Mike

Mike

@kmc202.bsky.social

Independent thinker who also seeks truth and analyzes data to reach an informed conclusion. Don’t tolerate hate speech and I block any blatant hostility.

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MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com

Whatever’s in the Epstein files about Trump is so bad that he called them a hoax, accused Obama of treason, shut down the Epstein investigation, recessed Congress to prevent a vote on releasing the files, and rushed his criminal attorney to prison to offer Epstein’s accomplice an immunity deal

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social

💥Viktor Orbán’s demographic strategy is a disaster. Over the past decade, 37.8% of Hungary’s population decline was due to emigration to other EU countries. Hungary is losing the competition to retain its own citizens while birth rates tank. Read Direkt36's in-depth article on @vsquare.bsky.social👇

vsquare.orgInside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.orgThe Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has als...

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Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

by nearly every measure California ranks ahead of states like MS, AL, AR, MO, SC, TN and SD. CA has lower murder rate, lower crime rate, higher education, higher health ratings, higher minimum wage, higher well-being, safer envirnoment, etc than all those states.

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Morgan J Freeman
@mjfree.bsky.social

“Donald Trump has manufactured a crisis and is inflaming conditions.” - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Trump Playbook 1. Intentionally create a crisis 2. Blame Dems, Biden & Obama 3. Abuses his power to claim VICTORY This *strategy* wastes tax-payers money & inflicts emotional terrorism on us all.

time.comGavin Newsom Says Trump ‘Manufactured’ Crisis in Los AngelesThe California Governor has sued the U.S. President over the mobilization of the National Guard, calling it “an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”

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FWC Indivisible
@fwcindivisible.bsky.social
dlvr.itMAGA infighting escalates as 'tech bro fascists' go to war with 'Christian nationalists'During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump not only rallied his hardcore base of 2016 and 2020 — he led a MAGA coalition that ranged from Christian nationalists to tech bros to the Manosphere. And he also reached out to independents, some of whom voted for centrist Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 but voted for Trump in 2024 because of their worries about inflation. That game plan didn't give Trump the "landslide" victory that he claimed it did: Trump defeated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote, which is a narrow victory — not a landslide. But it was enough to get him past the finish line. Four and one-half months into his second presidency, however, a MAGA feud has erupted between Trump and Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader Elon Musk over the president's "big, beautiful bill." After Musk called the bill a "disgusting abomination," Trump attacked him during a Thursday, June 5 press conference with visiting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. READ MORE: 'The dumbest civil war ever': Right-wing billionaire bro feud goes kaboom The U.S. president told reporters, "I am very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot…. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore." In an article published the following day, Salon's Amanda Marcotte argues that the feud between Trump and Musk underscores the divisions between "techbro fascists" and other parts of the MAGA coalition. "As (Musk) and Trump snipe at each other publicly," Marcotte writes, "the efforts to pretend this is a friendly disagreement are falling apart. Even if Musk fails in his efforts to kill Trump's bill, this battle is exposing a deeper truth that (White House adviser Stephen) Miller can't hide with his lies about Trump winning in a 'landslide': The MAGA coalition is fragile and some of the differences are starting to tear at the seams less than half a year into the second Trump term. Trump's slim win in 2024 was no doubt due in large part to Musk, and not just the eye-popping quarter-billion-plus Musk spent to push the old man's orange carcass over the finish line." Marcotte continues, "It's because Musk and other influential figures, especially those associated with Silicon Valley or who pretend to be former liberals, were able to convince a chunk of more secular, largely male voters to throw their lot in with the Christian nationalist base that is the backbone of the MAGA movement. But while these two groups joined together based on a shared animosity towards racial minorities and women, it was always a far more uneasy alliance than Musk or Trump wanted to admit. And now, it's getting shakier as two narcissistic billionaires are at odds." READ MORE: Revealed: The 'Big Beautiful Bill' contains an ugly favor for one of Florida’s top industries The Salon journalist emphasizes that the "trouble within fascist paradise" has been "brewing for reasons that run deeper than Musk and Trump's competing egos or Silicon Valley's dependency on government funding." "The atheistic world of pseudo-intellectualism that Musk and his minions come from," according to Marcotte, "was always going to have friction with the Christian nationalists who actually run the MAGA-ified Republican Party…. This budget fight exposes how delusional that attitude always was. It's not about religion, per se, but the culture clash between the Musk fanboys and the Christian nationalist debate is driving much of this. Musk and his acolytes envision a technofascism that sucks all the money out of social services and puts it into the tech industry, even as it pursues goals typically disliked by the Christian right, such as clean energy production." Marcotte continues, "Meanwhile, the Christian Right wing of the party, while happy to pass huge cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare, is largely leaving untouched Social Security or Medicare, which their working-class and aging base depends on. The tech bro fascists may hate the liberals they live next door to, but at the end of the day, they're still part of the urban, atheistic, educated class that the MAGA movement demonizes. That difference was not going to be papered over forever." READ MORE: 'He. Is. Lying.' Republican blasted for spinning Medicaid cuts as 'transitioning Amanda Marcotte's full Salon article is available at this link.

