Mike Upchurch
mike-upchurch.bsky.social
Mike Upchurch
@mike-upchurch.bsky.social
Retired English teacher, now writing and recording songs, teaching guitar, and playing in my band The Scallywags
I'm a true Democrat and a retired English teacher, yet I firmly believe we need to arm vetted and trained teachers. NO school with armed teachers has ever been attacked. None!
To make this safer use biometric pistols that can only be fired by the owner. And hide the pistols behind jackets, etc.
May 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Lyin' Donny is asking the Justice Dept. to investigate famous celebrities who have spoken against him, showing us how much he values our First Amendment and his oath to defend our Constitution. Of course his lawyers are telling him to hide his attacks by saying with NO proof they are illegal bribes.
May 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Redirecting...
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April 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump's tariffs (estimated to average $4K per family per year) are based on grossly incorrect math. He is in reality trying to BALANCE TOTAL TRADE with other countries, not a realistic goal if they don't want OUR products as much as we want THEIRS. Want the proof?

www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trum...
Trump's Misleading Tariff Chart - FactCheck.org
In his Rose Garden announcement of sweeping new "reciprocal tariffs," President Donald Trump held aloft a misleading chart that claimed to give a breakdown of the tariffs other countries charge the U....
www.factcheck.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Chief Justice Roberts today texted BOLDLY against Trump wanting to impeach a judge who ruled against him, saying that wasn't grounds for impeachment. Constitutional crisis coming!
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My band, The Scallywags recorded this anti-suicide song yesterday. Hope you like "Stay Around."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhd8...
STAY AROUND- by Mike Upchurch and The Scallywags
YouTube video by Mike Upchurch
www.youtube.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Lyin' Donny and sidekick, JD, tried to make the Ukrainian president grovel in front of twenty reporters at the White House. He defied them. The rest of the world is aghast at how our president treated Zelensky! Putin is thrilled!
March 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
During the first three years of the Great Depression, 100,000 people per week lost their jobs. This week, in 2025, 200,000 federal employees lost their jobs.
February 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Lyin' Donny WILL try to eliminate the Department of Education, something polls show the American public strongly opposes. This will bring hardship to gender equality, disabled students, students remediation to catch up in reading and math, etc. and will fund vouchers.
www.nea.org/nea-today/al...
How Dismantling the Department of Education Would Harm Students | NEA
Educators and parents will not stand for the destruction of our country’s commitment to equal educational opportunities for all students.
www.nea.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Lyin' Donny breaks more laws and gets stopped again by Federal judges. If Donny persists he get a Contempt of Court slapped on him. If he AGAIN persists he get a visit by Federal agents. THEN we have a Constitutional crisis, folks!
Stay tuned!
February 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My anger at this gross overstepping of power is only tempered by the realization that his followers are mostly misinformed. They have succumbed to the constant barrage of lies, propaganda, and misdirection spewed by their "alternative facts" news sources.
Smart people are susceptible to propaganda!
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The newest Trump Barbie Doll Whitehouse spokesperson just said Lyin' Donnie is imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico because of "the tens of MILLIONS of deaths to Americans from fentanyl."
Fact check- a quarter of 1 million have died from fentanyl, Lyin' Barbie!
January 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Mike Upchurch
"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It took Trump only five days to do something illegal in his second term. On Friday he fired SEVENTEEN INSPECTORS GENERAL - but did so without congressional approval and without providing ANY evidence of wrongdoing by these men and women who guard against fraud and waste in our institutions. 5 days!
January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@freeadvicedoug.bsky.social - Doug, apparently we're not in Kansas anymore! How the hell does this Bluesky work? I've searched for a few FB friends, and I've followed a few strangers with interesting posts, but otherwise I don't know ANYone here!
January 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM

"..it was that conservatives are more likely to share misinformation and get fact-checked, as some research has shown. That means conservatives are also more likely to be moderated. In this sense, perhaps it wasn’t Facebook’s fact-checking systems that had a liberal bias, but REALITY."
The Verge
January 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote a new song 7 days ago and did a live recording yesterday with my band, The Scallywags. Hope you enjoy "Fight the Good Fight."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWl...
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
YouTube video by Mike Upchurch
www.youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Hope to make friends here.
My interests are:
Music- I'm a songwriter and have recorded two albums thus far. One more coming up.
Guitar- it's my main instrument, though I also play bass and drums.
Education - retire English teacher and very concerned about the direction of our education system.
January 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hi! I just joined here. I did so because Zuckerberg has given up on his principles by NOT allowing fact checking anymore on his social network. Lies and conspiracy theories will flourish there now. Sad.
Zuck is now more interested in profits than truth and the greater public interest.
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM