Mike M

14/21 wow

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Intro by @johncusack.bsky.social

Everyone who is afraid to join a No Kings or other protests needs to understand this; you're afraid of the wrong thing. You should be afraid of what will happen if we all stay home.

We should be terrified of the consequences of staying silent. Not of the consequences of speaking out.

My preference is more control. I want chronological, and the option for other views

Well if Brazil can do it....

The newly established “Make America Beautiful Again Commission,” created under a Trump executive order, may sound harmless, or even beneficial, but beneath the surface, it represents a major threat to public lands.

MAGA keeps scolding us "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW" without even a trace of self-awareness.

The rot keeps spreading

Almost a year later, this looks like excellent reporting by @rollingstone.com

It's incredible hubris to assert that reality must conform to our puny words

Also the "mother god" documentary (woman in the pic) is a wild ride

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.”

"Media organizations across the country must rally to defend their rights, protect their people, and report the news with independence," @joelsimonsays.bsky.social

Abbott is a monster who deserves to be ridiculed for many things, but not for being disabled

Jessica Craven says call your reps 1-3x a week!

“Practice being a citizen who lives in a democracy where your voice matters. Because if we all stop acting like it, democracy will shrivel & die."

THIS WEEK call your reps & say you’re worried about the DOD war plans shared on Signal! www.5calls.org

Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen...

"He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license...

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Palestinian film director Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked and abducted by the IOF in the occupied West Bank today. He directed the film ‘No Other Land’, which is being heavily censored across the U.S.

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity.

He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.

Which of course is fucking crazy.

It's so plainly unethical, and yet barely pushes the needle given all the rest

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Republicans back young man with Trump surname even though he's never said a word about *anything* in public.

So don't tell me this isn't just a mindless cult blindly associated with the name Trump.

Crossing a line (audio and text) Borders between one kind of life and another

"the problem is not Russia. The problem is us."
How many lines will we have to cross before we come to our collective senses?

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

Gold from beginning to end

While some folks will always accomplish more than others (in any field), anyone who calls themselves a "10x engineer" is Dunning-Kruger poster child

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of mil...

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico' The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Currency is not an investment

This is a great piece.