Mike Froedge

Mike Froedge

@mikefroedge.bsky.social

Dad, husband, producer, mixer, drummer, live audio, antifascist loudmouth, coffee junkie.

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Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

19thnews.orgTierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken PaxtonThe case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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The New York Times did not blink. The Times: “We won’t be issuing a retraction." But they didn't stop there. "This is another all too common example of the president lashing out at coverage he doesn’t like and belittling journalists who report the facts.”

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Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

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Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

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⚡️Update: Residential buildings struck in Lviv amid massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine. Local officials reported that two high-rise residential buildings were struck in the western city of Lviv overnight amid the large-scale Russian missile and drone attack.

kyivindependent.comExplosions, damage reported across Ukraine as Russia launches massive ballistic missile, drone attackRussia launched a wave of ballistic missile attacks across Ukraine in the early hours of July 30, with multiple explosions reported in Kyiv just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Ru...

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ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

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Hope isn’t blind optimism — it arises in the face of uncertainty. If you look at our history, we’ve gone through some rough patches. But we tend to come out on the other side of them stronger than before.

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Ghislaine Maxwell abused young women & girls alongside Epstein for years. As young as 14. In multiple states. Convicted in a federal court. She belongs behind bars. I’m beyond disgusted that any of our colleagues would suggest a pardon. The real question is why has no one else been convicted?

politico.comOversight members split over whether to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, committee chair saysThe only convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein has said she would testify to Congress if granted clemency — a power held solely by the president.

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Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to sources. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the CDC. https://cnn.it/4dY5Yy5

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The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

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The Justice Department alleges that the SPLC improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups. n.pr/4u228c6

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The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

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Ten years ago, John Roberts reshaped the Court’s emergency docket into the “shadow docket” we have today. Tomorrow, we dig into how it’s been used to deliver wins for Trump. And yesterday, we looked at how in Hungary, Peter Magyar showed Democrats how a message on affordability can break through.

thinkbigpicture.substack.comThis Week In The Big PictureTen years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts made a fateful decision that still reverberates today.

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In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK

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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

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Where do we get our doll and pencil ration card. "Trump declared, 'You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.' He added, 'You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter — two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.now‘You can give up certain products’: Trump tells Americans to settle for lessThe president expects Americans to make sacrifices but doesn’t appear willing to make any sacrifices of his own.

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"Many in El Paso have close ties to Fort Bliss... On Saturday, area residents plan to hold a 'silent protest' at ICE offices near the Fort Bliss facility. Organizers ask demonstrators to wear black and hold signs that describe the conditions inside the camp..." www.ktep.org/2025-12-12/h...

ktep.orgHuman Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living condition...