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Michael 💙 🍉

@mblackard.bsky.social
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Video game producer l Bit Reactor ex: Firaxis, Airship Syn, Volition, Certain Affinity, CIG, Bliz Founder of Friend’em Www.friendem.net Personal account - thoughts are my own

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Michael 💙 🍉 @mblackard.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Go see Supergirl
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Jon Renish @jonrenish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/06/2026
BREAKING: The Senate just passed a bill to add an additional $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol’s already giant budget without any reforms. The House must hold the line and refuse to give ICE a blank check to violate our rights.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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Keits @keits.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Youtube comments should include a percentage of the video watched stat, like steam has time played on reviews lol
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Gary Williamson @docs41.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
We have THE BEST justice system that money can buy. 💰😾🦇
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Trump sued his own IRS. Settled with his own government. Secured a $1.8 billion slush fund to siphon toward his allies. Blocked the IRS audits against himself and his family.  This is corruption in plain sight.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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@MercilessIndianSavage 🍄🪐🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimwillis48.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
So apparently it isn’t racism if white legislators remove all black voting districts thus disenfranchising black voters from being able to elect a single black legislator ever?
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Joseph William Marek @j-w-marek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump has led America into so much debt that it now exceeds the entirety of the nation’s GDP, and that bill is going to come due. Meanwhile Trump and his cronies are enriching themselves. What happened to "Waste, Fraud and Abuse". Just another BIG LIE. The truth is they belong in prison.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.
Dirty water
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We're likely to see the first causality of the Supreme Court's Callais decision today in Florida. It's almost as if someone leaked the ruling to Florida Republicans...
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/11/2025
This is brilliant
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...
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Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I think about this all the time
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
More higher ed discourse like this please
Previously, in order to adhere to the norms of public discourse and to grant positive intentions even when I may disagree with methods or root values, I have strongly but (mostly) respectfully critiqued these sorts of educational initiatives, but those days are over.

**These people are my enemies.** I have only ill will for this project and wish them failure, because this vision for a future of postsecondary education is a recipe for mass immiseration and public disempowerment. Imagine a world where Microsoft, Google, McKinsey, et al ... get to determine what and how you learn from cradle to retirement.
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Queen of To Do @queenoftodo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We're so excited for our friends Tara and Duane Godby, owners of Teakeasy Tea. Their stunning storefront lounge opens in just three days on April 16 in Pflugerville. 🍵🎵🤎
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Bundist|Reconstruction 2|UltraDavid @ultradavid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In 2024, anti-genocide protestors at UCLA were assaulted by pro-Israel agitators with police permission, attacked & arrested by cops, banned from places & groups, and suspended. Now our even more fascist govt jails & deports on a whim. This generation of student protestors was ACTIVELY destroyed
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Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hey y'all, I was recently hit by layoffs at Respawn/EA: I'm a veteran #LevelDesigner with 17+yrs of exp in the AAA space (MP + SP, 3rd person + FPS). I'm seeking a Principal Level Design or Lead LD/Design Manager role (I've worked in both IC + management) if y'all are hiring/know connections!
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...
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AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history
The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sust...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile
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Ah Yes, Saturdays Are Made For Dads! @and-dads-car.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
No. Hell no. Call your reps, tell them to vote NO on the so-called SAVE America Act, TRUMP AMERICA AI, KOSA, KIDS Act, Sunset 230, ASAA, Interstate Obscenity Definition Act and any other First Amendment threatening bills. This is getting old. #Section230 #SaveSpeech
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Elisabeth Beinke @ebeinke.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy #StPatricksDay to my fellow Irish-Americans! ☘️
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Michael 💙 🍉 @mblackard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This shouldn’t have been allowed to happen
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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ravanal [ex.meidoIDKFA] 🔞 🕹 @ravanal.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...
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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 06/03/2026
It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace. Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime. SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats. If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/03/2026
I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today. You can call your Senators, too. Find them here: reps.fyi
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Find Your Representative
Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 02/03/2026
"Israel has destroyed not only the rules-based order but also obliterated the most basic rules of war – you don’t attack children." @fbhutto.bsky.social reports on US‑Israeli attacks in Iran, where children are paying the deadly price of western imperialism.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27/02/2026
Pro-Israel hard-liners Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., have both come out against the bill. theintercept.com/2026/02/26/i...
A photo of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., arriving for the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026, overlaid with the headline, "Democrats Finally Get Around to Forcing Iran War Powers Vote," and the DEK, "With Congress not reconvening until next week, there’s a chance the vote might come after attacks start."
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Once again.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/02/2026
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
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