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Micah

@micahshelton.bsky.social
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he/him - Co-host of podcasts: I Never Saw That and it’s world-renowned spinoff, See You in the Funny Papers

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h
If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.
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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 15/10/2026
I don't like hearing the umpire talk. They should be silent or make random noises, like the Road Runner
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just caught the end of this one too. Streaming on HBO, so I can’t rewind. Middle 2nd during the Rays (25th in payroll) Guardians (30th in payroll) 🤣
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Update: bsky.app/profile/ruha...
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My timeline made me thing this was something Garfield was yelling to Odie and somehow it works.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I would pay extra for a feed with no Smoltz
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colin feral @sal.gay · 11/10/2026
youtube.com
Marc Maron Speaks Out on Trans Jokes
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just caught the very end during game 5, middle of the 7th of the Cleveland-Chicago game.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shame on the APA @apapsychiatric.bsky.social for bowing to fascism. Read this whole thread. Dr. Ruha Benjamin will be partnering with other orgs to give her censored talk in a different way soon.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/10/2026
At the direction of the President, I am calling Senator Tom Cotton on his cellular phone to tell him to STOP making fire trucks full of cats and pigs climb HIGH DANGEROUS LADDERS to change the village square clocks in Busytown
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What about all the anti-trans legislation, or the clinics taking away health care, or bans on participation in sports? Is that “working” for you? Seems like the anti-trans messaging is working pretty much how they want it to work. Do you see the NYT pulling back on that messaging any time soon?
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is exclusively a Mission Impossible Theme clip account now. Sorry, not sorry.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One word (or eight words if it’s nonsense). Nailed it Jennifer. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Jennifer is against same-sex bathrooms
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump is getting his ideas from drawings found in the backs of spiral bound notebooks where 12-year-old boys draw stupid nonsense like this while they’re supposed to be doing social studies.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why is no one but InfoWars willing to tell the TRUTH about defective InfoWars products?
Image of a statement titled "Mistake Acknowledgement" from InfoWars. The text emphasizes the company's commitment to integrity and consumer safety, acknowledging some products' failure to meet quality standards. The message assures that remaining products meet established requirements. The InfoWars logo is at the bottom. The text is white on a dark background.A blue box of pasta labeled "Non-Italian Pasta" by InfoWars. The box includes "Non-Italian Fusilli" visible through a window. The top of the image has a red banner with the text "Recall Notice." At the bottom, a message states the pasta was made without Italian involvement and may contain pieces of glass.An image showing a recall notice for a product labeled "Authentic Coyote Urine" by Infowars. The notice states, "Our supplier lied to us. It's not urine."This image features a recall notice for a product named Bird Seed+ by InfoWars. The notice instructs customers to stop using Bird Seed+ from specific lot numbers due to a miscalculation. The product is described as seed pellets intended for birds, with a playful statement about them assisting birds in world domination.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Goat? | Georgina Spelvin
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Gray accuses Haidt of stirring a moral panic over technology that isn’t, on the whole, harmful. Looking across research, he says, Common Core is the clearest explanation for the sudden decline in teen mental health.”
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“We need to stop treating kids as if they’re idiots”
theverge.com
What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Psychology researcher Peter Gray accuses his ex-colleague of stoking a moral panic.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 14/09/2026
Centrists act like politics is this mystical force that we can only nibble around the edges of, instead of a body made of people that we can effect change through. I may not succeed when I have these conversations, but it's better than just giving up in advance!
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Obviously, I’ve questioned this man’s decision making ability before, but to paint this particular image and then post it. So much opportunity for the basic “should I do this?” reflection. I think he doesn’t have that. He’s never questioned a decision in his life. It’s not in his makeup.
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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 11/09/2026
I think that if we're going to Never Forget 9/11, we also should Never Forget all the racism that came after, which includes the creation of ICE
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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L.D. (From Seaver to Seattle) @seatoseabaseball.com · 03/09/2026
it's 11 PM on a Wednesday, which is the perfect time to read about how the "competitive balance" MLB is trying to sell you isn't real: www.seatoseabaseball.com/the-myth-of-...
seatoseabaseball.com
The Myth of Competitive Balance
No, really, I promise you don't want MLB to be more like the NFL. Unless you're talking about doing a cool halftime show during the World Series. That could be fun.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Save the world in Pandemic by playing one of these 4 roles (right to left): construction worker, doctor, medic, or Dan from Veep.
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There was no 'Woke 1.' Everyone saying there was is falling for a conservative framing of the past that justifies their turn to authoritarianism and fascism.
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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 03/08/2026
the real problem is that teams are directed to not spend or trade away players who could be otherwise under team control for a long time (e.g. "cost effective" in their opinion) so then all the other teams aren't as aggressive w trade packages. so it goes back to the other 29 teams imo. 3/3
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
MLB owners of losing teams getting ready to point to the Dodgers for why they need a salary cap
Harkonnen crew laughing
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"Le Chonk" @cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 02/08/2026
this is, imo, just a really good column from Rosenthal. It is honest about how things will be framed and how things actually are (in ways both dodgers supporters and detractors might not like). I just really appreciate the extra effort to provide context around how this will play in wider discourse:
nytimes.com
Tarik Skubal addition takes anti-Dodger hysteria to new heights as MLB lockout looms
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Far Side cartoon "How nature says, "Do not touch"
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/07/2026
Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Durward Shallot
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Get as mad at the Dodgers as you want, there is no economic system in sports where the government is going to assign you a Shohei Ohtani
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm far past feeling the need to defend people who celebrate the deaths of ghouls. We live under overt fascism. The regime hunts people in the streets. We are talking about political actors so foul that no moral reconciliation is possible. They can only be defeated. Mourning them is a betrayal.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgian players mocked Trump with his own dumb dance and chanted, “Overturn this.” The humiliation says it all: when you drag politics, pressure, and ego into sport, don’t be shocked when the world laughs back. And right now, the world is laughing at the USA again because of Trump.
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Micah @micahshelton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Had to look up who was calling this game after that second reference. Darren Fletcher is the name and he called the London MLB game in 2024 apparently. And he said during an earlier match that he went to the Royals/Rays game in Kansas City recently.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In today's newsletter I talked some about those Giants pitchers who decided to put their bigotry on full display on Friday night. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
But no matter how they spin it – and the Giants pitchers all tried to spin it as them just innocently talking about their beliefs or whatever – given the context and the specific night they chose to do this to their caps, it's a transparently homophobic gesture. One that is employed to undermine Pride, the Giants' commitment to it, and to discredit and smear the gay rights movement and gay people in general.

