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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/09/2026

I am so, so tired of this endless parade of half-baked bullshit, and the equally endless parade of braying rubes smirking at a camera next to the latest pathetic stock pump. I am begging people to have a little fucking dignity, for all of our sakes.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh man that sounds serious. Surely a large threat from this president will cause Iran to shape up. Glad to know our strong leadership has this under control.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“legal formalism as political ideology . . . any time a contestable legal doctrine is presented as if it were a fixed feature of the legal terrain rather than a constructed artifact reflecting specific political choices“ www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/who-does-s...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/04/2026

"[Ben] Shapiro is an intellectual imposter of the grandest sense. What a waste of mind and life."

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The Most Articulate Apologist

A Crisis Dispatch

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Another weekend on two wheels. I rode to the 2026 Tail Chaser 250 in Old Fort, NC. #Motorcycles #ADVRider #MotoSky #BMWMotorrad #R1200GS

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 07/01/2026

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

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The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine

The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It seems as if there’s a new apartment building going up every time I head downtown, so it’s good to see the economic data indicating the positive benefits. Every new unit in downtown Raleigh is one less family moving to the suburbs and adding to the sprawl. I’m here for the change.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 18/11/2025

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/11/2025

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe. So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

As a kid in the ‘80s I loved all these characters. I think I just happened to be at the right age to not question whether these were they were authentic. It was a developmental suspension of disbelief. Now I find characters like this corny, but I still have nostalgia for Pee-wee and Macho Man.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Everyone who has a stake in America should read pages 96 through 100 of Judge Young's opinion. (I mean, read the whole thing, of course. But those pages are more broadly important.)

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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Today was a bit of a bear, but that’s why we ride motorcycles. #MotoSky

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

There is something deeply troubling in the American psyche that extends all the way into the federal government. “He told me he likes seeing me on TV” is the language of a person in an abusive relationship. These are men at the top of the world who are desperate to feel loved.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Trump has effectively launched the U.S. into war without congressional approval, without a declaration, and entirely on impulse. Call your Congressperson and demand Congress to speak out and to take immediate action to stop the U.S. from entering a full-scale war.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors There is not another military in the World that could have done this.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’ve been experimenting with making giant ice cubes for drinks. This one was too big and I had to trim it down to fit in a rocks glass.

Giant ice cube in a rocks glass. Text on the glass says, “The old north state”

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One of the things I hate about the trump era is these constant red herrings. Every day there is a new topic on which we must express an opinion. The issue is always of low importance and distracts us from what matters. All the chatter around the topic of the day is more noise. This time it’s flags.

A screenshot from Donald the Idiot™ highlighting his lack of seriousness, which would disqualify a normal person from holding office.

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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ~ Carl Sagan

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This is how I’ve felt since January 6th. I still have strong ideological convictions, but they are superseded by my support for democracy, the rule of law, and basic respect for human dignity. If I’m willing to sacrifice humans, my ideology has become an idol.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Everyone is dunking on this take from Chatterton Williams and seems to be having a good time doing so. I think this highlights the trouble with political dialog, particularly on Bluesky.

A screenshot of a post from Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

An entire generation of people raised on memes and Fox News who are just completely unable to separate propaganda from reality. If there is a crisis, it’s epistemological. Fascists will try to bend reality to their ideology, but this always fails in the long run with tons of damage along the way.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Back in my web developer days I took a stand against adding one of these useless checkboxes to the company website. I won the battle, but eventually lost the job.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

They need to make some space at the Louvre, because this is art.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

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Mark Russell @manruss.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It’s Friday, but I’m trapped at my desk for the day and there’s rain in the forecast. Here’s a picture of my GS laying in the dirt. #Motosky #BMWMotorrad #Pinksky #ADVRider

A BMW motorcycle laying on its side in the dirt.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“Shows just how important it is that leaders are held up to regular scrutiny” is particularly egregious. I would like some semblance of intellectual honesty from the political class.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“CBO estimates that household resources would decrease by an amount equal to about 2 percent of income in the lowest decile (tenth) of the income distribution in 2027 and 4 percent in 2033, mainly as a result of losses of in-kind transfers, such as Medicaid and SNAP (see the figure).”

The big beautiful bill that makes US tax policy less progressive.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” -Marcus Aurelius

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I know this makes me sound ancient and stale, but the United States has a serious deficiency in basic civic knowledge.

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Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 19/05/2025

The new GOP tax bill gives the richest Americans (making over $4.3 million) an average tax cut of over $389k—while working families earning $17k-$51k will lose $700 a year on average. It’s a slap in the face to hardworking families who need tax relief the most.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Not all motorcycle trips have a happy ending. A buddy got a flat tire on his Multistrada and we weren’t able to plug it. Had to track down a uhaul. #Motosky

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Wolf Creek Lake. Somewhere south of Waynesville, NC. #Motosky

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2025

This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Just a few minutes away- Emerald Isle, NC

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

“The means become the ends . . . How people exercise power determines the trajectory of where that power is going to take them.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @niedermeyer.online @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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Inside the Tesla Takedown Protests

Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 04/08/2025 · 54m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you’re not read Masnick yet this is a great place to jump in.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

There are now a couple hundred people in my replies here calling me a fascist, which proves my point. Bluesky is not a good place for discussing even the mildest of topics.

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Aloysius, Michael @michael-aloysius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The nice thing about getting some engagement on Bluesky is that it gives you a good start on a block list.

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