Mike W
wimsy-original.bsky.social
Mike W
@wimsy-original.bsky.social
Tech/business guy in New York
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January 31, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained.

Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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At this point, even by the strictest Hobbesian standards, this government has abandoned its duty to serve the public, and is illegitimate.
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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The type of people who can engage in this behavior need to be kept away from society
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Bari Weiss’ rebrand of CBS News as “Fox News but way less successful!” is coming along apace.
Incredible. CBS Evening News announces five new “simple values” — instead of their “38-page handbook” — as they roll out Tony Dokoupil is lead anchor.

One of those values is simply: “We love America and make no apologies for saying so.”
January 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Uhhhh….
January 2, 2026 at 2:54 AM
January 2, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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This is a good cause.
We’ve built a “know your rights” app to lawfully protect immigrants against ICE. We’re crowdfunding for the app bcuz Trump can’t go after 1,000’s of us. Let’s actually DO something about ICE. Go to our GoFundMe, give what u can, & share the link with others. Happy New Year.👇 www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
Donate to PAXIS: An AI Lifeline for Immigrant Rights and Support, organized by Joe Walsh
PAXIS - WHEN ICE KNOCKS, WE ANSWER. Together with immigrant advocate… Joe Walsh needs your support for PAXIS: An AI Lifeline for Immigrant Rights and Support
www.gofundme.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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tfw the guy who made this chart is going to be in charge of the fed
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Mamdani is going to implement boom shakalaka law whereby all scoring must be by slam dunk only.
Mamdani is going to implement Shar Law. Everyone will have to bow down to the Mistress of the Night, the Lady of Loss, and devote themselves to bringing about a darkness that will smother her hated foe and sister Selûne
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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"I went ballistic," said one longtime tenant of a Crown Heights building where power was cut, owing to to Pinnacle's $10,350 in unpaid bills. "We have tenants here that are very sick, in their 80s and 90s, that need the ambulance to come and take them up and down the steps."
Bankrupt Pinnacle Group Is Leaving Its Tenants in the Dark—Literally
The real estate behemoth apparently isn't paying the power bills for at least 11 of its properties, and Con Ed cut power to some of them.
hellgatenyc.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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There's a reason why we don't want a king to dictate the provision of funds in the country, and it dates back to the English Civil War. @ryanlcooper.com with the expert explanation here (I just added some frippery, this is his piece):
prospect.org/politics/202...
Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money
The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.
prospect.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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BTW, you can find a No Kings event near you at this site: www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM