Sean Michael
@seanmichael1217.bsky.social
English teacher in Illinois. If you have a good book or music recommendation, I’d love to hear it.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?
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Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators
DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators
The agency denied making
gizmodo.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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I think people are still unprepared for a world where you cannot trust any video content, despite years of warning.
Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I think people are still unprepared for a world where you cannot trust any video content, despite years of warning.
Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
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Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."
Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.
Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.
October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."
Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.
Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.
Pritzker has been excellent.
“Trump, and the thuggery that his agents have brought, has actively made us less safe.” —Gov. JB Pritzker
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pritzker has been excellent.
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“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
In their own words the Republicans declared war against the United States and now they are waging it.
I guess we should have taken "The South will rise again" both literally and seriously.
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024
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"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."
Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."
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California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda.
The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:
The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda.
The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:
The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:
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They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!
DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."
October 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!
If you have a job that has a 401k match, you need to budget to get the match. It's free money. Get the free money.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you have a job that has a 401k match, you need to budget to get the match. It's free money. Get the free money.
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"Whether a person is undocumented or not is anyone’s guess, which is why the safest bet is to question everyone."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...
ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize
“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Whether a person is undocumented or not is anyone’s guess, which is why the safest bet is to question everyone."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...
Trump is defying court orders to send the military into American cities. It'll only get more outlandish as he tries to distract from the fact that he's holding the government hostage so that he can take healthcare away in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/u...
What we know about a federal judge temporarily blocking Trump from sending any National Guard troops to the state | CNN
For the second time in two days, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Oregon delivered a second blow to the president’s Trump administration’s effort to send National Guard troops into Portland late Sun...
www.cnn.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trump is defying court orders to send the military into American cities. It'll only get more outlandish as he tries to distract from the fact that he's holding the government hostage so that he can take healthcare away in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/u...
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Logan Square is a melting pot neighborhood — multi generational immigrants, younger people owning their first homes, a fair bit of gentrification, with some of Chicago’s best restaurants, bars, retail. Think maybe Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Silver Lake in LA. Now with tear gas.
Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Logan Square is a melting pot neighborhood — multi generational immigrants, younger people owning their first homes, a fair bit of gentrification, with some of Chicago’s best restaurants, bars, retail. Think maybe Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Silver Lake in LA. Now with tear gas.
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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To Donald Trump:
Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.
Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.
Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.
Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.
Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.
Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.
Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
To Donald Trump:
Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.
Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.
Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.
Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.
Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.
Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.
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It’s crazy that they’re making it out as if Melania walking up a stopped escalator was her own Omaha Beach….
Bartiromo: "The UN is promising a thorough investigation after President Trump said there was 'triple sabotage.' Of course he's referring to the escalator which stopped as soon as he and the First Lady stepped on. She was incredibly unfazed. She just kept walking up the steps. No problem for her."
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s crazy that they’re making it out as if Melania walking up a stopped escalator was her own Omaha Beach….
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Not ideal.
5 companies now control 90% of the 🇺🇸 media market. Not great!
And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies.
(Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)
And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies.
(Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)
September 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Not ideal.
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Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19
What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
www.miamiherald.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?
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Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.
September 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.