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Michael Lapides

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Time to take a walk.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Joe Biden had a bad debate in 2024. Hundreds of news stories about it. Trump has had hundreds of bank accounts closed due to evidence of money laundering. Nary a peep. Why?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I will not vote for any Democratic representative who supports Section 219 which blends our military to the military of Israel. @whitehouse.senate.gov @reed.senate.gov @sethmagaziner.bsky.social @amo.house.gov .Stop the genocide!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/07/2026
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Surveillance / Privacy / The Fourth Amendment. If only our government followed our own constitution. open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...
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SURVEILLANCE IN AMERICA IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT WORSE
A defense contractor is selling technology that enables license plate reading cameras to also sense driver and passenger phones, laptops, and even pet microchips as you drive past. Police and others c...
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I get about 7 hours of blinking a night.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Freedom and the Future substack.com/@snyder/note... @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Thinking Live with Heather Cox Richardson
My conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Fascism 101. Or instead, let's take care of each other.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/03/2026
For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Save Act is a scam.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
More of this from Republicans would be excellent. Thank you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I would like for trump and vance to summarily execute fewer people in Minnesota, sorry to sound partisan
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Paramus NJ Visibility Brigade
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If accurate very good news for Native Americans.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/12/2025
If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/10/2025
The decline isn’t subtle anymore.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Yeap
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Well put @smith.senate.gov
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Aunt Ifa at No King, Barrington RI
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Can't wait to hear people defend this. Darn, I forgot, these young GOP are about to be offered new jobs in DHS or ICE. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Have the good times started yet?
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
No Kings in Barrington RI mobilize.us/s/yd1J2F/o
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NO KINGS Barrington, Rhode Island · No Kings
Barrington Interfaith Partners invites all to gather in front of 461 County Road from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. Parking is available in the Park and Ride lot. The Barrington Congregational Church at this loca...
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Broken elevator, call 1-800- ANFIFA
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
On target. ABC should reinstate Kimmell.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"...or just kill them". Blunt and to the point. When they tell us who they are we must believe them.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Supreme Court is captured. Expect inconsistency.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
For me, this @merriam-webster.com account is useful. :)
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
word of the day
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thankfully we don't need the US government to know what rights we have. Not saying I don't want one. :/
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
May this do Tesla level damage to Apple. Sure, investing $100 Billion to manufacturing in America is good, but how much will an iPhone cost in 5 years? Android owner here.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If you are not on one of those other hell sites this may be news to you. It was to me.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Totally not a cult.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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Michael Lapides @michael-laps.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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