makermike.bsky.social
@makermike.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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"Neurodivergent" is not just a way to describe medical diagnoses like autism and ADHD. It encompasses a range of ways in which people's brains differ from what is considered normal in the U.S. n.pr/4qwNOXZ
How 'neurodivergent' became a word for many types of minds
"Neurodivergent" is not just a way to describe medical diagnoses like autism and ADHD. It encompasses a range of ways in which people's brains differ from what is considered normal in the U.S.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S. n.pr/47wcmYo
Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests
Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.
n.pr
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Couldn’t have said it better myself…
September 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A devastating new milestone: key indicators confirm that conditions have officially reached famine levels in the #GazaStrip.

Our colleagues are on the ground doing everything possible to deliver for children in #Gaza, despite the immense challenges. Follow us for humanitarian updates. #promoted
Famine Confirmed in Gaza
UNICEF is calling for an immediate ceasefire and safe, sustained humanitarian access to deliver urgently needed supplies.
www.unicefusa.org
August 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops. n.pr/41exsIB
Pakistan is tapping into solar power at an 'unprecedented' rate. Here's why
Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops.
n.pr
August 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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An Oklahoma City TV station says it's weather radar was damaged by an individual and that an anti-government militia took responsibility, claiming that radar is used to control the weather. (via @kosuradio.bsky.social)
News 9 radar damaged in apparent attack by anti-government militia group
Oklahoma City television station News 9 is reporting an anti-government militia group targeted its weather radar system.
n.pr
July 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I posted this to Facebook. It was immediately classified as "spam" and removed.

FYI - I'm sorry to say that the bill passed by 1 vote.

substack.com/@lincolnsqua...
Lincoln Square Media on Substack
“I am not only a NO, but a HELL NO on this reconciliation bill.” Who else loves Rep. Stansbury as much as we do?
substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Bondi grotesquely claims that Abrego Garcia's wife and child are better off with him gone
April 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters
Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move.
www.npr.org
April 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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And just one obvious thing I want to write today. You can stay out of politics as much as you can. But politics won't stay out of you. No matter how prosperous and stable your country is - you still need to fight for it.

#UkrainianView

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April 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Bridgewater, NJ: February 25th marks the first day that we heard politically-driven misinformation in a BOE meeting among its rank and file members. It's not a proud moment for us, but we can change that. I'm hoping people will engage and push back.
Transgender Policy Raises Questions About Two BOE Members
To the Editor:I read the article titled “Board of Education Votes Against Rescinding District Transgender Policies.” Giving credit where it’s due, it was a good read. However, I think it’s worth...
www.tapinto.net
March 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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@aoc.bsky.social: "Tax cuts cost money. We have to pay for them. So every dollar that you spend in federal taxes is going to pay for some rich person's G-Wagon. And it's also going to cut an 8-year-old kid with autism's ability to access Medicaid. That's what they are putting on the table."
March 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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First of many, but here we have a completely manufactured criminal investigation. One career prosecutor already resigned over it. Goal is simply to claw back $20 billion in Biden era climate money. Open and shut corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
FBI investigating Trump EPA claims of fraud in $20B Biden grant fund
While career prosecutors in two U.S. attorney offices and a U.S. judge balked at a court-ordered freeze, Citibank has locked down billions without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"Where we might otherwise have felt like lonely voices in a bureaucracy, public outrage gave us courage and the knowledge that we were, in fact, working in the public interest. Advocacy on the outside made advocacy on the inside possible."

-Brendan Ballou, Former federal prosecutor
Opinion | Notes to the American People — and Government Workers — on How to Stop Trump
Resistance to Trump can work. I’ve seen it happen.
www.politico.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A day after President Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia, the U.S. leader's description of the Ukrainian President Zelensky as a "Dictator without Elections" echoes the Kremlin's messaging. It's not the first time Trump has done this.
Trump Elevates Kremlin Talking Points, a Familiar Pattern From His First Term
President Trump’s description of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as a “Dictator without Elections” echoes the Kremlin’s messaging.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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In recent days, the US Army Corps of Engineers created a new designation of “emergency” permits for infrastructure projects, citing a Day One executive order signed by Donald Trump which claims the US is facing an “energy emergency."

from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
Team Trump invents fake "emergency" to sidestep environmental laws
Officials could rubber-stamp 688 permit applications—including more than 100 pipelines and gas-fired plants.
www.motherjones.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned Saturday that Europe must ramp up production efforts going forward.
Ukraine is making weapons 'faster and cheaper' than anywhere else in Europe — and that's a problem, Danish PM warns
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned Saturday that Europe must ramp up production efforts going forward.
www.businessinsider.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Shhh…that’s the quiet part.
February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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My Attorney General is suing Starbucks because he argues that, “Starbucks diversity initiatives have caused higher prices and longer lines,” and that, “Starbucks workforce is more female and less white.”

Yes, you read that right.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Missouri's AG
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Anyone else sick of all the winning?
February 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.

Read his story:
Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US
www.stripes.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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You can’t make this shit up.
February 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM