Michael Netherton

Michael Netherton

@beyondthestorm.bsky.social

Instructional Designer, Artist, movie-lover, reader and (very) concerned citizen. No dms thanks.

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This can’t be good. Recall F47 pulled the US out of WHO in 2025. Key scientists are restricted from communication with WHO. Any communication has to go through HHS. Forget the fact that we are missing leaders in top positions. The regime embraces isolationism. 🧪 www.ibtimes.com/trump-admini...

ibtimes.comTrump Administration Barred Key US Scientists From WHO Virus Response Talks: ReportNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases officials have reportedly been blocked from direct WHO contact, with only a narrow exception recently allowed as an Ebola outbreak in the Democrat...

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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

propublica.orgThe White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal InvestigationFederal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

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Every Justice Department or FBI employee who worked on the criminal investigations into President Donald Trump has been fired, resigned, or took early retirement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. https://cnn.it/4ddkUrI

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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA #NoKings

Aaron Black@aaronblack.bsky.social

The crowd is growing here in St. Paul Minnesota at the State Capitol. There are about 40k people here right now with multiple marches still coming. The temperature has warmed up to a balmy 39 degrees, the sun is out and everybody is having a great time. ❤️#NoKings

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These guys have completely lost their minds. They are coming up every day with new days to do direct, material harm to people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."

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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases: "Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"

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Donald Trump has already broken laws and used violence in an attempt to overturn an election. Now he’s setting the stage to try to overturn another one. We cannot let that happen.

The Captain@thoreau.bsky.social

Trump explicitly calling for violations of the constitution to federalize elections. On Dan bongino’s relaunched podcast. GOP end this farce. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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You better believe if the Biden administration had ever done something like this, Marco Rubio would’ve been screaming from the rooftops that it was an act of war

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war? RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

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Replying to @404media.co

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

404media.coICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was SuedThe government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."

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President Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. "Meanwhile, fishermen on boats in the Caribbean who we have never been tried or charged with anything are shot and killed from the air."

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According to Republican Senator Mike Rounds, Rubio told senators that the 28-point peace plan drawn up by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, was actually a Russian plan that the U.S. had agreed to pass along to Ukraine.

kyivindependent.comRubio facing scrutiny after telling US senators that 28-point plan is a Russian proposal passed along to UkraineThe U.S. bipartisan Senate delegation attending the Halifax International Security Forum had received a phone call from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In it, Rubio was quite frank. According to Rep...

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UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

n.prUC Berkeley professor warns of 'unprecedented crackdown' on academic freedomUC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.