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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I got this text from “the neighborhood”. Funny how the “official independent voter guide” is a party-line vote for Republicans. @azrww.bsky.social you seen these? Seems like a desperate play

A text claiming to be from the official independent voter guide, which is instead obviously from the AZ Republican Party.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just finished @brockway.bsky.social ‘s latest book “I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend For $200.” I absolutely loved it and am happy that the internet lets me tell him that. Thanks for writing such a fantastic novel.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

stone cold classic

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miKILL Swaim 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @michaelswaim.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"I'm also happy to announce that as of Q1 2026 our Parental Leave Packages will expand to include incubi, gestational darkspawn, and all xenoforms and barnacle-encrusted fetus-bullets!" - Human Resources Giger

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I mean… I can’t subscribe twice so I’m going to need someone else to step up.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

That made me legitimately laugh and I don’t even like The Fall

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This drove me crazy at the time and I hate being reminded of it

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

As a clinically anxious person, this explains why I have trouble really connecting with Mitski’s music.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My buddy Gabe has some cool print-on-demand designs that support Gender/Justice

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Had a blast at PupStock! Beautiful, moving, amazing. I had a big dumb smile on my face all night. Thanks for opening up the show @ekkoastral.bsky.social. I wish Phoenix had given you a bigger Wall Of Coming Together.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2025

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This, combined with @dansheehan.bsky.social’s newlsletter today should be enough to make all of us leave social media.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/09/2025

Jay, you all owe an explanation of how it came to be that the exact list of users blamed by The Federalist were banned even if they did not break the ToS, and were not unsuspended until more than a day later.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Same for the grocery store where Gabby Giffords was shot

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Worstpersonjpeg.meme

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I just reread @themountaingoats.bsky.social 33 1/3 book on Master of Reality and it destroys me every time. I don’t even like Black Sabbath that much! But it is 112 pages of raw emotion that brings all my grief to the surface and makes me mourn all our younger selves.

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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It's not the mere fact that this is happening that bothers me so much; it's that there's all this money floating around that could be organized and deployed to solve real problems instead. Half a trillion US dollars being spent in a collective program would eliminate any problem you could think of.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I extend that to “if you show up being a dick in someone else’s mentions, I will block you”

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“…despite local opposition”

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2025

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Hell yes, friend! I was going to repost the Walter Schreifels = a god one but Cleave really is a good album.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I’m a parent in Arizona with two kids in public schools. Can confirm.

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Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today is my birthday, and I'm not above leveraging that for book sales. As a gift to me, if you're interested in indie music 2000-2020 (and its gradual metamorphosis into pop), pre-order SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion and recirculate this post.

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Such Great Heights 9781250363381 - Macmillan

The definitive history of 21st century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shift...

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Joe Ferguson @joeferguson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 Sure, I am a few minutes early but the final #ProjectBlue meeting starts in about 20 minutes (I am accounting for #TucsonTime.) TCC has a massive room set aside for the meeting, but so far the room is less than half full. IIRC, it can hold about 1,000 people.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

He’s a lagomorph, Sam. Look it up.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

These are glorious shoes and I am jealous

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 27/07/2025

If you feel helpless, as I do, you can give money to a group you know will provide direct food aid on the ground whenever possible, often risking their lives. I just gave.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2025

Chris was part of the cohort that organized the first union for Amazon workers on Staten Island; it’s time to lift up his voice.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Busiest Starbucks in Tucson, IIRC. Congrats to the workers!

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I am praying for Cuomo to try to mimic Mamdani’s early rap career.

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 15/07/2025

“This is funding that keeps the lights on at our schools. It pays for supplies and teachers and school safety officers. The Trump administration is trying to take it all away for absolutely no reason.” story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

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Arizona joins 24 states suing Trump over $6.8 billion education funding freeze | Arizona Mirror

Arizona lawsuit Trump education funding freeze: State joins 24 others challenging $6.8B hold on school grants

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

For Tucson and Pima County people. The Board of Supervisors already approved the project but one Supe has changed his mind. Others might, as well.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Hottest since two years ago 🙃

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I have corrected so many people about this! Some of them multiple times!

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Take Action Tucson @takeactiontucson.org · 02/07/2025

Posting on behalf of the LD18 Dems - Urge Rep. Ciscomani to vote NO on this destructive bill! Come to his office tomorrow, July 2 at 8:30am to remind him to honor his oath and protect his constituents. #tucson #tucsonactivism #civicengagement #tucsonprotest #tucsonprotests #tucsonevents

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Call these U.S. Representatives and tell them to vote NO on the “Big Beautiful Bill”:

AZ-06, Juan Ciscomani
CA-22, David Valadao
CA-40, Young Kim
CA-41, Ken Calvert
CO-08, Gabe Evans
FL-07, Cory Mills
FL-13, Anna Paulina Luna
FL-27, Maria Elvira Salazar
IA-01, Mariannette Miller-Meeks
IA-02, Ashley Hinson
IA-03, Zach Nunn
MI-07, Tom Barrett
MO-02, Ann Wagner
NJ-07, Tom Kean Jr.
NY-17, Mike Lawler
OH-07, Max Miller
OH-10, Mike Turner
OH-15, Mike Carey
PA-01, Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-07, Ryan Mackenzie
PA-08, Rob Bresnahan
PA-10, Scott Perry
TN-05, Andy Ogles
TX-15, Monica De La Cruz
VA-01, Rob Wittman
VA-02, Jen Kiggans
WI-01, Bryan Steil
WI-03, Derrick Van Orden

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’m in AZ 6 and I’ve already called Ciscomani today. You should too!

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters.

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago.

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety.

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think-

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q: They're not really.

A: Those are like different genres.

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different.

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

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Michael @bandnameguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Congress should not abdicate its authority, *and* the US should not attack Iran.

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