Mike Silva
@mikesilva.bsky.social
Engineer with a Public Policy background too, so not a Silly Valley Libertarian. @mikesilva@mastodon.social
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I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
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The BU student who complained that prized "American jobs" at a car wash were being given away to immigrants is himself British.
I wonder if he has any opinions on whether prized spots at American universities should or should not be given away to immigrants?
I wonder if he has any opinions on whether prized spots at American universities should or should not be given away to immigrants?
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The BU student who complained that prized "American jobs" at a car wash were being given away to immigrants is himself British.
I wonder if he has any opinions on whether prized spots at American universities should or should not be given away to immigrants?
I wonder if he has any opinions on whether prized spots at American universities should or should not be given away to immigrants?
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
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The NYT has throttled huge national news stories by burying coverage on A-13, burned and buried more chances to say the truth about Trump than anyone even knew existed, has been a huge driver of American institutional transphobia, and also does not meaningfully cover NYC anymore. What’s the point?
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The NYT has throttled huge national news stories by burying coverage on A-13, burned and buried more chances to say the truth about Trump than anyone even knew existed, has been a huge driver of American institutional transphobia, and also does not meaningfully cover NYC anymore. What’s the point?
Republicans are incredible ghouls. All just to salve their weird paranoid hysteria about things they haven’t bothered to do the homework on and which they have no idea WTF they are talking about.
Just mental.
Just mental.
Wisconsin Republicans are introducing a bill that mandates women use ‘catch kits’ when they have a miscarriage or abortion at home—forcing them to bag up their pregnancy tissue and bring it to the doctor as medical waste.
jessica.substack.com/p/wisconsin-...
jessica.substack.com/p/wisconsin-...
Republicans Are Pushing 'Catch Kits' For Miscarriages & Abortion
11.12.24
jessica.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Republicans are incredible ghouls. All just to salve their weird paranoid hysteria about things they haven’t bothered to do the homework on and which they have no idea WTF they are talking about.
Just mental.
Just mental.
Yes, ‘we’ just need to ignore the massive crowds at every Platner event in the middle of nowhere Maine, and instead put our faith in never wrong survey research.
Next level genius stuff.
Next level genius stuff.
I don't think we really need to have any more Platner discourse after this, it's clear he's not going to win and is just in this for his weird revenge tour against his perceived haters from here on out.
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yes, ‘we’ just need to ignore the massive crowds at every Platner event in the middle of nowhere Maine, and instead put our faith in never wrong survey research.
Next level genius stuff.
Next level genius stuff.
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
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me and the squad flexing our dope new petards
July 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
me and the squad flexing our dope new petards
It’s super cool that the Democrats seem not to have actually read what they were caving to!
BREAKING NEWS: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @levernews.com.
The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.
The provisions come amid an explosion of foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It’s super cool that the Democrats seem not to have actually read what they were caving to!
You love to see it.
WELLS: ".. Available $TSLA Oct delivery data shows steep weakness. Of the 4 major markets we track, Oct $TSLA deliveries are trending down -23%y/y, -54%m/m & YTD -9% y/y. The weakness is widespread across all markets."
Reiterates Underweight, $120 target
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reiterates Underweight, $120 target
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You love to see it.
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Hey @support.bsky.team What is going on with Sarah Kendzior? Why was she suspended with no explanation? Are you doing this to lesser-known people that we’re never going to find out about?
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey @support.bsky.team What is going on with Sarah Kendzior? Why was she suspended with no explanation? Are you doing this to lesser-known people that we’re never going to find out about?
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Go Bears!
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Go Bears!
It's baffling why some Americans are so weird about socialism.
Until you realize most of Americans haven't traveled outside the country, and are intellectually lazy, so they just fear it like they do Islam, because they are utterly ignorant about what it is and how it is experienced elsewhere.
Until you realize most of Americans haven't traveled outside the country, and are intellectually lazy, so they just fear it like they do Islam, because they are utterly ignorant about what it is and how it is experienced elsewhere.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It's baffling why some Americans are so weird about socialism.
Until you realize most of Americans haven't traveled outside the country, and are intellectually lazy, so they just fear it like they do Islam, because they are utterly ignorant about what it is and how it is experienced elsewhere.
Until you realize most of Americans haven't traveled outside the country, and are intellectually lazy, so they just fear it like they do Islam, because they are utterly ignorant about what it is and how it is experienced elsewhere.
What Reagan addled Silent/Boomercrats don’t get, while they put on their Neville Chamberlain/History’s Noblest Losers schtick.
"There is everything to be gained from every refusal, from plain unwillingness to fall into line."
"In this phase of totalitarianism, the Movement [forges] an obligation to the Leader rather than to the constitutional state." The Nazis called it "streamlining."
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
"In this phase of totalitarianism, the Movement [forges] an obligation to the Leader rather than to the constitutional state." The Nazis called it "streamlining."
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
What Reagan addled Silent/Boomercrats don’t get, while they put on their Neville Chamberlain/History’s Noblest Losers schtick.
Says the rich kid prick whose only job has been failing while daddy cleaned up the mess, and swindling.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Says the rich kid prick whose only job has been failing while daddy cleaned up the mess, and swindling.
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SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
My favorite thing is meticulously reporting and blocking every account with a ‘sexy’ female picture and no posts, that follows me after a post of mine blows up.
These bot account dipshits are so obvious.
These bot account dipshits are so obvious.
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
My favorite thing is meticulously reporting and blocking every account with a ‘sexy’ female picture and no posts, that follows me after a post of mine blows up.
These bot account dipshits are so obvious.
These bot account dipshits are so obvious.
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Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.
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lol - here is the giveaway:
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
lol - here is the giveaway:
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
“Schumer persuaded the moderates to hold out until at least the beginning of November, when open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act began.”
Basically he wanted to hold out a little while longer before caving so that Ds could campaign on healthcare.
Beyond cynical.
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The surest Jan of all the sure Jans
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The surest Jan of all the sure Jans
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How does your pathetic "plan" keep me alive through 2026? How does it pay the premium increase I face? How fucking dare you come on here with this bullshit.
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How does your pathetic "plan" keep me alive through 2026? How does it pay the premium increase I face? How fucking dare you come on here with this bullshit.
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A perfect encapsulation of the Democratic Party and why it has collapsed fully under the weight of fascism.
They stand for nothing
They attempt to gaslight when their corruption is exposed by their actions
They are working directly with the fascists to destroy America.
They stand for nothing
They attempt to gaslight when their corruption is exposed by their actions
They are working directly with the fascists to destroy America.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A perfect encapsulation of the Democratic Party and why it has collapsed fully under the weight of fascism.
They stand for nothing
They attempt to gaslight when their corruption is exposed by their actions
They are working directly with the fascists to destroy America.
They stand for nothing
They attempt to gaslight when their corruption is exposed by their actions
They are working directly with the fascists to destroy America.
If you hate Apple’s patently dumb autocorrect that changes words after you’ve validated what you want on the screen and your eyes have moved on several words or lines, feel free to second my feedback # FB20983085 that they need to stop doing this imbecilic annoying shit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you hate Apple’s patently dumb autocorrect that changes words after you’ve validated what you want on the screen and your eyes have moved on several words or lines, feel free to second my feedback # FB20983085 that they need to stop doing this imbecilic annoying shit.