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Michael

@fleerultra.bsky.social
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History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social

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Joshua Sharp @joshuasharp.bsky.social · 7h
John Yoo should have to fly to Texas to buy groceries.
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Policy Vibe · by NoMAGA @policyvibe.bsky.social · 7h
The PR is part of the machinery: once a conservative legal project is presented as neutral expertise, its consequences arrive looking like inevitable law rather than a contestable political choice.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 7h
this is good, and there should be a lot more of this tbh. not just directed at the justices either. noah feldman should get a version of this for all the fucking pr he does for the conservative justices, eg. to say nothing of the more actively evil law profs and lower court judges and lawyers
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10h
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing
slate.com
It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?
How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
haven’t used apple music in forever, so didn’t realize (1) I had it set to repeat, & (2) it has a new “mixing” function, which, for I’m So Excited by the Pointer Sisters, has it seamlessly loop around like the song never ended. At about 10 minutes in I was like “how fucking long is this song??”
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s really funny because Burger King have embraced the Dominos mode of advertising where they’re like “our nuggets were nasty ass food for losers, but we’re working on it!”
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K @ynotask.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe because beef is so expensive.
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
begun, the nugget wars have
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
has anyone else noticed mcdonald’s and burger king are in a chicken nugget advertising war. both have an aggressive ad campaign about nuggets on right now
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when i was growing up, rolling stone was like this cool, prestigious magazine, and now when i try to read something on their website it nearly crashes my browser like some malware-ridden third tier porn site. sad.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
achane done for the season, i need to zone out for a few hours, might be time to try a new elden ring build. never done a status effect one, like poison/rot/bleed, any recommendations
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stuff like this makes me pessimistic about the near term prospects of turning the Republicans back into any kind of basically normal political party. The whole next generation has been essentially selected for bigotry & derangement.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the GOP is fully trumpified and the rising generation of staffers and wannabes are even worse. if you're between 25-35 and an aspiring right-wing politician you've spent most/all of your adult life in a political and social ecosystem the rewards this shit and weeds out people repulsed by it
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cancel culture was mostly just people who had never faced consequences before occasionally facing consequences for their shitty behavior. And for the powerful, that state of affairs could not stand
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue
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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
abc you got me all wrong
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, yes we can
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
fam we are FEASTING this season
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i will say i love the dolphins’ rookies. good draft class. another draft like this and good use of all that cap space and they’ll be in great shape this time next year
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thank you espn app for telling me AD Mitchell is actually out today 7 minutes into the first quarter after i was already locked into playing him, very helpful
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
proctor tackling gordon into the endzone was awesome
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
not a surprise that the dolphins’ defense is terrible but it legit might be one of the worst ever
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
4 games in and he still has more tds (14) than incompletions (12). 94-106 for 1211 yards and 14 tds 0 ints just nuts
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
insane choice to go for it on 4th on your own 35
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
just for example, the OA being on and Bob's Burgers, Hannibal, and Blue Eye Samurai being left off is insane
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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not gonna quibble about stupid things like Mad Men being low. But zero animation other than BoJack seems truly deranged, narrow minded, and disconnected from the public/the art form
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you might say "#98 is actually very low" but idc that's still way too high for The OA lmao
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i know the sopranos technically started in 1999 but a show that ran from 1999 to 2007 feels like a 21st century show to me
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i don’t watch the packers much and have only been half paying attention to this game but is jordan love just not a very good qb? some big misses and questionable decisions i’ve seen
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
this is FAR more demotivating than some left wing shitposting or podcasting critic of the democratic party can ever be
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
can anyone tell me what this little thing is in my bonsai’s soil. i can’t tell if it’s something i never noticed before if it just appeared or what.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
by my count, the dolphins have given up at least 4 touchdowns so far this season botching simple crossing routes with backs/TEs because the LB/safety both went with one crosser and left the other uncovered
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dr Strangelove ass military
The rationale for the rapid adoption of Al is that it can help the military make battlefield decisions, like which targets to strike or which military assets to move where, faster. Officials say the US can't afford to fall behind in integrating Al in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i know they haven't been playing like the cream of the crop, but miami's qb darian mensah starting the season 71-79 for 873 yards and 11 tds 0 ints is insane.
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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think 1. The movie has aged fine 2. It’s a movie that is so late 20th century thematically that it could never be made today
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i'm surprised at how commonly i've seen people say that american beauty has aged poorly, but i've seen that take probably a dozen times over the past couple years on this site, and i want to plant my flag: those people are wrong, and that movie is good. someone has to be brave enough to say it
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i always assumed those red text "already 3 in people's baskets!" "only 4 left!" prompts were bullshit but bought something on etsy yesterday that said there was only 1 left in stock. then got an email saying it would take 6-8 weeks to produce. then get an email today saying the order can't be filled
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
do u think the lions know that josh allen is good at running with the ball. i cant tell if they know or not
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People are talking shit but this is a good loadout for most races. Light weight, decent speed, and good maneuverability.
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I respect my haters and share their concerns
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 14/09/2026
There's now one thing that can get you tarred for antisemitism, and it is regrettably not even one of the things that actually constitutes antisemitism
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i have lamar jackson and tyler warren in one league and am playing lamar jackson and tyler warren in another league and am ready to be so annoyed all afternoon no matter what happens
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
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