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salt-miner.bsky.social @salt-miner.bsky.social · Jan 28
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#immigrants
Im listening to Donald Trump yell at me. I cant keep track of all the details.
But immigration is ok. Lets just legalize it as it is. Its fine.
I had dinner with the fam at the Yemen Cafe in Hamtramck recently.
Delightful. All kinds of people show up. We can live like that.
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I will survive
(Breaker turned off)
Drywall is cut open near rough OSB floor showing partially wired electric range outlet. Linesmans pliers and screwdriver on the floor.
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Your last saved pic is your philosophy
New 2" PVC pipe (spigot) inserted into 3" cast iron hub with oakum and Hercules Plastic Seal.
September 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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#MusicChallenge
#FirstNameInSong

Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way?

The Mavericks do a great version of Waylon Jenning's classic

youtu.be/WDjwosWmnZE?...
The Mavericks - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Mavericks
youtu.be
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#FirstNameInSong
#MusicChallenge

First names in song, but two of 'em.
The great Panch and Lefty by the great Emmylou Harris

youtu.be/l3LQeRqTBK4?...
Emmylou Harris "Pancho and Lefty"
YouTube video by catman916
youtu.be
August 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Slightly diminish some bands:

Prince and The Course Correction

Tom Petty and The Disappointers

Led Zeppelin
albertsonb2.bsky.social Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band: boygoodeffort
jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band: Huey Lewis and the Social Media
August 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Praying at is the new pissing on
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Israel-Gaza war live: anger grows over Israeli far-right minister praying at al-Aqsa mosque
Itamar Ben-Gvir attended holy site in breach of ‘status quo’ arrangements with Muslim authorities
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#Michigan

Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer continues to dissapoint. She is accomodating the biggest utility, DTE, at the expense of consumers.
I am getting involved with a ballot initiative (Michiganders for Money Out of Politics) which is largely motivated by DTE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Michigan’s governor replaces clean energy advocate on utilities board with ‘industry ally’
Critics say Gretchen Whitmer deposed Alessandra Carreon at the behest of state energy supplier DTE Energy
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The native false sunflowers host the aphids. Native ladybugs (not the invasive orange lookalikes) feast on tbe aphids. They seem to crawl up, snatch one, and crawl away.
Meanwhile the City of Ypsilanti, Michigan, has decide to go to war with me and my neighbors who have native gardens.
Aphids on the stem of false sunflower A ladybug who hunts the aphids on the false sunflower. A jumble of native plants in front of a brick house
July 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Mississippi schools have improved since they have made many changes in their public schools. A few years back I read that they began requiring phonics-based reading pedagogy. This is proven to be the best. Meanwhile Michigan schools continue to rank very low.

www.bridgemi.com/talent-educa...
Mississippi turned around its schools. Its secret: Tools Michigan abandoned | Bridge Michigan
Once at the bottom, Mississippi has made massive strides teaching children to read. They’ve got literacy coaches, a high-stakes third grade test and lots of teacher training. What can Michigan learn f...
www.bridgemi.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I just saw the new movie Eddington. My favorite part was when there was an actual dumpster fire.
July 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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In all for rebelling against the monoculture but don’t be a dork about it
July 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A bunch of native plantings on Bluesky today. Its not all pretty flowers. Lets dont forget compost piles, piles of wood chips ready when needed, and just green stuff.
Compost pile contained by fencing. Brush and kitchen scraps. Wood chips dropped a year ago, for free, by a tree trimmer. A forest of cup plants and other US midwest natives. In the background the country's flag flies upside down. The Ship of State is in distress.
July 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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1/n
No Kings rally and march in Detroit. I went with an old friend and we had a lovely and tiring day of it. Not to diminish the era-ending danger we are in, we enjoyed our time together. Memo to younguns, hold on to what you got.
There was a long rally with speakers we couldnt hear.
A shot of a crowd of Detroit No Kings posters Detroit No Kings protests marching Detroit No Kings marchers getting into Downtown
June 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
salt-miner.bsky.social
As Israel attacks Iran over Iran's nuckear program, let's recall that Obama and European allies had a deal with Iran that kept them from developing nukes.
Trup unilaterally killed it during his first term.

