Michael Kahlow
@makahlow.bsky.social
Retired University of Wisconsin - River Falls chemistry professor. First Vice Chair, Pierce County (WI) Board of Supervisors. Pissed off pragmatic progressive. Views represented are my own.
*ahem*
"smartwatch data"?
"smartwatch data"?
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
*ahem*
"smartwatch data"?
"smartwatch data"?
Just one more reason I no longer consider myself a Democrat.
Why are so many people (especially the young) disengaged from politics, don't vote? One party is authoritarian, and the other doesn't have the guts to support what's right.
Why are so many people (especially the young) disengaged from politics, don't vote? One party is authoritarian, and the other doesn't have the guts to support what's right.
SCOOP: Two Democratic aides and a lawmaker told @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has discouraged further member excursions to El Salvador
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Just one more reason I no longer consider myself a Democrat.
Why are so many people (especially the young) disengaged from politics, don't vote? One party is authoritarian, and the other doesn't have the guts to support what's right.
Why are so many people (especially the young) disengaged from politics, don't vote? One party is authoritarian, and the other doesn't have the guts to support what's right.
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Insurrection Bingo
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Insurrection Bingo
Imma just gonna repost this in light of Elon's investment being worth -5%.
Susan Crawford couldn't have written a better campaign script than having Elon Musk come to WI two days before the election and literally throw millions of dollars around.
This will make every media outlet in the state.
This will make every media outlet in the state.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Imma just gonna repost this in light of Elon's investment being worth -5%.
I'm shocked, shocked...
Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans.
meidasnews.com/news/republi...
meidasnews.com/news/republi...
Republican Operative Nicholas Jacobs Locks Twitter After Elon Musk Check Controversy
Jacobs received a $1M check from Musk at a rally in support of Brad Schimel
meidasnews.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm shocked, shocked...
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A Love Letter to the World from US 💙
March 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
A Love Letter to the World from US 💙
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I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
March 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t
Susan Crawford needs to run the ad:
“This election is a choice between Wisconsin values and the values of Elon Musk - the billionaire who’s trying to take away Social Security and the VA.”
“This election is a choice between Wisconsin values and the values of Elon Musk - the billionaire who’s trying to take away Social Security and the VA.”
Has Elon Musk's PAC in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race set the record for outside spending on state court elections?
Yes,
wisconsinwatch.org/2... #wiunion #wipolitics
Yes,
wisconsinwatch.org/2... #wiunion #wipolitics
Has Elon Musk’s PAC in the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race set the record for outside spending on state court elections?
Yes. The previous record was held by Citizens for Judicial Fairness, which spent a total of $11.4 million in the 2020 and 2022 Illinois court races.
wisconsinwatch.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Susan Crawford needs to run the ad:
“This election is a choice between Wisconsin values and the values of Elon Musk - the billionaire who’s trying to take away Social Security and the VA.”
“This election is a choice between Wisconsin values and the values of Elon Musk - the billionaire who’s trying to take away Social Security and the VA.”
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
As vice chair of the County Board of a fairly rural Wisconsin county with a population of 40,000, I would never conduct county business by 3rd party text app. It’s not secure and potentially illegal.
That is all.
That is all.
March 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
As vice chair of the County Board of a fairly rural Wisconsin county with a population of 40,000, I would never conduct county business by 3rd party text app. It’s not secure and potentially illegal.
That is all.
That is all.
During Trump I, I was invited to the White House along with othe WI local electeds. The people who talked to us - mostly agency undersecretaries - reminded me of my worst most entitled C+ students after 15 years of falling up. Dunning -Kruger at its worst.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
During Trump I, I was invited to the White House along with othe WI local electeds. The people who talked to us - mostly agency undersecretaries - reminded me of my worst most entitled C+ students after 15 years of falling up. Dunning -Kruger at its worst.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
They’re telling us -straight up - what they’re going to do.
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
They’re telling us -straight up - what they’re going to do.
It's not Blade Runner, it's Tokyo.
March 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's not Blade Runner, it's Tokyo.
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Tim Walz nailed it!
Dear Democrats: hear the primal scream and DO SOMETHING!
And rest assured, we will have your back.
Dear Democrats: hear the primal scream and DO SOMETHING!
And rest assured, we will have your back.
March 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tim Walz nailed it!
Dear Democrats: hear the primal scream and DO SOMETHING!
And rest assured, we will have your back.
Dear Democrats: hear the primal scream and DO SOMETHING!
And rest assured, we will have your back.
Some calm from a Buddhist temple in Narita, Japan.
March 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Some calm from a Buddhist temple in Narita, Japan.
Ruh-roh
Tesla accounting shows $1.4b missing. Did Elon give it to WI SC race? Tesla stockholders might want to know...
electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...
Tesla accounting shows $1.4b missing. Did Elon give it to WI SC race? Tesla stockholders might want to know...
electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...
electrek.co
March 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Ruh-roh
Tesla accounting shows $1.4b missing. Did Elon give it to WI SC race? Tesla stockholders might want to know...
electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...
Tesla accounting shows $1.4b missing. Did Elon give it to WI SC race? Tesla stockholders might want to know...
electrek.co/2025/03/19/t...
Not a dime from me.
Dems, unless you dump Schumer don’t expect a dime from donors. Enough is enough,
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Not a dime from me.
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NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
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WaPo readers need to realize that every opinion piece they read is now the product of Bezos' rightwing censorship rules. Whether the author self censors or Post management does it after review, the result is the same.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
WaPo readers need to realize that every opinion piece they read is now the product of Bezos' rightwing censorship rules. Whether the author self censors or Post management does it after review, the result is the same.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
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When Tony Evers uses obscenities, it's serious.
President Trump and Congressional Republicans want to cut the Department of Education and sell out our kids and schools to help pay for tax cuts for rich millionaires and billionaires.
This is bad for our kids and bad for our schools. My statement ⬇️
This is bad for our kids and bad for our schools. My statement ⬇️
March 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
When Tony Evers uses obscenities, it's serious.
Hey University of - Wisconsin River Falls? Have you read the news about how you’re “not sustainable “?
Are you going to go down with a fight or a whimper? #UWRF
Are you going to go down with a fight or a whimper? #UWRF
Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors...
Being silent won't protect you.
Being silent won't protect you.
March 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Hey University of - Wisconsin River Falls? Have you read the news about how you’re “not sustainable “?
Are you going to go down with a fight or a whimper? #UWRF
Are you going to go down with a fight or a whimper? #UWRF