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Paul Michel

@paulmichel.bsky.social

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Artless Jesus, Tripoli Boys Musician that will occasionally post about his bands, but mostly just reposts progressive political stuff

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · Nov 28

this is the snotty punk band I'm in open.spotify.com/track/2mWDvo...

LITTLE PIGS

Artless Jesus · The Assorted Grievances of Artless Jesus · Song · 2024

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 19h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 12h

does chowder count?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 1d

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

It's so strange seeing everyone say over and over again that there's no such thing as a trans kid when I literally was one. I was homeschooled and I still told my parents I was a girl at eight years old. They were doing conversion therapy on me years before I met a trans person for the first time.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 2d

The human mind is not equipped to deal with the constant onslaught of realizing that there are far more ignorant, genuinely sponge-dumb people in the world than you ever thought possible.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

bit.ly

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 3d

no shit it's authoritarian you dingus now please have a second thought after that

Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 3d

I never want to read the hackneyed phrase authoritarian playbook ever again please for the love of god come up with something better

Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 3d

a pol with some actual jokes huh

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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The Nana Yaga @nanicoolj.blacksky.app · 4d

"I thought ICE was only going after Mexicans"

When have you ever known any type of militia that is targeting a non-white group to not also attack Black people!?

They treat us like they get extra credit for beating our ass all the time. HOW ARE YOU SHOCKED!?

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 4d

enshallah

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 4d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 6d

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock."

"But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."

"We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

theintercept.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

My hot take is that if does not actually matter to Palestine, or to any Indigenous population, what DNA tests show. I'm obviously not an Indigenous person but if my DNA showed I was 96% donkey and 4% tardigrade, it still wouldn't be okay to kill me and take my house.

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Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 6d

his gf must be ancient

Paul Michel @paulmichel.bsky.social · 6d

actual image of antifa founder

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

"Energy dominance," you say?

As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*.

The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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