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Mike

@dml58.bsky.social
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Retired Historian and College Vice President, currently a Gentleman Scholar.

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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Those calling for public executions should be careful what they ask for….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... The bots have disappeared! It turns out it seems that the MAGA bots originated from Russian data centers, now happily destroyed by Ukraine! Russia, Russia, Russia wasn’t a hoax! Trump was, is, and will always be a Russian tool! Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 #StopTrumpNow
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Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response ...
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy won’t surrender to Putin like he (Trump) obviously already has. Mark this: if we are ever in the same place as Ukraine, invaded by a great power, Trump will most certainly “make a deal,” SURRENDER! He is a coward beneath contempt! Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump calls for replacing Ukraine's Zelenskiy in tussle over diesel deal with Russia - www.reuters.com/business/aer... Russia attacked Ukraine, not the other way around! Trump accuses Zelenskyy of not making a deal; what he means is….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Trump calls for replacing Ukraine's Zelenskiy in tussle over diesel deal with Russia
In some of his harshest criticism yet of the White House, Ukraine's president linked the US lifting of sanctions ‌on Russian diesel with a Russian attack that killed 20 people, including three childre...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No, it’s Elon who’s gone too far! One day soon, he’ll find out the price to be paid for it. He’d best hope he can make it to Mars, but even that may not be far enough to escape punishment for his sins!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
upon the American people by corrupt leadership was rejected by American patriots. It was called the Boston Tea Party. Perhaps a similar seizure of illicit cargo by American patriots is in order, hmmm?
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
inshorts.com/en/news/firs... Russian diesel tanker due to make port in the US in the next few days (maybe Savannah); it left St. Petersburg on Sept. 22nd. What’s to be done? Well, in 1773 a controversial cargo being forced….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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First Russian oil tanker to reach US just 2-3 days after oil deal, had left Russia on Sept 22
Russia's first oil tanker is set to reach US East Coast in 23 days, as per reports that surfaced just hours after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin signed an unprecedented oil deal. The Minerva Zen had ...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I still stand with Ukraine, Zelenskyy, courage, and honor against Russia, Trump, cowardice, and treachery! Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... No, the United States needs a new leader that can end the war with Iran! #StopTrumpNow
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'Time for Ukraine to get new president,' says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine's leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gowron speaks with honor! No truer words have been spoken!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Let me make this crystal clear: Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!! I am his enemy and he is mine! And Americas!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
to use in its war on Ukraine, and money to use to aid Iran in its fight against us! Once again Trump shows his real colors, the worst traitor in the whole of American history! #StopTrumpNow
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
in October, just 500,000 tons in November, and then just 1,000,000 tons in December. At maximum, this would lower the price of diesel fuel by less than 1% (.0089%) per gallon. That’s what we get. Russia gets money….CONTINUED BELOW….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
According to Meta, the United States consumes roughly 500,000 tons of diesel fuel PER DAY! The world as a whole consumes 3,900,000 tons of diesel fuel PER DAY! So Trump’s “deal” FOR Russia puts just 300,000 tons of diesel fuel on the WORLD market….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
giving money for the Russians to bomb Ukrainian women & children? Don’t believe it’s helping the American people until you see prices go down at the pumps!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No time line? No dates as to when it will arrive? No explanation as to how the Russians will deliver it while their refineries are under attack? No breakdown of how much of this diesel on the world market will end up in the US? And are we….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... Treasonous? Insane? Wildly obnoxious? Suggesting a foreign enemy attack American cities (& his followers laughing about it!) qualifies as all three! It’s akin to saying it would be “a small price to pay” if a foreign enemy took out a national leader! Wait, hmmmm?
