Michael Cox

Michael Cox

@michaelacox.bsky.social

Democratic Socialist, long time union member. Located in the countryside of middle Michigan. Love sports, playing golf. Interest in music, photography, sci-fi books, history. Life-long learner.

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Michael Cox reposted

Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."

Michael Cox reposted

Now that the Postal Service has broken even again the GOP are going to kill Ben Franklin one more time.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Breaking WaPo: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Michael Cox reposted

Two things are true: This type of weak sauce learned helplessness from Democrats is pathetic. Yet it’s true that the broad mobilization of civil society we desperately need in order to stop this authoritarian assault will create dangerous, volatile situations. That’s just where we are.

Ann Monster Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately" Something something in advance www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

Michael Cox reposted

Listen, we gotta do at least some thinking like a billionaire to beat the billionaires, and there only seems to be one volunteer. This is definitely better than anything Democrats are doing now. If you made it about Transparency and Saving Medicaid, Dems on the Hill would have to be involved.

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

Time has come for a database of voting stock owners of record to be created. These are the drivers of business and public policy. The drivers of inflation and the owners of all being ruined. Time to expose them.

A federal judge just shot down overtime rule changes because of the Chevron decision. I am old, long past working. If you youngsters are going to sit back and let unelected Federalist Society judges rule your lives long past Trump, that is up to you. Inching closer to slavery.

Someone stated that Matt Gaetz is the smartest human on the planet. To that same standard, I declare cement trucks to be the most reliable vehicles on the planet. Who has ever seen a broken-down cement truck?

Consider this: Did the founders of the US have any intention of giving the executive kingly powers? No. When the Supreme Court ruled the executive did have that power. They broke the union. The states would never have affirmed that constitution, and states should now feel free to leave the union.

Michael Cox reposted

Not an anonymous survey: Employees are asked to sign in, so feasible that their very partisan employers can track their responses.

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