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Michael Chermside

@mcherm.com
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 02/09/2026
Donald Trump promised the nation he would "drain the swamp" of corruption. Instead he swamped us with corruption, sending the nation down the drain.
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 07/06/2026
I had not heard this before -- WHY had I not heard about it before? The Trump regime has issued orders to the postal service to deliver mail-in-ballots only to voters on a list the regime creates. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 19/05/2026
I want a law firm to file a class action lawsuit against the IRS objecting to their announcement of a $1.7B fund not authorized by Congress. Let every taxpayer who wishes to sign up as a named plaintiff. It would be almost all of us.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 28/04/2026
Soon, Google intends to lock down Android so no one can run an application that wasn't signed with a Google authorization. Unlike iOS, Android has always been open -- keep it that way! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 15/04/2026
My county in my state just banned poll workers (like myself) from participating in prediction markets on questions of the outcome of the election. It's a good policy. buckscountybeacon.com/2026/04/dela...
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Pennsylvania's Delaware County Bans Poll Workers From Using Election Prediction Markets - Bucks County Beacon
State law already prohibits poll workers from betting on elections, but prediction markets argue they are not betting operations.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 13/04/2026
Now I want Pope Leo to put out a statement about how Trump is "weak on the sacraments". [www.axios.com/2026/04/13/trump-pope…] PS: not really. The strategy of not engaging is actually best.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 13/04/2026
In late 2029 the world was hit with a global pandemic. Creating a vaccine typically takes several years. In January 2020, scientists tried using mRNA to create a vaccine -- it uses the body to produce the antigen to train the immune system. By March (2 months later!) they had a working vaccine.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 05/04/2026
That a demented old man occupying the Presidency might lose his marbles and begin ordering the military to start a war and commit war crimes WAS a failure mode that was accounted for in the Constitution. That his full cabinet and majorities of both houses of Congress would support it is not.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 19/12/2025
Ok then, I knew it was coming. Today is the day I quit TikTok. I refuse to support Larry Ellison.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 14/11/2025
@nortverse.com You posted a poll on Patreon asking free members what would convert them to paid. I only discovered your comic recently and I signed up as a free member on Patreon. My intent is to eventually switch to a paid member if I'm still reading the comic after a while. I have ~20 I pay now.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 22/10/2025
Knocking down the White House with a wrecking ball is bad, but I am MORE concerned about how he is knocking down 250 years of Democracy. Trump AND the Supreme Court are wrong: America does NOT have a King
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 11/09/2025
The murder of Charlie Kirk is yet another tragedy related to the proliferation of guns in the US. So, if we ever manage to re-establish rule by the Constitution in the US, perhaps we should clarify: 2nd amendment as in Miller, not as in Bruen.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Feeling hopeless? Here are 5 things you can do this week to fight fascism. youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared
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Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 29/08/2025
@wearechorus.bsky.social One of the results of the controversy stirred up by the Wired article has been that a lot of people (like me!) who had never heard of Chorus are now aware of it. I think it is doing a good job. Are there ways I can contribute to support Chorus (financially or otherwise)?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 25/08/2025
When you decide to post something talking about the harms caused by Trump's latest budget, please don't call it "The Big Beautiful Bill". Refer to it by its full name: "The Big Beautiful Billionaires Bill".
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 26/07/2025
@aoc.bsky.social In the past I have donated to "official" groups like the DCCC to support key House races. But more recently I feel that I do not trust the Democratic party establishment. You are one of the figures who I DO trust. Can you recommend a fund or PAC to support close House races?
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 04/06/2025
What the REAL ID Delay Tells Us About Implementing Proof-of-citizenship Laws | 20 years into the program, millions of Americans still don’t have the right ID to board a plane. If similar dysfunction plays out in our elections, the stakes are much higher than a missed flight, reports @votebeat.org.
