Mick

Mick

@drmick.bsky.social

Chemical Engineer, Dad, Democrat- working to build a better future for my baby girl. Sustainable materials, polymer science. Too many hobbies to list- leatherwork, MtG, books, tabletop games, and politics get most of my spare time.

1.3K followers287 following2.3K posts

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani has secretly been the menace, Spider-Man, and has disrupted NYPD Police by catching villains before they can.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Strong job market meant that it got more expensive to have someone hand-deliver me fast food, so unfortunately fascism was the only recourse

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American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

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Because there are 10s of thousands of Democratic electeds in the United States, and you have positioned yourself directly into a media environment that is designed to find every statement a Democrat makes that is even vaguely transphobic as soon as it happens.

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intelligence is knowing that if i ever looked up anything about Magyar, Lula, or any of the other election winners i would probably not be great fans of their politics wisdom is knowing it doesn't matter because defeating the global chud coalition is all that matters for the foreseeable future

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it's unbelievably infuriating how many times i have conversations (both online and IRL) where i talk about improving the IRS and people say "well couldn't we automate a lot of this stuff?" and then i have to explain to them that Republicans fired the entire AI and automation department

I used to argue that the actual slaveowners were worse people, but I think we all know by now that if he could, he would.

Robert Garcia@robertgarcia.bsky.social

I’m watching Trump at this press briefing praise Amy Acton’s abusive mom and calling her an honest woman. He’s a sick and small man. And he will be remembered as the worst person to ever serve as president.

Fucker is just rubbing it in

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The kind of that money that has been stolen is trillions from this country by crooked politicians"

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MN GOP HOUSE CANDIDATE JOSH JUNGLING: Paid family medical leave is a bumper sticker law. It sounds good on a bumper sticker DFL CANDIDATE ZACK STEPHENSON: It's not a bumper sticker if you have a new baby or a sick parent. I think it's a necessity

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it's very revealing how Slotkin can say "we need to prosecute all criminals in government so that people think twice about using the government for crimes" and the entire Republican party erupts in hysterics biggest hit dogs hollering moment in a while

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Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

Dude doesn't have the moral character required to be a dog catcher, let alone the Vice President

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

The husband of a U.S. soldier killed in Trump's Iran war confronts JD Vance over alleged military leadership failures that led to the deaths of his wife and five other service members. JOEY AMOR: “There's a failure in the leadership.” VANCE: “This is literally the first time I've heard of this.”

Because roads don't build and repair themselves, among many other things

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

I love how many people revert to the mentality of 18th century doctors when you ask them to wash their hands before holding your newborn. "How could you possibly think that *my* hands could be dirty?"

I'm from NC, so I can give some insight here. The state is generally getting Bluer, but Roy also has an incredibly solid reputation and his coat tails are going to be long.

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com

That…feels like a big difference.

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Replying to @blackamazon.bsky.social

Median Dem voter: My soul will remain in tumult until it is watered with the blood of tyrants. Break them upon the wheel and break them again. Median Dem strategist: We must move to the right on every issue Trump is currently underwater on.

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"Starlink gets turned into universal basic Wi-Fi after Elon's assets are forfeited" is an abundance vision i can get behind

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social

This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it

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I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

He has the incredible advantage of very obviously being Just A Regular Guy, whereas Collins could not be more of a Politician

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."

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that’s right

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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of all the people who should not want to play this particular game, jd vance is at the top of the list

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

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It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

Republican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this won’t happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.

I feel like this is the easiest that electoral messaging has ever been. "Everything is more expensive, the admin is full of incompetent criminals, and they started a new war for no reason (that we're losing)."

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the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

this Rubio speech feels a lot like a 2028 soft launch

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come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance on H-1B recipients: "It's one thing if you were to bring in a person like Elon Musk. I think 99% of American citizens look at somebody like Elon Musk and say, 'if that person wants to come in and build something great in the US, we support that.' But if you're bringing in an accountant... "

You will never find any of these people spending a single minute protesting Republicans

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

The only "good" Republicans are the people who have conservative inclinations but left the party by 2017 at the latest

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incredible this will get little to no coverage

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social

On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.

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there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump defends the men in the Cornell gang rape case, saying he “feels bad” for them and they won't get a “fair shake”

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Can you not see how nonsensical it is to demand this extremely narrow interpretation of what constitutes “control” of an American state in order to imply that the most pro-trans cohort of major party politicians in the world is somehow the enemy of trans people

neuse river hag@neuseriverhag.bsky.social

jeremy it's a straightforward assertion that trans people living in the united states, which was under democratic party control in 2021, did in fact lose their rights. do you disagree?

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honestly can't blame Ken for no showing debates. place and a time you could have guys there with warrants, restraining orders, paternity tests. player like Ken has to watch out.

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social

Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.

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I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

secure.actblue.comDonate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymanderingThese are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

Love how user agreements mean absolute jack shit

IGN@ign.com

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I had to go look this up because I didn't believe it was real, it was too on the nose. Shouldn't have doubted a Texas Republican's ability to be detached from reality.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”

Micah@rincewind.run

chat is that good

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The best case scenario in every situation is "Trump gives up." Like Iran. Would Iran then control the Strait of Hormuz? Likely, and that's very bad! But Trump's involvement always makes things worse. Giving up now beats giving up in a few months after publicly exhausting our missile defenses.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

We should br happy that Trump went for a massive climb down and got basically nothing with his Greenland deal; and also say that it was a massive climb down from something that was always stupid anyway. What he got was what was always obvious but implicit. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...