Michael L
@delam.bsky.social
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Come through @redemmas.org 11/28 and hang w/ @baltimoredsa.org for a screening of WTO/99 and discussion with @prophetkotto.bsky.social, @jessdouglas.bsky.social, and @bsoderberg.bsky.social!
$10-$15 suggested donation to @baltlegal.bsky.social: bit.ly/WTOBALT
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/wto-99
$10-$15 suggested donation to @baltlegal.bsky.social: bit.ly/WTOBALT
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/wto-99
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Come through @redemmas.org 11/28 and hang w/ @baltimoredsa.org for a screening of WTO/99 and discussion with @prophetkotto.bsky.social, @jessdouglas.bsky.social, and @bsoderberg.bsky.social!
$10-$15 suggested donation to @baltlegal.bsky.social: bit.ly/WTOBALT
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/wto-99
$10-$15 suggested donation to @baltlegal.bsky.social: bit.ly/WTOBALT
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/wto-99
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I do want to note Mamdani's transition specifically calling attention to like, people applying for city jobs and how many CVs they got in the mail, etc, because when was the last time you saw a politician actually talk about expanding state capacity other than hiring more cops?
November 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I do want to note Mamdani's transition specifically calling attention to like, people applying for city jobs and how many CVs they got in the mail, etc, because when was the last time you saw a politician actually talk about expanding state capacity other than hiring more cops?
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
![Graphic with multiple picket signs that reads "[up arrow] Minimum Salary", "4 day Work Week", and a big cancel sign over "AI Replacing Jobs" and so much more. Go to kickstarterunited.org to see it all!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gdife25rfr5drwr2nhncr3rf/bafkreidfgv3xytmgta3x35mjze22ojok7lwh3vlhgrcfbcwr7hjg6bb6eu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
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"When it comes to the issue of Palestinian rights going forward, I will say that the younger generation, of both Jews and non-Jews, take seriously the idea that we should have a principled, rights-based foreign policy— something I've long believed in"
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"When it comes to the issue of Palestinian rights going forward, I will say that the younger generation, of both Jews and non-Jews, take seriously the idea that we should have a principled, rights-based foreign policy— something I've long believed in"
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
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Agree with this.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Agree with this.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
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This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.
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We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
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it sure seems like a lot of discipline and focus has permeated the left. really stunning to see huge swaths of people with very recent learned experience recognize destabilizing bait and to ignore it, while quietly acknowledging constructive criticism and building from that.
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
it sure seems like a lot of discipline and focus has permeated the left. really stunning to see huge swaths of people with very recent learned experience recognize destabilizing bait and to ignore it, while quietly acknowledging constructive criticism and building from that.
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Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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👻 Spooky: The 2026 Maryland Legislative Session is creeping up on us fast! It's time to strategize!
💥 Join us on Weds, November 12th at 7pm on Zoom for a Housing Justice Priorities Strategy Session💥
Join us and bring a friend! RSVP – bit.ly/rumnov
💥 Join us on Weds, November 12th at 7pm on Zoom for a Housing Justice Priorities Strategy Session💥
Join us and bring a friend! RSVP – bit.ly/rumnov
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
👻 Spooky: The 2026 Maryland Legislative Session is creeping up on us fast! It's time to strategize!
💥 Join us on Weds, November 12th at 7pm on Zoom for a Housing Justice Priorities Strategy Session💥
Join us and bring a friend! RSVP – bit.ly/rumnov
💥 Join us on Weds, November 12th at 7pm on Zoom for a Housing Justice Priorities Strategy Session💥
Join us and bring a friend! RSVP – bit.ly/rumnov
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
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Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
Halloween tradition of blasting this great mix and handing out candy.
A season reminder that I made a two-hour mix of weird, Halloween-appropriate 80s music that is not the overplayed stuff. And you can listen to it here: www.deepcutsandsuperficialwounds.com/episodes/ita...
October 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Halloween tradition of blasting this great mix and handing out candy.
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the Pope lifts his mitre. He is wearing a Binghamton Rumble Ponies Spieides Theme Night Flex Fit Hat underneath. "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight," he says. "Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
the Pope lifts his mitre. He is wearing a Binghamton Rumble Ponies Spieides Theme Night Flex Fit Hat underneath. "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight," he says. "Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
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you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell
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Land Back does NOT mean moving non-Indigenous people off the land and anyone who tries to tell you it does is just perpetuating lies in the service of stoking racism against Indigenous people
Quw’utsun Nation (Cowichan) is reassuring private landowners they have no desire to take homes and is criticizing the mayor of Richmond and province of B.C., among others, for “negative and erroneous messaging.. provoking unnecessary fears.” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Land Back does NOT mean moving non-Indigenous people off the land and anyone who tries to tell you it does is just perpetuating lies in the service of stoking racism against Indigenous people
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.
GOV. WHITMER: “.. no one is worried about building a ballroom in Washington, D.C. What they want is to make sure that they can feed their kids next week.” Most Americans are “never going to step foot in a ballroom over the course of their lifetime.”
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
@thehill.com
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
October 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is a masterclass in repeating carefully workshopped robotic talking points that miss the forest for the trees and are irrelevant to the question at hand: Trump chose to build a ballroom instead of funding programs that would feed those kids.
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34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
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so many of the worst decisions dems have made in the past decade haven’t been bad strategic thinking because they’re not even strategic as such; it’s just pure reactionary impulse, that is then backfilled with some laughable “strategic” rationalization. tiktok sale is a great example.
This makes some good points on the silliness of thinking the forced sale TikTok to an American oligarch was consistent with either liberal principles or Dem partisan interests. But it ignores the real reason for it: fear that young people might hear critical voices on Gaza. slate.com/technology/2...
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
so many of the worst decisions dems have made in the past decade haven’t been bad strategic thinking because they’re not even strategic as such; it’s just pure reactionary impulse, that is then backfilled with some laughable “strategic” rationalization. tiktok sale is a great example.
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Need…
I will not explain why. You see it lol
I will not explain why. You see it lol
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Need…
I will not explain why. You see it lol
I will not explain why. You see it lol
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The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.