Michele Dostert
@micheledostert.bsky.social
Moved over from X. Mid-westerner. Slava Ukraina! Life-long Dem.
Until we fix the right-wing propaganda hold on the populace, things will get rapidly worse.
Until we fix the right-wing propaganda hold on the populace, things will get rapidly worse.
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There’s also a zero percent chance the real number is 3 trillion
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There’s also a zero percent chance the real number is 3 trillion
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Anthropic is advertising a couple of writer jobs with minimum starting salaries of over a quarter of a million dollars. Makes you wonder about the newsrooms that have bought into the bullshit line that Anthropic et al.'s tech can replace anything a writer does.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Anthropic is advertising a couple of writer jobs with minimum starting salaries of over a quarter of a million dollars. Makes you wonder about the newsrooms that have bought into the bullshit line that Anthropic et al.'s tech can replace anything a writer does.
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So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
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The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
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TRUMP ON WEDNESDAY: "Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown."
DEMOCRATS ON SUNDAY: "We must sacrifice ANYTHING to stop the shutdown!!!"
DEMOCRATS ON SUNDAY: "We must sacrifice ANYTHING to stop the shutdown!!!"
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
TRUMP ON WEDNESDAY: "Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown."
DEMOCRATS ON SUNDAY: "We must sacrifice ANYTHING to stop the shutdown!!!"
DEMOCRATS ON SUNDAY: "We must sacrifice ANYTHING to stop the shutdown!!!"
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The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
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Big Republican Lie in 2024: "The policies of the Trump administration will NOT be based on Project 2025."
Big Republican Lie in 2025: "If you join us to end your only leverage over us, the shutdown, we *promise* [wink, wink] to bring ACA subsidies up for a vote."
Big Republican Lie in 2025: "If you join us to end your only leverage over us, the shutdown, we *promise* [wink, wink] to bring ACA subsidies up for a vote."
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Big Republican Lie in 2024: "The policies of the Trump administration will NOT be based on Project 2025."
Big Republican Lie in 2025: "If you join us to end your only leverage over us, the shutdown, we *promise* [wink, wink] to bring ACA subsidies up for a vote."
Big Republican Lie in 2025: "If you join us to end your only leverage over us, the shutdown, we *promise* [wink, wink] to bring ACA subsidies up for a vote."
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Democrats are so amateurish and naive to act on a promise of behavior in the future by people who shamelessly lie about their behavior in the past every single day.
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Democrats are so amateurish and naive to act on a promise of behavior in the future by people who shamelessly lie about their behavior in the past every single day.
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When Bovino and his gangsters produce a single spent slug or shell casing recovered at the alleged scene with third-party witnesses to said recovery, I'll withhold an initial judgment that this is utter fabricated horseshit.
Ogden and 26th Street at 11:30 a.m. today. Federal authorities claimed someone shot at their agents in Little Village this morning. They spent the next several hours circling the neighborhood, deploying chemical crowd controls and arresting people.
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When Bovino and his gangsters produce a single spent slug or shell casing recovered at the alleged scene with third-party witnesses to said recovery, I'll withhold an initial judgment that this is utter fabricated horseshit.
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As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
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This is the apple dumpling recipe if anyone wants to make them. Super easy to make! Although coring the apples was a challenge for me. I should invest in a doodad to make it easier.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bake...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bake...
Baked Apple Dumplings
Apple dumplings baked in a syrup, blanketing the simple pastry dough.
www.kingarthurbaking.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is the apple dumpling recipe if anyone wants to make them. Super easy to make! Although coring the apples was a challenge for me. I should invest in a doodad to make it easier.
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bake...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bake...
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Oh, so he totally stole the money
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Oh, so he totally stole the money
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i like this article just for the image asset
That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
i like this article just for the image asset
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
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The Dem cavers’ “the shutdown wasn’t working” message shows how much they still don’t understand the current GOP. They still think this is a negotiation with relatively normal political actors. As @joshtpm.bsky.social says, it’s actually a fight for public opinion.
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Dem cavers’ “the shutdown wasn’t working” message shows how much they still don’t understand the current GOP. They still think this is a negotiation with relatively normal political actors. As @joshtpm.bsky.social says, it’s actually a fight for public opinion.
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“I did try and fuck her”
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“I did try and fuck her”
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These corrupt cowards can’t even let us be happy for ONE week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
These corrupt cowards can’t even let us be happy for ONE week.
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“Listen, we have to get past these internal recriminations.” - me when my boss asks why I haven’t gotten anything done in 7 weeks
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“Listen, we have to get past these internal recriminations.” - me when my boss asks why I haven’t gotten anything done in 7 weeks
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Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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When people are stupid shitballs, bake something. People will still be stupid shitballs, but you’ll have a tasty treat. Birthday apple dumplings for my favorite daughter 🩷🍎
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
When people are stupid shitballs, bake something. People will still be stupid shitballs, but you’ll have a tasty treat. Birthday apple dumplings for my favorite daughter 🩷🍎