Michael Strauss
@mstrauss.bsky.social
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🚨The Lever is now hiring 🚨
Amid mass layoffs of journalists, our award-winning, reader-supported news outlet is hiring reporters who want to do accountability journalism.
Please pass on this job listing to anyone you know who may be interested.
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Amid mass layoffs of journalists, our award-winning, reader-supported news outlet is hiring reporters who want to do accountability journalism.
Please pass on this job listing to anyone you know who may be interested.
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Now Hiring: Senior Investigative Reporter
We are looking to expand our team.
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February 18, 2026 at 11:51 PM
🚨The Lever is now hiring 🚨
Amid mass layoffs of journalists, our award-winning, reader-supported news outlet is hiring reporters who want to do accountability journalism.
Please pass on this job listing to anyone you know who may be interested.
www.levernews.com/now-hiring-s...
Amid mass layoffs of journalists, our award-winning, reader-supported news outlet is hiring reporters who want to do accountability journalism.
Please pass on this job listing to anyone you know who may be interested.
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Google “40% of police…”
An unnamed Buffalo police captain has been suspended with pay in connection with the case of Officer Lance Woods, who faces a murder charge in the slaying of his wife.
Buffalo police captain suspended in connection with case against officer charged with murder
An unnamed Buffalo police captain has been suspended with pay in connection with the case of Officer Lance Woods, who faces a murder charge in the slaying of his wife.
buffalonews.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Google “40% of police…”
$3 pickup at my LCS today. I’ve had the first one of these X-Men Files black & white books since I was a kid but have only ever seen this second one posted by @xmencomicssteve.bsky.social.
February 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
$3 pickup at my LCS today. I’ve had the first one of these X-Men Files black & white books since I was a kid but have only ever seen this second one posted by @xmencomicssteve.bsky.social.
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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Catching up on @xplainthexmen.bsky.social and The Butter Rum Memorial Fund is laugh-out-loud funny.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Catching up on @xplainthexmen.bsky.social and The Butter Rum Memorial Fund is laugh-out-loud funny.
They pay you in New York to be a poll worker as well. They even pay you for the time you’re training.
I did the training in ‘18 and didn’t work because they had too many people sign up.
I did the training in ‘18 and didn’t work because they had too many people sign up.
And if you're STILL worried about the midterms, consider getting trained as an election judge / poll worker. In Minnesota they even pay you (optionally — you can choose to work the polls as a volunteer).
vote.minneapolismn.gov/election-wor...
vote.minneapolismn.gov/election-wor...
Election workers
Minneapolis needs 1,500 to 2,000 people to work in each election in the city. These people are known as election judges or poll workers. They make sure every eligible ballot is cast and counted.
vote.minneapolismn.gov
February 15, 2026 at 3:04 AM
They pay you in New York to be a poll worker as well. They even pay you for the time you’re training.
I did the training in ‘18 and didn’t work because they had too many people sign up.
I did the training in ‘18 and didn’t work because they had too many people sign up.
It’s not every day that @mjdieteman.bsky.social surprises you with canvas map pages from an 1891 atlas of Buffalo that includes your neighborhood. But it happened today and it fucking rules. I need to get this professionally framed before I drool on it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 AM
It’s not every day that @mjdieteman.bsky.social surprises you with canvas map pages from an 1891 atlas of Buffalo that includes your neighborhood. But it happened today and it fucking rules. I need to get this professionally framed before I drool on it.
Buy, rent, or steal* this movie IMMEDIATELY. I’m ten minutes in and it’s fantastically surreal and absurd.
*don’t steal from creators.
*don’t steal from creators.
Kill the Jockey (2024) ⭐ 6.3 | Crime, Drama, Sport
1h 36m | Unrated
www.imdb.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Buy, rent, or steal* this movie IMMEDIATELY. I’m ten minutes in and it’s fantastically surreal and absurd.
*don’t steal from creators.
*don’t steal from creators.
