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Michael Mechanic

@michaelmechanic.bsky.social

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Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · Nov 19

It's a good day when your book shows up on a senator's desk. You can get your own copy via ReadJackpot.com/order

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 16h

Pathetic.

The guy is sowing division, bringing violence into his own cities, and ordering extrajudicial murders. He likely wants Gaza for real estate development. Please, dude.

Opinion | Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.

www.washingtonpost.com

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1d

Jasmine Crockett is asking why people who are not getting paid because of the shutdown should show up for work when the Republican Congress members, who ARE getting paid, are NOT showing up to work! Damn good question.

Rep. Crockett: “When Even Marjorie Taylor Greene Stops Trusting Republicans, You Know It’s Bad.”

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 1d

State of the Union

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d

The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

It's been over 9 months since the Palisades and Eaton Fires tore through Los Angeles. We asked for federal support, but we haven’t heard a word from the White House.

Not a single offer.

Is this what leadership looks like? Abandoning the American people when they call for help?

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my grandad and his mates training for the big antifa day out on 6th June 1944

Troops from the Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Rifles training with a machine gun in advance of D Day, (my grandad is the fella holding the magazine)

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

Legal people: What are the remedies for this? Can one party just shut the other out like this?

Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 1d

House Republicans are gaveling us out and shutting down the House to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva.

It is undemocratic and unacceptable.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, he must be talking about the actual patriots.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is not great

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

Someone please tell him to google "Portland shopping districts" and peruse the images.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 1d

"Miller plainly believes there’s a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism."

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

These feds are out of control. Really stomping on what appear to be perfectly lawful protests. You can't use violence on people who are simply yelling stuff at you. It's illegal and wrong.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yes, I suppose it would be wrong. But it's also made up.

And, just wondering, is it "radical left" to oppose people who claim to be devout Christians yet enact policies that make life harder for America's poorest, most vulnerable families?

If so, well, count me in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

As for people who should be jailed, I have some alternative recommendations.

Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

Should've seen this storm coming...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

Pam Bondi is a menace, and in a sane world, she would have been held in contempt of Congress for her behavior.

Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2d

Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down newrepublic.com/post/201437/...

Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down

Senator Adam Schiff went toe to toe with Trump’s attorney general in a Senate hearing.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 3d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 2d

I can't understand an Attorney General of the United States attending a Senate Oversight Committee hearing, and when asked simple questions responding with personal insults of the Senators. How fricking rude. Where was she brought up? Or did she just come out from under a rock?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

1/ This morning I went on @kqedforum.bsky.social to discuss this piece and Lt. Gov @eleniforca.bsky.social called it. Which is great! Politicians should engage with journalists and the public debating things, including how CA can push back on Trump. But...

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

She sure as hell didn't deny it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WHITEHOUSE: Do you know if the FBI found photographs of Trump with half-naked young women in their search of Epstein's safe or premises?

BONDI: You're trying to slander President Trump when you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidants. I could be wrong. Correct me.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 2d

They really seemed determined to kill all the progress American society has made since the 1950s.

Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 17d

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.

The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

www.bloomberg.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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