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Michael E

@michaeleichner.bsky.social
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Occasional badass. World is scary but as The Doctor says “Scared is a superpower” Liberal. GenX. Consumer of things. Enthusiast. No time for bullies. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Among other stuff ex JD, Ultimate for CUT. Social introvert; ADHD; likes to explain. #landback

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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Nobody has tried governing as If they were Beavis and Butthead before” they said…
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd always had the impression he dabbled as a youth because of his parents but was never "really" a COS member. Sounds like it was the opposite. Wonder if he'd have half the fanbase if this stuff was broadly known?
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Better than the day before
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Trump has led a sustained attack on food safety both terms. The USDA was gutted through relocation/restructuring in Trump 1, the food-labor force has been under constant attack under Trump 2, both farm- and meat-system assaulted through ICE, and food inspection through DOGE cuts. Protect yourself!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/08/2026
It’s getting harder to classify Trump’s whack comments purely as lies because they’re so obviously false. It’s looking more and more like he’s lost his grip on reality.
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sure, Jan.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trump will announce an agreement allowing Saudi Arabia to enrich nuclear fuel that will make it easier for the kingdom to develop nuclear weapons, in exchange for the Saudi's personally enriching Trump and his family. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
forbes.com
Trump Family Has Major Saudi Arabia Business Ties As Nuclear Deal Draws Scrutiny
The nuclear agreement was first reported Tuesday and Trump is expected to sign it Wednesday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My man looks like Professor X if his mutant power was "giving people the creeps"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Coming tomorrow…we’re pouring a shot of espresso to start your day ☕️ USWNT Olympic gold medalist, Washington Spirit forward and TikTok icon Trinity Rodman is back on the pod! 🇺🇸🥇
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I mean, fine. Until they have to.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 14/07/2026
Donald Trump reflected on the death of Lindsey Graham by noting that Graham’s father died at a similar age, adding, “I’m a believer in the race horse theory. If you have problems, you have problems. And he had some problems.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They want to be held in the highest regard -- a world filled with copaganda shows and Blue Lives Matter merch -- but they do not want to be held to the highest standards. Citizens must respect and revere the police, but when cops kill an innocent person, well, golly, that's just a big old oopsie.
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Mista Kotta 💙 🇺🇦 @mistakotta.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I believe it's called the MAGA movement.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s someone I know for sure is NOT a grown person in that room.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
the track record of people with democratic campaign introduction videos that get people excited is kind of bad, be they "im just a regular maine lobsterman" to "im a former combat pilot"
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I wish the “Freedom 250” wasn’t being shut down due to heat. But only because I want it to flop on its own merits.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court ruled today that states may ban transgender girls from school sports. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority. 25 states have now criminalized gender-affirming care for minors. The court that just upheld birthright citizenship spent the same morning legislating who gets to play.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court struck down Watergate era limits on coordinated party spending today, in a case brought by JD Vance. Justice Kagan's dissent warned of unlimited coordination between billionaires and candidates. Three rulings. One morning. Citizenship won. Children lost. Money won bigger.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I hope this can promote a reasonable and civil conversation, not finger-pointing or blame. But I think today's SC decision shows that not voting becuase you oppose a two-party system, or voting third-party, can have the effect of reinforcing it. What is the end game?
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Glad I stayed up past midnight to watch that ass defense
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Even Alexi Lalas is talking smack about Team USA. That said, Lalas would have a 0% chance of making this team.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Drink break! Except it’s not hydration 🍷
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Maybe play your best players, yellows or not, and just say “we’ll win in the next round, suspensions or not” I’m not joking… play the best team. Resting 3/9 best players because “what if” is stupid. They could just as easily get suspended in round of 16.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We’ve gone from “Americans Roast Turkey” to “Americans roast, Turkey” very quickly
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s “getting shit together” time for Team USA.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Everybody drink!
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Can you imagine a bunch of GOP reps signing onto a document preventing “conservatives” from running?
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Whoops. Who was the turkey who was supposed to be covering Türkiye?
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
He’s fully aware. He’s just testing the waters to say even more repugnant stuff. It’s not ignorance, it’s the scientific method. We’re the frog, he’s the pot.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Cheers!
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Is that fucking Paris Hilton at the World Cup???
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
To be fair, none of us ever warned in previous elections that the Supreme Court would be at stake. No one could have predicted this.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Amazing how terrible people can be when they think it’s safe to do so. This is the real Megyn Kelly.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Giving racists free rein to be their worst selves This is bad
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/06/2026
This line from Ketanji Brown Jackson—that the Court's "objective is protecting guns"—is clearly right, but it's pretty unusual for justices to put sentiments like this in writing ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
2 WOLFORD v. LOPEZ
JACKSON, J., dissenting
For what it is worth, I think Bruen was wrongly decided.
But if it is going to be our precedent, the majority should at
least endeavor to apply it faithfully. I respectfully dissent
because the majority has failed to do so here, and its
analysis and conclusion only further bind the hands of mod-
ern legislatures attempting to balance and protect their res-
idents’ interests. With this decision, the Court has now ma-
nipulated Bruen into a free-for-all that lets the Judiciary
thwart the will of legislatures by privileging access to fire-
arms above all else. Today’s decision makes one thing clear:
The Court’s objective is protecting guns, not consistently
preserving any principle of law.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Teleported himself into the unemployment line.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/06/2026
The Supreme Court's "history and tradition" test for gun safety laws is the dumbest version of heads-I-win, tails-you-lose jurisprudence. Anytime a legislature enacts a meaningful gun restriction, the conservatives find a reason to conclude that the historical "evidence" just isn't strong enough.
ballsandstrikes.org
The Supreme Court Is a Pro-Gun Activist Group
The conservative supermajority introduces a new Second Amendment test: Gun safety laws are probably illegal if Sam Alito thinks they would make gun owners feel upset.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Process the fact that—as of yesterday—if a tourist so much as dips a finger in the Reflecting Pool Trump ruined they get detained for an hour by multiple federal agencies This is the police state Republicans hysterically warned of for decades, and now that it's here they love it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2026
it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Pulte begins a political purge of the intelligence community. Add it to what Hegseth is doing with the military, Blanche with Justice, Patel with FBI, and the hirings at ICE, and we’re entering a very dangerous period, one that makes Watergate look like child’s play. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...
cnn.com
Firings now underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says | CNN Politics
The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CN...
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Sitting at a bar in DC, guys down from me are all decked out in Freedom250 gear and I’m like “I’m going to see my gay cousin speak at a synagogue, you guys do you”
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
My little Mexican American princess is very selective in her World Cup viewing #WorldCup
Dog sleeping Dog looking bored
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not 'free students up for higher-order work.' It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all." www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
chronicle.com
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Let's get a thread going to all the racism the Trump administration is spreading around the World Cup, which will get attributed to all of us. First, the US has denied well-respected ref Omar Artan a visa because he's from Somalia, which is one of Trump's "shithole" countries.
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Somali referee for World Cup denied entry into United States
Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry into the United States after getting selected to officiate in the World Cup.
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is the Onion timeline
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Normal people think gin drinkers like to fight but bartenders love gin drinkers because they tip well and are usually entertaining and slightly insane
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Michael E @michaeleichner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Having to pay to watch the NBA finals is crazy. Who the hell made that choice?
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