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Michael AA

@amicangelo.bsky.social
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Trust and Safety professional in tech. Queer, leftist, vocal.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE is removing detainees with final deportation orders from its online tracking system. This makes it nearly impossible for their lawyers and families to contact them, which could prevent them from using all their constitutionally protected legal options. Trump’s cruelty is endless.
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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator
The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Inhumane
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
Breaking News: Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose work caused a stir in the 1960s, while her “Infinity Room” installations drew crowds in recent decades, has died at 97.
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Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026
Quite a community note here. Reminder that your taxpayer dollars are paying for these Nazi social media accounts.
Readers added context to this video: The clip is from the film Darkest Hour, and the “tiger” in this clip refers to Adolf Hitler
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump will trade classified information for a compliment 🤷 current US gov cybersecurity is a sieve.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“In the words of Muhammad Ali, ‘We shook up the world,’” Abdul El-Sayed declared after winning an intense primary campaign, where he was outspent by as much as 11 to 1. “What we showed is that the power of our many is greater than the power of their money.” This is a winning message for November.
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Abdul El-Sayed: “The Power of Our Many Is Greater Than the Power of Their Money”
The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November.
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
2, branding
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M.A. Hamilton @hourofignorance.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Let’s talk about election interference.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/07/2026
IYKYK
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Decorum is *so* 2015 🙄 can someone finally primary Schiff please
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amityf @amityf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Little kids, graduating kindergarten. Little kids.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/06/2026
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Almost old enough to forget he was the Deporter in Chief. Oh wait, no, that would make me senile
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Close-up of a Bumblebee
ALT: Close-up of a Bumblebee
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/06/2026
The Trump administration’s plan to classify 2.7 million people as dead, which was not carried out, would have been used to pressure immigrants to leave the country. This would have potentially cut them off from government benefits and other services. wapo.st/4vsMMhj
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/06/2026
The agent who booked the artists for the Trump state fair event is named Jeff Epstein. I can't.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...
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Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.
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ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 27/04/2026
We've updated our habeas tracker again, and more than **40,000** new cases have been opened since Trump took office again. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants
ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/04/2026
1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
BREAKING: Trump loses war against wokeness
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/04/2026
1. Trump has weaponized the FCC to control the media under his autocratic rule. Now, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is turning the agency towards his next target: transgender characters in TV shows. He seeks to change the rating system to penalize trans characters. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump's FCC Targets Parental Rating System Over Transgender TV Characters
The FCC is seeking comment on whether the TV Parental Guidelines rating system needs to be changed to penalize shows for transgender or nonbinary content.
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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a woman wearing a party hat is sitting at a table with a bowl of christmas decorations .
ALT: a woman wearing a party hat is sitting at a table with a bowl of christmas decorations .
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/04/2026
More than 150 million people across the U.S., including nearly half the nation’s children, live in areas affected by harmful levels of air pollution, according to a new report.
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More Americans are exposed to polluted air in the United States. See where.
An estimated 33.5 million children in the United States — or nearly half of people under 18 — live in an area that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/04/2026
1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling
The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN
A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Can it really be considered an exclusive when I’ve been telling people this for months? Asking for a friend.
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Rep. Scanlon comments on my story about the new FBI-led NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center 👇
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A rising tide lifts all boats (except those that are chained to the docks)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Followers of the white-nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes once constituted a tiny subculture of America’s young right; now they hope to overtake it. Antonia Hitchens reports on the Groypers’s growing influence over the Republican Party.
newyorker.com
How the Internet Fringe Infiltrated Republican Politics
Inside the battle for the post-MAGA G.O.P.
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SisterSue @sistasue.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Meanwhile Prof Tim Snyder is also issuing warnings about the same.
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting…
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/04/2026
One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Ben Appel (@benappel) with a verified blue checkmark.
​The text of the post reads: "'I was gay, I had faced discrimination, and I had fought for my rights. But now that gay rights had become “LGBTQ” rights, I found myself force-teamed with a lot of people whose values were nothing like mine.' My latest op-ed for The Wall Street Journal:"
​Below the text is a link preview for an article from wsj.com. The image in the preview shows a large rainbow pride flag waving prominently in the sun, with a crowd and other flags, including a transgender pride flag, slightly visible in the background under bare trees. Text superimposed over the bottom of the preview image reads, "Opinion | I’m Gay, but That Doesn’t Make Me ‘Queer’".
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2026
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Colorado law that banned psychotherapists from using "conversion" talk therapy intended to change an LGBT minor's sexual orientation or gender identity, siding ​with a Christian licensed counselor who challenged the prohibition on free speech grounds.
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US Supreme Court rejects Colorado's ban on LGBT 'conversion' talk therapy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Colorado law that banned psychotherapists from using "conversion" talk therapy intended to change an LGBT minor's sexual orientation or gender identity, si...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Between the conversion therapy ruling and the efforts to ban kids from the internet to “protect them” from “transgender influence,” we’re right back in a culture of violently enforced closeting. And the data around self-identifying as trans and queer already reflects this
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/03/2026
1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture. The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent. The ruling comes on trans day of visibility. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Conversion Therapy Bans On Transgender Day Of Visibility
"The fallout could be catastrophic," said Justice Jackson in her lone dissent of the 8-1 opinion.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
Karoline Leavitt: "Some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations, and that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed"
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Put the entire thing in congressional record through a filibuster
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
State control of big media is one of the first steps to total consolidation of power.
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Cleared 😂
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Been wanting to get into this again 😁 Love the character design
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Michael AA @amicangelo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Atta boy 🤟😁
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This was all it was ever about. No one in power ever gave a single fuck about the people of Cuba or their rights or freedom. All we did for 60+ years was starve, immiserate, and kill its people so we could hand the whole country back over to the rich gusano pigs who enslaved them in the first place
EXCLUSIVE: CUBA IS PREPARED TO OFFER COMPENSATION TO AMERICANS WHO LOST PROPERTY IN THE 1959 REVOLUTION

Cuba is willing to put the “lump sum” compensation measure on the table in talks with the U.S., a Cuban official told Drop Site.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The partial government shutdown is about Dems seeking to prohibit ICE Nazis from hiding their identities by wearing masks and requiring them to wear body cams. Since they murder Americans, this is the minimum they should be required to do — but Republican fascists are refusing.
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