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Michael Mechanic
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Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · Nov 19
It's a good day when your book shows up on a senator's desk. You can get your own copy via ReadJackpot.com/order
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 42m
Well, yes, I suppose it would be wrong. But it's also made up.

And, just wondering, is it "radical left" to oppose people who claim to be devout Christians yet enact policies that make life harder for America's poorest, most vulnerable families?

If so, well, count me in.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1h
As for people who should be jailed, I have some alternative recommendations.
Trump Takes Aim at Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 17h
Should've seen this storm coming...
Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 20h
Pam Bondi is a menace, and in a sane world, she would have been held in contempt of Congress for her behavior.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 21h
Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down newrepublic.com/post/201437/...
Schiff Lists Every Question Pam Bondi Ignored as She Melts Down
Senator Adam Schiff went toe to toe with Trump’s attorney general in a Senate hearing.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d
I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 21h
I can't understand an Attorney General of the United States attending a Senate Oversight Committee hearing, and when asked simple questions responding with personal insults of the Senators. How fricking rude. Where was she brought up? Or did she just come out from under a rock?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h
1/ This morning I went on @kqedforum.bsky.social to discuss this piece and Lt. Gov @eleniforca.bsky.social called it. Which is great! Politicians should engage with journalists and the public debating things, including how CA can push back on Trump. But...

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It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 20h
She sure as hell didn't deny it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
WHITEHOUSE: Do you know if the FBI found photographs of Trump with half-naked young women in their search of Epstein's safe or premises?

BONDI: You're trying to slander President Trump when you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidants. I could be wrong. Correct me.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 21h
They really seemed determined to kill all the progress American society has made since the 1950s.
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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 15d
Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones.

The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
www.bloomberg.com
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h
Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 21h
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 21h
Probably America's stupidest lawmaker.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21h
This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 21h
This older piece just came to my attention. Can someone explain why UAW would call for a general strike in May 2028 and not, say, right fucking now?
‘We want everybody walking out’: UAW chief outlines mass strike for May 2028
Shawn Fain, the United Auto Workers president, reaffirms general strike on 1 May 2028, saying ‘members need to come together’
www.theguardian.com
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 1d
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d
Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”
Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Gonna be sad to see CBS turn into Newsmax.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d
Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Public, please
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 1d
Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians.

Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates?
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California passes bill curbing utilities use of ratepayer money for political spending
State lawmakers last week made California the seventh state to pass a bill limiting investor-owned utilities from using customer money to pay for political and lobbying costs.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
And it's still shocking. Donald Trump pardoned all of these actual thugs. youtu.be/DXnHIJkZZAs?...
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
But you want the hotels to be your friends. Then you can go use the pool for free.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
As we note in our upcoming issue, the average cost of a bed inside the tents at “Alligator Alcatraz” is $245 a day. I mean, there are dozens and dozen of hotels in Miami alone that cost far less and could no doubt use the business.
Google Travel
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Nature and the great outdoors are not partisan. They shouldn't be, anyway. They are a gift to all that requires good stewardship and protection. Didn't the Bible say something like that, too?
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 1d
The national parks are in deep shit—perhaps literally.

Read our latest dispatch from Climate Desk Weekly, recapping what the shutdown means for National Parks: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...
Climate Desk Newsletter STORIES FROM MOTHER JONES AND ITS PARTNERS The federal government is shut down and National Park employees are bracing for another disaster. The last Trump shutdown, which began in late December 2018 and lasted 35 days, was a period of “chaos and destruction” for America's national parks. “Prehistoric petroglyphs were vandalized at Big Bend,” recalls the Guardian’s Gabrielle Canon, and “Joshua trees, some more than a century old, were chopped down at Joshua Tree.” Animals were illegally killed, trash was strewn across the landscape, park toilets overflowed with feces, and fights broke out over campsites. The administration’s plan is similar this time around, our Climate Desk partners report. The parks will use recreation fees to keep basic services like bathrooms open, even though tens of thousands of employees are furloughed—a move found unlawful by the Government Accountability Office in a 2019 opinion.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d
Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Seriously?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d
Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found.

At stake are 5 congressional seats. If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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