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Michael Planey

@airplaney.bsky.social

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Transportation consultant and engineer. He said “Kid, it's not me, it's this town” So I rail against that feeling when it comes

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · Jan 31

Some thoughts on Wednesday-night’s tragic air accident near Washington, DC:

The mid-air collision of American Airlines flight 5342 and a US Army VH-60 helicopter is highly personal for me. It literally hits close to home as I live approximately three miles away from National Airport.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 4h

It does make one wonder how Disney is allowing this to happen when they have fought for copyright retention like no one else in America

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

WTAF has she been waiting for all this time?

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

And they're going to run the 77-year-old Governor of Maine in the next Senate election...

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

When this is happening on our streets, there is no other option

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

ICE agents chasing folks in a Walgreens on the East Side. www.facebook.com/share/r/17Gh...

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

Literal Storm Troopers on our streets

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

ICE agents chasing folks in a Walgreens on the East Side. www.facebook.com/share/r/17Gh...

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

Applying governmental pressure against private businesses was the kind of thing that would have once had "conservatives" howling. No more.

Trump's administration is following the fascist's handbook page-by-page and the Republicans march in lockstep behind him.

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

Free speech for me, cancel culture for thee...

Only now it's actual governmental suppression of free speech.

"Who watches the Watchmen?" is no longer a rhetorical question -- though it never really was.

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 6h

John Roberts was placed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for one reason: dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

With this case coming to the Court, he can do that and also ensure America suffers from political oppression for a generation at least.

Stare decisis, my ass!

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The Supreme Court Might Net Republicans 19 Congressional Seats in One Fell Swoop

On Wednesday, the justices will take the extraordinary step of rehearing Louisiana v. Callais.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 7h

This is no more lawful than if the United States Navy boarded these vessels, arrest and cuff, the boats’ occupants, line them up on the bow, shoot them in the head and dump them overboard… because the results are exactly the same

Pressing a button in a trailer 1000 miles away doesn’t make it legal

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 8h

Cowardly action by the administration at a time when we are so desperately searching for leaders

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 14h

No startups, no science: How the Republican Administration switched off America's most important engine of economic success.

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Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

“WTF With Marc Maron” wrapped its 16-year run yesterday. David Sims on Maron’s “brash, chatty” podcasting approach that has been “much copied, if never quite equaled”:

The Radical Empathy of a Low-Key Chat Show

Marc Maron’s podcast, which just wrapped its 16-year run, showed us what human connection could really look like.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 8h

… as “the way things are” and don’t have the institutional knowledge to understand what has been lost.

With student turnover rates as high as 50% each year, those new restrictions can quickly become entrenched.

Advisors are the backbone in fighting those restrictions.

IU has failed its students.

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 9h

There is a certain insidious part to censoring student newspapers that goes unnoticed initially.

Due to the intrinsic turnover of student staff as they progress to graduation, an institutional restriction can quickly become the new normal.

Incoming students more easily accept the new conditions…

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 9h

These “cafeteria constitutionalists” need a reminder to respect all the amendments equally.

Appeasing authoritarian leaders never works.

If you give them an inch they’ll take 10 miles.

Standing up for students rights of free speech & free association are imperative in this political climate.

Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 9h

In the last 3 years, IU, Purdue, Penn State and my children’s high school have all openly attempted to silence student newspapers.

They use a number of coercive tactics including pulling funding, instituting editorial review, threatening eviction, limiting circulation & now firing student editors.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 9h

“We’re saving God”???

@thegodpodcast.com You must be relieved to know that.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Politico @politico.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 12h

There is no reason for any citizen to trust any report originating with Kristi Noem, DHS, ICE or CBP

It really bothers me to say that our government is untrustworthy

But that is where we are now with Trump

Americans haven’t taken the bait, so they may simply lie

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Cartels issuing bounties up to $50,000 for hits on ICE, CBP agents: DHS

Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS.

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you for pointing out the steps in the process. If this proposed rule advances, we will be back to fight against it then as well.