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Mike Simmonds

@smikesme.bsky.social

Planting natives in Southland AoNZ for a living. Baking for fun. Joining dots to make confident sounding analysis of things I know nothing about since 1974

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1 day after sitting next to MBS in the oval office he's suddenly interested in human rights

21.11.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
EU Statement on Equality in response to Trump admin issuing new rules saying DEI infringes on human rights in foreign countries

EU Statement on Equality in response to Trump admin issuing new rules saying DEI infringes on human rights in foreign countries

πŸ”₯ BREAKING: A spokesperson for the European Commission messaged me today about the EU's commitment to "equality" in response to the Trump administration issuing new rules saying countries with DEI policies are infringing on human rights. A Commission spokesperson messaged:

21.11.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

20.11.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8150    πŸ” 3453    πŸ’¬ 171    πŸ“Œ 265
Next time Trump asks a journalist, "Who are you with?" I hope they say, "The American People. Who are you with?"

Next time Trump asks a journalist, "Who are you with?" I hope they say, "The American People. Who are you with?"

I don't usually repost memes, but this one really spoke to me.

This is something I would love to see happen.

20.11.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 858    πŸ” 299    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 10
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a man with a beard is holding a gun and the words well played are on the screen ALT: a man with a beard is holding a gun and the words well played are on the screen
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Every time a trump attorney appears before the court, a disbarment gets its wings

20.11.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

JD and Johnson are absolute hollow men with none of the attraction Trump carries

20.11.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of β€˜seditious behavior, punishable by death’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders should be put to death, sparking an outcry among D...

β€œWhat I read was he was defining the crime of sedition. That is a factual statement... "

Mike Johnson defending trumps response to a factual statement by saying his was a factual statement.

Excuse me Mr Speaker, can you spell hypocrisy?
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...

20.11.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Eric Cartman of VPs

20.11.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Netanyahu: β€œA Palestinian state will not be established. It’s an existential threat to Israel and unrealistic even with reforms.”

20.11.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 157    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 20

The loud part out loud

20.11.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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⚠️ Something very scary is happening in the markets

20.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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...Journalist Motasem Dalloul says Israel is manufacturing pretexts to strike Palestinians – alleging fake Hamas attacks to justify hitting targets in Gaza the army had already selected.

20.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Donate to Extend Patti's Joyful Life Amidst Cancer Fight, organized by Kaitlin Siebert On October 30th, 2025, my mom, Patti, was diagnosed with stage IV color… Kaitlin Siebert needs your support for Extend Patti's Joyful Life Amidst Cancer Fight

If you follow my work you know that I often ask my audience to support my journalism. This time, it's different. My fiancee's mother has been diagnosed with stage IV cancer. She's on fixed income and we had to relocate her to Dallas for care. She needs your help.

www.gofundme.com/f/extend-pat...

19.11.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

Peter Navaro? Lols

19.11.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The case against Maxwell was still ongoing until her appeal was denied last month

19.11.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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OK - now on Syria Temporary Protected Status, SDNY Judge Failla announcing her decision. On the morning of Nov 17, Inner City Press live tweeted the argument. With that account blocked since, with no help from X "Support,", will skeet this here, below

19.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I am super excited for this, and it'll be my first time on the other side of an author Q&A. Noelle's book is great, and couldn't be more timely or relevant to the *waves hands* we're going through right now.

18.11.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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"Turnage says she was already troubled by the special privileges being given to Maxwell by Warden Tanisha Hall and other higher-ups at the facility, including Warden Hall personally handling all incoming mail addressed to Maxwell."

18.11.2025 05:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜Net zero’ has always been beside the point, as Tim points out. The challenge of decarbonisation is bigger β€” and the opportunities are much larger β€” than the extremely impoverished political arguments we have about the term

18.11.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article) Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

"They’re just going to break every rule. They don’t care."

The Unraveling of the Justice Department, via NYT:

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Twitter is protecting Israelis by not translating what they say because of the amount of hate speech and calls for violence

17.11.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm really down on new subscribers for the month, so if you've got any interest in the early days of conspiracism's transition from the fringe to the mainstream, this series will be a must read. Even $5 a month is a big help in rebuilding!

17.11.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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lmaooooooooo

17.11.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Spotify playlist called β€œDon’t Stream Fascism”:

Dear Losers.

Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE

brutal by Olivia Rodrigo

Secret Police by Fishbone

Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up

Propaganda by Muse

Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova

We Protest by Dave Carroll

A Spotify playlist called β€œDon’t Stream Fascism”: Dear Losers. Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE brutal by Olivia Rodrigo Secret Police by Fishbone Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up Propaganda by Muse Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova We Protest by Dave Carroll

Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

16.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 707    πŸ” 354    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 17

what if he was caught bragging about committing sexual assault or perving on underage girls in the dressing room of a teen beauty pagent? oh wait

16.11.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2/ other recent projects

16.11.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 279    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 0

dang, you really have a talent Josh

16.11.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

gotta laugh at how Trump doesn't understand the difference between polls and betting %

16.11.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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