Michael S
@orange-blackbird.bsky.social
desperate for music, baseball, creativity and comedy to block out stupidity and hate
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Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.
October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.
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So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
October 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So Well Done @schumer.senate.gov !
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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
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Raskin has been very busy today. He also just published this. raskin.house.gov/resources-fo...
Resources for Marylanders Affected by Troubling New Trump Administration Policies
raskin.house.gov
February 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Raskin has been very busy today. He also just published this. raskin.house.gov/resources-fo...
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The Gulf of America is the chasm between our sentient plurality who still value the rights and responsibilities required of a republic's citizens and the slavish, hatemongering morons who have embraced our current misrule.
The Gulf of Mexico remains a body of water.
The Gulf of Mexico remains a body of water.
It’s official: In the USA The Gulf of Mexico is now the “Gulf of America,” and Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, has been reverted to Mount McKinley. But we refuse to accept this change—Denali will always be Denali to us. #IStandWithDenali
January 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The Gulf of America is the chasm between our sentient plurality who still value the rights and responsibilities required of a republic's citizens and the slavish, hatemongering morons who have embraced our current misrule.
The Gulf of Mexico remains a body of water.
The Gulf of Mexico remains a body of water.
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🚨BREAKING: @DouglasEmhoff reportedly confronted Bruce Fischer, Sen. Deb Fischer's husband, at the inauguration, saying, “Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?” This came after Fischer declined to shake VP Harris's hand but attempted to greet Emhoff.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
🚨BREAKING: @DouglasEmhoff reportedly confronted Bruce Fischer, Sen. Deb Fischer's husband, at the inauguration, saying, “Why would you try to shake my hand when you wouldn’t shake my wife’s hand?” This came after Fischer declined to shake VP Harris's hand but attempted to greet Emhoff.
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Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 100
One-term president from small-town Georgia hosted PM Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat for talks at Camp David to reach landmark peace deal five years after Yom Kippur War
The post Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace,…
www.timesofisrael.com
December 29, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Jimmy Carter, 39th US president, who brokered Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 100
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Sadly prescient.
December 17, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Sadly prescient.
As seen in NY❤️
December 15, 2024 at 11:03 PM
As seen in NY❤️
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Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...
theonion.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
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Donald Trump is building a cabinet of billionaires.
This will turn America into a plutocracy and an oligarchy.
This will turn America into a plutocracy and an oligarchy.
December 10, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Donald Trump is building a cabinet of billionaires.
This will turn America into a plutocracy and an oligarchy.
This will turn America into a plutocracy and an oligarchy.
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The rules apply to everyone else, not his own family.


December 9, 2024 at 11:52 PM
The rules apply to everyone else, not his own family.


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John Lennon was assassinated 44 years ago today by a man who flew from Hawaii to New York with a handgun in his suitcase. He shot Lennon five times with hollow-point bullets. Since then, over 1.5M people in America have been shot and killed - many more wounded.
Imagine…
Imagine…
December 8, 2024 at 5:24 PM
John Lennon was assassinated 44 years ago today by a man who flew from Hawaii to New York with a handgun in his suitcase. He shot Lennon five times with hollow-point bullets. Since then, over 1.5M people in America have been shot and killed - many more wounded.
Imagine…
Imagine…
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This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
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The CEO of an amoral health insurance company has been assassinated, leading to celebrations from an angry populace, moral debates, and a citywide manhunt. Critics are calling it "preachy Oscar bait that wades into heady topics without much to say about them". 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.
December 6, 2024 at 3:04 AM
The CEO of an amoral health insurance company has been assassinated, leading to celebrations from an angry populace, moral debates, and a citywide manhunt. Critics are calling it "preachy Oscar bait that wades into heady topics without much to say about them". 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I think this has been the GOP’s plan for years, in Trump they have found their ultimate tool to prove that government is the problem by destroying
Coined in 2022, 'enshittification' is a gradual deterioration of a service/product due to reduction in quality of service, especially of an online platform, & as a consequence of profit-seeking.
The way trolls/extremists have degraded all
#USDemocracy #Resistance
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
The way trolls/extremists have degraded all
#USDemocracy #Resistance
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I think this has been the GOP’s plan for years, in Trump they have found their ultimate tool to prove that government is the problem by destroying
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For most of recorded history, people have lived under despots and tyrants. But Americans maintain the belief that we can govern ourselves in freedom.
No matter the twists and turns of politics, we won't let fear defeat solidarity. My interview with @slate.bsky.social:
No matter the twists and turns of politics, we won't let fear defeat solidarity. My interview with @slate.bsky.social:
Jamie Raskin: “We Can’t Let The Fear Paralyze Us”
Did Matt Gaetz resign just to block the release of the House ethics report?
slate.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:51 PM
For most of recorded history, people have lived under despots and tyrants. But Americans maintain the belief that we can govern ourselves in freedom.
No matter the twists and turns of politics, we won't let fear defeat solidarity. My interview with @slate.bsky.social:
No matter the twists and turns of politics, we won't let fear defeat solidarity. My interview with @slate.bsky.social: