Michael Markman
@mickeleh.bsky.social
Avid news reader. Occasional news kibbitzer. Retired marketer. Retired YouTuber. NYer transplanted to PNW. Blue to the core.
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Michael Markman
@mickeleh.bsky.social
· Feb 22
RESISTANCE ACTION PLAN:
6 phone calls a day.
Hit both the DC offices and the local offices of your two senators and your member of Congress.
STRETCH PLAN: Show up in person at their offices and local Town Halls
6 phone calls a day.
Hit both the DC offices and the local offices of your two senators and your member of Congress.
STRETCH PLAN: Show up in person at their offices and local Town Halls
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Rep. Massie is being polite, as he should be, and is trying to get more Republican votes for the discharge petition, as he should be doing.
But the truth is, I think, that Trump is trying to protect himself.
But the truth is, I think, that Trump is trying to protect himself.
Karl: "What is [Trump] afraid of?"
Rep. Thomas Massie: "I think he's trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends…That's my operating theory on why he's trying so hard to keep these files closed."
Rep. Thomas Massie: "I think he's trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends…That's my operating theory on why he's trying so hard to keep these files closed."
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Rep. Massie is being polite, as he should be, and is trying to get more Republican votes for the discharge petition, as he should be doing.
But the truth is, I think, that Trump is trying to protect himself.
But the truth is, I think, that Trump is trying to protect himself.
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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REMINDER from 2020: A forensic pathologist who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein tells 60 Minutes the evidence released so far points more to murder than suicide in his view. Dr. Michael Baden's key reason: the unusual fractures he saw in Epstein's neck. www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jef...
60 Minutes investigates the death of Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender and a wealthy financier with powerful friends. 60 Minutes examines the circumstances surrounding his death in a Manhattan federal jail cell. Warning: This ...
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
REMINDER from 2020: A forensic pathologist who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein tells 60 Minutes the evidence released so far points more to murder than suicide in his view. Dr. Michael Baden's key reason: the unusual fractures he saw in Epstein's neck. www.cbsnews.com/news/did-jef...
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Uh oh, I now fear that Gill is gonna get shot in the head and dumped in a ravine to keep him from talking
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Uh oh, I now fear that Gill is gonna get shot in the head and dumped in a ravine to keep him from talking
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LISTEN TO THIS! And then explain to me why we are not dragging this administration into the streets and putting them on trial. Today.
WTF IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?
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WTF IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?
www.threads.com/@norm...
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
LISTEN TO THIS! And then explain to me why we are not dragging this administration into the streets and putting them on trial. Today.
WTF IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?
www.threads.com/@norm...
WTF IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?
www.threads.com/@norm...
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MAGA: "Libtards post the same 50-plus photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together like it's some kind of proof they knew each other."
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
MAGA: "Libtards post the same 50-plus photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together like it's some kind of proof they knew each other."
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ProPublica reports Dan Bongino got a polygraph waiver for his security clearance
These exams catch foreign ties & blackmail risks
Waivers at this level are unprecedented & part of a broader purge of career national-security experts
I explained on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
These exams catch foreign ties & blackmail risks
Waivers at this level are unprecedented & part of a broader purge of career national-security experts
I explained on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ProPublica reports Dan Bongino got a polygraph waiver for his security clearance
These exams catch foreign ties & blackmail risks
Waivers at this level are unprecedented & part of a broader purge of career national-security experts
I explained on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
These exams catch foreign ties & blackmail risks
Waivers at this level are unprecedented & part of a broader purge of career national-security experts
I explained on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
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Icymi, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:
A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power.
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Icymi, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:
BRAINCRACK: wishing for an investigative reporter who can reveal, step-by-step, how headlines this come to be. Not speculation, but detailed reporting. Name names. Tell us who does it. Headline writers should not be anonymous. Add their names to the bylines.
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BRAINCRACK: wishing for an investigative reporter who can reveal, step-by-step, how headlines this come to be. Not speculation, but detailed reporting. Name names. Tell us who does it. Headline writers should not be anonymous. Add their names to the bylines.
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Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Massie: "The president has been saying this is a hoax. Well, he's just now decided to investigate a hoax, if it's a hoax. And I have another concern about these investigations he's announced. If they have ongoing investigations, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen."
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Trump’s obsession with alleged Biden corruption is a distraction from his own
While Americans face an affordability & healthcare crisis, Trump & his allies are enriching themselves through pardons, crypto deals, & golden perks
I broke it down on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
While Americans face an affordability & healthcare crisis, Trump & his allies are enriching themselves through pardons, crypto deals, & golden perks
I broke it down on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Trump’s obsession with alleged Biden corruption is a distraction from his own
While Americans face an affordability & healthcare crisis, Trump & his allies are enriching themselves through pardons, crypto deals, & golden perks
I broke it down on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
While Americans face an affordability & healthcare crisis, Trump & his allies are enriching themselves through pardons, crypto deals, & golden perks
I broke it down on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇 - TN
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The message of the AfD, the German MAGA, could not be clearer or more reminiscent: "You are the blood."
AfD-Treffen in Greding: „Ihr seid das Blut“
via @sz sz.de/li.3339112
AfD-Treffen in Greding: „Ihr seid das Blut“
via @sz sz.de/li.3339112
AfD-Treffen in Greding: „Ihr seid das Blut“
Bei der Kommunalwahl 2026 will die AfD ihre Mandate in Bayern vervielfachen und die Brandmauer „von unten“ einreißen. In Greding stimmt die Partei ihre Kandidaten auf den Kampf um die Rathäuser ein.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The message of the AfD, the German MAGA, could not be clearer or more reminiscent: "You are the blood."
AfD-Treffen in Greding: „Ihr seid das Blut“
via @sz sz.de/li.3339112
AfD-Treffen in Greding: „Ihr seid das Blut“
via @sz sz.de/li.3339112
Tell me we are in a dictatorship without telling me we’re in a dictatorship:
If the president declares illegal tariffs to be a “signature policy” then the Supreme Court won’t interfere.
If the president declares illegal tariffs to be a “signature policy” then the Supreme Court won’t interfere.
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Tell me we are in a dictatorship without telling me we’re in a dictatorship:
If the president declares illegal tariffs to be a “signature policy” then the Supreme Court won’t interfere.
If the president declares illegal tariffs to be a “signature policy” then the Supreme Court won’t interfere.
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“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
People gather in uptown to protest Border Patrol arrests in Charlotte
Community leaders and immigrant families protested federal agents’ presence in Charlotte as agents drove around the city taking people.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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I choose to not believe that he blew Bill Clinton, until they show me the blue dress.
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I choose to not believe that he blew Bill Clinton, until they show me the blue dress.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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Never mind theology. In these hard times of algorithms, AI, franchises and merch, I would dutifully take scripts notes from His Holiness. In fact, I want him to run a studio.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Never mind theology. In these hard times of algorithms, AI, franchises and merch, I would dutifully take scripts notes from His Holiness. In fact, I want him to run a studio.
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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It’s embarrassing that this is a real photo and not something AI-generated to make Kristi Noem look like a fool who plays “let’s pretend I’m a real cowboy, y’all” dress-up.
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It’s embarrassing that this is a real photo and not something AI-generated to make Kristi Noem look like a fool who plays “let’s pretend I’m a real cowboy, y’all” dress-up.
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When you literally underperform Fartcoin. 💩
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When you literally underperform Fartcoin. 💩
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A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.”
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.
Opinion | Why Democrats keep flailing
Voters aren’t rejecting government. They are rejecting leaders who can’t run it effectively.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM