Michael Read
@michaelread.bsky.social
Retired partisan. PhD in US politics focusing on the international activities of American campaign consultants. Moderate conservative who still believes the rule of law is a thing.
Procedural question here, while Red and Blue states gaining seats fight this out, what happens if states LOSING seats actually follow the law and don’t redistrict until they would otherwise do so after the mid-terms? Wouldn’t this bump the number of seats past the present statutory maximum?
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Procedural question here, while Red and Blue states gaining seats fight this out, what happens if states LOSING seats actually follow the law and don’t redistrict until they would otherwise do so after the mid-terms? Wouldn’t this bump the number of seats past the present statutory maximum?
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I think you misspelled the word “bribe”
BREAKING | Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million to settle ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit CBS News called ‘meritless’
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million to settle lawsuit CBS called ‘meritless’
Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, has agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle the president’s lawsuit over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that the network's...
www.independent.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I think you misspelled the word “bribe”
The Trump administration has sent more troops to Los Angeles than there were protestors at the beginning of this.
Who’s escalating?
Who’s escalating?
June 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Trump administration has sent more troops to Los Angeles than there were protestors at the beginning of this.
Who’s escalating?
Who’s escalating?
Is Elon having his “Demon in a Bottle” era.
If you know, you know.
If you know, you know.
June 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Is Elon having his “Demon in a Bottle” era.
If you know, you know.
If you know, you know.
Not even bothering to hide it.
It doesn’t get more corrupt than this. Trump pardoned a tax cheat after his mom attended a $1 million dinner and helped push a smear campaign against Biden. This is pay-to-play at its dirtiest.
May 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Not even bothering to hide it.
If you’re going to harass a grocery cashier over a 35 cent bag charge, I get to ask what rock you crawled out from under. It’s been the law in the province for over a decade. Get over it.
May 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you’re going to harass a grocery cashier over a 35 cent bag charge, I get to ask what rock you crawled out from under. It’s been the law in the province for over a decade. Get over it.
There was an easier way to introduce adamantium into the #mcu. “We’ve harnessed the tensile strength of a toddler’s fingernails”. Every parent, grandparent, aunt and uncle, just thinks, “that checks” and moves along.
April 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There was an easier way to introduce adamantium into the #mcu. “We’ve harnessed the tensile strength of a toddler’s fingernails”. Every parent, grandparent, aunt and uncle, just thinks, “that checks” and moves along.
Took a break from the annexation beat to revise a piece I wrote on Medium last year that was read by about two people.
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Our elections are at risk … from the electorate (Revised Edition)
I previously posted this on another platform while I was still figuring that place out and got as many readers as you would expect for a first post on a platform where you have no followers. In an era...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Took a break from the annexation beat to revise a piece I wrote on Medium last year that was read by about two people.
open.substack.com/pub/themicha...
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If you go further down this article, you’ll see perennial bad penny Rob Anders is part of this BS delegation. Shouldn’t be a surprise. As a young MP in the then Canadian Alliance, he was instrumental in bringing the Leadership Institute to train staff how to campaign.
March 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If you go further down this article, you’ll see perennial bad penny Rob Anders is part of this BS delegation. Shouldn’t be a surprise. As a young MP in the then Canadian Alliance, he was instrumental in bringing the Leadership Institute to train staff how to campaign.
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Elon Musk is now suspending accounts of opposition figures in Turkey for reporting on the massive protests against Erdoğan’s autocratic regime following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor.
“Free speech absolutist” my a$$
“Free speech absolutist” my a$$
March 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Elon Musk is now suspending accounts of opposition figures in Turkey for reporting on the massive protests against Erdoğan’s autocratic regime following the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor.
“Free speech absolutist” my a$$
“Free speech absolutist” my a$$
The administration is pursuing annexation because they think it’s no more complicated than a corporate merger.
Wrong. Oh so very wrong. While Anglophone Canada has a very Americanized political culture, one province has stood athrwart history and yelled “Stop!”
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Wrong. Oh so very wrong. While Anglophone Canada has a very Americanized political culture, one province has stood athrwart history and yelled “Stop!”
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How Quebec is the Poison Pill that will Save Our Country.
Part 2 of an ongoing series.
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March 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The administration is pursuing annexation because they think it’s no more complicated than a corporate merger.
Wrong. Oh so very wrong. While Anglophone Canada has a very Americanized political culture, one province has stood athrwart history and yelled “Stop!”
open.substack.com/pub/themicha...
Wrong. Oh so very wrong. While Anglophone Canada has a very Americanized political culture, one province has stood athrwart history and yelled “Stop!”
open.substack.com/pub/themicha...
Nice to see the Liberal Party return to the old strategy of finding successful ex-pats to lead the party. It worked all of once, with Pearson (I know, technically, a UN ambassador is not an ex-pat), and got them a minority government. Ignatieff … let’s not talk about that.
March 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Nice to see the Liberal Party return to the old strategy of finding successful ex-pats to lead the party. It worked all of once, with Pearson (I know, technically, a UN ambassador is not an ex-pat), and got them a minority government. Ignatieff … let’s not talk about that.
Considering he turned off Ukraine’s access at the beginning of the war, every government snookered into doing business with Starlink should be tearing up those contracts even if it means paying penalties. Better to pay twice for reliable service than once for whatever Elon’s providing.