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Katie Phang
@katiephang.bsky.social

“Stop the Steal” supporter, Ed Martin, was in the mob outside of the Capitol on 1/6. If he doesn’t like your point of view, he threatens to investigate you. He praises white supremacists who support neo-Nazi ideologies. Tell your Senator to vote NO on Ed Martin’s nomination for US Attorney in DC.

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GoBlue
@blu2b4u.bsky.social

Trump himself is not doing a lot. It’s mostly the project 2025 affiliates that he is allowing to shape the agenda. People like Vance and Russ Vought who follow the authoritarian philosophies of people like Curtis Yarvin who thinks democracy should be dismantled. Dangerous and irresponsible ideas.

open.substack.comThe philosophy behind DOGE: Curtis Yarvin and the Butterfly RevolutionLast week, KeepTrack documented the steps Elon Musk is taking to unilaterally shut down government agencies.

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Reuters
@reuters.com

Jack Daniel's maker said Canadian provinces taking American liquor off store shelves was 'worse than a tariff' and a 'disproportionate response' to levies imposed by the Trump administration reut.rs/3XtHp32

reut.rsJack Daniel's maker says Canada pulling US alcohol off shelves 'worse than tariff'Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman's CEO Lawson Whiting said on Wednesday Canadian provinces taking American liquor off store shelves was "worse than a tariff" and a "disproportionate response" to levies imposed by the Trump administration.

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Chris D. Jackson
@chrisdjackson.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
@gtconway.bsky.social

Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.

thehill.comWashington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad orderThe Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

RED STATES: Remember this when you’re on your own… Trump said: “If it was up to me … I’d end (FEMA) right now.” He wants your state to handle disasters alone—no federal help.

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

I get that Trump & Elon are slashing federal jobs, but how are they deciding who gets laid off? The Trump administration is firing hundreds of FAA probationary employees—the ones who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure. An area already stretched thin. What could possibly go wrong?

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Adam Kinzinger
@adamkinzinger.substack.com

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

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bowlingtogether.bsky.social
@bowlingtogether.bsky.social

Replying to @wajali.bsky.social

"Saves the country"? From what? Too much tolerance? Too much integrity? Too much rule of law? Too much compassion? Too much knowledge?The things Trump hates are the best things about America. He wants to trade those for hate, anger, corruption, oligarchy, incompetence and ignorance.

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NewsTalk BLUE
@dailycast.news

“Congress is freaking out because it appears DOE didn’t really realize NNSA oversees the nuclear stockpile,” one source said. “For there to be any even very small holes poked even in the maintenance of that deterrent should be extremely frightening to people.”

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Not one reporter has asked Trump about Musk’s decision to take away food from starving babies.

msnbc.comLawrence: No reporter has asked Trump about Musk’s decision to take away food from starving babiesMSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the majority of Americans – including some of those who may have voted for Donald Trump – disapprove of the job Trump doing as president. Lawrence also discusse...

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Joe Walsh
@walshfreedom.bsky.social

What can you do? Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness. Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up. Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards. Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies. Resist. Stand with others.

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Meg Rowley
@megrowler.fangraphs.com

at home and abroad, their whole plan is for everyone to be poorer, sicker, or just plain dead

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

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Stephanie Kennedy
@wordswithsteph.bsky.social

On Sunday, JD Vance dared to argue that federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the president's “legitimate power. George Conway is forewarning America, predicting that Donald Trump is setting us up for a constitutional showdown that could mean the end of U.S. democracy. On…

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H. John Tran
@johnhtran.bsky.social

“Democrats can hoot and holler all they want.” Trump’s WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubles down on running the government like a business. But a nation isn’t a corporation—people aren’t profit margins. Public service isn’t about cutting “waste,” it’s about protecting lives.

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H. John Tran
@johnhtran.bsky.social

Trump Covers Up Bird Flu Data as Outbreak Spreads Avian flu is spreading—67 U.S. cases since 2024. NY shut down poultry markets, but Trump’s team is limiting outbreak data instead of addressing the crisis. Public health is on the line, but transparency isn’t “mission-critical” to them.