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Michael Planey

@airplaney.bsky.social
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Transportation consultant and engineer. He said “Kid, it's not me, it's this town” So I rail against that feeling when it comes

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 11h
Every accusation is a confession in advance
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 16h
We're gonna need to resurrect the Liz Truss Head of Lettuce LiveCam, aren't we?
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 16h
At no point should Elon Musk have received a security clearance. He's a bigger threat to America and democracy in general than Jared Kushner, and Kushner was initially denied a clearance. I don't know that nationalizing SpaceX will work easily, but removing Musk from a position of authority will.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 17h
The Trump administration’s illegal boat strikes killed more than 220 people, many likely innocent, while doing little to reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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U.S. Is Sending Hundreds of Troops to Latin America
The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 17h
Agreed I often apply Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance" to the situation we face at home and across the globe There must always be room for dissenting positions and at the same time we must keep radicals from exploiting free speech for malign purposes But Thought Police are not the answer
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 17h
The Thought Police have found a new home
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 17h
I've said to many people the two most unnerving facts about measles are: A) It erases your immune system so suddenly measles victims are open to a host of complications and follow-on illnesses, and B) Two generations of Doctors have little-to-no experience in handling measles cases in any way
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17h
It is so heartbreaking that we are at this place. “The doctors at Golisano Children’s in Hershey reached out to a retired pediatric infectious disease physician who had previous experience with measles before it was eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. “The learning curve has been steep,” Gavigan said”
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Pennsylvania doctors are seeing what measles can do to previously healthy, unvaccinated kids
The virus is proving it can attack multiple organs, including the gut, liver, lungs and brain, even in children who were previously healthy.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17h
Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax is uncovering rampant tax fraud by the ultra-wealthy. Imagine that. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Hits Wealthy Out-of-Towners With a Double Whammy
New York second-home owners, including Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, face scrutiny of abatement intended for local residents.
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Sebastian Murdock @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social · 17h
JUST IN: Elon Musk has settled a class action lawsuit against him after he used his PAC and duped Trump supporters into giving away their personal information for the chance to randomly win $1 million. Turns out, the winners were predetermined. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
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Elon Musk Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over Duping Trump Supporters
Musk promised voters in the 2024 presidential election a chance to randomly win $1 million. The winners were predetermined.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 18h
I’ve said this a hundred times and will keep repeating it until people get it: There are numerous studies that show the stress of poverty literally changes your brain chemistry, but nothing warps a mind like unlimited wealth.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 18h
“Look what you made me do” is classic abuser behavior. “I didn’t want to be a tech-Nazi, but you didn’t give me everything I wanted” is the perfect encapsulation of the tech-toddler mindset that’s destroying this country.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 18h
This image is AI slop. Here’s a real photo (credit in Alt Text) that depicts the protester accurately. The guys need to be arrested. But we don’t need to use false imagery to make the case. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
A protester yells before being removed as President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday. Jacquelyn Martin via Associated Press
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 19h
Ah, yes, generational national trauma? The Dark Matter of the political consultant universe. All the math says it’s there but they just can’t see it with their own two eyes so it must not exist…
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John Travolta Looking Around Confused
Alt: John Travolta Looking Around Confused
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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 19h
“… and therefore, I will …[verb]!” Don’t forget the action part of being an elected official.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Mike Rogers’ wife is handing out $10 gas cards in Michigan while asking people to vote for her husband. Republicans made gas unaffordable. Now they’re offering $10 to keep them in power. #BlueWaveIn20Days
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yes! Use the courts to protect your rights. Make them play defense for a while. Make it unprofitable to work with ICE. Increase the cost of doing business. Go after them with every legal action you can and force them to admit to their horrific actions.
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Injustice Watch @injusticewatch.org · 15/10/2026
@injusticewatch.org and @theintercept.com revealed who confined Valentina Galvis and her baby – a U.S. citizen – in an O’Hare hotel for five days last summer. Now, Galvis is suing the ICE contractor, MVM Inc., and the hotel chain for false imprisonment. buff.ly/CKqxnY4
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Chicago mother sues ICE contractor that jailed her and her baby in a hotel room
This story was published in partnership with The Intercept, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless,
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So Tether, which is closely tied to Cantor Fitzgerald (aka, Howard Lutnick) successfully lobbied to pass a law that allowed them operate in the US but subject to El Salvadoran compliance, then paid off the Trump staffer who twisted GOP arms to seal the deal. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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He Crafted a Crypto Law for Trump—as His Company Got Millions From a Crypto Giant
Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation. Once the law passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
For *everyone* involved who is eligible for impeachment, and not just the President and Attorney General. And if they’re not eligible for impeachment, then a Special Counsel should be appointed to investigate every single person at DOJ / DHS who touched this warrant.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We really need a new word in the same category as “copaganda” to describe the lengths to which legacy media will go in order to avoid simply telling the truth in their headlines
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Narrator: He will not deliver on that promise
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
He is literally going to get some poor school teacher killed with this kind of insane lying
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When I testified to Congress this summer I highlighted Hines’ close ties to Tether. The WSJ has now uncovered a bombshell: Tether was paying Hines WHILE he crafted Trump’s signature piece of crypto legislation. apple.news/ALBX-2SuhRe6...
