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Mike McCollum

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Sunnyside, NY. History. Progressive Politics. NYC. Public Health Preparedness. Space/SciFi/Horror/Genre Fiction/Comics/Film. He/Him/His

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h
Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 6h
the more i think about this the more i feel like it's possibly one of the most outrageous scandals to happen in global politics in a long time. if it is what it looks like it's an absolute watershed crisis moment for the US and world.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics in my adult lifetime has been the glaring divide b/w competently staffed administrations & Congresses that try to actually govern when Dems are in office, & corrupt/criminal ideological kakistocrats when the GOP is. News coverage simply does not reflect that feature.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We've been being promised 3 and 4-day work weeks thanks to technology ever since the 1950s. It never happens. We keep the 5-day work week, and expectations of output skyrocket instead.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t care how many people that idiot killed, an execution should NOT be made public. PERIOD. EVER. If you don’t understand my words, I cannot help you.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A captcha that is a reference to the opening scene of Master and Commander
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation" -- www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/t...
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'But I'm Not From Ghana': ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
Immigrants with protected status who've lived in the city for decades are finding themselves swept up, shackled and threatened with expulsion.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lex Luthor slammed the Justice League as an "evil group of people," arguing that "quite frankly, the Legion of Doom does far more good, so true"
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Mike McCollum @mcmccollum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The small town millionaire will cover their fee. The doctor will be beholden to them first, everyone else second if they're lucky. Another form of control.
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Mike McCollum @mcmccollum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bet you didn't sit on this joke long.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I finally made it out of the heat. Now I'm standing at the back of a large disorganized crowd. I've been told that there are two people processing credentials for the RNC midterm gathering in Dallas. The buses are supposed to start at 2pm. I wonder how long this will take. 13/
A photo of the crowd inside
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Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Introducing the BEEP BEEP Choir from Coyote vs ACME!!
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reminder that you can be reading this sweet little ol' supernatural romance story (by me, @colleencoover.bsky.social & @ghostgreen.bsky.social) online for free instead of doomscrolling. Embrace a time-out for your brain, and get some free chuckles. www.webtoons.com/en/romance/h...
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Heart Acres
Ben Crews has been kicked around by life one too many times. So when his grandmother offers him a place at her fancy estate, Heart Acres, he jumps on the opportunity to live a life of luxury. Imagine ...
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Darth Vader spoke in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting yesterday
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'The Emperor Is a Fan of Flock': Darth Vader Speaks at City Council Meeting
"This council was elected to serve the police, not the public," said Vader.
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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🏅 Our citywide transit scavenger hunt is on through October 31! Meet the folks who were the first to finish. 🎁 Complete all 50 stops to get your official Transit Explorer Certificate, pin and medal. Download our official app in the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Have you gone on the hunt yet?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Is the news here that taxpayers subsidize the things the government does? Because yeah, that's how it works. What's more expensive, five grocery stores with discounts in NYC, a la military PXes (which taxpayers subsidize) or treating people for health problems caused by food insecurity?
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
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Mike McCollum @mcmccollum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Turn it into a Co-op, with all of the cast and crew (past and present) getting a share in the...Enterprise!
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Rick McKee @rmckee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I drew this August 23, 2022, and it’s coming to pass.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I hope to see Democrats as angry at Elon Musk for sending up to 14 million people to their deaths as Republicans are at Anthony Fauci for giving Donald Trump advice during a pandemic.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 20/07/2026
Okay, I'm procrastinating, so here's a 20-skeet thread of Carrie Fisher answering Playboy's "20 Questions" in 1983: 🧵 (0/20)
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/07/2026
"A.i." is a tool pushed by racist, fascist billionaires for racist, fascist purposes.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I was happy to participate in this video from Chris the Producer. He created an LLC, hired an actor who built a miserly profile online, and flew a phone via drone into a ritzy area to try to influence the prices derived from data collection. And it worked! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSw...
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I beat BIG TECH'S new predatory pricing tactics (and saved $6,593)
YouTube video by Chris the Producer
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Democrats nominated Al Gore for the presidency 26 years ago Guys like this ensured that we got W & Cheney instead
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"AOC on Susan Collins"
AOC giving the camera a death stare. She's probably squinting because the sun in her eyes, but it's funnier this way.
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Seth on the Nihil @lordsoftheseth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Henry / Zlatan / Lalas is like that horse drawing meme
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/07/2026
Also a reminder that Notre Dame got the nickname the fighting Irish because they physically fought the Klan who hated Catholics.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“We have to show that we are tough on immigration, serious about deficits and that we aren’t left wing extremists on lgbtq, race, and crime issues” No we fucking don’t. Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party is dead. And we are better off for it. It was maybe the right thing for 1992 but that is the past
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Most working-class people are women: they're doing the majority of union jobs. But leftbros aren't interested because when they say "working class," they are trying to put a legitimate façade on a politics of male supremacy--using class oppression as a fig leaf to conceal the oppression of women.
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/07/2026
Once upon a time Republicans demanded long-form birth certificate from Barack Obama. We’re only asking for a 10-second proof-of-life video from Mitch McConnell.
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Rob Pollard @robpollard45.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Lander is very good at this, so doesn't really need my help, but as he will keep getting asked "questions", I recommend he bring up the deaths of hundreds of journalists. "Dana, you're a journalist right? Do you think Israel has "tried" to not kill all these journalist? Or it's just bad luck?
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I double dog dare u, Maine
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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella were excluded from the Panthéon ceremony at the request of Marc Bloch’s family, who cited his “deeply anti-nationalist” views.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Now, the ironic thing is that these people feel this way as the inevitable result of late stage capitalism and income inequality, but saying that makes you a socialist apparently, rather than "a guy who read Adam Smith and he warned about all this, actually", but that's neither here nor there. 9/x
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"I don't want them bring back the same soup with some pepper, and I don't like it, so they bring the same soup but now with cheese -- no. I don't want the soup. Broom the soup." 4/x
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A beautiful filament of plasma erupted from near the Sun’s north pole today! Beautiful stuff.
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