Mike
@velomikey.bsky.social
Iowa State grad, software developer, Liberal on the West coast.
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Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm.
His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN.
When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN.
When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
September 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm.
His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN.
When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN.
When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Just one of the many people I met at Sunday Parkways today. 😁
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Just one of the many people I met at Sunday Parkways today. 😁
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So, my last scheduled live event for 2025 is in my home away (but not too far)from home Portland, Oregon.
The last one we did there sold out...hope we do that again! If you want to go, we'd love to have you.
www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...
The last one we did there sold out...hope we do that again! If you want to go, we'd love to have you.
www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...
www.etix.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
So, my last scheduled live event for 2025 is in my home away (but not too far)from home Portland, Oregon.
The last one we did there sold out...hope we do that again! If you want to go, we'd love to have you.
www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...
The last one we did there sold out...hope we do that again! If you want to go, we'd love to have you.
www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...
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MAGA is going through some things .
August 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
MAGA is going through some things .
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All the feels ❤️
July 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
All the feels ❤️
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I said the same thing to my wife several times. I feel like I'm actually learning about the past living through what we're experiencing now. There WAS so much that was weird and hard to understand about earlier (similar) eras that I currently say to myself "oh...I get it now."
A case study indeed.
A case study indeed.
the hypernormalization of *gestures broadly at everything* has really been something to behold.
It would make for an interesting study if it wasn't so absurdly cruel and damaging to millions of people.
It would make for an interesting study if it wasn't so absurdly cruel and damaging to millions of people.
July 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I said the same thing to my wife several times. I feel like I'm actually learning about the past living through what we're experiencing now. There WAS so much that was weird and hard to understand about earlier (similar) eras that I currently say to myself "oh...I get it now."
A case study indeed.
A case study indeed.
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ISU transfer guard Dominick Nelson is a high-flying talent on both ends of the floor.
But the 6-5 reigning WAC player of the year identified a weakness this summer and has attacked it.
cyclonefanatic.com/2025/06/isu-...
But the 6-5 reigning WAC player of the year identified a weakness this summer and has attacked it.
cyclonefanatic.com/2025/06/isu-...
ISU transfer Dominick Nelson's replaced thorny questions with lofty ones
Iowa State men’s basketball newcomer Dominick Nelson talks to media at the university Sukup Basketball Complex on June 24, 2025, in Ames, Iowa.
As freshly-minted Iowa State guard Dominick Nelson h...
cyclonefanatic.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
ISU transfer guard Dominick Nelson is a high-flying talent on both ends of the floor.
But the 6-5 reigning WAC player of the year identified a weakness this summer and has attacked it.
cyclonefanatic.com/2025/06/isu-...
But the 6-5 reigning WAC player of the year identified a weakness this summer and has attacked it.
cyclonefanatic.com/2025/06/isu-...
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NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts.
Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and c...
www.propublica.org
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts.
Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
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Imagine being FURIOUS that parents might get access to free childcare.
June 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Imagine being FURIOUS that parents might get access to free childcare.
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god this guy fucking sucks so much
June 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
god this guy fucking sucks so much
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I'm just gonna say the amount of peacefulness that these large rallies where essentially nobody was in charge is stunning and fantastic.The media doesn't seem to be too happy though… Definitely looking for any violence they can play up. But the story should be how unbelievably wonderful it all went.
June 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I'm just gonna say the amount of peacefulness that these large rallies where essentially nobody was in charge is stunning and fantastic.The media doesn't seem to be too happy though… Definitely looking for any violence they can play up. But the story should be how unbelievably wonderful it all went.
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We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
June 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.
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A tipi once owned by the late, great Bill Walton just sold for $30,100 at auction. Insane bidding war.
Here’s him and Kareem in it.
Here’s him and Kareem in it.
June 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A tipi once owned by the late, great Bill Walton just sold for $30,100 at auction. Insane bidding war.
Here’s him and Kareem in it.
Here’s him and Kareem in it.
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Let me state the obvious here:if somehow all this smoke about Iran turns into anything real involving any military action by US (hard to believe...If we go there we're truly in crazy town)the President could then drag in all kinds of little-used war powers to add to things like the Insurrection Act.
June 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let me state the obvious here:if somehow all this smoke about Iran turns into anything real involving any military action by US (hard to believe...If we go there we're truly in crazy town)the President could then drag in all kinds of little-used war powers to add to things like the Insurrection Act.
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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
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Dispatches to the "Hard Corps" from Dan Carlin. Respice Post Te. Click to read "Look Behind You!", by Dan Carlin, a Substack publication.
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June 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Good one from Andy Borowitz.
May 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Good one from Andy Borowitz.
Haliburton really bringing it tonight, what a stat line!
May 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Haliburton really bringing it tonight, what a stat line!
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I wrote about one of the most vindictive people I’ve ever met so, uh, if something happens to me… www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie and the Ambassadorship Factory
Charlie Kushner, the newly confirmed US ambassador to France, is a vindictive, felonious, and score-settling real-estate mogul, not unlike a certain US president.
www.thenation.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote about one of the most vindictive people I’ve ever met so, uh, if something happens to me… www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Decades of trickle-down thinking gutted our government. Now, the anti-democracy crowd is finishing the job. Legal scholar @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social joins us this week to explain why restoring the old system won’t save us—and what we must build instead.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/SabeelRahman
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/SabeelRahman
May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Decades of trickle-down thinking gutted our government. Now, the anti-democracy crowd is finishing the job. Legal scholar @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social joins us this week to explain why restoring the old system won’t save us—and what we must build instead.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/SabeelRahman
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/SabeelRahman
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See you all out there today! Let’s make some good trouble. ✊
May 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
See you all out there today! Let’s make some good trouble. ✊