Michael Henson
@mhenson144.bsky.social
33. NASCAR Engineer. Retired Baja driver. Random nerd. Stubborn smart-ass. Views are my own (cis he/him) Won at Bristol 3/29/21! 🏁
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 #BlackLivesMatter, LGBTQ+ ally
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Michael Henson
@mhenson144.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Anonymous messages!
Anonymous messages!
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In the immortal words of Rocket Raccoon: “Oh what the hell, I don’t got that long a lifespan anyway”.
Shoot.
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Shoot.
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Holy crap. Through sheer luck and good timing I’ve stumbled across the entire Battlestar Galactica (2003) CD Soundtrack collection for a remarkably affordable price… FINALLY!
a woman is standing in front of a picture and says `` it 's a christmas miracle . ''
Alt: Aubrey Plaza looks at the camera with a vaguely warm state and says “It’s a Christmas miracle.”
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Holy crap. Through sheer luck and good timing I’ve stumbled across the entire Battlestar Galactica (2003) CD Soundtrack collection for a remarkably affordable price… FINALLY!
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This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.
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get the guillotine
The Trump administration will resume wage garnishment for people in default on student loans.
Millions of student loan borrowers are about to see their paychecks shrink
The Trump administration will resume wage garnishment for people in default on student loans.
www.motherjones.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
get the guillotine
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Banks won’t let you borrow $100,000+ for anything without a credit history or co-signer, but the Government will let you take out $100,000+ worth of student loans debt without a problem. Student loans are a scam.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Banks won’t let you borrow $100,000+ for anything without a credit history or co-signer, but the Government will let you take out $100,000+ worth of student loans debt without a problem. Student loans are a scam.
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Get off Twitter. And destroy AI.
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Get off Twitter. And destroy AI.
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I noticed a change in the last few weeks in how the NYT describes gender affirming care. They now use the term "gender related care" in their coverage. This term had only been used sparingly (4 times) prior to this year. Now it's becoming ubiquitous in standard coverage.
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I noticed a change in the last few weeks in how the NYT describes gender affirming care. They now use the term "gender related care" in their coverage. This term had only been used sparingly (4 times) prior to this year. Now it's becoming ubiquitous in standard coverage.
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I started at 59k/year when I was at NYLAG as a staff attorney representing trans asylum seekers. This kind of money to target a community like this is unimaginable to me. It's infinitely more profitable to sow hate than it is to help people.
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I started at 59k/year when I was at NYLAG as a staff attorney representing trans asylum seekers. This kind of money to target a community like this is unimaginable to me. It's infinitely more profitable to sow hate than it is to help people.
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Where have I seen this before, oh right.
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Where have I seen this before, oh right.
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As many have been saying was the Bibi/Smotrich/Ben Gvir plan all along… www.wsj.com/world/middle...
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As many have been saying was the Bibi/Smotrich/Ben Gvir plan all along… www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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These redactions are getting seriously out of hand.
Dunlop est désormais effacé de la passerelle aux 24 Heures du Mans
#LeMans24
www.endurance-info.com/auto/article...
#LeMans24
www.endurance-info.com/auto/article...
Dunlop est désormais effacé de la mythique passerelle
Endurance-Info couvre les championnats majeurs d’Endurance à travers le monde depuis 2006. Devenue une référence dans le milieu, Endurance-Info ne cesse d’être au coeur des acteurs de la discipline po...
www.endurance-info.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
These redactions are getting seriously out of hand.
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Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??
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2025****
I feel like it's apt to bring back this video I made during Christmas 2020 lockdown after I tried to take a nice picture of some cookies I decorated next to the tree but then I dropped them and they shattered and idk it feels appropriate for 2024. sound on <3
December 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
2025****
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Something else that has "flown under the radar" but shouldn't.
Too many of y'all are ignoring the day to day impact of having white nationalists running the nation, especially on Black folks and our children.
Too many of y'all are ignoring the day to day impact of having white nationalists running the nation, especially on Black folks and our children.
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation.
It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Something else that has "flown under the radar" but shouldn't.
Too many of y'all are ignoring the day to day impact of having white nationalists running the nation, especially on Black folks and our children.
Too many of y'all are ignoring the day to day impact of having white nationalists running the nation, especially on Black folks and our children.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Grabbing the gold medal at the Nordschleife in #GTSport’s Track Experience challenge despite a couple of pretty significant off-track excursions: #GranTurismo
two men are standing next to each other with one saying i 'm fine i 'm cool i 'm good .
Alt: Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart from “Miss Congeniality” quickly picks herself up off the ground after a dramatic fall and says “I’m fine, I’m cool, I’m good.”
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Grabbing the gold medal at the Nordschleife in #GTSport’s Track Experience challenge despite a couple of pretty significant off-track excursions: #GranTurismo
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@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better.
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
@corybooker.com has the 60-minute CECOT segment available on his channel. Watch it while you can. In other places, Paramount has taken the video down - "copyright," don't you know. Share. The more who witness, the better.
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
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one side wants to forgive student loan debt. the other wants to raid your bank account. we are not the same.
December 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
one side wants to forgive student loan debt. the other wants to raid your bank account. we are not the same.
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This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
Watching the segment: The first thing I'm going to zero in on is the crime stats. Here's how 60 Minutes set it up:
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
- Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst
- Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all
Here's the rest of Bari Weiss' memo. "We do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT," and on Sec. Noem's trip "no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was... or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees." LOL!
December 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is an excellent explanation of how unbelievably incompetent and full on nonsense the note from Weiss was. My guess: 1. Someone who has very little experience is journalism (and not the stuff that tickles billionaires) is clearly a mile wide and foot deep as an editor and in far over her skis.
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San Francisco Bay Area, PLEASE retweet - here's the front desk phone number for KPIX. It's buried deep in the website. 415-362-5550. Press #3 to leave a comment. Call them, say you are boycotting all CBS and Paramount properties until Bari Weiss is replaced
Just as in the case of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, a consumer backlash is now underway: CBS fans are hearing about the "60 Minutes" imbroglio and calling/emailing local CBS stations to register their concerns. "We have no real support," a reporter at one of those stations told me.
December 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
San Francisco Bay Area, PLEASE retweet - here's the front desk phone number for KPIX. It's buried deep in the website. 415-362-5550. Press #3 to leave a comment. Call them, say you are boycotting all CBS and Paramount properties until Bari Weiss is replaced
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Security personnel,
The captain is behaving strangely. If he gives you a direct order, run it by me first.
Worf
The captain is behaving strangely. If he gives you a direct order, run it by me first.
Worf
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Security personnel,
The captain is behaving strangely. If he gives you a direct order, run it by me first.
Worf
The captain is behaving strangely. If he gives you a direct order, run it by me first.
Worf
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SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
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NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
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December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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I sometimes forget that most people do not see Bibendum 5-10 times a year. Really, the main perk of this industry.
My wife's watching some programme about chefs getting Michelin stars and I wasn't very interested until it turned out when you get awarded one the actual Michelin man turns up
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I sometimes forget that most people do not see Bibendum 5-10 times a year. Really, the main perk of this industry.