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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌

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CTO, PhD physics, sys eng & software. Progressive & supporter of Democracy. America’s ignorance is always underestimated. And we suffer from too many snake oil salesmen. *sigh* I feel like a cranky old man. Wile E. Coyote: Genius Have brain-will travel /s

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · Jul 14

Favorite PINO story was when he gave Christie the task of assembling the new admin by vetting & shepherding a thousand nominees. He was summarily fired when PINO found out he was raising his own money, as required by law, and not tithing to Trump. “I don’t care about the law! I want my money!”

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Bondi's notes had nothing to do with her work as leader of the DoJ, or even the embattled border czar. Rather, Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good “gotcha” moment.

newrepublic.com/post/201475/...

Photographer Captures Pam Bondi’s Notes—and They’re a Doozy

Attorney General Pam Bondi came to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing armed with nothing more than lame canned attacks.

newrepublic.com

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 6h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's purge ousts Black trailblazers like Primus and Hayden from top posts, slotting in white replacements amid a cabinet where just 2 of 98 appointees are Black. #TrumpAdministration

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 3h

#Resist
#Vote
#Watch
#Impeach
#Convict

Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, believe what you want. It’s fine. Whistles in the dark…

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 5h

A national political party could just send a bunch of electeds to Portland for a weekend to look around, with cameras following them. I mean, national news outlets could also do this, but OK.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

Does Jack know he’s undercutting this joke of a round-table?

Yeah, anti-fascists have been around for decades, ever since they invented fascism in Italy. (And it was due to a new propaganda technology: radio.)

We will overcome these idiots.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

The obvious dementia is astounding. He’s not tethered to reality. What a dipshit.

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 1d

Sending wishes for a speedy recovery to Dolly Parton. If she dies during this administration and does not lay in state in the US Capitol, as any American saint should, may the giants slumbering beneath the Appalachians rise up with force and level the Washington monument with a blow.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, indeed — what is Mike Johnson's
Grindr handle?

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

No true, he’s delivered, just not with the price or features promised or the date.

I guess that means he’s never delivered….

Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

Meme crash about to happen in 3..2..1..

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Brian @bgac.bsky.social · 6h

The jump in September is because of this

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

Meme stock crashing and burning soon, just like their last place cars.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4h

When one person kills, we call it murder – but when corporations decide who lives and who dies – it's capitalism.

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Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

Fucking shoot them down already. Russia won’t stop until you force them to.

Dr.Mike 🚫👑❌ @drmke.bsky.social · 4h

WTF?

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 16h

"If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy." www.salon.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power - Salon.com

In a series of cases over the past 15 years, the Supreme Court has moved in a pro-presidential direction.

www.salon.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

😂

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 5h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit lifts a lower court order blocking Trump from federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard troops for deployment in Portland. However, the decision is unlikely to allow the administration to deploy soldiers to the city for now.

Judges Let Trump Federalize Oregon National Guard, But Block on Deployment Remains