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Mike Rhone

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 software QA, theater nerd, 2-time LL one-day champion, forever #NeverTrump 🏳️‍🌈 he/him/his. I was @mikerhoneTM at the old place.

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hello, Facebook (and real life) friends who are finding me here as they look for alternatives to Meta! Fair warning: I use this platform to scream into the void. It’s almost all politics, all the time. If that’s not your bag, no hard feelings. If you want to scream along, great.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 7h

6 years ago...

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Tweet from Trump War Room account on Nov. 2, 2020 showing the Washington Monument being demolished with the caption, "This would be Joe Biden's America."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 10h

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

That includes any race-based scholarships and programs, including any promotion of external scholarships that consider race, and DEI trainings and workshops. Institutions were also told they should no longer prioritize “underrepresented groups” for admissions or hiring, and they must prohibit transgender students from playing on sports teams and using facilities designated for women and girls.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.

Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 1d

Incredible scenes.

www.wdbj7.com/2025/10/19/t...

Teen removed from boys basketball tryouts, told to join girls team over birth certificate error

The boy's parents say a mix-up at the hospital led to him being mistakenly listed as female on his birth certificate.

www.wdbj7.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

The political alliance between prudish moral scolds and entitled pedophiles is one of the weirdest ever.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

Uh x.com/tbpn/status/...

TBPN
@tbpn
"Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're 16, 17, 18. And be done by the time you're in your 20s."

@PalmerLuckey
says we should be having kids in our teens 👇
Storyboard panels show multiple frames of a live podcast interview on TBPN with Palmer Luckey as guest, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, seated at a desk with a can of soda, discussing topics; lower thirds identify Palmer Luckey as founder of ModRetro and Anduril; subtitles include statements like Lets not be politically correct and admit youre supposed to be having kids when youre 16 17 18; background displays sponsor logos like Julius, Torso, and others; date shown as 10/24/25.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Many people are saying the Republicans shut down the government to bulldoze the White House without permission and build the Epstein ballroom.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 9h

Why aren’t elected Dems publicly telling Trump that they’re going to raze the ballroom the minute the next D is elected?

He would lose his shit.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 11h

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

D’Souza became a hero to young conservatives across the nation (and the right-wing foundations looking to fund them). While he helmed the Review, it published a “lighthearted interview with a former Klan leader”—accompanied by a staged photo of a black person hanging from a tree—and an assault on affirmative action titled, “Dis Sho Ain’t No Jive, Bro,” which was written in Ebonics. (“Now we be comin’ to Dartmut and be up over our ‘fros in studies, but we still be not graduatin’ Phi Beta Kappa.”) The “Jive” article caused Jack Kemp, a conservative icon mindful of the right’s problems with minority outreach, to resign from the Review‘s advisory board. Decades later, it’s clear that D’Souza chose the path of the foul at an early point. But he also had trouble with trustworthiness—as I discovered in an early encounter.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

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The “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

They made a movement out of trying to stop the removal of ANY Confederate statue anywhere in the country! Out of taking down Confederate fucking flags!

We literally saw what they do!

White nationalists lead a torch march through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 11. // Andrew Shurtleff—The Daily Progress

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce.

After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.

UM Employee Sues After Losing Her Job for Criticizing Kirk

Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 11h

the image is a tweet of trump saying, "I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent....." at 3:46 AM · Jun 23, 2020

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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 12h

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 9h

And put the Rose Garden back the way it was, too.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12h

My husbands cell phone occasionally gets text for a Pennsylvania Republican named Betty, and uh, they’ve recently become…somewhat aggressive…

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Cat Lady’s Ghost 👻 🌈📚 @librarianagenda.bsky.social · 12h

I had to look this up since I was too little to remember it and…I’m sorry, I’m crying I’m laughing so hard

Portion of Socks the cat’s Wikipedia page under the “Investigation” heading: “Indiana Representative Dan Burton, then the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, once publicly questioned the use of White House staff, postage, and stationery to answer mail addressed to the cat.”

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans were livid when Obama took off his suit jacket in the Oval Office.

Ben Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 12h

I'm old enough to remember when Republicans claimed to believe that the White House was such sacred space that getting a blow job in the Oval Office was grounds to remove a president from office.

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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: there's been some chatter in recent days about an ICE purchase of "guided missile warheads and explosive components" in September.

However, it appears ICE simply entered the wrong product code when it entered the payment record into a federal database:
www.wired.com/story/no-ice...

No, ICE (Probably) Didn't Buy Guided Missile Warheads

A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.

www.wired.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

What? An "AI" browser that totally tracks every single thing you do, almost certainly to train its AI model? Unpossible!

Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 17h

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.

OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

wapo.st

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13h

Trump doing this as a unilateral decision, lying about what will be demolished to make the ballroom, Rs making fun of "TDS" libs for not liking it - it is all needless and pointlessly fuck-you. (2/2)

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 13h

There's a world where a president whose term overlaps with the 250th anniversary of independence announces that he wants a WH extension to celebrate. He goes to Congress and gets bipartisan buy-in. Maybe it's part of other big 250th projects with public-private funding. And it's popular. (1/2)

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 13h

Bullshit. Congress can stop this any time it wants, but it’s controlled by cowards whose slogan is YES KING.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

'Our hands are tied': Can anyone stop Trump's tear-down of the East Wing?
Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.
Today at 2:49 p.m. EDT

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🎃 Spooky pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 13h

Pedocon theory undefeated

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 13h

Christian Musician Who Sang at Trump Rally Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
consequence.net/2025/10/chri...

Christian Musician Who Sang at Trump Rally Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Jon Sheptock, a Christian musician who once sang at a Trump rally, has been arrested on child pornography charges in Texas.

consequence.net

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