Michele Lamb
@mlamb.bsky.social
Former educator, progressive, abrasive-his word not mine
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Michele Lamb
@mlamb.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Deactivated and it feels sooo good🎶
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If you read my stuff, you know I regularly go on about the Far Right being an interconnected, global threat that transcends borders.
Diplomatically unprecedented.
The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress.
The German far-right opposition has reportedly been invited to Washington for an official strategy session with Republicans in the US Congress.
Large far-right German delegation to visit Washington, Trump ally says
The invitation to the capital comes as Alternative for Germany politicians seek to build closer ties to the U.S. government.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you read my stuff, you know I regularly go on about the Far Right being an interconnected, global threat that transcends borders.
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15 November 1919 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Jiří Kohn, was born in Plzeň.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He perished in #Dachau on 24 January 1945.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He perished in #Dachau on 24 January 1945.
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
15 November 1919 | A Czech Jew, Hanuš Jiří Kohn, was born in Plzeň.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He perished in #Dachau on 24 January 1945.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He perished in #Dachau on 24 January 1945.
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Trump is having his DOJ pay himself and his friends millions of dollars, and Republican Senators put a $500k payoff to themselves in the shutdown bill.
They’re stealing our tax dollars while telling you the mom on SNAP wanting to buy a box of cookies for her kids is the problem.
They’re stealing our tax dollars while telling you the mom on SNAP wanting to buy a box of cookies for her kids is the problem.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump is having his DOJ pay himself and his friends millions of dollars, and Republican Senators put a $500k payoff to themselves in the shutdown bill.
They’re stealing our tax dollars while telling you the mom on SNAP wanting to buy a box of cookies for her kids is the problem.
They’re stealing our tax dollars while telling you the mom on SNAP wanting to buy a box of cookies for her kids is the problem.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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Companies should be required to explain why they can’t pay living wages, and why taxpayers need to subsidize their profits when they force their employees to rely on SNAP.
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Companies should be required to explain why they can’t pay living wages, and why taxpayers need to subsidize their profits when they force their employees to rely on SNAP.
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Christ on a crutch
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Christ on a crutch
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Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Important to remember that on top of the fascism and incompetence, everybody in the Trump admin is also stealing everything they can as quickly as possible.
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To recap:
-@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty + other senate republicans tried to enrich themselves with taxpayer 💰
-We called them out. So did some Republicans. (Even @RepJohnRose)
-They both now say they won’t take money (shame works!)
-0 @Tennessean mentions of any of it
-@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty + other senate republicans tried to enrich themselves with taxpayer 💰
-We called them out. So did some Republicans. (Even @RepJohnRose)
-They both now say they won’t take money (shame works!)
-0 @Tennessean mentions of any of it
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
To recap:
-@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty + other senate republicans tried to enrich themselves with taxpayer 💰
-We called them out. So did some Republicans. (Even @RepJohnRose)
-They both now say they won’t take money (shame works!)
-0 @Tennessean mentions of any of it
-@MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty + other senate republicans tried to enrich themselves with taxpayer 💰
-We called them out. So did some Republicans. (Even @RepJohnRose)
-They both now say they won’t take money (shame works!)
-0 @Tennessean mentions of any of it
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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Btw Musk also went to bat for him even after this allegation was known. And let's be real his nomination only died cause everyone hates him not because of this scandal
Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Btw Musk also went to bat for him even after this allegation was known. And let's be real his nomination only died cause everyone hates him not because of this scandal
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Layoffs since April:
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Layoffs since April:
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
Amazon: 30k
Intel: 25k
UPS: 20k
Microsoft: 15k
Meta: 3600
Target: 1800
Charter: 1200
Paramount: 1000
Rivian: 600
xAI: 500
Add Verizon to the list.
They just laid off 15,000 and then their stock went up.
Your reminder that the stock market isn’t the economy
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The entire American experiment is based primarily on the mindless pursuit of wealth resulting in a culture of artifice where unremarkable people who were born or lucked into extreme privilege are treated like kings by armies of sycophants all rushing to the same trough?
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The entire American experiment is based primarily on the mindless pursuit of wealth resulting in a culture of artifice where unremarkable people who were born or lucked into extreme privilege are treated like kings by armies of sycophants all rushing to the same trough?
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Emily, this entire thread is simply emphasizing that we have Moved Beyond the Need for the New York Times.
There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.
There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Emily, this entire thread is simply emphasizing that we have Moved Beyond the Need for the New York Times.
There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.
There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.
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Black units fought for this country at a time when they could return home and be lynched for wearing their uniforms.
This is what this country has never dealt with: racism. Plain and simple.
This is what this country has never dealt with: racism. Plain and simple.
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Black units fought for this country at a time when they could return home and be lynched for wearing their uniforms.
This is what this country has never dealt with: racism. Plain and simple.
This is what this country has never dealt with: racism. Plain and simple.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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REPUBLICAN Rep. Chip Roy: “Self-serving, self-dealing”
WASH POST on the shameless @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty money grab: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
(The @tennesseannews has still not covered our senators stuffing their pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars)
WASH POST on the shameless @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty money grab: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
(The @tennesseannews has still not covered our senators stuffing their pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars)
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
REPUBLICAN Rep. Chip Roy: “Self-serving, self-dealing”
WASH POST on the shameless @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty money grab: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
(The @tennesseannews has still not covered our senators stuffing their pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars)
WASH POST on the shameless @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty money grab: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
(The @tennesseannews has still not covered our senators stuffing their pockets with millions of taxpayer dollars)
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No surprise here:
Conservative Problem Solvers Caucus Democrats exist to undermine the Dem Party in the name of “bipartisanship,” to advance a GOP agenda.
Notice how they never get Republican Problem Solvers to cross the aisle for Democratic priorities.
Conservative Problem Solvers Caucus Democrats exist to undermine the Dem Party in the name of “bipartisanship,” to advance a GOP agenda.
Notice how they never get Republican Problem Solvers to cross the aisle for Democratic priorities.
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
No surprise here:
Conservative Problem Solvers Caucus Democrats exist to undermine the Dem Party in the name of “bipartisanship,” to advance a GOP agenda.
Notice how they never get Republican Problem Solvers to cross the aisle for Democratic priorities.
Conservative Problem Solvers Caucus Democrats exist to undermine the Dem Party in the name of “bipartisanship,” to advance a GOP agenda.
Notice how they never get Republican Problem Solvers to cross the aisle for Democratic priorities.
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“We had to give the dictator what he wanted so that we could protect a super-majority requirement in the world’s least representative legislative body” is a wildly anti-democratic statement.
Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.
Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
“We had to give the dictator what he wanted so that we could protect a super-majority requirement in the world’s least representative legislative body” is a wildly anti-democratic statement.
Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.
Neither the US senate nor the Democratic Party has proven itself capable of preventing tyranny.
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.
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I’m pretty sure Trump is in the Epstein files
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’m pretty sure Trump is in the Epstein files
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Rep. Thomas Massie says the House parliamentarian has assured him that the signatures on the Epstein discharge petition are locked in and cannot be removed. The petition has to “ripen“ for 7 days of Congress being in session. Then a vote, unless Trump & Johnson have a new trick.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Rep. Thomas Massie says the House parliamentarian has assured him that the signatures on the Epstein discharge petition are locked in and cannot be removed. The petition has to “ripen“ for 7 days of Congress being in session. Then a vote, unless Trump & Johnson have a new trick.
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AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.
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"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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Just imagine what "[victim] spent hours at my house with him" would do to literally any other political career
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Just imagine what "[victim] spent hours at my house with him" would do to literally any other political career