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California leaders hit back after Trump says Iran can 'take out' LA and San Diego
The US president said rising gas prices were a "small price to pay for keeping the world safe" at an election rally in Nebraska.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
can be treated with antibiotics, but a study in the 2nd half of the last century showed that with the advent of air travel an outbreak of pneumonic plague could be worldwide within a month & the world’s stock of antibiotics exhausted within weeks! Then it’s back to the Dark Ages!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And this one broke out in a lab “rumored” to have been connected with the old Soviet bio weapons program! Being an old Cold Warrior, I don’t trust the Russians any further than I can throw them, so I strongly suspect this could be a weaponized version. Plague, a bacterium,….CONTINUED BELOW….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/russia-189... Keep an eye on this story! Any historian should get a shiver whenever pneumonic plague breaks out; it killed one half to two thirds of Europe’s population in the mid 14th century!….CONTINUED BELOW….
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Russia: 189 people under observation after lab worker dies of possible pneumonic plague
According to Russian media, officials in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-greenl... Trump told a story that differs from the facts? Who’d have thought it? (Sarcasm). Trump can’t tolerate any version that doesn’t show him as totally dominant. Compensating much?
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Trump 'jumped the gun' as Greenland victory lap collides with Denmark's response
President Donald Trump declared Friday that the United States had secured “permanent control” over Greenland’s security — but Denmark and Greenland offered a sharply different account.An official stat...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
provides the consumption necessary to a strong, growing, confident capitalist society. Gurner doesn’t want capitalism, he wants a return to feudalism with him as a feudal lord.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.facebook.com/share/p/198w... Judging by this, Gurner is an idiot economically. What successful capitalism needs above all is broad based consumption. The unemployed are not broad based consumers. A strong, growing, confident middle class….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Facebook
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
wait for the President to die, or will he (like Caesar or Napoleon) use his control of the military to seize power? Yes, Mr. Trump, uneasy rests the head that wears the crown! Can you really trust Hegseth? Or is there a “night of the long knives” style coup in your future? Ironic, yes? #HegsethCoup
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
& political ambitions, Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, Hegseth considering a run for President. Also, Hegseth replacing Generals & Admirals not sufficiently loyal (but loyal to who, Trump or Hegseth?). Will Hegseth, like Hitler,….CONTINUED BELOW….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If I were Trump, I’d be getting nervous! Point of comparison, Hitler & Hindenburg/Hegseth & Trump. An old & fading President with a younger ambitious subordinate. A rising white supremacist (Hitler a Nazi, Hegseth a Christian Nationalist) with little or no regard for democracy-CONTINUED IN COMMENTS
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
become nothing but common thieves, putting a metaphorical gun to Venezuela’s head & forcing it to give access to their oil for 100 years! We will pay a huge price for this! #StopTrumpNow
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/p... So, how long will it be before Venezuelan guerillas (likely supported by China) start attacking oil wells, pipelines, & workers? How long before US troops are bogged down in a jungle war? How about yet another forever war to match the one in Iran? We’ve….CONTINUED BELOW..
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Trump says US reaches deal with Venezuela to control 65 billion barrels of country’s oil reserves | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States has reached an oil agreement with Venezuela, a move he said will “more than double” American oil reserves, increase oil supply and lower gas ...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ahem, please, let me have your attention! Thank you! Let me just say, it has always been and will always be, LAKE ONTARIO!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
held the frontline against anything & never attacked anything more formidable than underage girls! North Korea has not been, nor will ever be, our friends! #StopTrumpNow
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.facebook.com/share/p/19Nb... Here’s an example in history of the North Koreans that Trump feels such love for! However, it’s probably too much too expect CnC “Bonespurs” to understand, as he never….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
in the Strait of Hormuz! How long will the American People & military put up with this increasingly demented & deranged wannabe dictator? #StopTrumpNow
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/d4d0... So, after yesterday abandoning our long time ally & friend South Korea in favor of Communist North Korea ruled by his good friend, the blood thirsty dictator Kim Jong Un, Trump is threatening to bomb Oman, one of the few countries supporting us….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ of US-Iran negotiations
US president’s remarks follow talks between Gulf state and Tehran over provisional arrangement to manage Strait of Hormuz
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
as President, nor to have used up so much of our best weaponry in a war that nobody other than Trump, Hegseth, the Israelis, and presumably the Russians wanted! #StandWithNato 🇺🇸
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.facebook.com/share/p/1KoF... If the Russians do this, then we and NATO have to kill every soldier they send into any NATO ally! Else they’ll take it as a signal to continue to push into the West, take it from an old Cold War guy! NOT a great time to have a likely Russian puppet….Continued below
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... It’s difficult to see where one would NOT hold THIS Congress in contempt!
