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Michael Artz

@michaelartz.bsky.social
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Union lawyer, disappointed in oh so many

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
Ah yes, the imperial boomerang has once again snapped back on itself. I didn’t think “we need to be able to murder our people at home the way we’ve been murdering people abroad for decades” would be the message to take into the midterms, but here we are.
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Share one of the most obscure TV shows you can think of! 🖤
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.
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Jennifer A. @jamanuscriptspa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NIPSCO is currently estimating that the power will be back on in Gary, Indiana by Tuesday at midnight. The good people of Gary, a population that is 75% Black, have been without power for more than a week. This is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. www.nipsco.com/outages/powe...
A screen capture of the NIPSCO (the power company that serves northern Indiana) website, taken on Sunday, August 23 at 11:30am eastern, showing their estimate that power in Gary, Indiana will be restored by Tuesday, August 25, at midnight.
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
why are our approval ratings so low ask the congressional democrats?
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"Sheriff officers burned dog alive for no reason, laughed as dog’s owners cried" "Sheriff fond of torturing immigrants' dogs in front of them" "officers discussing who will kill dogs before they even arrive "White nationalists pervade law enforcement "Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the WaPo wants you to believe Trump has an relentless work ethic.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is political pogrom where the sitting president of the United States targeted his own constituents out of pure strategic racism based on nothing but racist lies.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you’re considering whether terms like ethnic cleansing or pogrom might be applicable to impending government action, there could be a problem.
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
what a headline for this year of our whatever this is 2026
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max asher miller @maxashermiller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
every accusation is a confession
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
what did this boat smell like?
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I get they aren’t going to dance on his grave, but I’m so tired of these Democrats who see Republicans as their friends who they just have polite disagreements with. Lindsey Graham was a monster who tried to end American democracy while cheerleading wars abroad but so glad he was nice to you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 08/07/2026
Blows my mind that MLS hasn't run a single ad during the World Cup to remind tens of millions of Americans who are getting into soccer that it exists
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
mitch mcconnell is 3 for 4 with two doubles and a single and 4 RBIs in this mets/royals game
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🔥 Part of the Brooklyn Bridge appears to be on FIRE as the NYC America250 Fireworks show continues along the East River
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
love the sick child, curse the disease. happy 4th everybody
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
welp. at least it was Romero #coys
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
England caught ball watching. Let's go Congo!
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
every flight at dca delayed due to regime's circus
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This sign even looks like it was yanked from a museum exhibit.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2026
Trump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you see this, post something orange from your gallery
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
AFSCME members are celebrating a huge victory for public services. Today, we succeeded in protecting funding for IMLS, a federal agency that supports public libraries and museums across the country.
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AFSCME members stop cuts, protect funding for libraries and museums
AFSCME members succeeded in protecting funding from IMLS, a federal agency that supports public libraries and museums across the country.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/04/2026
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Slept in my Pixies t-shirt and now I've changed my name to Art Michaels
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/03/2026
Watching Miami of Ohio basketball
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The fuck kind of answer is this
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Spurs are going down. I can't f'ing believe it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the US from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection, according to ICE. A tooth infection. He's death number nine.
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition. "'If they are going to house people there, it is a death camp. I don’t say that lightly,' said Arizona Sen. Analise Ortiz." shorturl.at/fmMj9
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MAP: All 23 industrial warehouses ICE wants to turn into detention ‘death camps’
In an apparent attempt to avoid public outcry and scrutiny, ICE has sought to secure these leases in private. So we made a searchable map of every proposed site.
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Robertson Reynolds @robinsonreynolds.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Even without the political messaging The MAGA pitch is my "yeah we're creepy and evil and brutal but you need us to protect you from *the other*" Here's "the other" you need to fear: a bunch of hot people dancing and having fun
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
crazy to see PREPA make the superbowl half time show
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 09/02/2026
What can you do with a history degree?
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
sorry nfl, an ad about los angeles being on fire is in bad taste
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
using auto-tune for the superbowl national anthem is cheating
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/02/2026
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-i…
What do you say to those who claim you’re not American?

I understand it’s confusing to encounter an American who can speak two different languages.
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Michael Artz @michaelartz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
nbc superbowl pregame seems to be mostly about the stadium. telemundo's superbowl pregame seems to be mostly about Bad Bunny and Owen Wilson
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