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What’s Brown Hoodie’s commissary account? I want to drop a couple bucks in there while he’s serving in-school suspension.
over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes
February 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
What’s Brown Hoodie’s commissary account? I want to drop a couple bucks in there while he’s serving in-school suspension.
Not a single penny for DHS. Not. One. Penny.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Not a single penny for DHS. Not. One. Penny.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@reptimkennedy.bsky.social
It sucks that private equity devoured RiteAid, my pharmacist and the cheapest beer in the city, but the people putting up the signs on the Zombie RiteAids are doing the lord’s work.
February 13, 2026 at 4:10 AM
It sucks that private equity devoured RiteAid, my pharmacist and the cheapest beer in the city, but the people putting up the signs on the Zombie RiteAids are doing the lord’s work.
X-Men and their Winter Olympic sport
Scott: Curling
Mystique: Biathlon
Northstar: Super G
Kurt: Cross country
Logan: Skeleton
Piotr: hockey
Betsy & Rachel: Luge pair
Bobby: speed skating
Longshot: halfpipe.
Scott: Curling
Mystique: Biathlon
Northstar: Super G
Kurt: Cross country
Logan: Skeleton
Piotr: hockey
Betsy & Rachel: Luge pair
Bobby: speed skating
Longshot: halfpipe.
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
X-Men and their Winter Olympic sport
Scott: Curling
Mystique: Biathlon
Northstar: Super G
Kurt: Cross country
Logan: Skeleton
Piotr: hockey
Betsy & Rachel: Luge pair
Bobby: speed skating
Longshot: halfpipe.
Scott: Curling
Mystique: Biathlon
Northstar: Super G
Kurt: Cross country
Logan: Skeleton
Piotr: hockey
Betsy & Rachel: Luge pair
Bobby: speed skating
Longshot: halfpipe.
This is a great post, sir. Please follow it up with a call to action.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is a great post, sir. Please follow it up with a call to action.
Thread.
When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism.
A few suggestions...
A few suggestions...
February 13, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Thread.
Me, opening my lunchbox every day: “THE DEVOURER HUNGERS!”
I would take this to work with me every day if it was mine.
February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Me, opening my lunchbox every day: “THE DEVOURER HUNGERS!”
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Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS
1/x 🧵
1/x 🧵
Good morning, U.S. East Coast; I have a present for you:
February 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS
1/x 🧵
1/x 🧵
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doctor doctor
gimme the news
ive got an
unworn pair of baby shoes
gimme the news
ive got an
unworn pair of baby shoes
February 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
doctor doctor
gimme the news
ive got an
unworn pair of baby shoes
gimme the news
ive got an
unworn pair of baby shoes
Jeremy Carl might’ve been more comfortable answering this question if the Senator had offered him a white hood first. Or perhaps a keyboard to hide behind.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Jeremy Carl might’ve been more comfortable answering this question if the Senator had offered him a white hood first. Or perhaps a keyboard to hide behind.
Also, cigarettes are good for your T-zones again.
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change. n.pr/4asvw30
Trump's EPA plans to end a key climate pollution regulation
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
n.pr
February 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Also, cigarettes are good for your T-zones again.
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Minnesota, you won. Much of ICE are leaving. Don't trust this. They are trying to get the funding bill passed. Once the bill passes they'll be back at it either by you or someplace else.
February 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Minnesota, you won. Much of ICE are leaving. Don't trust this. They are trying to get the funding bill passed. Once the bill passes they'll be back at it either by you or someplace else.
I flipped on Canada v Czechia just in time for that PP goal that put CA up 4-0 and its going to be a real long tournament for some of these teams.
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I flipped on Canada v Czechia just in time for that PP goal that put CA up 4-0 and its going to be a real long tournament for some of these teams.
Immediate follow up question to every one of these dorks: “Do you support the government sending everyone with a social security number a free voter ID card and automatic voter registration? Because without a free ID card, what you’re suggesting is an illegal poll tax.”
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Immediate follow up question to every one of these dorks: “Do you support the government sending everyone with a social security number a free voter ID card and automatic voter registration? Because without a free ID card, what you’re suggesting is an illegal poll tax.”