Michael Palese
@technite43.bsky.social
Issue, crisis management, litigation communications pro who seeks truth, worships beauty.
Regional Director - ANTIFA.
Regional Director - ANTIFA.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year.
I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.
youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.
youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
🚨Desantis CAUGHT FUNNELING $35 MILLION away from Floridians?!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted more than $35 MILLION in taxpayer dollars to defeat two ballot initiatives last year.
I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.
youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
I’ve got the @miamiherald.com‘s blockbuster reporting on how DeSantis cheated needy Floridians and children from their already-earmarked funds.
youtu.be/EM0uTojxLCM?...
Am I the only one who thinks Nichole Wallace should identify her husband as her husband when he appears on her show?
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Am I the only one who thinks Nichole Wallace should identify her husband as her husband when he appears on her show?
And consider where he will be next yrar this time. Damn.
December 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And consider where he will be next yrar this time. Damn.
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“Republicans have begun to openly and repeatedly defy him. Democrats have started to outmaneuver him. The Epstein scandal has once more erupted with embarrassing revelations. And every now and then, Trump seems to have a hard time even staying awake”
NEW: President Trump spent much of the year as a steamroller
But as 2025 ends, he seems much smaller now
Republicans took losses and are starting to defy him. He seems out of touch and focused on legacy. And Epstein won’t go away
A shrinking president: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
But as 2025 ends, he seems much smaller now
Republicans took losses and are starting to defy him. He seems out of touch and focused on legacy. And Epstein won’t go away
A shrinking president: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump Is Suddenly Looking a Lot Smaller
The president is no longer dominating his party or the country in the way he once did.
www.theatlantic.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Republicans have begun to openly and repeatedly defy him. Democrats have started to outmaneuver him. The Epstein scandal has once more erupted with embarrassing revelations. And every now and then, Trump seems to have a hard time even staying awake”
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I have no idea who benefits - apart from MTG herself - from this fawning puff piece in the NYT
Which glosses over her horrible behavior and vicious prejudices
Including her anti-trans House bill passed just TEN DAYS ago
Her redemption tour is just her latest con
Which glosses over her horrible behavior and vicious prejudices
Including her anti-trans House bill passed just TEN DAYS ago
Her redemption tour is just her latest con
December 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I have no idea who benefits - apart from MTG herself - from this fawning puff piece in the NYT
Which glosses over her horrible behavior and vicious prejudices
Including her anti-trans House bill passed just TEN DAYS ago
Her redemption tour is just her latest con
Which glosses over her horrible behavior and vicious prejudices
Including her anti-trans House bill passed just TEN DAYS ago
Her redemption tour is just her latest con
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Your daily reminder that being in the USA illegally is a misdemeanor, not a felony.
50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person.
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle.
Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities.
This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Your daily reminder that being in the USA illegally is a misdemeanor, not a felony.
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Public election financing and ranked choice voting helps democracy.
Every Democrat in America should be voting for and pushing these measures.
Every Democrat in America should be voting for and pushing these measures.
December 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Public election financing and ranked choice voting helps democracy.
Every Democrat in America should be voting for and pushing these measures.
Every Democrat in America should be voting for and pushing these measures.
She is full of shit.
"His overall behavior in recent months, she told me, was that of a president who would stop at nothing to remain in office even after his second term expires. 'In my opinion,' Greene predicted, 'we’re going to see more war. ...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...
‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
She is full of shit.
Still seems too weak for this bunch.
Last week, SCOTUS stood up for its right to engage in judicial review of executive branch decisions. This week it's Congress' turn & at least a few representatives seem inclined to insist that when they pass a law, they mean business. Learn about inherent contempt: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Still seems too weak for this bunch.
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Last week, SCOTUS stood up for its right to engage in judicial review of executive branch decisions. This week it's Congress' turn & at least a few representatives seem inclined to insist that when they pass a law, they mean business. Learn about inherent contempt: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
December 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Last week, SCOTUS stood up for its right to engage in judicial review of executive branch decisions. This week it's Congress' turn & at least a few representatives seem inclined to insist that when they pass a law, they mean business. Learn about inherent contempt: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
There is too much real shit happening to think about this grifter. She is running interference.
December 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There is too much real shit happening to think about this grifter. She is running interference.
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Making sure I will not be going to the US anytime soon. Best description I've read in a long while.
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Making sure I will not be going to the US anytime soon. Best description I've read in a long while.
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
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Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.
He’s preparing for the last stand.
A ballroom with bulletproof glass, drone-free roof, inauguration inside - sounds like he’s just building himself a bigger bunker.
December 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
He’s preparing for the last stand.
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New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
But freedom of speech includes freedom to not praise the king.
www.publicnotice.co
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New in PN: The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression is the right to criticize the ruler. But it’s also the right to not play jazz vibraphone if you don’t want to — not even if the ruler says you must for his greater glory."
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This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:
C.I.A. Conducted Drone Strike on Port in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This is an act of war and illegal under both US and international law, let’s just be clear about that:
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This is truly disgusting.
Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
December 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
This is truly disgusting.
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🎯🎯🎯🎯
Just sent out this piece about the Trump-Zelensky-Putin pantomime yesterday. People who think this brought peace closer cannot face the truth. This meeting was a continuation of Trump's efforts to help Putin and demean Ukraine. And he succeeded. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Why the Pantomime? Its Always Been About Defending Putin
And Perhaps Getting A Nobel Prize
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Right Mr Zelensky, We Don't Believe Chump Either......
December 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Right Mr Zelensky, We Don't Believe Chump Either......
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35 million Americans live in poverty, and yet, this is what our president is focused on.
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
35 million Americans live in poverty, and yet, this is what our president is focused on.
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How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
And marrying fossils.
The new Melania movie reveals she was granted an Einstein visa because she claimed to be an anthropologist and an expert in dating fossils.
December 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
And marrying fossils.
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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Ther insatiable greed is killing us. Literally.
December 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Ther insatiable greed is killing us. Literally.