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What the REAL ID Delay Tells Us About Implementing Proof-of-citizenship Laws - Bucks County Beacon
Twenty years into the program, millions of Americans still don’t have the right ID to board a plane. If similar dysfunction plays out in our elections, the stakes are much higher than a missed flight.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 20/05/2025
For everyone living in Pennsylvania, please don't forget that the primary election is today. 🗳️
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 03/04/2025
It seems to me that massive world-wide tariffs should fall under the "major questions doctrine" since the Constitution clearly reserves the right to tax for Congress. Unless the true guiding principle of the major questions doctrine is which party proposed it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 04/03/2025
@fetterman.senate.gov I just wanted to say that I saw your post (and vote) around protecting rights for trans people and I appreciate you taking a stand.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 25/02/2025
An editorial about a hospital that is capitulating too soon: rvamag.com/opinion-edit...
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Letter to the Editor | A Nurse and Parent Condemns VCUHS for Ending Trans Healthcare 🏳️‍🌈
VCUHS recently halted gender-affirming care for transgender youth, citing policy concerns. A longtime nurse and parent of a trans child condemns the decision, calling it a betrayal of patients and med...
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 10/02/2025
I have a free open source project that I have built for schools to use. One school system says "any outside vendor provide evidence of having cyber insurance". Does anyone know of an open source project that obtained cyber insurance? If so, who did they work with and how was that done?
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs. I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:
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BREAKING: Republicans try to UNDO Democratic win
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/12/2024
Holy shit. Google search is so fucking bad and stupid these days. Its "summary" description of Techdirt is taken from the middle of a random article this week by @mdmcjr.press, but makes it look like Techdirt is transphobic!?!? @searchliaison.bsky.social wtf? www.techdirt.com/2024/12/02/c...
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Christian Nationalists And Bigots Stump For Ken Paxton In SCOTUS Age Verification Case
Scores of organizations from across the anti-pornography movement have filed amicus briefs supporting the state of Texas and Attorney General Ken Paxton in a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with hi…
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/07/2024
There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Essential to *any* discussion of Trump’s abortion position is this: “Right now, a majority of Republicans in Congress support an argument that could lead to an effective nationwide abortion ban without the passage of any new legislation. That is a fact.” I dig into this and much more at Law Dork.
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Don't fall for Trump's new abortion position claims
Trump's purported abortion position is unrealistic, unworkable, and unpopular. He's just saying it because he wants to win. He told us as much.
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 06/04/2024
Yesterday was the finale of the latest arc of our role playing game (Call of Cthulhu), and as we attempted to destroy the evil McGuffin we were attacked by a crew of the cultists who had been plaguing us throughout the whole arc, as well as the vampire who had been following us. 1/5 #TTRPG
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Caitlin 🫧 @cvh.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Two tidbits: -The father suing says his daughters have never tried and have no intention of trying to get contraceptives from a title x clinic, but somehow the case still has standing -his lawyer is the architect of SB 8–texas' abortion ban
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
The Seventh Circuit allowed Indiana's law banning gender-affirming medical care for minors to go into effect for the first time Tuesday in an unusual, questionable order. I dive into what happened — and why it’s so troubling — at Law Dork tonight.
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Seventh Circuit restricts trans minors' rights in Indiana without a word explaining why
The appeals court allowed Indiana's law banning gender-affirming medical care for minors to go into effect for the first time Tuesday in an unusual, questionable order.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
The New York Times is not well.
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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
This verdict has taken so long that the planet has warmed almost 0.5°C since it was filed. 🧪
global temperature graph from https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2023/ showing an increase in the temperature anomaly from 1°C in 2012 to over 1.5°C in 2023
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Michael Chermside @mcherm.com · 02/02/2024
Ken White writes that only the well-to-do who never interacted with it expect courts to be fair, and complaining about Trump's treatment is an odd place to begin criticizing the system. www.popehat.com/p/bret-steph... #LawSky
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/02/2024
If you live in the US, please write or call your elected representatives RIGHT NOW to try and stop KOSA— yes even if you've already done it— because this bill not only absolutely will harm LGBTQIA+ populations across the country, but that is even its main sponsor's admitted stated goal. Please.
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Stop KOSA
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Roberts is the president of Heritage. I’ve worked at think tanks for pretty much my whole adult life. If the head of any of these institutions had called for us to “all rally around” any politico “as our movement’s leader” - let alone this politico - I think I would have died of embarrassment.
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