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Tacoma Mike

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Lucky husband, professional software engineer, enthusiastic sailor, perspiring gardener. #Bernie2016 #M4A #GND #BLM #INFJ_A.

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 1h
A federal immigration agent shot a man in New York City this afternoon, city officials said.
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Federal Immigration Agents Shoot and Wound a Man in New York
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he called President Trump about the incident and hopes to end ICE enforcement actions in the city.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 5h
Because suspiciously wealthy "Democratic" governor Jared Polis let her out (along with a bunch of fraudsters) to curry favor with Trump and despite strong opposition from the state's Democratic politicians, the AG, and the DA.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 5h
Some female marine should challenge Kegsbreath to an unarmed combat duel on live TV.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 14h
Schmuck was voted "Most likely to gift Trump a third term".
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michele39.bsky.social @michele39.bsky.social · 15h
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I know experts don't recommend this but if it's just the usual end of season powdery mildew on squash I put them in my own compost pile - which does not get particularly hot. There's no avoiding powdery mildew on squash once the humidity comes. Composting them doesn't seem to affect the next year.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Social security is basically middle age folks paying to look after old folks who had looked after them when they were kids. This is fundamental to humanity. Only the subhumans in Congress and on Wall Street don't understand this.
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Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins @toxidrone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IN MEMORY OF THE 373 CHILDREN KILLED IN GAZA 8 July - 3 August 2014 This is 10-15 or so times as many children as were killed on October 7, since Israeli suffering is clearly the default metric. In since 2023 that number is more like 1,000 times as many dead children, minimum. Just the kids.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 08/10/2026
A federal judge questioned Wednesday whether he should block President Trump and the White House from posting official announcements on Truth Social when the social media platform is selling early access to his posts.
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Judge Weighs Whether to Block Some Trump Truth Social Posts
The platform is charging up to $100,000 a month to get 50-millisecond early access to the president’s posts.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
City chambers shut down as #Memphis residents fight back against tech-fascist Elon Musk's data center. "...protesters chanted inside City Hall, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby." www.foxnews.com/politics/mem...
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Memphis City Council devolves into chaos after data center moratorium vote postponed
Memphis City Council delayed a vote on a data center moratorium as protesters chanted, police cleared the chamber and a fight broke out in the lobby.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 07/10/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told USS Abraham Lincoln sailors in prepared remarks that media reports had overstated problems aboard the carrier. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/hegse…
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Hegseth Tells USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors ‘the Media’ Overstated Their Problems
The comments came after months of reports detailing declining morale, supply problems and mental health struggles during the aircraft carrier’s record-setting deployment.
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#Nov2026 🌊🌊 Vote for Democracy 🗳️ - ICE❌ @kdjs-1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chat is it good when an Ambassadorial nominee writes "Stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous ... if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control" to the man who paid her $300,000 to help resolve his tax issues with the IRS?
That same month, Guilfoyle sent a congratulatory note to Long after his confirmation as IRS commissioner. She attached a letter Deters had written outlining his tax dispute: “Don Jr. and I are very close with Eric Deters and his wife and I know he sent you a letter,” she wrote. “I am hoping I know how busy you are that you could give some time and attention to it.”

Two days later, Deters sent her a photo of a printed memo addressed to her: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years,” he wrote. “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”

In response, she told Deters to “stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous.” 

“Just call me on signal,” she wrote.

As for Long, she would call him the next day, she assured Deters. “I wrote him a very nice message. Told him how important it was that you’re close to me and to don.”

“Also very privately,” she continued, “if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control.”

That afternoon she texted an update: Long had written her back. 

“BOOM,” she added.

A week later, on July 3, she placed two missed calls to Deters’ phone, and sent him instructions on how to wire money to an American Express account. 

“Your needing $100,000 urgent unfortunately is not going to work,” he wrote. “I can’t do this without getting a divorce.”

“I’ve been calling you for over a week straight,” she replied. “You could be here meeting with Billy Long.” 

Long is now the U.S. ambassador to Iceland. Embassy officials there referred reporters to a State Department media office that didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Haha wow is this comically corrupt. /he didn't end up paying her the money because he said he'd get in trouble with his wife.
By 
Dana Mattioli
, 
Drew Hinshaw
, 
Rebecca Ballhaus
 and 
Joe Parkinson
Oct. 7, 2026 4:53 pm ET

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. 

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”

Underneath is a screenshot of a text. First text is a link to an American Express instructions PDF. Next text says: "You can just send it here. It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that's all that will show." Final text: "Please."
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 07/10/2026
The documents were used by the Kennedy Center’s board during an August meeting about whether to close the center’s main building. www.washingtonsun.com/courts/judge-…
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Judge Orders Kennedy Center Renovation Documents Unsealed
The documents were used by the center’s board during an August meeting about whether to close the center’s main building.
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michele39.bsky.social @michele39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.
"Being poor is actually a full-time job & being 
broke is like a full-time job with the amount of 
paperwork and the time going from office to 
office proving what you have done.

