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@mikelking.com

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20+yr Technology Leader, Public Speaker, Columnist, USCG Veteran with a salty vernacular, Brewer of beer, Coffee Evangelist - VPoEng ** Don't follow if you are easily offended, it's not intentional, I just don't give a fuck. *** Allergic to Chocolate

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · Dec 18

Ages ago on the porta-potty site I started #ThoughtfulThursday, hoping to encourage everyone to share nuggets of inspiration, wisdom & positivity, to make Thursday suck a little less. If you'd like me to bring this over here then drop a 💙& repost.

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Southpaw T Rex @southpawjc.bsky.social · 6h

These people are freaking ridiculous JFC 🤬 Goldman calling out Moscow Ron Johnson

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Rhonda @silverarticfox.bsky.social · 7h

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 8h

This is so hard. I shall have to give this one a good think... 🤔

Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 10h

Airports shutdown because of #DonOld #TrumpTheFuckingIDIOT’s #RepublicanAdministrationSHUTDOWN!

🌮 Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 15h

Only one of the busiest airports in the world brought to a halt because Trump raped children. Totally cool, right?

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🌮 Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 17h

Be safe
Do not fly unless absolutely necessary

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 11h

Somebody actually typed this shit up, printed it, cut it out, and glued to a file folder so Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi didn't have to memorize "I know you are, but what am I?"

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 10h

Is ask a similar question regarding pants… then I usually end door dashing or instacarting stuff…

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 15h

Before leaving my house I like to ask myself important questions like, “Is this worth putting on a bra for?”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, indeed — what is Mike Johnson's
Grindr handle?

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Jess🖤🧙‍♀️🖤 @shihtzusnuggles.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent article. American oppression is ingrained. Unfortunately I didn't get it until I read some history of imperial America. I'm still learning. Listen and support BIPOC voices.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Kurt Schlatzer 📷 ⚓ @kurtschlatzer.com · 12h

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11h

The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

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Mikel 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @mikelking.com · 10h

#PedoChickenShit

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🌮 Chef Bruce 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @chef-bruce.bsky.social · 11h

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10h

🇺🇸❗️White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes, — NBC News.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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God Is A Tulpa @kristyclueless.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, I guess it's a cool idea? 😬 #BadTattoo

A tattoo on someone's back of an eye with fingers trying to escape and only half the eye is bloodshot

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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GG @ct-yankee.bsky.social · 13h

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 12h

My office is open and ready to fight for our Fifth District communities every single day - even during a government shutdown. 💪🏽

To share how the shutdown is impacting you, contact my office at omar.house.gov/contact/emai....

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