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@jmcmichael.bsky.social
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Design, data vis, illustration, and UX dev for scientists at Wash. U. School of Medicine in StL, mostly civicdb.org. Into commons-based peer production, philosophy of consciousness, systems theory - jmcmichael.com

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Take a minute for this Sam Neill clip, reuniting with his JP co-stars.
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Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Laura Dern pays tribute to Sam Neill. “Sam was my beloved lifetime friend. He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love, always with the driest wit. He was a true and noble gentleman, wrapped up in my dream leading man. I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/07/2026
"The Roman Empire collapsed because Emperor Romulus Augustulus could not locate a Mountain Dew Baja Blast within the greater Mediterranean basin. Deprived of that crisp, tropical lime-flavored nectar, imperial morale disintegrated."
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Why the Taco Bell Meal for Two Is the Only Economic Indicator That Matters
“If the Meal for Two remains reasonably priced, prosperity endures. If the price rises dramatically, civilization is in danger. It is a system with a proven ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Republicans couldn’t get the votes for their voter suppression bill — so now they’re trying to ram the SAVE Act into law through budget reconciliation. Forcing Americans to pay for passports and birth certificates just to vote? That isn’t election security. That’s a poll tax! #SAVEActIsPayToVote
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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.
Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I haven’t seen so many ineffective crosses in Mexico since Hernán Cortés couldn’t convert the Aztecs in 1519
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Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I’m SO proud to call USAF member Jason Watson a friend of mine. He was arrested yesterday for protesting in his uniform against the administration. Bravo sir. #Impeach #Convict #Remove.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
when the fruit salad is just a bowl of melon chunks
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Gwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“You cannot make billions of dollars without hurting lots of people. And you can’t hurt lots of people without, in some sense, believing that they’re not really people.” Corey Doctorow
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history." Sen. Jon Ossoff
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
By far the best thing about the Great American State Fair is that DC statehood activists have infiltrated it (with official permission!) and are lobbying attendees to support their cause. I saw several MAGA tourists receiving the polite but vigorous spiel for DC statehood and it warmed my heart.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Soft power is when you force the British to make 1776 brand cheddar cheese
1776 aged cheddar, product of the UK. The label celebrates 250 years since the American Revolution.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The rise of AI-generated animal videos and images is such a travesty. Animal content has always been one of the best things about the internet and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real
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Sanctions Kill 🇵🇸 @sanctionskill.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My Mom when I tell her the animal video she sent me is AI
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Mostly because war is much cheaper.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If you’re self identifying as a Democrat but saying with a straight face that DSA members hate America and the job of Dems is to support free marketism, you can just march your ass over to the GOP and be done with it
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
the skies and waters themselves rise against the vile king
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
French FM Barrot: France will veto lifting UN Security Council sanctions on Iran until nuclear talks meet its expectations and address Tehran's ballistic missiles and proxy forces.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump keeps trying to surrender and the world isn't having it
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Stephen Raab @onetruestephen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
We’re going to stand here and make you smoke the whole pack, son
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/06/2026
A badge of honor.
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 17/06/2026
Food prices didn't skyrocket by accident. A handful of massive corporations have spent decades buying up competitors, squeezing farmers, and leaving small businesses with fewer choices. It's time to take on these corrupt bigshots and build a food system that works for all of us.
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 17/06/2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/06/2026
MAGA largely destroyed America’s mighty tradition of foreign policy expertise in favor of Grok: this is what we have to confront it sucks!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/06/2026
there was a time 2 years ago when an actual Farsi speaker would have been paid to help produce this document, but ha ha ha fuck expertise
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I say, explaining the agreement I signed to my domestic audience
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh yeah, it's BAD bad.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026
Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 16/06/2026
Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries
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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is honestly the best news I have written about in like a week. nerdist.com/article/mcdo...
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McDonald's Brings Back Fried Apple Pie After 34 Years
After three decades, McDonald's is bringing back their iconic friend apple pie for America's 250th birthday, but only for a limited time.
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
THE JAPANEESE HAVE DISCOVERED TEXAS ROADHOUSE BREAD
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
america is an ideal worth fighting for
I'm American, but I talked to some Germans on a train platform in Chicago last weekend. They spoke very highly about their experience of buying legal weed, getting stoned and eating at Raising Canes.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
My apologies to the Reductress, I wasn’t familiar with your game.
A picture of a white guy wearing glasses with the caption reading  “White Guy Excited to Burn Down the System and Also Control the Rebuilding Effort” from the Reductress
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𝓢𝓬𝓸𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓹 @scootertramp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
That's more like it.
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Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 14/06/2026
“There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.” ~Rep. Peter King, August 29, 2014, on the occasion of Obama wearing a tan suit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026
that’s right
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Jacob.
@jacobbbaes
RT apowerfulbird: fly me to the moon 
let me kick it's fucking ass 
let me show it what i learned 
in my moon jujitsu class
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Losing it
@prophethusband
Text to homie nicknamed Big Gulp: You make every day of my life better than the next. I feel like I have known you for a thousand lifetimes

Text to wife: Make sure the bathroom door is open when I got home. Im gonna come in sprinting
1:01 PM • 2023-01-17
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Virgin Law Follower
@BOOFSAYER
Sing this to the tune of "Old MacDonald"

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Virgin Law Follower @BOOFSAYER • 2017-11-20
I'm so stressed that sunlight hurts. I am gods mistake
5:41 PM • 2017-11-20
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