Mike Lowder
@mclowder.bsky.social
Deafflatusized sailor; fermenter of chiles; retired attorney. I spend most of my time with dogs.
Director of Corporate Awesomeness at ANTIFA.
Immigration is good; and the US needs it.
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Director of Corporate Awesomeness at ANTIFA.
Immigration is good; and the US needs it.
https://bsky.app/profile/mclowder.bsky.social/post/3ked3qi33tc2d
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You cannot reform nazis.
Denying this is a big chunk of how we got under their boot again.
Denying this is a big chunk of how we got under their boot again.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
You cannot reform nazis.
Denying this is a big chunk of how we got under their boot again.
Denying this is a big chunk of how we got under their boot again.
But don’t call them Nazis.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
February 12, 2026 at 3:18 AM
But don’t call them Nazis.
This is a selection.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 3:06 AM
This is a selection.
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Literal nazi shit.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Literal nazi shit.
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“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 AM
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
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“Look as long as the Dow’s up, let the man fuck some kids”
February 12, 2026 at 12:21 AM
“Look as long as the Dow’s up, let the man fuck some kids”
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
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They want to pay us less so they can accrue more profit to themselves. They want us to feel precarious so we are captive to capitalist hierarchies instead of building our own sustainability. And they want to give us non-human villains to fight so we don't notice that it's them.
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 AM
They want to pay us less so they can accrue more profit to themselves. They want us to feel precarious so we are captive to capitalist hierarchies instead of building our own sustainability. And they want to give us non-human villains to fight so we don't notice that it's them.
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The more you read, the worse it gets
I called up one of the White House "special government employees" linked to the Fulton County ballot seizure.
I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours.
It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours.
It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid
Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The more you read, the worse it gets
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“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
“It’s a solution to a non-existent problem. I don’t see where this is doing anything to help voters. It’s only going to disenfranchise people,” says an Ohio election official about the state’s new ban on grace periods for mail ballots.
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I'm increasingly of the opinion that tech in general needs an increased liability surface. expanded liability for what your algorithm pushes, expanded liability for what your model outputs. if you make the danger real the incentives align.
How would one design a regulatory environment that encourages the responsible use of AI? Is it as simple as a massive tax that funds a UBI? Or is it much more complex than that?
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I'm increasingly of the opinion that tech in general needs an increased liability surface. expanded liability for what your algorithm pushes, expanded liability for what your model outputs. if you make the danger real the incentives align.
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AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 AM
AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:
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All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
February 12, 2026 at 12:58 AM
All I'm saying here is that there's a strong air from white collar people like we're not supposed to be disrupted. That's for blue collar folks. But we're not special. We never have been. Just lucky. And eventually your luck runs out. Capitalism comes for everybody eventually.
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He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
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Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away
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Pam Bondi is just treating the rest of America the way she treated trans Floridians. I keep saying it: if you want to know who the fascists are, and how they behave, look at who is going after trans people hardest. Same way the worst Nazis went after Jews, Sinti, gays, and the disabled.
February 12, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Pam Bondi is just treating the rest of America the way she treated trans Floridians. I keep saying it: if you want to know who the fascists are, and how they behave, look at who is going after trans people hardest. Same way the worst Nazis went after Jews, Sinti, gays, and the disabled.
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More than One. Million. Times.
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
More than One. Million. Times.
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I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
February 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
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The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Polling on trans issues is difficult to interpret. It becomes even more difficult when pollsters use politically charged terms like 'transgender ideology.'
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Great new analysis by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
When Trans Issues Become ‘Ideology’ — Assigned
Two surveys of Americans, published just days apart, reveal the limitations and revelations of polling.
www.assignedmedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral.
They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.
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If you're wondering about how Elon's space plans are going, we've downsized from Mars to the moon, in about 2 years we'll be talking about him building colonies in Utah
February 11, 2026 at 11:23 PM
If you're wondering about how Elon's space plans are going, we've downsized from Mars to the moon, in about 2 years we'll be talking about him building colonies in Utah
Always a good day to cancel your NYT subscription. You can be misinformed and lied to elsewhere for free.
Ouch. NYTimes misspelled “Elon Musk, pedophile, racist, and mass-murderer, wants to build an A.I. …” in the title!
insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man
February 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Always a good day to cancel your NYT subscription. You can be misinformed and lied to elsewhere for free.
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my main issue with llms is that we are burning an ungodly amount of money on something with negligible benefit, theres other issues but thats my main one
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
my main issue with llms is that we are burning an ungodly amount of money on something with negligible benefit, theres other issues but thats my main one