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Michael Carlson

@micarlson.bsky.social
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Nora's dad. Rufus' guy 14+ years. Yank, Montréaler, Brit (adopted pre-Brexit).Writer, broadcaster & speaker on Culture (arts, books,film,music,Americana),Politics & (as Mike or Iron Mike) Sports. Some poems. Accept no substitutes.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 6h
In his case I might consider an exception to my disgust
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 6h
Whatever happened to The Execution Will Not Be Televised #whiskeypetehegseth #maga #pathsofglory
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 6h
I went to one in 1970 or so, Phil Sueling's opposite Penn Station and it was fun
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 9h
What's actually shameful is shooting into a car with a 5yr old inside and then calling a press conference to brag about it.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 6h
Where's Don "Sonny" Jr's laptop?
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 8h
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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MGEmancipation @mgemancipation.bsky.social · 10h
"And all men kill the thing they love" Oscar Wilde, Ballad of Reading Gaol for @miketanier.bsky.social
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He makes a good point.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The absolute truth! Without a doubt.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
half of them defectors from the former Natural Party of Government
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Greens have slipped from 7% to 10%....
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Beyond parody.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump's AG Todd Blanche just filed a misconduct complaint against two Minnesota federal judges for telling the NYT that the 3,000-agent immigration surge there threatens democracy. Their crime? Documenting 96 violated court orders. Punishing judges for truth is how democracy dies.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What exactly is "election fraud by jury"? How do juries influence elections?
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whattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He served 29days and only because the judge rejected Paxton's one day plea bargain
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When will this war be over? It’s gone on so long Alina Habba got divorced and married again.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Choose one of these possible @telegraph.co.uk answers 1. Keir Starmer 2 Woke Socialists 3 ECHR 4. Immigrants
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He's going to "expel the warmongers" from his cabinet? Does he really think Netanyahu will quit? Whiskey Pete aint going nowhere either
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I very much await the rise of the Pictish Peoples Party
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow Rory Stewart. Just wow. What a horrible misrepresentation of how it all works and why it doesn’t. Put asylum seekers in prisons? Refuse to share the responsibility for this human tragedy with our European neighbours who are accepting more refugees than us already? Fgs. What’s wrong with you?
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Why don't refugees stay in France?
They do and France actually receives a much larger number of asylum claims than Britain - around 167,000 in 2023, compared to 67,000 in the UK.
Those who arrive in France often choose to remain there and a relatively small proportion of the asylum seekers intend on moving on to the UK.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Tories disgust me in opposition as much as they did in power. Driven mad chasing Reform votes. Incapable of decency and responsibility. And so goddam wet. Not one of them prepared to admit they got it wrong, that Brexit is a shitshow and more of that ruinous EU-phobia is the wrong way to go.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tom Tugendrat works for me
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's the point of owning an £80,000 suv if you can't drive it over 20mph?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kuenssberg couldn't sleep last night, imagining how she would spring "Santa Burnham" on the PM. She is crestfallen that he actually has a cogent answer, that is not a version of "it's true, poor people are wicked and must be punished".
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With Up Chuck Schumer and Hakeem the Bad Dream in charge, they'll do nothing
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Everyone thought Dutch football fans were the coolest for doing this
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah, the British paradox!
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much winning...
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check out Iron Mike on today's Irish Independent US sport roundtable podcast. & if Ronan had asked me who was #nfl 's Mayo, I'd've said the New York J-E-S-T Jets of Newark Airport. Don't miss it! www.independent.ie/podcasts/foo...
independent.ie
Football vs jetlag | Who is the Mayo of the NFL? | Super Bowl favourites | Hockey's coaching scandal | US Sports Roundtable
Ronan, Will & Shane reassble the US Sports Roundtable as the NFL season starts to take shape. Renowned journalist and broadcaster Mike Carlson is also on hand to give his sense of the early runners an...
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years on and he's still blaming Gideon Osborne and Theresa May and Covid (and somehow praising "Let The Bodies Pile Up" Boris). Worse than Trump blaming Obama and Biden for everything he's screwed up.
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Guess who can count on CNN support moving on to 2028?
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
MAGA calls it a caucus
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ~ Howard Zinn @deadder.bsky.social
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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Belarus slapping down Moscow's man
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fox spends day after day, show after show, demonizing Mamdani as a dangerous communist un-American radical jihadist who wants to destroy America, then every 3 months Trump has a love fest with him and praises him for doing a great job.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Whenever Republicans say gas prices spiked “under Biden” they always fail to mention that it coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Trump promised dozens of times during the campaign that he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours & said it “wouldn’t even be hard.”
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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So Trump makes a post that he's buying Potash from Belarus at a cheaper cost than Canada and then Belerus puts out a statement that they aren't selling to the US. This president does nothing but Bullshit. Stop paying attention.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They lied during their Senate confirmation hearings. They should be impeached; lying constitutes perjury and/or high crimes and misdemeanors.
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