Michelle Mears
@michellermears13.bsky.social
Library Director, pool player, democracy defender.
Admiral Josh Painter: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
—Hunt for Red October
—Hunt for Red October
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Admiral Josh Painter: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
—Hunt for Red October
—Hunt for Red October
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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Bringing back “Egads!” because it’s the perfect interjection to describe my reaction to reading my first piece of news every morning
September 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Bringing back “Egads!” because it’s the perfect interjection to describe my reaction to reading my first piece of news every morning
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Every woman in this country needs to read this!
We weren’t just making it up when we said women needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The War on Women
When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.
open.substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Every woman in this country needs to read this!
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Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.
July 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.
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In case I wasn’t clear…
July 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
In case I wasn’t clear…
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Forcing people to have a job in order to get health insurance is just another form of indentured servitude.
July 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Forcing people to have a job in order to get health insurance is just another form of indentured servitude.
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Can we try matriarchy now?
June 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Can we try matriarchy now?
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bring back the idle rich!
after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
May 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
bring back the idle rich!
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I wish more people understood this:
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I wish more people understood this:
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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I really do think we’re well beyond this point.
If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
April 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I really do think we’re well beyond this point.
If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about “politics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.
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While Republicans hide, Cory Booker shows up and gives his constituents a voice.
Who’s cutting onions?
Who’s cutting onions?
April 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
While Republicans hide, Cory Booker shows up and gives his constituents a voice.
Who’s cutting onions?
Who’s cutting onions?
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“These are the times that try men souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,”
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“These are the times that try men souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country. But he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,”
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
The Crisis, Thomas Paine
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I truly hope that one silver lining we take from this coup is that voters begin to understand that when you vote for president, you’re not just selecting one person. You’re selecting all the judges they’ll appoint, and the entire cabinet.
March 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I truly hope that one silver lining we take from this coup is that voters begin to understand that when you vote for president, you’re not just selecting one person. You’re selecting all the judges they’ll appoint, and the entire cabinet.
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Based on their actions to date, neither one is fit to serve in any leadership capacity.
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
March 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Based on their actions to date, neither one is fit to serve in any leadership capacity.
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler
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Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...
Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Nathan Tankus
On risks to democracy nobody even thought about
paulkrugman.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...
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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.
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looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing
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Well now.
“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
February 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Well now.
2024 Election Analysis:
244,666,890 eligible citizens aged 18 and older. Only 77,302,580 voted for Trump, which leaves 167,364,310 who did not sign on to this shit show. At 68% WE have the mandate, WE have the numbers to end this insanity.
244,666,890 eligible citizens aged 18 and older. Only 77,302,580 voted for Trump, which leaves 167,364,310 who did not sign on to this shit show. At 68% WE have the mandate, WE have the numbers to end this insanity.
February 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2024 Election Analysis:
244,666,890 eligible citizens aged 18 and older. Only 77,302,580 voted for Trump, which leaves 167,364,310 who did not sign on to this shit show. At 68% WE have the mandate, WE have the numbers to end this insanity.
244,666,890 eligible citizens aged 18 and older. Only 77,302,580 voted for Trump, which leaves 167,364,310 who did not sign on to this shit show. At 68% WE have the mandate, WE have the numbers to end this insanity.
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We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts:
1. Trump's base of support is a minority.
2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted.
The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
1. Trump's base of support is a minority.
2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted.
The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts:
1. Trump's base of support is a minority.
2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted.
The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
1. Trump's base of support is a minority.
2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted.
The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...