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/m...
Iran deal: Trump breaks with European allies over 'horrible, one-sided' nuclear agreement
President says he will impose ‘highest level of economic sanctions’ on Iran as Tehran vows: ‘We won’t allow Trump to win’
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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What's the economic/political deal with undocumentrd immigrants?
@miriamposner.com lays out what is, I do believe, simply the case, plus an interesting take on how Trump sorta stumbled into the worst thing he has done, the mass deportations.
miriamposner.com Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Jun 9
I laid it out as clearly as I could. Sorry it’s so long.
I'm going to say something that a lot of historians are aware of but which I think is too seldom articulated. For many years, this is how the deal has worked: a number of industries are only viable in their current form with a workforce of people too desperate and terrorized to demand a living wage. Agriculture, garment production, domestic labor, construction -all of these industries and others allocate their substantial profits in such a way that they depend on a workforce paid a pittance to work in terrible conditions. Sometimes people say that undocumented immigrants do the jobs white people won't do, but I always think that's a little misleading. There's nothing biologically different about white people; they're just largely not desperate and terrorized enough. Many people argue that this is precisely why we have borders in the first place: to create a reserve army of laborers desperate enough to keep afloat industries that otherwise would make no financial sense. So this is how it's worked for many years, and everyone understood the deal. Of course, they never spoke it out loud: instead leaders have praised the "melting pot" and the "land of opportunity." Meanwhile we have made the process of legalization an impenetrable labyrinth and kept poor working people terrorized. While this was all going on, it made sense to allow immigrants to do double-duty: they serve as both vital labor *and* the scapegoat once white people started noticing that the middle class of this country is rapidly disappearing. That, of course, is because corporations have increasingly moved operations overseas, disemboweled labor unions, and employed gig workers and contract labor— even as social welfare programs have been demolished. You could say that it's another way immigrants work for this country: by serving as an attractive distraction from the otherwise blatant transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the super-rich. But Trump, as is so often the case, either wasn't aware of the rules or saw an opportunity to grab an applause line that his colleagues had tactfully sidestepped. He started talking about mass deportations, and his supporters, who of course were never aware of the deal in the first place, were delighted to take him up on it. Based on everything they knew, it was just the logical next step. That's how we get here. Deporting people— remember, these are human beings, with families and friends and hopes and dreams-doesn't change the fact that a bunch of industries don't make financial sense, at least in their current configuration, when people are paid a living wage. Whether Trump is aware of or cares about this intractable fact, I frankly don't know. But once again, immigrants are serving double-duty: this time, they're providing the excuse for the military occupation of a city that's always been a thorn in Trump's side. That this excuse doesn't stand up to even the faintest of scrutiny doesn't really matter, as long as he can keep enough of the country foaming at the mouth for long enough to cement this power grab. Please don't fall for this. Think back on what you know about how history has unfolded. Is it possible that this explanation makes more sense than the narrative you've accepted? If that's the case, then we need to start thinking more clearly about how we can aid the people who need us right now.
June 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Here is a suggestion for anyone who ever puts together a candidate questionaire, like for a voter guide.

"Explain your understanding of these two terms, and their difference:
- Law and Order
- Rule of Law
"
June 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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mike10010100.com
It's literally the main party PR platform, but okay, glad for your irrelevant input, nobody.
June 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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A banger not in English by Natalia Lafourcade

youtu.be/IKmPci5VXz0?...
June 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Joni Ernst is getting a lot of attention for her "we're all going to die" explanation for why only affluent people deserve health care.
This from her Wikipedia entry as of 1:20 pm on June 1, 2025
An excerpt from Joni Ernst Wikipedia entry. It says she supports fetal personhood and editorializes "all those fetuses are gonna die anyway, so really, what's the point?!"
June 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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If anyone is wondering what SE Michigan looks like, its all cupp plants, goldenrod, milkweed, beardstongue, and such, as far as the eye can see.
But shit, that flag is still upside down. All is calm but in totall distress
A pink house in the background with native plants in the foreground. An American flag flies upside down from the porch.
May 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Chris Murphy gives a thorough indictment of the incompetence and immorality of how Noem runs DHS.

Or: Sen Chris Murphy rolls Kristi Noem in a blunt and smokes her.
rickperlstein.bsky.social Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · May 9
Every administration official should be grilled like this, every time. Think like you're creating a record for future Nuremberg Trials. youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
youtu.be
May 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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nteresting news here in Michigan. Some U of M students were arrested during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Local prosecutor decided to drop the chareges. Ok but the Regents were unhappy and wanted convictions. So they called up their friend and ...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Michigan AG drops all charges against seven pro-Palestinian protesters
Dana Nessel acts after Guardian report detailed her extensive links to university regents calling for prosecution
www.theguardian.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Hakeem Jeffries sent me an email with the subject line

"please read. don't delete."

Yeah. Deleted it. Did not read it.
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM