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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Sounds like @nytimes.com is gonna have to double-down on both-sides-isms between now and November. I'm sure they'll give it their darnedest!
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Noem: "Sir, I've never used the word schlong."
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Why should he try? What a stupid question.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Members of Congress (who'll rail about government spending the second a Democrat is in office): "How much money do we have to toss at these 3x Trump-voting farmers to get this story off the front page?"
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Public libraries are treasures!
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You can look forward to a @nytimes.com headline along the lines of: Defiant Trump Challenges Europe
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@wsj.com being cute cuz they know MAGA don't know what "afflatus" means and they ain't lookin' it up.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
But will it be "destroyed" enough to stop residents from voting for a party that just feeds them myths about being big tough, self-reliant cowboys? Nope.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We live in the Age of The Coward.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Legend. Gave so much to so many. That'll never die.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Communication via the written word has always existed in a lose/lose bind: Pre-AI, because they didn't respect it, every dipshit thought they could do it. With AI, many of these same folks praise AI for freeing them from having to "write," so they can get back to being dipshits.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
So ironic that in this supposed age of He-Man toughguyness, the so-called men in that room cower like gutless cowards at the hateful rants of a blathering old man. And then go home to wives and daughters...
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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
The young men of America should get together and write (lol...they'd have ChatGPT do it) a thank you note to their brocasting heroes for helping elect the dude who tanked their prospects.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Not a word about this self-dealing in this morning's @nytimes.com
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
But was he doing his brilliant Weave as he lied? Cuz, if so, @nytimes.com declared long ago that shit is political genius.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So giving Trump 64.6% of the vote in 2024 ain't keeping their bellies full?
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I recommend viewing clips of her with the sound off; her body language (the pursuing of the highly-tended lips, the deep inhale, the tensing up) screams: How much longer to I have to do this before Fox offers me millions!?
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There might be an opportunity but drilling down or testing logic doesn't happen. The show is not produced to encourage it either. It's talking points, ad hoc assertions, and clip-juicing confrontation. Abby would excel on a show like the one she described but she doesn't currently host one.
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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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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Usually there's a semi-colon after all such headlines followed by; Investors Couldn't Be Happier
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
He's everything that's wrong with far more than politics. He's everything that's wrong with so-called leaders, across all institutions. He's everything that's wrong with people who say they are Christian yet support Trump. He's everything that's wrong with those who lie to promote their brand.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Very generous of you to say he "thinks" prices are falling. More likely, he knows full well they are rising. But figures lying always works on his idiot cult. So...he says they are falling.
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Do they get around to also admitting that "@nytimes.com editors have made it clear that they view journalism's role as subordinate to the president" when they serve up headlines like: "U.S. Strikes 2nd Boat in Pacific as Antidrug Operation Expands". Anti-drug? According to who?
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Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Maybe they consulted with Judith Miller prior to approving that headline.
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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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