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Mike the Dog

@photochris5511.bsky.social

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Twitter refugee - you've seen me around. Husband, father, pro photographer. I’m a dedicated fisherman, and I let them all go - not sure what that means. Long Island, NY. The blue part. My banner photo is whatever TV series I think you should be enjoying.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 1h

“Beef twister?” 😏

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 6h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 18h

THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION
www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-vote-c...

THE VOTE COUNTERS HAVE CHANGED HANDS-AND AMERICA SHOULD PAY ATTENTION

When a firm that counts votes gets sold behind closed doors, the price isn’t what matters. What’s being traded is confidence...and that’s the one currency a republic can’t print more of.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 13h

I guess they will bring back the dumb and foolish loyalists. No need for facts, science, or qualified experts. 🙄

'Oops': Trump health official admits half of 'sweeping' layoffs at CDC were a mistake

www.rawstory.com/cdc-layoffs-...

'Oops': Trump health official admits half of 'sweeping' layoffs at CDC were a mistake

Donald Trump's administration is walking back about half of a reported 1,000 health agency cuts.MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny was on air on Saturday when she broke the news, saying she had rec...

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 11h

I never got the soy boy remark, and while I love a good latte it’s never with soy milk, so maybe they followed me to the local coffee shop.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 15h

Trump: "The golden age of America begins right now!" Annnd… they’re forced to work without pay and ultimately lose their jobs.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16h

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 20h

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 15h

If they stay in their silo, they’ll never know it happened. My parents had no idea Melania was a nude model, for example.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18h

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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 1d

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 19h

Government’s shut down. Federal workers aren’t getting paid — some even being fired.
MAGA Speaker Johnson just canceled House votes for yet another week.

And this guy’s out golfing.
You can’t make this 💩 up.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

They must be exhausted.

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 15h

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 15h

That can’t be right. That guy in orange makeup promised to bring down the cost of grocery immediately. At least the stock market it up… it is up, isn’t it?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a goddamned shame - I was wrong about that too. “Fuck you, libtard” seems to be where my presentations all end up. Hell I never even considered myself all that liberal, considering, but here we are. Now I’m a leftist ANTIFA socialist Marxist by default.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h

And one more thing. Anyone who publicly begs for, and publicly demands, the Nobel Peace Prize should never be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Mike the Dog @photochris5511.bsky.social · 15h

From what I’m reading, they have always controlled rare earths, and we knew that, and this is all super dumb, avoidable, and damaging.