Mike Snell

Mike Snell

@bluewall.bsky.social

Left leaning older white man. Not that interesting, really. Kansas City.

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I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours

Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc.bsky.social

Meanwhile on X, from Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic.

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The right-wing view on today's birthright citizenship ruling is that the majority "re-wrote" or "nullified" the citizenship clause, which is an odd way of characterizing a ruling that affirmed the operational understanding of the 14th Amendment that has until now never been widely questioned.

Ahhhhh, problems. Who could predict that…? You know what I mean?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Was there a plan in place to evacuate Americans before the attack? MARCO RUBIO: That's the plan we're trying to carry out. The problem is airspace closures.

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Replying to @cthomasjamh.bsky.social

“Fuck you, make me” was and remains the exactly right stance to take against these assholes.

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Turned on CNN just to see what the what and there's Scott Jennings, "was no angel-ing" the mother of a toddler who got shot in the face.

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Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.

NPR@npr.org

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building. n.pr/49tB0uS

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MAJOR: The Trump Administration has been caught lying about the D.C. shooting suspect. The truth: He was vetted by Trump. He had a CIA badge, worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, and granted asylum by Trump in April. Spread this everywhere. Subscribe to support my work, even on Thanksgiving:

open.substack.comMajor Update: The Trump Administration Caught Lying About D.C. Shooting Suspect as CIA Ties ExposedGood afternoon, everyone.

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The "big, beautiful bill" weaponizes working-class reliance on debt to finance the college dream with such intensity that not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out altogether. Whatever schools survive are likely to be populated only by society’s wealthiest.

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Trump said he loves the poorly educated and, soon, he'll have many many more of them to love.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

The "big, beautiful bill" weaponizes working-class reliance on debt to finance the college dream with such intensity that not only will it push millions to the financial brink, it will push them out altogether. Whatever schools survive are likely to be populated only by society’s wealthiest.

Yep

Andy Richter@andyrichter.co

The main issue that bothers me about immigrants working in this country is that we continue to support a two-tier system of wages that creates an underpaid foreign underclass because we don’t force corporations and billionaires to pay their fair share into our economy

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

I mean, Jesus Christ, can you people even *hear* yourself? I'm about to die of secondhand embarrassment just reading this crap.

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When i go see nineties bands live now they look completely different from how they did in their mtv buzz bin music videos. It's gotta be the vaccines

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This seems like an important point to me.

Chippy@pastryfangs.bsky.social

Im been saying this for a few years but Chicago now has Kansas City weather. We have ‘95-like heatwaves every summer. The tornadoes are already here. And its only a matter of time before the prairie fires arrive. Its Great Plaines weather now in the Great Lakes

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From the article… “Some training materials that Meta created for the new policies were confusing…” “…the text said saying that “white people have mental illness” would be prohibited on Facebook, but saying that “gay people have mental illness” was allowed...” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

nytimes.comInside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump EraAfter visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...

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Another billionaire who claims to be fighting liberal bias while using their economic power to protect fascism.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop: Patrick Soon-Shiong's meddling at the LA Times has grown more pervasive than previously realized. He has taken a number of previously unreported steps to curtail pieces critical of Trump, per a memo to top editor Terry Tang that I obtained. Details in Status: www.status.news/p/patrick-so...

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chinese hackers infiltrated 8 major U.S. ISPs to spy on public officials, and it's so severe the intruders are still happily rooting around in the networks yet it's getting 4% of the press attention that all the hyperventilation over TikTok received

cnn.comWhite House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese | CNN PoliticsUS officials believe Chinese hackers breached at least eight US telecommunications providers in their quest to spy on top US political figures as part of a hacking campaign that has affected dozens of...