30yo dissertation?
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Remember when they fired the president of Harvard for… two inadequate citations in her 30yo dissertation?
Reposted by Mike Check
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
Reposted by Mike Check
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
I'm going to gauge the reaction to this morning's revelations based on Wolff and Summer's continued existence as public figures.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm going to gauge the reaction to this morning's revelations based on Wolff and Summer's continued existence as public figures.
Reposted by Mike Check
imo guessing when a scandal is really going to break through is kind of a mug’s game. there’s a reason they call it the last straw instead of the first and only anvil
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
imo guessing when a scandal is really going to break through is kind of a mug’s game. there’s a reason they call it the last straw instead of the first and only anvil
Neither of these men are scientists. You know this. I know this. But I felt it was worth saying anyway.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Neither of these men are scientists. You know this. I know this. But I felt it was worth saying anyway.
Reposted by Mike Check
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
I try to live my life in such a way that I never feel impelled to write "DO NOT SHARE THIS INSIGHT" after I share my pearls of wisdom.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I try to live my life in such a way that I never feel impelled to write "DO NOT SHARE THIS INSIGHT" after I share my pearls of wisdom.
Heated up a saucepot, peeled a mandarin orange & seared one side of the segments, then I used a chef's knife to peel some thick flakes of frozen ginger and tossed ≈1/4 cup in. Just before all that started to burn I tossed in a splash of water, took that to a boil, finished with a cup of apple cider.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Heated up a saucepot, peeled a mandarin orange & seared one side of the segments, then I used a chef's knife to peel some thick flakes of frozen ginger and tossed ≈1/4 cup in. Just before all that started to burn I tossed in a splash of water, took that to a boil, finished with a cup of apple cider.
Reposted by Mike Check
I guarantee you that nearly everyone who kept angrily declaring that "Old Town Road" and "Cowboy Carter" couldn't be considered real country music have no problem at all with this.
AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’
A country hit made by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of a Billboard chart — a first for the genre.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I guarantee you that nearly everyone who kept angrily declaring that "Old Town Road" and "Cowboy Carter" couldn't be considered real country music have no problem at all with this.
Reposted by Mike Check
/3 Meanwhile, she actually gives a shit about carceral culture and has used fame and influence to try to encourage clemency in actual cases impacting actual lives. I have the bog-standard old man view of Kardashian Kulture, but her heart seems to be in the right place on this.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
/3 Meanwhile, she actually gives a shit about carceral culture and has used fame and influence to try to encourage clemency in actual cases impacting actual lives. I have the bog-standard old man view of Kardashian Kulture, but her heart seems to be in the right place on this.
Reposted by Mike Check
"The danger is all around us. We are suckers for this charm. It’s going to be our downfall, it seems. We’d rather be entertained than taken care of. It’s tragic, really.”--Michael Shannon
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"The danger is all around us. We are suckers for this charm. It’s going to be our downfall, it seems. We’d rather be entertained than taken care of. It’s tragic, really.”--Michael Shannon
Reposted by Mike Check
don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
don't forget to leave a taconite sphere under your pillow tonight for the Witch of November so that all sailors may safely reach shore.
Reposted by Mike Check
Fish sorting line.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Fish sorting line.
Reposted by Mike Check
Deadwood but the character of Dan Dority is played by Matt Berry as Jackie Daytona
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Deadwood but the character of Dan Dority is played by Matt Berry as Jackie Daytona
Desperately want to hop a plane, a car, and a ferry to North Manitou Island right now.
The west coast of Michigan is just getting pounded by lake effect snow
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Desperately want to hop a plane, a car, and a ferry to North Manitou Island right now.
Reposted by Mike Check
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
Reposted by Mike Check
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Reposted by Mike Check
Greg Bovino, a prominent commander of the CBP/ICE responsible for leading kidnapping campaigns nationwide, is seen performing the Nazi “sieg heil” salute and engaging in “rock paper scissors”
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Greg Bovino, a prominent commander of the CBP/ICE responsible for leading kidnapping campaigns nationwide, is seen performing the Nazi “sieg heil” salute and engaging in “rock paper scissors”
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025
Anecdotally: ICE is apparently running the plates of cars that are following them in our neighborhood and leading the caravan of my angry neighbors to their own houses in a sort or “we know where you live” vague threat. We think they are running plates and picking houses that are close by.
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anecdotally: ICE is apparently running the plates of cars that are following them in our neighborhood and leading the caravan of my angry neighbors to their own houses in a sort or “we know where you live” vague threat. We think they are running plates and picking houses that are close by.
Reposted by Mike Check
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Reposted by Mike Check
On X, Bovino has a comment
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
On X, Bovino has a comment
Reposted by Mike Check
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The @chicagotribune.com has updated its story to clarify that the baby was exposed to pepper spray, not tear gas