With Universal Basic Income all that would 
be eliminated with the time liberated to do 
something socially productive."
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— David Graeber
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#Nov2026 🌊🌊 Vote for Democracy 🗳️ - ICE❌ @kdjs-1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
firstformoney.com/texas-leads-...
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Texas Leads U.S. as Home Foreclosures Surge 42 Percent and Thousands Lose Their Homes
U.S. foreclosures surged 42% in August 2026, with Texas hardest hit. ATTOM data shows 40,277 properties with filings as homeowners face growing financial pressure.
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Sue is Pissed! @spb1159.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Senile Democratic leadership be like if we can't wear the big white hoods any more at least we can still support the other racist genociders.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4,700 times… Trump ALWAYS had money for his underage urges.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 06/10/2026
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy was barred from entering a U.S. military base in Qatar. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/sena…
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Sen. Chris Murphy Was Denied Entry to a U.S. Military Base in Qatar
The senator is currently on a congressional delegation trip to the Middle East.
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“They call it the ‘Patriot Act,’ but it’s really the ‘Police State Authorization Act.’ Section 215 lets them seize your library records, your medical files, your bookstore receipts—no probable cause, no warrant, no judge. Just a rubber stamp from a secret court.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can today's USA handle millions of infections in a pandemic? Today's USA can't handle one senile toddler who keeps breaking things.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dang. Project Gutenberg seems to be overloaded today. Probably the AI billionaires scanning it unnecessarily for the billionth time. Anyhoo, a search on "diagram" yields 16 results, some of which (mending and repairing, knots and splicing) I wish I had time for. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
gutenberg.org
Books: diagram
Project Gutenberg offers 79,551 free eBooks for iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Android and Kindle.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😂
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If the bribed and blackmailed members of the Epstein Class had even a shred of decency they would resign their positions of power and media control so that they could no longer be used to protect genociders, terrorists, war criminals, and those who rape children.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not a bad choice but premature. Old Cornell administration must be prosecuted. A new Cornell administration can be guided by Ms Yates.
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Sue is Pissed! @spb1159.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sue is Pissed! @spb1159.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"At this time, even though Trump had stated that construction had already started, the project in Iowa still does not have a final site and must obtain further approvals from the state before building can begin." Pinnochio's nose is now long enough to wrap around the world 40 times.
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Trump’s 'largest' jobs project hits embarrassing snag
President Donald Trump said construction had already begun on a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa, which he called the largest in U.S. history; however, local records tell a different story.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch is a fucking facist but is probably too stupid to know it. She wants the state to be weaker when confronting economic power both in corporations and individual billionaires, but she wants it to exercise considerably more power over the population and their rights.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ratatouille is just whatever squishy summer veg you've got left over, cooked with some herbs. Courgette without aubergine or bell pepper is allowed under UEFA rules. We always have way more zukes than we can give away.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a marathon runtime of four hours, Alex Gibney's new documentary 'Musk' strains to cover the sweep of the oligarch's business empire and its capture of U.S. government. But the interviews with first wife Justine Wilson and latest ex Ashley St. Clair about his vindictive nature hit hardest.
wired.com
Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 05/10/2026
I've been waiting 4 months to get into an OBGYN appointment and they just called to reschedule and push it out again because she won't be in that day. They blather on about wait times in Europe and Canada, but we not only get to wait just as long, we get to pay 4,000x more for it.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alright Einstein.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Recently I've watched several Youtube videos by British Brainrot. As a survivor of the London Underground you might relate to this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVbE...
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THE MOST HONEST LONDON UNDERGROUND ADVERT EVER MADE
YouTube video by British Brainrot
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dumbo got vaxxed but told his base to not get vaxxed - and so a lot of them died, and he couldn't care less. Dumbo votes by mail but told his base to not vote by mail - - but that could result in his getting impeached. So now he's telling his base to vote by mail! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6rU...
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Trump REVERSES course, tells Republicans to vote by mail now
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😂Oh those christians knew how to ruin a civilisations way of life.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dumbo doesn't understand how elections work. One time when I lived in California I monitored an election. Careful cross checks. Random recounts. Reliable results. Dumbo has lost half his voters due to his incompetence, but still thinks he should be king. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Trump says voting in America is ‘corrupt’ in late-night elections rant
President Donald Trump revives familiar fraud narrative with one month to go before midterms
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't think the UK is running out of comedians. British SNL is ten times better than today's lame American SNL.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What part of Biden 46 was worse than Trump 45 and Trump 47 is worse than Biden 46 don't you understand?
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology "Zionism is what it does. And what it does is visible to the entire world." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionism-is...
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Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Genocide supporters get blocked. Bye bye.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
𝕷𝖔! 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖗-𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖘’ 𝖌𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍 𝖘𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖉 𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖑𝖐-𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘’ 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖜𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖉 𝖔𝖋, 𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝖕𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖊𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖘𝖘-𝖎𝖓-𝖇𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 ... No. Sorry. No way I'm memorizing that. How about the Owl and the Pussycat went to sea?
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyone who looks at Biden and Harris or Schumer and Johnson can be forgiven for thinking they're no better than Dumbo. In fact Biden 46 pumped and drilled and deported and genocided even more than Trump 45. True, Trump 47 is worse than Biden. But a Harris or Newsom would probably be worse still.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So sorry for you loss. May your memories of her bring you comfort.
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Tacoma Mike @mgb5000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
500 miles outside Lincoln Montana is not far enough for him? The Unabomber was content with 5.
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