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mikepm.bsky.social
@mikepm.bsky.social
Old Texas Lawyer
State's have jurisdiction over their elections.
The FBI (dressed in full Fallujah gear as usual) raided the Fulton Country election office apparently in order to seize the 2020 ballots.

The sorest loser in world history just cannot let it go.

This sickness is at the heart of everything horrifying that's happening in our society.
January 28, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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not an accident that habeas corpus is one of the absolute foundational rights--and not an accident that ICE is working overtime to undermine it as much as possible
Excellent explanation of how ICE moves immigrants from one prison facility to another to deny them access to justice.
January 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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“A Yale University study last year estimated Musk’s political activity cost Tesla sales of more than 1 million vehicles.”
Musk has argued White people are “a rapidly dying minority” and appeared to claim South Africa was better off during apartheid. He has raised repeated alarms about a genocide of White people, echoing white supremacist talking point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tesla bet big on Elon Musk. His politics continue to haunt it.
Tesla struggles to regain its footing in the electric vehicle market, hindered by Elon Musk’s political activity, impacting its stock price and performance.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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This sums it up.
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Well, it's not like this administration ever misuses confidential data, engages in white nationalist rhetoric, or badmouths ethnic minorities. So their collecting lists of Jews is probably completely innocent! lnk.thebulwark.com/4qDPZc0
January 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Since Lindsey Graham is now on the "we should own Greenland" side, go back and read @saletan.bsky.social's meticulous documentation of how Lindsey Graham's notion of getting Trump to support sane foreign policy failed and corrupted only himself: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pR7K6l
The Corruption of Lindsey Graham
A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. Sen. Lindsey Graham is a central player in the Republican party’s capitulation to Donald Trump. We can watch the GOP's turn to authoritarianism by reviewing Graham's many public statements.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Carney:

"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".
January 22, 2026 at 7:20 PM
quite a list of liberal democracies.
History won’t debate this.
It will file it under: pathetic failure.
January 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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😯
January 23, 2026 at 3:36 AM
If you attack the justice system, you attack the foundations of our constitution and democratic culture. Pardoning rich fraudsters, attacking judges doing their jobs, and firing prosecuters who refuse to bend their principals, is not a recipe for stable democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Endangered lawyer’ day highlights US justice system’s plummeting standing
International coalition of legal groups focuses on political intimidation of lawyers and judges in US – once a role model
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Like tariffs, the 'Board of Peace" is a thing Trump can use to bludgeon other countries

share.google/HHN8xqgHhS1S...
Trump disinvites Canada from Gaza ‘Board of Peace’
The announcement comes after Canada’s Prime Minister asserted his nation’s independence in response to Trump.
share.google
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!

Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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At the end of Donald Trump’s first year back in office, roughly 300,000 fewer Americans worked for the government. Franklin Foer spoke with 50 federal employees who were either fired or forced out: theatln.tc/XfKtWRqe
January 22, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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I have one request for everyone outside the United States. Stop being polite to us Americans. Tell us what you really think.
"The most corrupt president The United States have ever seen."

UK Member of Parliament Ed Davey does not mince words when characterizing Trump after his move to take Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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34-time convicted fraudster Donald Trump launches an invasion of Minneapolis on the pretext of stopping fraud, and then fires all the fraud prosecutors and grants his sixtieth pardon to a large-scale fraudster. If you believe his pretexts, you're extremely gullible.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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I concur with your assessment. Additionally, it is evident that he harbors concerns regarding his actions; otherwise, he would not feel compelled to mention them. It is unusual for past presidents to urge their party to secure midterm victories to avoid impeachment.
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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No one has the balls to tell Shitler that his ideas stink as much as he does... They aren't financially viable and makes no good common sense. I guess that's why he's been through bankruptcy so many times.
January 12, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Let’s see, Venezuela take over, and wanting to take Greenland and at home he’s storming states with shock troops. Clearly we have an idiot in office that will kill us all.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Tell the Senate Republicans that.
January 9, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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"This is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when someone holds to a set of values but applies them selectively. what we are seeing is a worldview for which the only value is the domination of enemies. There is a name for that. It is fascism."
The Distance Between Renee Good and Ashli Babbitt Is Fascism
It’s not a hypocrisy. It’s a coherent worldview.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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I've been planning to write for a long time about how ICE and their allies sure are a bunch of whiny bitches, for all they talk about how tough they are.

I'm sad that this is the occasion.

But by god, these "tough" guys are pathetic cowards.

www.salon.com/2026/01/09/i...
ICE is not the victim
MAGA lies can’t hide the real damage done to people like Renee Nicole Good
www.salon.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM