Allen Michie

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025

Judge's house on fire

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

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Remember when Qatar gave Trump a plane? He just gave them an American security guarantee.

"Either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing and demolishing our country, or we defeat them."
-- Trump, Nov. 5, 2024

"Violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing those with whom you disagree."
--Trump, last Wednesday

Since returning to office, Trump has:

-Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights
-Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors
-Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease

"Pro-worker" president.

It’s just a penisula.

Soul Mama Talks (@soulmamatalks)

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Land of 1k Dances- Summertime Playlist - Land of 1k Dances- Summertime - 44 items

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Tonight was the last show before summer break, so it was all summer themed, from rock and roll to blues to surfing to hitching a ride to rockaway beach we took the airwaves by land, air and sea #MusicSky

Read an Annotated Version of Trump’s Tariff Letter to Japan Letters to other nations were nearly identical, with varying rates depending on the country.

It’s worth reading the letter. We should ashamed. Forget the tariffs themselves. The errors in grammar and spelling. The insane capitalization of random words. The petulant dauphin-like tone. The factual mistakes. The layout.

Utterly humiliating for our country.

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He PARDONED those two rich white people who pled GUILTY to massive Medicare fraud.

"If you don't like something, you should at least attempt to understand it so that you can hate it with style, creativity, flair, and intelligence."

-David Bowie

Bill Moyers, former press secretary turned acclaimed journalist, dead at 91 | CNN Business The former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson and longtime broadcast journalist has died, his family confirmed to CNN.

RIP to a great man and a great journalist. He was the best boss I ever had by a mile. I’d bet that he was the best boss any of us had ever had,

www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/m...

Because that worked out so well in Iraq.

Jazz Album Reviews: Sardinian Trumpeter Paolo Fresu -- Lessons Learned from Miles - The Arts Fuse On two recent releases, trumpeter Paolo Fresu shows us exactly what he has learned from Miles Davis, and how that has expanded rather than limited his music.

According to @allenmichie.bsky.social, on two recent releases trumpeter Paolo Fresu shows us exactly what he has learned from Miles Davis, and how that has expanded rather than limited his music.

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Ok, thanks for the quick reply!

Dang, I was hoping it would be about the Harrowing of Hell.

Book Review: "The Jazz Omnibus" -- The Ultimate Box Set of the Best Jazz Writing from the Last 25 Years - The Arts Fuse Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA).

@allenmichie.bsky.social on "The Jazz Omnibus": Everyone who loves jazz, or makes a living somewhere in its world, owes a debt to many of the hard-working and under-paid writers of the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA).
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Lucky thing, I guess, that 12-year-olds no longer read books now.

EIGHTH recall.

‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse.

But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like.
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Come together, right now The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...

Great minds… within 24 hrs both us at @nature.com and @science.org make similar appeals to the research community. And @holdenthorp.bsky.social and I didn’t even exchange notes about it ;-)
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Suck-ers!

Buy gold. Bury it in your backyard.

Tweet from 'Alex Cole' @acnewsitics, reads "The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has the courage."

Best post of the season.