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He Crafted a Crypto Law for Trump—as His Company Got Millions From a Crypto Giant — The Wall Street Journal
Money from Tether flowed to Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation. Once the law passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Whenever immigration comes up, I like to point people to the 1980 GOP presidential debate between Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. In three minutes, you will understand how complete the Republican Party’s intellectual, moral and ethical collapse has been. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysmg...
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Reagan and Bush Debate Immigration, Border Fences, and Undocumented Children in 1980
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14/10/2026
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
New: Rep. Max Miller & his lawyer Larry Zukerman use bizarre legal & reputational threats to get their way—including, for example, accusing a doctor of "animal cruelty" for giving their own dog a steroid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How Rep. Max Miller and his lawyer try to silence foes
Court filings and cease-and-desist letters reveal their aggressive legal tactics.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/10/2026
“The oil and gas industry says it’s a ‘good-faith’ partner eager to help craft regulations, but time and time again, it’s worked behind the scenes to delay and weaken them. As a result, the United States today emits more methane from its oil and gas sector than any other country in the world.”
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The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift
Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 14/10/2026
ICE is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to put 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen cities and D.C. prospect.org?p=146221
ICE officer collage
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Numbers mean nothing when the Republicans own the checkbook and their donors cash the checks
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share."
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Anytime I see Jenny McCarthy or Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz or Dr. Drew or Mike Huckabee hawking some magic beans I think about how accurate the end of that movie was
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yesterday’s correlated actions between the United States intelligence community and Elon Musk’s Starlink cutting off intel and restricting satcom service to Ukraine after Ukraine took out three Russian Yandex data centers would seem to move Trump and Musk into the Co-Conspirator category for certain
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s not just a war on “woke”, or education or minorities or whatever. It’s a literal war on knowledge itself.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Poor men wanna be rich. Rich men wanna be Kings. And a King ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.” - Bruce Springsteen, Badlands
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ohio universities are also subject to a MAGA bill passed this year forcing program cuts to low-enrollment programs Again I support better allocation of resources but bills like this just cut and don’t reform programs The business model is to profit not teach ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...
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Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal
Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Purdue Exponent similarly went independent many years ago, and had made a number of commercial agreements with the university for distribution on campus, parking rights in exchange for a building sale, etc. The university reneged on these agreements last year. www.wfyi.org/education/20...
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Purdue student newspaper faces abrupt suspension of distribution help from university
The notice comes as the spring semester ended and the paper operates on a summer crew.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We should also note the complete funding cut to the Daily Collegian recently. It may allow the student paper to eventually become more independent and report on the university without fear of reprisal, but it’s a clear sign that the administration doesn’t value it. radio.wpsu.org/2023-07-31/d...
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Penn State student newspaper the Daily Collegian losing all general fund support; university moving to new funding model
The Daily Collegian, a news outlet published by Penn State students, will lose all of its direct funding from the university’s general fund by the 2024-25 fiscal year.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I’m all for using their financial resources wisely, but when universities adopt a “business plan” mentality it invariably leads to valuing the business of education over the education itself.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Penn State said it had finalized recs to ✂️ at least 11.5% of its least popular academic prgms… Since Bendapudi took office in 2022, PSU has also decided to close 7 commonwealth campuses, transferred WPSU to a Philly-based public broadcaster, attempted to offload the State College Regional Airport…”
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Penn State finalizes recommendations to close 47 programs, evaluate dozens more next year
The university said the programs recommended for closure are among the least popular and will affect about 1.1% of undergraduates.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Such a lack of understanding of the law should be disqualifying for this yokel to serve in any capacity.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Carl Quintanilla: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month, that's the sixth straight month... Jim Cramer: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, look at the data.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Perhaps the media is complicit, but I don’t let people off the hook for being uninformed that easily. We have a duty as citizens to actively stay informed and seek out information and understand how the world works politically, commercially and ethically.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I don’t think the silence makes anyone think the Trump administration is innocent. I think it makes everyone think the Dems are incompetent or impotent.
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Imagine making Trump play defense for a while Imagine the Dems forcing Vought, Hegseth, RFK Jr to have to pay attention to Congress bringing impeachment charges against them Even if they don’t have the votes, they can stall the Republican process of destroying democracy in America
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Because Napster stole money from corporations and the AI companies are stealing money from people
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
South Korea went from burying almost all its food waste to recycling almost all of it. In 1997, 95.4% went to landfill. Today about 95% is recycled. The Korean Zero Waste Movement Network campaigned for 4 decades and is now an Earthshot Prize finalist. buff.ly/AWqK39x #ShareGoodNewsToo
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South Korea’s food waste rethink began with citizens demanding change
The Korean Zero Waste Movement Network has spent four decades mobilising citizens, government and businesses to prevent, separate and recycle food waste across South Korea, work that has earned it a…
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