We saw this same exact act of bigotry last year from Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who defaced his Pride Night cap with the same Bible verse. He too offered an obviously bad faith justification for his act of rebellion, but in light of his past sentiments surrounding Pride Day, everyone knew the score. Same goes for his bigoted teammate Blake Treinen who has spoken out against his team’s support fo the LGBTQ+ community in the past and who refuses to wear the rainbow logo cap. Same goes for Alex Call who did the same as Treinen this year. All of them were praised by right-wing assholes for doing that stuff. It was a political act, driven by their homophobia and their hatred and they knew exactly what they were doing.

Same goes for these Giants players, who decided to take a night that is supposed to celebrate and show support for people who have been persecuted and marginalized and make it all about themselves and their strong identification with the persecutors. They took a night of unity and made their best effort to turn it into one of divisiveness. I'd call it childish but children know better. It was hateful, asshole behavior made all the worse by their smirking and disingenuous excuses.As was the case with those Tampa Bay Rays players who, several years ago, tore the rainbow logos off their caps and jerseys in protest to the team's Pride Night, and as as was the case with Kershaw last year, I expect nothing to happen to Roupp, Brubaker, Walker and Hentges. This despite the fact that there is actually a rule on the books which prohibit players from writing such messages on their uniforms. This despite the fact that if, instead of Pride caps, a player wrote words of protest on one of the American flag or camouflage-themed caps teams wear a few times a season, he'd be put on blast by everyone in the country and would become a pariah. By looking the other way now, however, the league and the Giants are saying that homophobia is OK by them.

It sucks all around. It makes it extraordinarily hard to give a shit about any of these dudes or the institutions which give them a free pass for this kind of crap.

Fix your hearts or die, ballplayers. I'd prefer the former option but I'd be fine with the latter if that's what you'd prefer.
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Rare capture of a BMW indicating whilst crossing lanes
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