Michael Welch
@mawpamplemousse.bsky.social
Boston area middle school special education math teacher (ret.)
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
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Nothing better underscores that Dems have no values or beliefs than the fact that they called every issue except ACA subsidies a distraction and then proceeded to fully capitulate on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Nothing better underscores that Dems have no values or beliefs than the fact that they called every issue except ACA subsidies a distraction and then proceeded to fully capitulate on ACA subsidies
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If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.
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When I got started in Virginia politics 25 years ago, I would have laughed you out of the building if you'd suggested to me that this was even possible.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
When I got started in Virginia politics 25 years ago, I would have laughed you out of the building if you'd suggested to me that this was even possible.
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
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October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Check out how tiny the crowds were:
Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
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learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.
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It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
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"The money is amazing—he just gives it to you when you show up, and says, 'Here is the cash. Thanks, my faithful protesting employees. My name is George Soros. This is happening in real life, you are not dreaming, and this is not an insane lie your president is making up.'"
The Perks of Being a Professional Protester
George Soros is at every protest with a huge sack of cash. The money is amazing—he just gives it to you when you show up, and says, “Here is the ca...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"The money is amazing—he just gives it to you when you show up, and says, 'Here is the cash. Thanks, my faithful protesting employees. My name is George Soros. This is happening in real life, you are not dreaming, and this is not an insane lie your president is making up.'"
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I’m still waiting for Elise Stefanik to weigh in on the Santos commutation since he scammed all her friends and big donors after she vouched for him.
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m still waiting for Elise Stefanik to weigh in on the Santos commutation since he scammed all her friends and big donors after she vouched for him.
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I worry the reason the Dems focus on Healthcare premiums and don't focus on the kidnapping and beatings is because they're not completely opposed to what ICE is doing. Or more to the point, whom ICE is doing it to
is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I worry the reason the Dems focus on Healthcare premiums and don't focus on the kidnapping and beatings is because they're not completely opposed to what ICE is doing. Or more to the point, whom ICE is doing it to
Speaking as a retired educator, “English Teacher” cracks me up.
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Speaking as a retired educator, “English Teacher” cracks me up.
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Off topic but my eternal loyalty to the Dem candidate who promises to return the rose garden to normal and renames the ballroom the Harvey Milk Center for DEI studies.
![REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible]
How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely.
And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreig42mujsiyxozvq3kiayszu47dbk6zds3icm5bwu34twt3d7vbo2q@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Off topic but my eternal loyalty to the Dem candidate who promises to return the rose garden to normal and renames the ballroom the Harvey Milk Center for DEI studies.
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Hearing from a lot of folks in and around CBS / Paramount. Thank you! But there's more I'd love your help with. If you work there, might you be able to text me? You can reach me on Signal @ premthakker.35
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October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Hearing from a lot of folks in and around CBS / Paramount. Thank you! But there's more I'd love your help with. If you work there, might you be able to text me? You can reach me on Signal @ premthakker.35
Your anonymity will be protected
No info? That's ok, just boost this so others see it too :)
Your anonymity will be protected
No info? That's ok, just boost this so others see it too :)
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The year is 2003.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The year is 2003.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Yes, this is important but I hope you all have also read what Timothy Snyder is saying this morning: snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Why put all the American commanders in one room?
snyder.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Yes, this is important but I hope you all have also read what Timothy Snyder is saying this morning: snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...
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A reminder that Democrat Bill Foster is funded by UnitedHealth, voted 3X with GOP to gut ACA, cosponsored a bill with GOP to gut the ADA, & is only pretending to care about rising healthcare costs for optics. He’s a complicit hypocrite & a big reason why GOP is so emboldened to demolish healthcare.
September 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A reminder that Democrat Bill Foster is funded by UnitedHealth, voted 3X with GOP to gut ACA, cosponsored a bill with GOP to gut the ADA, & is only pretending to care about rising healthcare costs for optics. He’s a complicit hypocrite & a big reason why GOP is so emboldened to demolish healthcare.
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Got vaxxed and took a Tylenol.
a woman in a pajama shirt is holding her hair in her hands and screaming .
Alt: Elaine devil ears. a woman in a pajama shirt is holding her hair in her hands and screaming .
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September 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Got vaxxed and took a Tylenol.
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I dunno, if your character witness for the director of NIH in your big "can he save science??" piece is a "political philosopher" who once led the anti-marriage equality National Organization for Marriage... well, not sure how much I'll listen to you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
![Dr. Bhattacharya is at his most compelling, his most charismatic when he hits these notes. Researchers who know him consistently told me that, sure, he bucked the establishment on Covid, but was eminently sane about it, not a rote contrarian. [highlight] Robert P. George, [/highlight] a Princeton political philosopher and a colleague of both mine and Dr. Bhattacharya’s, told me he is “a person of absolutely impeccable integrity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreic64kghuipaod3rjekr5fs7rd4neirxacsyj5tmoewyw3voymn6nm@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I dunno, if your character witness for the director of NIH in your big "can he save science??" piece is a "political philosopher" who once led the anti-marriage equality National Organization for Marriage... well, not sure how much I'll listen to you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
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I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
![Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreielbywjkgthjrsgp5s7na3nxbcn3wrdpwegj7vtrqswh6goqydgra@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
@coyotegulch.bsky.social Hi John! Just finished The Water Knife. Found you in Acknowledgments lol
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@coyotegulch.bsky.social Hi John! Just finished The Water Knife. Found you in Acknowledgments lol
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and a retired meteorologist shall lead us
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
and a retired meteorologist shall lead us