Michael van Rosenvelt

Michael van Rosenvelt

@docmikers.bsky.social

Former Molecular Biologist, Technologist, Brewery owner. Now I have an old horse farm in TN to rehab. 🏳️‍🌈👬 Oh and my great grandpa co-founded ANTIFA with his friend Winston.

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Starting on the renovation for the old stable at Audacity Acres. This is 40 odd year-old Hickory and red oak. So I guess I’ll be spending some time pulling nails and milling 800 board feet. 😬

If you can’t pass high school civics you shouldn’t get to be member of congress

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Intelligence Chair Crawford: "It's in our interest to revisit the construct of NATO and say, 'How does this work for us?' Because when we need help from NATO, by and large they aren't there. Whereas when they need our help, we're there to do the heavy lifting, and I think POTUS has recognized that."

😂😂 suckers fell for it

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

EVERCORE: “.. As of April 24, tax refunds are running roughly $45 billion ahead of last year. This represents a relatively small portion of the projected $135 billion benefit and raises questions about the remainder that was anticipated.”

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Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

Great fightin words from Jeffries here, but… I need. Him to stop speaking. Like a. Junior high. Debate tournament. Not every statement needs to be uttered in High Speech

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: Our message to Florida Republicans is fuck around and find out. If they go down the road of a Desantis dummymander, they'll find themselves in the same situation as Texas Republicans. They started this war. And we're gonna finish it.

They are, in fact, inevitable no matter how careful every driver is, there will be deaths. Note that sentence does NOT say “people should do whatever they want damn the consequences”

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“…long been criticised for the kafala system, which entails sponsorship-based labour that ties migrant workers’ legal status to their employers, giving employers significant control over their employees’ immigration status, work permits and often living conditions.” So…like the US?

apple.newsOpinion | Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling — Guardian USThe Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

So my range is broken and Lowe’s has a 48-hr return policy (which wtf) so now I have a service appt for Wednesday. THIS is the sort of problem the “elites” and politicians who run our country just cannot conceptualize. They have people for this kind of thing. People who insulate them from reality.

Be still, my heart

TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com

NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November #StarTrek #Lego blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...

So much hypocrisy in one sentence. Return education to the states but only if they’re educating the way the feds want. Sounds like you might need a department of some sort to ensure those funding requirements are met.

Democracy Action Network@democracyactionnet.bsky.social

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

Social disorder = “people who don’t look like me acting differently than I do is scary”

Lawprofblawg@lawprofblawg.bsky.social

One of the things I like about academia is that sometimes the academic arguments are way more sophisticated than arguments of non-academics. #Satire

Just curious: when Trump says arrests are down at the border (as proof of his awesomeness?) what about the people they’re NOT arresting? Like, if you pull all of CBP to round up people at Home Depot, then obviously we’ll be arresting fewer people at the border?

This is beyond horrifying. Everyone involved should rot in hell.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

Handy list of Democrats what need firing next year

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

The 10 Democrats who voted with Republicans just now to censor Al Green: Ami Bera (CA) Ed Case (HI) Jim Costa (CA) Laura Gillen (NY) Jim Himes (CT) Chrissy Houlahan (PA) Marcy Kaptur (OH) Jared Moskowitz (FL) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Tom Suozzi (NY)

Trump grants asylum to white nazis from South Africa. This season opener has been banging, but I’m ready for episode 3 where the king and his entire court eat the poisoned soup.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

BREAKING President Trump has signed sanctions against South Africa for their recent land seizure bill. He is ordering all aid to South Africa be halted and he is also ordering federal agencies to prioritize humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for Afrikaner refugees.

I dunno man it might be a little on the nose

Patton Oswalt@pattonoswalt.bsky.social

“Screaming. A million mouths screaming but also laughing the sky will bleed and there shall be a great flensing a burning away of the flesh it is coming there is no way to stop what is coming.”

This is utterly terrifying if you think about it for even a microsecond

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

Bluesky has been flooded with automated reply bots - they'll offer a sort of confrontational opinion as a reply. They're pretty convincing and we all need to train ourselves to not reflexively reply to all responses until we check Dead giveaway is new acct, few followers + original posts