Michael Paolucci
@michaelfpaolucci.bsky.social
Situation gets rough, then I start to panic
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Any Democrat who votes to fund this administration should and almost certainly will be primaried into an early retirement.
Trump: "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities"
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Any Democrat who votes to fund this administration should and almost certainly will be primaried into an early retirement.
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
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Nikki Glaser roasting CBS on CBS is iconic #GoldenGlobes
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Nikki Glaser roasting CBS on CBS is iconic #GoldenGlobes
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Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good
January 9, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good
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NJ Indivisibles: Come to the statehouse this morning to join other immigrant activists - let's get these bills across the finish line!
Live in New Jersey and horrified by ICE’s shooting in Minneapolis today and their unlawful actions against immigrants EVERY day?
Join us in Trenton tomorrow (thurs) to advocate legally and peacefully for these 3 important bills.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
Join us in Trenton tomorrow (thurs) to advocate legally and peacefully for these 3 important bills.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. is fighting back against Trump and ICE with 3 bold proposals
Democrats are pushing a package of bills that would keep state agencies from sharing people's immigration status and help bar ICE from schools and hospitals.
www.nj.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:07 PM
NJ Indivisibles: Come to the statehouse this morning to join other immigrant activists - let's get these bills across the finish line!
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It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
I'm not getting out the vote for any candidate in November who doesn't understand this.
We are going to have to investigate and prosecute a lot of people. And candidates need to start talking about that.
Put people on warning for one thing.
Put people on warning for one thing.
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I'm not getting out the vote for any candidate in November who doesn't understand this.
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They gentrified the tinfoil hat
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
They gentrified the tinfoil hat
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Obsessed with this juxtaposition
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Obsessed with this juxtaposition
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one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
It's striking that progressives like Tim Walz and Zohran Mamdani evoke the middle American attitude that, "Yes, we can fix these social problems because we're Americans and it's the right thing to do!" While the "America first" right only emulates failed and failing nation-states elsewhere.
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!
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The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Like the suburban developments named after whatever natural feature was destroyed to build them
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About
Different factions are fighting for supremacy on the Right. What will post-Trump MAGA look like – and how dangerous is Trumpism without Trump?
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
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Different factions are fighting for supremacy on the Right. What will post-Trump MAGA look like – and how dangerous is Trumpism without Trump?
As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:
🧵
What the “MAGA Civil War” is Really About
Different factions are fighting for supremacy on the Right. What will post-Trump MAGA look like – and how dangerous is Trumpism without Trump?
steady.page
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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More power to anyone who can and wants to do it, but I don’t know how anyone in their 80s can continue to tour on that scale
Happy 82nd birthday to Keith Richards, who is freeing up Mick Jagger to tour with Dame Judi Dench
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December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
More power to anyone who can and wants to do it, but I don’t know how anyone in their 80s can continue to tour on that scale
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a pathetic excuse for a man whose existence is a continual affront to everything good in this world.
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
a pathetic excuse for a man whose existence is a continual affront to everything good in this world.
You can’t be a good person and support this guy. It’s one or the other
December 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
You can’t be a good person and support this guy. It’s one or the other
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Terry Gross Conducts ‘Fresh Air’ Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
https://theonion.com/terry-gross-conducts-fresh-air-interview-on-bluetooth-during-uber-shift/
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not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint