Michael
@odd-michael.bsky.social
Love anything to do with nature and animals and also walking in the mountains.
The way cnn is reporting on this is weird.
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The way cnn is reporting on this is weird.
Saying "..we only have a good system if its smart" and then immediately asking DAVID SACKS to say a few words is hilarious.
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Saying "..we only have a good system if its smart" and then immediately asking DAVID SACKS to say a few words is hilarious.
My Thanksgiving message is that they should make Bluetooth speakers and subwoofers illegal.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My Thanksgiving message is that they should make Bluetooth speakers and subwoofers illegal.
Having a large family to care for is supposed to make my life easier? Lmao
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Having a large family to care for is supposed to make my life easier? Lmao
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This hearing just began with a State Board of Education member trying to bar a Council on American-Islamic Relations representative barred from speaking because she leads a "terrorist" organization. (Yesterday, Gov. Abbott designated CAIR as such).
Happening now: Texas clergy speaking out about the influence of Christian nationalism — including David Barton’s theories — on proposed social studies curriculum. The State Board of Education will hold a hearing on the proposals later today.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This hearing just began with a State Board of Education member trying to bar a Council on American-Islamic Relations representative barred from speaking because she leads a "terrorist" organization. (Yesterday, Gov. Abbott designated CAIR as such).
They just played a commercial on MNF calling to release the epstien files.
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They just played a commercial on MNF calling to release the epstien files.
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Cannot be stressed enough how unbelievably terribly all the news outlets, "progressive" or not, have been blowing the Epstein story.
Both parties have massive criminal exposure, top donors to both are at the very least are extremely close to child rape, and two presidents (at least) are involved.
Both parties have massive criminal exposure, top donors to both are at the very least are extremely close to child rape, and two presidents (at least) are involved.
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Cannot be stressed enough how unbelievably terribly all the news outlets, "progressive" or not, have been blowing the Epstein story.
Both parties have massive criminal exposure, top donors to both are at the very least are extremely close to child rape, and two presidents (at least) are involved.
Both parties have massive criminal exposure, top donors to both are at the very least are extremely close to child rape, and two presidents (at least) are involved.
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All of this hinging on the two most unhinged women in Congress in sending me
The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
All of this hinging on the two most unhinged women in Congress in sending me
Fucking finally.
It was expected that Prop 50 would be Nancy Pelosi's last race. When Scott Wiener hastily jumped into the race a few weeks ago because he was afraid of getting passed over, that confirmed it.
www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Nancy Pelosi Announces Retirement From Congress
The historic former House speaker and Democratic Party power broker is hanging it up after nearly four decades of representing San Francisco.
www.huffpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fucking finally.
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Rep. Mike Quigley is having a press conference about this, and it is PACKED.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Rep. Mike Quigley is having a press conference about this, and it is PACKED.
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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The indictment accuses Abughazaleh — whose name is repeatedly misspelled in the document — of bracing her hands on the hood of an ICE vehicle that was attempting to drive through a group of protesters
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest
Kat Abughazaleh, running in Illinois’ 9th District, is accused of impeding a federal agent during an anti-ICE protest at Broadview Processing Center.
www.rollingstone.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The indictment accuses Abughazaleh — whose name is repeatedly misspelled in the document — of bracing her hands on the hood of an ICE vehicle that was attempting to drive through a group of protesters
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump is so stupid he brags about getting the test to see how stupid he is.
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Trump is so stupid he brags about getting the test to see how stupid he is.
He's dying and hes building the ball room as a memorial to himself.
Leavitt: "Advanced imaging is something that presidents receive and people receive when they go to the doctor, and so we provided a detailed read out of that physical. I don't know the exact imaging that took place. POTUS is in incredibly good shape and I think that's evidence here every single day"
October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
He's dying and hes building the ball room as a memorial to himself.
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Said like a true Queen
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Said like a true Queen
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trumps latest gambit of trying to engineer his own coup continues.
Internal DHS memo shows Trump plans to keep paying ICE agents and Border Patrol officers throughout the shutdown, while other feds go without pay.
Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Plans To Keep Paying Immigration Agents While Other Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks
The move amounts to special treatment for Trump’s favorite constituency within the federal bureaucracy.
www.huffpost.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Trumps latest gambit of trying to engineer his own coup continues.
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Seriously, most Real Men (tm) will find it revolting that armor-clad masked federal agents beat and kidnap women while shooting pepper balls at pastors. You just have to show them that's what's going on.
ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Seriously, most Real Men (tm) will find it revolting that armor-clad masked federal agents beat and kidnap women while shooting pepper balls at pastors. You just have to show them that's what's going on.
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"In free countries the law ought to be King. [But] some Masaniello may arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and discontented, and assuming the powers of government may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge."
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"In free countries the law ought to be King. [But] some Masaniello may arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and discontented, and assuming the powers of government may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge."
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave
Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.
Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner
The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.
on.wsj.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave
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There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
reut.rs
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
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It’s a damning indictment of the U.S. political and media cultures that this type of brutal shamelessness constitutes a massive competitive advantage for Republicans - a formidable superpower in the context of a deeply unhealthy polity.
October 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It’s a damning indictment of the U.S. political and media cultures that this type of brutal shamelessness constitutes a massive competitive advantage for Republicans - a formidable superpower in the context of a deeply unhealthy polity.
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It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.
alternatively, trump's at 41% approval — that's pretty "sour" right?
In his interview w @jonfavs.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, "why haven't the tariffs soured the public on Trump?"
An answer from my book on ACA opinions: the contemporary US economy is so diverse & complex that even sizable policy changes don't move opinions consistently.
An answer from my book on ACA opinions: the contemporary US economy is so diverse & complex that even sizable policy changes don't move opinions consistently.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It is insane to me that his approval is in the toilet, especially in the economy and the chattering classes just pretend it is not happening.