Michael Hale
@mthsr1.bsky.social
Retired IT Forensics Expert/Attorney: The utterly misguided and constitutionally unsound granting of criminal immunity to the insane felon conman is another nail in Democracy’s coffin. #TwilightofaOnceGreatNation
Compared to trump, Richard Nixon was a warm and fuzzy much beloved guy.
I’ve been watching presidential approval rates since 1972. I’ve NEVER seen anyone as hated as trump is.
I’ve been watching presidential approval rates since 1972. I’ve NEVER seen anyone as hated as trump is.
August 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Compared to trump, Richard Nixon was a warm and fuzzy much beloved guy.
I’ve been watching presidential approval rates since 1972. I’ve NEVER seen anyone as hated as trump is.
I’ve been watching presidential approval rates since 1972. I’ve NEVER seen anyone as hated as trump is.
Look who turned up in @cnn.com timeline of trump/Epstein bromance.
Ken Starr represented both Jeffrey Epstein and trump. What an upstanding guy.
Ken Starr represented both Jeffrey Epstein and trump. What an upstanding guy.
August 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Look who turned up in @cnn.com timeline of trump/Epstein bromance.
Ken Starr represented both Jeffrey Epstein and trump. What an upstanding guy.
Ken Starr represented both Jeffrey Epstein and trump. What an upstanding guy.
@cnn.com timeline of trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. If trump is innocent of wrongdoing, he’s the guiltiest looking innocent guy in history. Epstein was trump’s best friend. www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics
A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.
www.cnn.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@cnn.com timeline of trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. If trump is innocent of wrongdoing, he’s the guiltiest looking innocent guy in history. Epstein was trump’s best friend. www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...
Eradication of negative but accurate scientific information. Just like Joseph Stalin. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN
Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.
www.cnn.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Eradication of negative but accurate scientific information. Just like Joseph Stalin. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...
Treaties meant nothing to Hitler.
Why should his modern day minions behave any differently?
Why should his modern day minions behave any differently?
I mean, we don't own the moon. That's not how this works, at all.
August 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Treaties meant nothing to Hitler.
Why should his modern day minions behave any differently?
Why should his modern day minions behave any differently?
Using a little known method of constitutional amendment. Fully recognized and approved by the Founders
Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws
This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
August 7, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Using a little known method of constitutional amendment. Fully recognized and approved by the Founders
Past experience strongly indicates that we’re screwed.
The only reason we dodged 5 million dead from covid was that trump had someone sane in his first stab at destroying America that slipped the vaccine fast track document into a stack.
Thank God trump doesn’t read before he signs.
The only reason we dodged 5 million dead from covid was that trump had someone sane in his first stab at destroying America that slipped the vaccine fast track document into a stack.
Thank God trump doesn’t read before he signs.
In the Guangdong province of China, COVID-like hospital quarantines are in effect to help stop the spread of chikungunya virus.
New Illness Spreading In China: What To Know About The Chikungunya Virus
In the Guangdong province of China, COVID-like hospital quarantines are in effect to help stop the spread of chikungunya virus.
www.forbes.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Past experience strongly indicates that we’re screwed.
The only reason we dodged 5 million dead from covid was that trump had someone sane in his first stab at destroying America that slipped the vaccine fast track document into a stack.
Thank God trump doesn’t read before he signs.
The only reason we dodged 5 million dead from covid was that trump had someone sane in his first stab at destroying America that slipped the vaccine fast track document into a stack.
Thank God trump doesn’t read before he signs.
Reposted by Michael Hale
ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable.
Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121
#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump
Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121
#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump
August 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable.
Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121
#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump
Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121
#DisappearedInAmerica
#AbductedByTrump
We’re not very nice people. As a group. Obviously we have some kind and generous individuals BUT, as a group, American voters are ignorant assholes. 🤷🏼♂️
I grew up in Europe and when I first heard about coworkers donating their sick days to a sick coworker in this country I didn’t understand. What?In one of the richest countries in the world you are done if you are seriously sick and no coworker to donate their sick days? How is this possible?
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We’re not very nice people. As a group. Obviously we have some kind and generous individuals BUT, as a group, American voters are ignorant assholes. 🤷🏼♂️
About 16 years ago the right wing lunatics (who used to be the “fringe”) went into hyperdrive outrage mode because…wait for it…President Obama used Dijon mustard instead of the “patriotic” yellow variety.
Ah…the good old days.
Ah…the good old days.
August 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
About 16 years ago the right wing lunatics (who used to be the “fringe”) went into hyperdrive outrage mode because…wait for it…President Obama used Dijon mustard instead of the “patriotic” yellow variety.
Ah…the good old days.
Ah…the good old days.
We’re very close to the point where you’re pretty safe just assuming that any right wing politician you might have to deal with is a sexual predator.
May, who has been charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse materials, is being held without bond at the Edgefield County jail pending trial.
Suspended state Rep. RJ May allegedly sent child porn to Oklahoma nurse, Feds say
May, who has been charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse materials, is being held without bond at the Edgefield County jail pending trial.
bit.ly
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We’re very close to the point where you’re pretty safe just assuming that any right wing politician you might have to deal with is a sexual predator.
If you were to literally pick any weekday from the last 7 months, I guarantee that if President Obama had done any ONE of the horrible/scandalous things that trump did on the chosen day republicans would have been howling for his blood. They would have funded an election cycle over that one thing.
August 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you were to literally pick any weekday from the last 7 months, I guarantee that if President Obama had done any ONE of the horrible/scandalous things that trump did on the chosen day republicans would have been howling for his blood. They would have funded an election cycle over that one thing.
Evidence that proves beyond any doubt that trump was directly involved in Epsteins criminal will further endear him to his followers.
On Truth Social, Trump falsely claimed the “Epstein Files” were made up by Comey, Obama & Biden, but federal probes happened under Bush (2006–2008) and Trump (2019).
If it’s proven he went to Epstein’s Island, his goose is cooked.
#Epstein #TrumpFiles
If it’s proven he went to Epstein’s Island, his goose is cooked.
#Epstein #TrumpFiles
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August 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Evidence that proves beyond any doubt that trump was directly involved in Epsteins criminal will further endear him to his followers.
I think that’s the plan
I keep thinking about this headline and story from Esquire in 2004.
Focus here is stem cells, but the sentiment and phrasing are equally apt today (although you can strike "briefly")
classic.esquire.com/article/2004...
Focus here is stem cells, but the sentiment and phrasing are equally apt today (although you can strike "briefly")
classic.esquire.com/article/2004...
August 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I think that’s the plan
All I want is to go back to a time when politicians issued public denials of corruption rather than gleefully admitting to it on national tv. Is that too much to ask?
“So this is purely a political move… why not get rid of gerrymandering and put the power in the hands of voters?”
Republican Rep. Brian Harrison as no answer for that. Because they need it rigged, as he freely admits here.
Republican Rep. Brian Harrison as no answer for that. Because they need it rigged, as he freely admits here.
August 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
All I want is to go back to a time when politicians issued public denials of corruption rather than gleefully admitting to it on national tv. Is that too much to ask?
If you’ve ever been the least bit suspicious that the information you’re getting from our government was false…that instinctive reaction should have kicked into super duper ultra high gear by now.
If it hasn’t, please start paying closer attention
If it hasn’t, please start paying closer attention
August 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
If you’ve ever been the least bit suspicious that the information you’re getting from our government was false…that instinctive reaction should have kicked into super duper ultra high gear by now.
If it hasn’t, please start paying closer attention
If it hasn’t, please start paying closer attention
Yeah. We’ve known this was happening for a really long time.
60 years ago…
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Special Message to Congress, February 1965
“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Special Message to Congress, February 1965
We are turning Earth into a unlivable Hot House Earth
Earth was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.47 degrees Celsius) warmer in 2024 than in the late 19th-century (1850-1900) preindustrial average.
The 10 most recent years are the warmest on record.
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...
Earth was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.47 degrees Celsius) warmer in 2024 than in the late 19th-century (1850-1900) preindustrial average.
The 10 most recent years are the warmest on record.
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...
August 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yeah. We’ve known this was happening for a really long time.
FDR gave us the New Deal
LBJ gave us the Great Society
Those programs saved lives and kept millions of Americans out of poverty
The republicans gave us the shaft and tried do worse. The only thing in their way has been the Democratic Party
LBJ gave us the Great Society
Those programs saved lives and kept millions of Americans out of poverty
The republicans gave us the shaft and tried do worse. The only thing in their way has been the Democratic Party
August 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
FDR gave us the New Deal
LBJ gave us the Great Society
Those programs saved lives and kept millions of Americans out of poverty
The republicans gave us the shaft and tried do worse. The only thing in their way has been the Democratic Party
LBJ gave us the Great Society
Those programs saved lives and kept millions of Americans out of poverty
The republicans gave us the shaft and tried do worse. The only thing in their way has been the Democratic Party
That’s probably the plan
Sure, on the one hand, this will make people worse off and contribute to climate change, but on the other hand it means higher demand on the energy grid which raises electricity prices for us all! 🥳
Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...
August 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
That’s probably the plan
Lesson other states should learn:
1. Raise taxes on wealthy people
2. Use revenue to make your state a better place to live
3. Wealthy people will move to your state
4. Mission accomplished
1. Raise taxes on wealthy people
2. Use revenue to make your state a better place to live
3. Wealthy people will move to your state
4. Mission accomplished
1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.
www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.
www.wbur.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lesson other states should learn:
1. Raise taxes on wealthy people
2. Use revenue to make your state a better place to live
3. Wealthy people will move to your state
4. Mission accomplished
1. Raise taxes on wealthy people
2. Use revenue to make your state a better place to live
3. Wealthy people will move to your state
4. Mission accomplished
Reposted by Michael Hale
“The Washington Litigation Group, a new boutique non-profit firm, is composed of seasoned attorneys, judges and former govt employees who lost their jobs when Trump took office – with some even emerging from retirement. Its services will be free to those looking to push back on Trump.”
New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump’s executive power | CNN Politics
A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal gov...
www.cnn.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“The Washington Litigation Group, a new boutique non-profit firm, is composed of seasoned attorneys, judges and former govt employees who lost their jobs when Trump took office – with some even emerging from retirement. Its services will be free to those looking to push back on Trump.”
Reposted by Michael Hale
Warren should have pointed out that her state, Massachusetts, raised taxes on millionaires not by 2% like Mamdani wants, but by 4%. The result? Massachusetts saw a 39% INCREASE in millionaires, a drop in poverty, & a growing economy.
Stop trusting billionaires. Start taxing them outta existence.
Stop trusting billionaires. Start taxing them outta existence.
ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'
FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?
WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?
WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?
August 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Warren should have pointed out that her state, Massachusetts, raised taxes on millionaires not by 2% like Mamdani wants, but by 4%. The result? Massachusetts saw a 39% INCREASE in millionaires, a drop in poverty, & a growing economy.
Stop trusting billionaires. Start taxing them outta existence.
Stop trusting billionaires. Start taxing them outta existence.
We’re all fucking doomed
The EPA has postponed enforcing limits on methane emissions linked to oil and gas operations while it weighs the possibility of scrapping the rules altogether.
August 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We’re all fucking doomed
republicans will let trump burn the country rather than oppose him over even the simplest matter
August 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
republicans will let trump burn the country rather than oppose him over even the simplest matter