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US Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress
A U.S. Senate committee voted on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former top U.S. infectious ​disease official refused to answer questions about his handling of the...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
as remembrance appears to be the only justice they’ll ever get! SHAME!!!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/p... Shame! Shame upon this nation for allowing this to happen, for a man who is undeniably protecting privileged pedophiles to be nominated for, let alone confirmed to be, the top law enforcement official in the land! Remember the victims in the Epstein Files,….CONTINUED….
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Todd Blanche advances toward confirmation, paving way for reenergized Justice Department investigations | CNN Politics
Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, setting the stage for new momentum at the Justice Department once he’s officially confirmed.
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Once again, you can’t have it both ways! If taking the Fifth is proof of guilt with Fauci, it’s the same with Trump & Epstein! Few things worse than a hypocrite!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
my first walk outside in this heat (feels like 108 degrees, 97 degrees air temp). A reasonable start, gotta keep building it up for full recovery! 🚴🚶‍➡️#stillgoingstrong
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did my usual Saturday workout on the recumbent bike and 50 pound resistance bands at the shop, then went over to Nash Community College for an admittedly slow walk (a little over 0.6 kilometers at a speed of 27 minutes, 13 seconds per kilometer. Also….Continued in Comments….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
As for the President’s address tonight, to quote the Bard, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” From “Macbeth” (Act V, Scene V). I give it all the credence due its source, which is to say none. #TrumpLost
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So, did Trump cheat himself out of the 2020 election, while Obama & Biden let him win the 2016 & 2024 elections? No, sorry, that just doesn’t track. Be logical! #TrumpLost
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A) the election of 2016, which he won, took place while Barack Obama was President; B) the election of 2024, which he won, took place while Joe Biden was President; C) the election of 2020, however, which he lost, took place while Trump was President. ….CONTINUED BELOW….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump to claim declassified intel reveals 2020 election interference: MS NOW So, if Trump is going to try his discredited, unproven bit about the 2020 election being stolen from him for the umpteenth time, it’s important to remember: ….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
a bonus at the end-a nifty little glossary of Aussie terms! Get used to walking-SOON!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/... A very important article from the land of Mad Max, with the clock ticking towards REAL Mad Max times! WARNING-quite profane, as only an Aussie offended by colossal stupidity can be! Also, there’s….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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You Broke the Fucking Pump, You Gutless C#nts: An Angry Australian’s Message to the Republican Party
THIS IS SWEARY - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Now why would Trump’s Department of Justice hinder an investigation into Epstein’s doing? As long as the Trump regime blocks the full release of all the Epstein files, Trump must be assumed to be a pedophile & a protector of pedophiles! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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New Mexico says US Justice Dept hindering probe of former Epstein ranch
New Mexico's top law enforcement official on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Justice of hindering the state's investigation into ​Jeffrey Epstein by withholding unredacted files on the late se...
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
to release them. If the Trump regime is not severely punished, then it is self evident we are governed by a dictator! #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles NOW, FULLY, & UNREDACTED (except for victims). Resist the TYRANT! #SicSemperTyrannis
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Mike @dml58.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
thehill.com/regulation/c... The Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, mandating the full & complete release of the Epstein Files by Thursday, July 2nd. Acting AG Todd Blanche & the Trump DOJ have refused….CONTINUED IN COMMENTS….
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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files
The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined Thursday to release additional unredacted records from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a federal judge that it has al…
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