Michael King
@pointaustin.bsky.social
Semi-retired writer, currently in Austin, defrocked academic, published over the years in the Austin Chronicle, Texas Observer, The Baffler, Houston Press, & (eons ago) the New Haven Advocate. Editor, Collected Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (ND, 1976}
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Michael King
@pointaustin.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Just for the record, I don't "follow back" folks who haven't posted. Show me your cards.
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Muddy Christmas!
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Muddy Christmas!
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If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If we can't even get rid of this president, who is clearly criminally insane, how in the world will we deal with the next one?
The devil of tyranny is in the details
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The devil of tyranny is in the details
Add to open murder, piracy. A rogue regime continues to disgrace the U.S. Give them another peace prize
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Add to open murder, piracy. A rogue regime continues to disgrace the U.S. Give them another peace prize
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
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Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
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The Founding-era discourse about what tyrants look like and what kinds of tyranny we should fear maps onto Trump more neatly than any modern formulation.
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Founding-era discourse about what tyrants look like and what kinds of tyranny we should fear maps onto Trump more neatly than any modern formulation.
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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NEW at Fight the Fire. (All links/subscriptions are free.)
"In one of its latest displays of jackassery, the Trump administration is introducing Honor a Racist Day at our national parks."
"In one of its latest displays of jackassery, the Trump administration is introducing Honor a Racist Day at our national parks."
You WILL celebrate the president's birthday!
MLK Day, Juneteenth out at national parks; Trump's godforsaken arrival on Earth is in
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December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"In one of its latest displays of jackassery, the Trump administration is introducing Honor a Racist Day at our national parks."
"In one of its latest displays of jackassery, the Trump administration is introducing Honor a Racist Day at our national parks."
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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Millions of Americans are getting kicked off of their health insurance so that Donald Trump can fund tax handouts for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
Millions of Americans are getting kicked off of their health insurance.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Millions of Americans are getting kicked off of their health insurance so that Donald Trump can fund tax handouts for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Let that sink in.
Let that sink in.
There's nothing surer . . .
December 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There's nothing surer . . .
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i get madder about it every time i read this dude pretend that going to the movies is some elitist coastal affectation only the privileged few get to enjoy when it’s one of the most widely accessible ways for pretty much anyone to have a fun night out
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i get madder about it every time i read this dude pretend that going to the movies is some elitist coastal affectation only the privileged few get to enjoy when it’s one of the most widely accessible ways for pretty much anyone to have a fun night out
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Olivia Nuzzi has an affair with RFK Jr, gets fired from two jobs (New York and Vanity Fair) in 13 months; gets a Nov. big read feature on her in the New York Times; peddles her lousy book (which the Times panned); @karenattiah.bsky.social gets fired from the Wash Post. Guess who’ll be rehired first?
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Olivia Nuzzi has an affair with RFK Jr, gets fired from two jobs (New York and Vanity Fair) in 13 months; gets a Nov. big read feature on her in the New York Times; peddles her lousy book (which the Times panned); @karenattiah.bsky.social gets fired from the Wash Post. Guess who’ll be rehired first?
How long must we wait
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How long must we wait
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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this is Senator Send In The Troops talking, so it’s not surprising, but just take a minute to sit with the utter inhumanity of “they were trying not to drown because we blew up their boat, and that was a hostile act worthy of blowing them up a second time”
a moral black hole
a moral black hole
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
this is Senator Send In The Troops talking, so it’s not surprising, but just take a minute to sit with the utter inhumanity of “they were trying not to drown because we blew up their boat, and that was a hostile act worthy of blowing them up a second time”
a moral black hole
a moral black hole
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easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
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If you are wealthy in Trump’s America, you can commit any crime you want with zero consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If you are wealthy in Trump’s America, you can commit any crime you want with zero consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Nothing like a room full of white men gathering around and being extremely racist. It's a klan rally without the hoods.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Nothing like a room full of white men gathering around and being extremely racist. It's a klan rally without the hoods.
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
