Mike Shaw
@zax2000.bsky.social
A yokel Bostonian bumbling around Seattle. Stints in 北京 and Bali along the way. I used to craft/edit journalists' spam. Geopolitics is my jam. I post, therefore I am.
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Amazon is talking about investing $10bn in OpenAI so that OpenAI can then hand some of that back as part of its $38bn cloud compute deal using trainium chips. This should get OpenAI to what, March? Utterly stupid and investors should actively punish Amazon
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It's starting...
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This is unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize award winner.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize award winner.
Still supporting our Baristas. Still not buying Starbucks.
Hundreds of fast food workers, Starbucks baristas on ULP strike, @sagaftra.org members, and allies are in Los Angeles RIGHT NOW demanding Starbucks finalizes a fair union contract.
The longer @sbworkersunited.org's ULP strike goes on, the more the labor movement is showing up!
#NoContractNoCoffee!
The longer @sbworkersunited.org's ULP strike goes on, the more the labor movement is showing up!
#NoContractNoCoffee!
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Still supporting our Baristas. Still not buying Starbucks.
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Trump, having decided that the Iraq invasion was such a success, is going to run it back- only this time with Venezuela.
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Trump, having decided that the Iraq invasion was such a success, is going to run it back- only this time with Venezuela.
Trump is a monster.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Trump is a monster.
May the memory of Rob Reiner imploring a man to suck another man's balls be a blessing to us all. ❤️
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
May the memory of Rob Reiner imploring a man to suck another man's balls be a blessing to us all. ❤️
I'm gonna just dick around, I guess.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I'm gonna just dick around, I guess.
Just read The 100 Best TV Episodes
of the Century from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy. I have some thoughts. In short: It's trash.
My ire has nothing to do w/the episodes chosen per se. But the framework & lack of rigor make it a foundationally flawed exercise that wastes its contributors' talent. 🧵
of the Century from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy. I have some thoughts. In short: It's trash.
My ire has nothing to do w/the episodes chosen per se. But the framework & lack of rigor make it a foundationally flawed exercise that wastes its contributors' talent. 🧵
The 100 Best TV Episodes of the Century - The Ringer
Ranking the 100 best television episodes of the 21st century, from Mad Men to Succession to Game of Thrones.
www.theringer.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Just read The 100 Best TV Episodes
of the Century from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy. I have some thoughts. In short: It's trash.
My ire has nothing to do w/the episodes chosen per se. But the framework & lack of rigor make it a foundationally flawed exercise that wastes its contributors' talent. 🧵
of the Century from @theringer.com.web.brid.gy. I have some thoughts. In short: It's trash.
My ire has nothing to do w/the episodes chosen per se. But the framework & lack of rigor make it a foundationally flawed exercise that wastes its contributors' talent. 🧵
Deeply researched, nuanced "debates" like this are exactly what we need more of from our journalists. Joss Fong (formerly Vox) and Adam Cole (formerly NPR) are doing just incredible work.
Too many people? Or not enough?
YouTube video by Howtown
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Deeply researched, nuanced "debates" like this are exactly what we need more of from our journalists. Joss Fong (formerly Vox) and Adam Cole (formerly NPR) are doing just incredible work.
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Since the Fed started cutting rates last Sept:
* unemployment ⬆️ 30bps
* CPI ⬆️ 60bps
* 10-year yield ⬆️ 50bps
* unemployment ⬆️ 30bps
* CPI ⬆️ 60bps
* 10-year yield ⬆️ 50bps
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Since the Fed started cutting rates last Sept:
* unemployment ⬆️ 30bps
* CPI ⬆️ 60bps
* 10-year yield ⬆️ 50bps
* unemployment ⬆️ 30bps
* CPI ⬆️ 60bps
* 10-year yield ⬆️ 50bps
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At press time, people were hoping it’s not too inconceivable that Death redeems itself soon by asking the far more right person to prepare to die as they wish.
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
At press time, people were hoping it’s not too inconceivable that Death redeems itself soon by asking the far more right person to prepare to die as they wish.
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Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Our long, national Brady-less nightmare is (almost) over.
It’s about time something good happened to Boston.
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Our long, national Brady-less nightmare is (almost) over.
This is fascism.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is fascism.
Another absolutely astonishing piece of journalism from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social . While the content is both shocking & not at all surprising, the scope & depth of reporting is breathtaking. Just incredible work. This is what the news should be. Bari Weiss is a joke compared to this stuff.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Another absolutely astonishing piece of journalism from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social . While the content is both shocking & not at all surprising, the scope & depth of reporting is breathtaking. Just incredible work. This is what the news should be. Bari Weiss is a joke compared to this stuff.
Compare this with the statements of the President of the United States of America.
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Compare this with the statements of the President of the United States of America.
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Ouch
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Ouch
We need more people in Congress who kkow how to experience joy.
adorable series of 4 photos i captured last night featuring @katmabu.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social and @presidentblue.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We need more people in Congress who kkow how to experience joy.
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
Waiting to hear protests from all the anti-govt conservatives about the Feds combinimg govt databases w/state voting rolls to create a "Citizenship Look-up" tool.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
🔊 Listen Now: Why some U.S. citizens are being kicked off voting rolls
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 10:28
one.npr.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Waiting to hear protests from all the anti-govt conservatives about the Feds combinimg govt databases w/state voting rolls to create a "Citizenship Look-up" tool.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
This is fascism.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is fascism.