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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 13m

Press should ask Trump/miller how Chicago/portland/wherever are routinely hosting major sporting events in what they consider war zones. Ask “should the MLB commissioner be jailed for daring to host playoff games at occupied wrigley field?” “Should the trailblazers move all home games to Boise?”

Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 46m

This seems to be happening (except Trump couldn’t go back to being good like theoden). But still, if 2019 Trump is there somewhere, it would be nice if somebody could break him out

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1h

arktimes.com/arkansas-blo... good source of info on Arkansas 2026 elections

The race is (almost) on: A look at 2026 federal, constitutional and legislative elections - Arkansas Times

One-stop shopping for info on all of the contested U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state constitutional and state legislative races in 2026.

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1h

i just wish you weren't as lonely of a voice among democrats in congress. if the party would band together with a message like yours it would help

Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1h

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 2h

It’s like two clicks away from a fred armisen snl sketch

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ACLU @aclu.org · 3h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 8h

They absolutely can’t govern. All they can do is fight their culture war

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 9h

Little Rock being the nexus of three regions feels right. Just to the east is the delta, south and southwest is pine trees for like forever and just to its nw is the start of the ouachitas and ozarks

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 10h

sorry but you can't try to push what's like a 2005 level "scandal" at best in 2025, when *all of this* is happening

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 19h

the party of small government and local control

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 19h

i don't blame carney for advocating for canada, but he could spend months being diplomatic and have all that effort erased by trump seeing some AI video of the blue jays mascot attacking a person in a maga hat or something equally ridicoulous

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

Star Wars too, lots of speeder traffic all over coruscant

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

In Economist/You Gov weekly tracking poll Trump's job approval drops 3 pts, now 39%-56% (-17)
- Only 37% support military in cities
- 33% support his handling of shutdown
- Rs lose 2 pts in generic ballot, Ds now up 44-39 w/RVs
Lots of not winning here for Trump/Rs
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

a square of fabric typically made of the same material that ties are made of. you put it into your breast pocket on the suit to add a bit of color and style. i've only ever messed with them at weddings. i never wore one in court or when i had to wear a suit on office days

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

So sick of the “liberal mainstream media” trope.

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know why this looks weird, it’s fine in my photos app

Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

Sixth grade recess touch football play design (complimentary)

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been an attorney for 17 years and have seen (and worn to be fair) some awful suits and sport coats. I’ve never seen anybody do that nor would it have ever occurred to me to do it

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 2d

The boundary in sw MO is right. I drive from NW Arkansas to Kansas City pretty often and you can feel it switch to pure Midwest a bit north of Joplin.

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Mike (spooky version)🍁🍂😈👹👻💀☠️👽🎃🧛🏻🧌🧟‍♂️ @michaelt2300.bsky.social · 2d

There are multiple major professional sports teams currently operating in Chicago. I don’t think that’s true of khandahar