@thatothermike.bsky.social
Songwriter, Blues lover, guitarist, Home Recording/Production, Software, anything Durham and North Carolina. Guitarist for Good Rocking Sam, The Spoonbenders App State, UNC Grad Jumping Jackson Records - My home-grown label
Confirmed by Centcom to be three (3) F-15s that were shot down.
Again, in modern combat environments it is genuinely hard to deconflict and operate without this kind of screw-ups...but in this case it really matters (re conclusions) if it was US forces or others who did the shooting.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
How many bananas 🍌 is that?
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
This is a good plugin to add vibe
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This is true. I tested it.
Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict accounts given by Homeland Security officials about the shooting."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Great interview with Lucinda! She is the Real Deal for sure
Jazz… sometimes it’s the concerts you don’t play.
North Carolina is 48th in per pupil spending and a guy from a county with failing schools is attacking a school district with the most successful schools in the state. open.substack.com/pub/politics...
In tribute to the great Steve Cropper, who has died aged 84, here's our final interview with the legendary guitarist - where he answered reader questions on everything from Memphis water to John Belushi on acid and Friday night “schwimps” with Eddie Floyd...
Seems bad
Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.
This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
Great thread, it's all did info out there. The slave squat versus pepe meme seems also a red herring
His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing
#September11
BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.
People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?”
This is authoritarian control in real time.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.
Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.
Y'all are doing the work to save us all