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Michael Azevedo

@michaelazevedo.bsky.social
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Curious citizen, hopeful skeptic. Host of MAKING MEDIA NOW podcast. Voice over guy. Bad at social media.

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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I had a great chat with Steve Humble of @vpm.org about "Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War," premiering on @pbs.org on June 29. Check out our conversation and this eye-opening film! fcmakingmedia.podbean.com/e/pbs-docume...
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PBS Documentary Spotlights Black Americans’ Role in the Revolutionary War | Making Media Now
Joining host Michael Azevedo on this episode is Steve Humble, the chief content officer for VPM—Virginia’s home for the public media.    Steve is also the executive producer of “Declarations: Black A...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/04/2026
Many of these influencers calling for a DOJ probe into foreign influence have taken foreign money themselves. Just so you know how seriously to take them. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social:
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MAGA Influencers Are Salivating Over Jailing Each Other
And it’s all over a supposed DOJ probe into whether foreign money is influencing conservative content on Iran.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"No president can decide to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval." —Marco Rubio in 2023 "It's the president's decision if we stay in NATO." —Marco Rubio in 2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
KLOBUCHAR: Are you aware agents bashed in the door of a citizen? NOEM: I can't speak to specifics K: Do you believe he was involved in fraud? Are you aware he's son of a beloved nurse that treated our soldiers in Vietnam? Did they have a judicial warrant? Are you aware he tried to show his ID?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I do enjoy about this list is the down home Harvard professors, and the everyday Stanford fellows fulfilling Tony Dokoupil's promise to CBS viewers and readers: "We put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you." www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...
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CBS News names 19 new contributors
CBS News has significantly expanded its knowledge base and on-air presence with the addition of 19 new contributors who cover the worlds of politics, national security, health, happiness, arts, food, ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Oregon said Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent letter to Minnesota reinforced unease about how the Justice Department is wielding its authority in its nationwide push for state voter rolls, suggesting the administration’s campaign may be driven by improper motives.
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Bondi’s ‘blackmail’ letter to Minnesota deepens concerns over DOJ’s voter roll motives, federal judge says
The judge reiterated the DOJ's case against Oregon will be dismissed entirely.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/01/2026
Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.
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US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search
Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 19/01/2026
Democrat Rep, Becca Balint, the first openly LGBT Rep for VT calls herself "a scrappy dyke who won't be intimidated by ICE." 🙌🏻 😬 And then asks the witness for official clarification on how legal observers can lawfully resist, document, & observe ICE. 🚨
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/01/2026
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
White supremacist talking points. No dog whistles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/01/2026
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My people, I know you can't afford hamburger, but I bring you the gift of racism!
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Everyone is downplaying that Mar-A-Lago is a vector in the Epstein pipeline so it’s good to point this out
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Gotta love when @nytimes.com tip-toes up to the line of saying something that's been obvious for months and then uses the most anodyne language possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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America First? Some Trump Supporters Worry That’s No Longer the Case.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The fix is in. Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Harry Enten: "Voters blame Trump, not Biden for the state of the economy. The vast majority of Americans (75%) & even Republicans (57%!!!) say Trump's not doing enough to lower costs... GOP in Congress should be scared as we just saw economy-first voters go big for Dems in VA & NJ Gov."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown. The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files. They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025
Jeffries: "The reason why they continue to unlawfully block the swearing in of Adelita Grijalva is because they are actively hiding the Epstein files from the American people. And they're protecting someone, clearly -- the wealthy, the well off, the privileged, and the well-connected."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Senator Elizabeth Warren is now probing the United States Treasury Department over alleged United States purchases of Argentine pesos during the massive bailout. This is big news. meidasnews.com/news/warren-...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/10/2025
Gov. Shapiro: "The federal government under the Trump administration cut funding for energy projects...that were going to lead to more energy production in Pennsylvania...More energy means more freedom...Why the federal government is cutting that funding is inexplicable to me."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Incredibly dangerous. Literally the title is "Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!" dailycaller.com/2025/09/26/i...
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INGERSOLL: Enough Is Enough … I Choose VIOLENCE!
We need to reinstitute a public debt for anti-social and subversive behavior. In my opinion, some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Does my Epstein look big in this flag?
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Indivisible Clackamas ❌👑 @indivisibleclack.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Lots of great signs at today's #FightTheTrumpTakeover at Clackamas Town Center in Clackamas County, OR.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The U.S. Constitution gives a heck of a lot of power over elections for the House, Senate, and President to *Congress.* It gives precisely zero power over elections to the President. Trump’s bluster is scary, but it’s also bluster.
A picture of the text of Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution.
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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Too many of us are so ungrateful for the miracles we’ve been given.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Hey look, it's @nytimes.com with more "analysis" that, minus specific names and dates, could have been written last October. But their Politics teams was hypnotized by The Weave, held Harris to a standard they never imposed on Trump, and ached for the clicks. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Brutal. But well-deserved.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/07/2025
Rep. Massie: "Ro [Khanna] and I carefully crafted this legislation so that the victim's names will be redacted and no child pornography will be released...It's the president's own AG, FBI director, children, and vice president who said that these files need to be released."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/07/2025
Q: "[Mike Johnson] is accusing you of trying to inflict political pain on your party...Is he right?" Massie: "Is the pain that he's talking about that somebody in our party will be embarrassed those files?" That's not a good excuse...I don't really know what he means by that."
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Instant classic. 🤡
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
State media now rehabilitating someone who was "convicted ... of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused" apnews.com/article/ghis...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/07/2025
Jeffries: “Why haven't Republicans released the Epstein files to the American people? It's reasonable to conclude that Republicans are continuing to protect the lifestyles of the rich and shameless, even if that includes pedophiles.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/07/2025
Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review. Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Senior officers of the United States military have an obligation to speak up and be leaders. Where is the Army chief of staff? Will he or others speak truth to the commander in chief and put a stop to the assault on the integrity of his troops? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the Army’s brass failed to speak out in its defense.
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 30/04/2025
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"...The focus group met on the evening of April 8, just hours before the 'Liberation Day' tariffs were set to go into effect" It took 10 days to publish this repetitive collection of monosyllabic, insight-free wish casting? The dumb. It hurts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Tariffs, Elon Musk and Trump’s Term So Far: 13 Trump Voters Discuss
The participants discuss how they think Trump’s second term is going.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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