"be quiet, small man"
jfc
jfc
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
March 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Considering he turned off Ukraine’s access at the beginning of the war, every government snookered into doing business with Starlink should be tearing up those contracts even if it means paying penalties. Better to pay twice for reliable service than once for whatever Elon’s providing.
You paid six figures for a truck that can’t do truck things.
That was a choice.
For half, you could buy a truck that does truck things and do something like donate to a food bank with the difference. You’d be a hero.
You chose Elon’s mobile dumpster instead.
Live with it and its consequences.
That was a choice.
For half, you could buy a truck that does truck things and do something like donate to a food bank with the difference. You’d be a hero.
You chose Elon’s mobile dumpster instead.
Live with it and its consequences.
As the protests against Tesla become more personal, Tesla Cybertruck owners have flocked to Facebook to complain about how Elon Musk-haters are taking out their issues with the tech billionaire on their electric vehicles.
Cybertruck owners vent about mockery from Musk haters in their own Facebook group
‘Cybertruck ownership comes with… interesting fan mail,’ one electric vehicle owner wrote online
www.independent.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You paid six figures for a truck that can’t do truck things.
That was a choice.
For half, you could buy a truck that does truck things and do something like donate to a food bank with the difference. You’d be a hero.
You chose Elon’s mobile dumpster instead.
Live with it and its consequences.
That was a choice.
For half, you could buy a truck that does truck things and do something like donate to a food bank with the difference. You’d be a hero.
You chose Elon’s mobile dumpster instead.
Live with it and its consequences.
Decided I should puts some thoughts to virtual paper on how colossally dumb this trade war and its ultimate objective of annexation, is. Turns out, I have more than time will allow in a single post, so stay tuned for updates.
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Canada: Free because we’re more trouble than we’re worth.
Part 1 of an ongoing series.
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March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Decided I should puts some thoughts to virtual paper on how colossally dumb this trade war and its ultimate objective of annexation, is. Turns out, I have more than time will allow in a single post, so stay tuned for updates.
open.substack.com/pub/themicha...
open.substack.com/pub/themicha...
Zelensky’s last visit to a Trump White House set the dominoes in motion for Trump’s first impeachment. Back then, he promised to defend Ukraine in return for evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the Bidens. Now he just wants Ukraine’s natural resources so he can redistribute them to his broligarchs.
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Zelensky’s last visit to a Trump White House set the dominoes in motion for Trump’s first impeachment. Back then, he promised to defend Ukraine in return for evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the Bidens. Now he just wants Ukraine’s natural resources so he can redistribute them to his broligarchs.
There’s a brand of overnight oats at Costco called Mush. They should be given some kind of truth in advertising award.
February 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There’s a brand of overnight oats at Costco called Mush. They should be given some kind of truth in advertising award.
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Hagan Scotten, assistant U.S. attorney for the SDNY who was working on the Eric Adams corruption case, has resigned from his position in a blistering letter to Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove:
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion”
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion”
February 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hagan Scotten, assistant U.S. attorney for the SDNY who was working on the Eric Adams corruption case, has resigned from his position in a blistering letter to Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove:
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion”
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion”
Well that escalated quickly
JUST IN: Andrew Taake, a January 6 rioter who assaulted police officers at the Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump, has been arrested on charges of online solicitation of a minor for sex.
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Well that escalated quickly
Luck? They worked pretty hard to get their agent in place. Luck had nothing to do with it.
After crippling the FBI, the Trump administration is now going after the CIA.
Our intelligence agencies are being gutted and replaced with political hacks and Trump loyalists who will follow his orders without question.
Russia and China can’t believe their luck.
Our intelligence agencies are being gutted and replaced with political hacks and Trump loyalists who will follow his orders without question.
Russia and China can’t believe their luck.
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Luck? They worked pretty hard to get their agent in place. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Couldn’t make money running casinos, but going to make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East?
No merci
No merci
a bald man with a shaved head is wearing a gray suit
ALT: a bald man with a shaved head is wearing a gray suit
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February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Couldn’t make money running casinos, but going to make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East?
No merci
No merci
Markets thrive on certainty. This will he or won’t he start a trade war will wreak as much havoc on our economy as an actual trade war, albeit slower.
I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.
We have 30 days, should we calm down, or not?
I'm ready to be livid for the foreseeable future.
I'm ready to be livid for the foreseeable future.
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Markets thrive on certainty. This will he or won’t he start a trade war will wreak as much havoc on our economy as an actual trade war, albeit slower.
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It’s just sad. Imagine being a dedicated government worker at the Dept of Trees or whatever. You’ve spent your whole life making sure invasive beetles don’t eat America’s forests. Then one day you’re fired by a high school graduate on loan from the monkey-killing factory
Incredible scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social about Musk installing his lackeys in the highest positions at the Office of Public Management — including a former Neuralink intern who graduated from high school in 2024
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It’s just sad. Imagine being a dedicated government worker at the Dept of Trees or whatever. You’ve spent your whole life making sure invasive beetles don’t eat America’s forests. Then one day you’re fired by a high school graduate on loan from the monkey-killing factory
I spent a few years mining that collection for shows I did in high school and university. A beautiful treasure trove.
Did you know that CHSR has the largest physical music collection in Eastern Canada? Over 80,000 albums and still growing!
Stop by and see it sometime.
Stop by and see it sometime.
January 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I spent a few years mining that collection for shows I did in high school and university. A beautiful treasure trove.