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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to bedlam when it comes out that Adam Lee Decker is just Jackie Daytona’s latest alias. #CarolinaCulture

Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

…and abuse …and unwillingness to listen It’s almost like the absentee parents of those of us in GenX… didn’t stop not caring.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He’d tell you it was never about him.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As a former professional football player, I can confidently say that this essay is incorrect from every conceivable angle, and contributes heavily to the culture of toxic masculinity that still infests high schools and colleges across the country.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

arterial disease likes this post

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Dean Gloster @deangloster.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, we should split the 9th Circuit into 3 parts and expand the Supreme Court to 15. Former Supreme Court law clerk here. I said what I said.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I could have not felt more validated by @harryshearer.bsky.social this morning having spent decades rolling through the jazz band in my mind. #summerbreeze

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On a scale of Students for Fair Admissions to Plessy, in units of Korematsu, how worried am I supposed to be about this SCOTUS decision?

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

She's entirely right. Middle school is too late. When they're younger, many are small and spry enough to go down chimneys and through HVAC vents and clean them right and well. I've read my Dickens.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m convinced! I hereby pledge my entire savings of NFTs to make sure these AI-tizens are not Minority Reported out of existence. (That may be the dumbest sentence I’ve ever written.)

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m a sucker for any band whose biggest hit isn’t in 4/4 time.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’d have trouble picking between Slide and Iris, but that year is inarguably the Goo Goo Dolls at the height of their powers.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In nursery school, we did a Christmas pageant where we all had to dress as toys. I went as an elevator.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The lowkey Menards trolling is 👨‍🍳

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Coincidentally, saw them also on a bill with BNL and kt tunstall. And they are headlining the fair in the tiny farm town I grew up in, where the fairgrounds backed up to my house and we could hear the tractor pulls at night. Kinda wish I could go back. www.hebronharvestfair.org

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Hebron Harvest Fair

Hebron Harvest Fair is a 4 day family-friendly event being held September 5-8, 2024 at the Hebron Lions Fairgrounds in Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut. This agricultural fair also highlights live...

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We saw them two summers ago with BNL and Gin Blossoms and it made our top 5 all time live show list. They were every inch as good as the rest of the bill, if not better.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Genesis The Police (unfortunate childhood association played in here) Toad the Wet Sprocket

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

… Remember when Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort gave a bunch of internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent? I was just thinking about that for some reason.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the Arctic island's leading environmental and natural-resource research centre, is halting new collaborations with US partners to protect its data and scientists. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is akin to Trump raiding the National Parks Service in order to pay for his Reflecting Pool disaster. (Which he has done). Take something that works remarkably well, and divert resources to cronies to deliver something the public did not ask for.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Stay hydrated and make sure to stretch, Storm.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net

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Stand up for Science

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Also, aren’t these books all essentially about equality and man’s inhumanity to man? Dougie seems to have missed the point of actually reading them.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

As a journal editor, I have been confronted with an influx of AI produced text and, sadly, reviews. At one point, I felt frustrated enough to convene other journal editors in my field to talk about how we can navigate this time.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

They were giving our kids an illicit PDF of a 300+ page book as their primary instructional material with a 1990 copyright.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why is there this fantastical belief that there are no high quality high school geometry resources anymore and people are clinging to ridiculously outdated materials? I fought this fight in our district with a teacher that insisted there hadn't been a proper honors geometry book written in decades.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Going full cynic and saying it’s a review of basic 2D shapes and their properties that started in grade 3… and was done again in grade 6… and again in grade 7… and was in the grade 8 materials but got skipped in favor of endless linear equation symbolic wankery. Shoot it into the sun.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Also, buried lede: one state (Maryland) takes actionable steps to finally yeet outdated math topics into the sun and modernize mathematics teaching and learning.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you can stuff any democracy in your luggage to bring back with you, some of us would appreciate it. Have an amazing time. The Maritimes are on my perpetual bucket list, particularly given that my ancestors are from there.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 30/06/2026

NSF is spending more money servicing old grants than making new ones. As of the end of May, more funds flowed to old projects than new, for the first time in recent history. Much of this was for funds planned years ago for new supercomputing structure. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪

Stacked bar chart of NSF obligations for fiscal years 2021 through 2026, measured in billions of dollars. Blue segments show obligations to awards made in the same fiscal year (new awards); red segments show obligations to awards made in earlier fiscal years (prior-year awards). Dollar amounts and percentages are labeled in white text inside each segment. From 2021 through 2025, new awards account for more than half of obligations each year. In 2026 the red segment exceeds the blue for the first time.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've had a Hyundai Ioniq 5 for three years now and it's been the best car I've ever owned. Even in Indiana where our charging infrastructure is not robust, I've had no problems finding a plug when I need one (with some planning).

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are the people in the fair with us now?

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026

The fact that FOUR sitting Supreme Court justices were willing to greenlight Trump's racist attack on the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship is a national embarrassment. Tear down the institution, it is beyond saving.

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The Constitution Is On Life Support

Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't feel like Nina Totenberg makes stuff up. There's smoke here.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/06/2026

Sotomayor’s dissent is an obituary for science, NIH, and NSF. “Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court’s express approval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern- ment…”

Today's decision profoundly undermines this reliance and, as a result, undercuts one side of the balance that the political branches struck. Put simply, today the majority reshapes our Government. Dozens of independent commissions are now likely to become purely executive agencies, shifting tremendous power over broad swaths of American life into the President's hands: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, with responsibility for managing the Nation's energy supply, see 42 U.S. C. §7171(b)(1); the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which protects Americans against harms caused by dangerous goods, see
15 U.S. C. §2053(a); the Chemical Safety Board, tasked with investigating chemical disasters, see 42 U.S. C.
§7412(r)(6)(B); the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, responsible for the regulation of nuclear power, see 42 U.S. C. 885841(a), (c), (e); and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), charged with ensuring the integrity of the civil service, see 5 U. S. C. §1202. The list of agencies
entially modified by today's decision goes on.
Seldom, if ever, has this Court worked such a profound bait and switch on a coequal branch: For more than 90 years, Congress believed, with this Court's express ap-proval, that it was allowed to create a workable Govern-ment, including by granting certain agencies tasked with certain responsibilities some independence from Presidential control.
In rejecting that project, after decades of prom-
ising the po
ical branches that structures like the FTC's
were permissible, the Court creates an Executive Branch that Congress never dreamed of establishing and that it now has little hope of ever reining in. Cf. Learning Re-sources, Inc. v. Trump, 607 U. S. 229, 244-245 (2026) (opin-

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And in Celsius, it’ll be even cooler? That’s how that works, right?

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ve got bad news for him about his uniform number.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I do have it on good authority that Logan Stankoven throws a hell of a light switch rave.

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Mike Steele @mdsteele47.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Creating automatic Hatch Act violations for Feds. Nice.

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