Michael O'Connor✊🇺🇦
@cantwait.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, retired science teacher, USAF vet. It sure looks like intelligence may not be a survival characteristic for a species.
Why would maga types worry about the shoe being on the other foot when they don't think the shoe is coming off? Can't have consequences when you don't have elections.
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Why would maga types worry about the shoe being on the other foot when they don't think the shoe is coming off? Can't have consequences when you don't have elections.
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Don’t approve Nexstar’s unethical $6 billion merger!
Nexstar’s major merger with Tenga has been in the works for a while—but it’s getting more attention and heat following their meddling with “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!
Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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GCN is so damn good at this.
August 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
GCN is so damn good at this.
Daredevil Born Again, Kingpin as mayor of NYC rings some definite chimes with a predator rich enough to buy subservient press and vicious enough to cow the moneyed class that thought itself above intimidation
April 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Daredevil Born Again, Kingpin as mayor of NYC rings some definite chimes with a predator rich enough to buy subservient press and vicious enough to cow the moneyed class that thought itself above intimidation
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This is some sick shit
April 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is some sick shit
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
April 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
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A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut:
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
April 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut:
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
- the NIH budget by 40%
- the CDC budget by 44%
- the HHS budget by 33%
This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.
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Thinking of these stats re: far right vigilantes attacking uprisings in 2020, often w/ explicit support from racist police, & how those vigilantes will be emboldened to act w/ impunity under this admin www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
April 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Thinking of these stats re: far right vigilantes attacking uprisings in 2020, often w/ explicit support from racist police, & how those vigilantes will be emboldened to act w/ impunity under this admin www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
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▪️Will Ukraine become a member of NATO?
Rutte: "Yes, absolutely. This was the result of the Washington Summit: Ukraine's path to NATO is irreversible. And nothing has changed."
Rutte: "Yes, absolutely. This was the result of the Washington Summit: Ukraine's path to NATO is irreversible. And nothing has changed."
April 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
▪️Will Ukraine become a member of NATO?
Rutte: "Yes, absolutely. This was the result of the Washington Summit: Ukraine's path to NATO is irreversible. And nothing has changed."
Rutte: "Yes, absolutely. This was the result of the Washington Summit: Ukraine's path to NATO is irreversible. And nothing has changed."
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my wife lost her great job at a major Seattle nonprofit hospital three weeks ago because Trump simply stopped Medicaid reimbursements starting in the new year throwing them into financial chaos
and this is before we get to new Medicaid cuts or axing grants
and this is before we get to new Medicaid cuts or axing grants
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
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April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
my wife lost her great job at a major Seattle nonprofit hospital three weeks ago because Trump simply stopped Medicaid reimbursements starting in the new year throwing them into financial chaos
and this is before we get to new Medicaid cuts or axing grants
and this is before we get to new Medicaid cuts or axing grants
If you're a client at one of these law firms, how little pressure do you think it'll take for them to roll over on you when the federal government comes knocking
April 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
If you're a client at one of these law firms, how little pressure do you think it'll take for them to roll over on you when the federal government comes knocking
These law firms and universities who have complied either under threat or not have seriously miscalculated how blackmail works
If you're a student at these schools, they will throw you to the wolves in a heartbeat
If you're a student at these schools, they will throw you to the wolves in a heartbeat
April 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
These law firms and universities who have complied either under threat or not have seriously miscalculated how blackmail works
If you're a student at these schools, they will throw you to the wolves in a heartbeat
If you're a student at these schools, they will throw you to the wolves in a heartbeat
As always with maga, their accusations of illegal behavior by the so-called Biden crime family is both projection and confession.
April 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As always with maga, their accusations of illegal behavior by the so-called Biden crime family is both projection and confession.
Live long enough and the so-called Arc towards Justice seems to be for another time. We are currently existing in a country that is ruled by an organized crime syndicate. Every Congressional vote, every Congressional stock purchase is being committed by members of this syndicate.
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Live long enough and the so-called Arc towards Justice seems to be for another time. We are currently existing in a country that is ruled by an organized crime syndicate. Every Congressional vote, every Congressional stock purchase is being committed by members of this syndicate.
Stationed in Thailand in the mid-70s and were reminded on a constant basis to keep our mouths shut about Thai royalty
April 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Stationed in Thailand in the mid-70s and were reminded on a constant basis to keep our mouths shut about Thai royalty
Not to be a downer but is there anything the senate is actually doing other than watch Nero burn Rome?
March 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Not to be a downer but is there anything the senate is actually doing other than watch Nero burn Rome?
all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for (good people to do nothing-scratch that), collaborators to suck up to monsters for the opportunity to debase themselves further
regarding Columbia University, I just learned about this (anonymous) account of negotiations of the Hitler regime in the 1930s with Frankfurt University -- Germany's most prestigious university at the time:
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for (good people to do nothing-scratch that), collaborators to suck up to monsters for the opportunity to debase themselves further
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Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders
A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...
The country that put a man on the moon is whining about pesky due process
And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome.
Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
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Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
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Fox's Brian Kilmeade: “It's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people” Co-host Lawrence Jones: Constitutional rights “are afforded to illegals in this country. We should re...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The country that put a man on the moon is whining about pesky due process
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This is the kind of campaign that’s going to catch a LOT of Dems sleeping in 2026.
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is the kind of campaign that’s going to catch a LOT of Dems sleeping in 2026.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
March 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.
guess who shares a border with Ukraine
March 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
guess who shares a border with Ukraine