Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 09/05/2026@brotherjones.bsky.social is an American hero. TY! 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026As a followup, here's a link to analysis of why Orban's gerrymandering failed. Gerrymandering isn't an insurmountable obstacle. Voters can still defeat it if we're organized. Dems have a wide open opportunity to lead voters but like most pols refuse to lead democracysos.substack.com/p/orbans-blu...democracysos.substack.comOrbán’s blunder: his gerrymander backfired, giving the opposition 91% of district seats[Welcome to DemocracySOS, a newsletter about the failings of America’s “winner take all” democracy, as well as proposed reforms and solutions. 011
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This is expedience not strategy. Remember there are 350M people in US & majority oppose Trump. Imagine if Dems were an opposition who led massive rallies. Gerrymandered Hungary deposed Orban in landslide. Match GOP gerrymandering & they'll find something else. Then resurrect democracy? Race 2 bottom 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Hey @sandovalindivisible.org you're welcome to join SF locals protesting this event. DM me if you have anyone who's interested. Love your Sat Tesla protests. I'm there every week. 011
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Trump fixer Michael Cohen is disingenuous? I'm shocked, shocked! You also may not have heard that the Pope is Catholic, the sky is blue, and men landed on the moon in 1969. C'mon guys, get with it. I wouldn't be surprised if Cohen turns full MAGA now. As transactional as Trump. Always has been. DUH. 110
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025ARRRGH!!! Virtue signaling is for people who don't want to be virtuous. Giant crock. Visit Cali and you'll see it everywhere. Including lawn signs. Same people consistently vote down rent control, legal protection for gig workers, and they're NIMBYs. But don't listen to me. I only lived there 61 yrs 020
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Hey @nytimes.com, still think democracy qualifies as bias? Here's a tip from Raymond Chandler to Kingsby Publications, which gets "hundreds of authentic cases" every week. Phillip Marlowe: "Why don't you print a few?" Investigate all U want. But if U don't print what's authentic, what's the pt? 010
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Great tribute. Redford wasn't just a friend of NM, he was a part of it. My own tribute is maybe more than any actor, he's responsible for my interest in movies. As one obit stated, he embodied an American ideal. One that's under seige by you know who. We can respond by holding true to peace & love. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Condolences to all mourning Robert Redford today. Magic on the big screen & often behind the camera. There will never be another like him. The second half of Butch & Sundance is gone. End of an era. Hard day. Last I saw him on the screen in cameo w/George RR Martin in a Navajo jail on Dark Winds 😁 020
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025News flash for outgoing @durbin.senate.gov. This is why Democrats are polling in the toilet. Everyone knows you don't stop bullies by pretending they aren't bullies. And this schmo is a freaking US Senator. No wonder he won't run for re-election. Get a freaking clue, man. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Four words for pathological liar Christofascist Evil Mike Johnson: We. Will. Not. Yield. Now I'm off to protest your Dominionist ass. 4101
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Why does anyone ask RFK Jr. questions anymore? We all know he'll say something stupid. We are not amused. Just let him jerk off and go about his business. He should be facing a corner and wearing a dunce cap. And John Fetterman can eff himself to oblivion. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Does Trump know that squatting and making that face looks like he's trying to take a dump? Never mind that he couldn't squat his 79-yo carcass if he had all day. It's not napalm or deportations he's smelling... and since when do deportations smell? 120
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Right before Labor Day, The New Mexican ran an editorial exhorting Santa Feans to "support democracy." Now you run this column from MAGA Milan telling us that we shouldn't be able to vote on the obelisk. Does this paper support democracy or not? Stop giving a platform to this anti-democratic clown. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025First, plenty of union members vote Republican. And unions collect dues to represent their members in the workplace. Second, keep Mark Twain in mind. When you wrestle with a pig, you just get dirty and the pig likes it. Don't retaliate against Trump undemocratically. He wants us to take the bait. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025If "human" Trump (I use the term very loosely) is now a glassy eyed, slack jawed, drooling mess, then who is posting to his social media? How easy would it be to train AI to post like Trump? Just be the world's biggest jackass. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The Weekend at Bernie's Trump meme wins the internet today. 020
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Ndidiamaka Okpareke (who?) is trying to take a cheap shot at @repstansbury.bsky.social by claiming the MN shooter was mentally ill _because_ they may have been trans? That's not how the mental health professionals see it. Even if she's right, how would an ill person get an assault rifle? MAGA is how 010
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Safe to say the Kiwanis Club isn't the most radical group out here, right? But even they plan to turn Trump dictatorship into a public spectacle. The question is why aren't YOU calling him a dictator? It's not the job of the Kiwanis Club. It's YOURS. Instead you feed us MAGA concentration camp BS. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Oh look, the president is on the verge of exploding in his pants: abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru... 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025No, gerrymandering isn't going to stop at CA. Because it's retaliation. It will lurch back & forth and escalate to other voter suppression. Like banning mail ballots & closing polling places. When we fight fire with fire, the whole world burns. Instead consider ending winner take all elections. 410
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025"This appears to have been the plan all along." Moreover, when we fight fire with fire the whole world burns. Voting for something doesn't make it democratic. Ever read/watch "The Ox-Bow Incident"? Dems could just stop being led around by election consultants & campaign on fixing our democracy. 011
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 22/08/2025My response to goose stepping ghoul Stephen Miller: I may be an older protester, but at least I'm not undead. And wtf is "cracker barrel"? Is it a bunch of crackas tumbling out of a barrel like monkeys? Is that why MAGA likes it? 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Great, my kid saw this and now he's bugging me for a walking talking Orange Buffoon Doll for Christmas (but not more than two.) Thanks Uncle Jeff! And the Newsom AIs are getting hilarious. Instead of copying Trump AIs, they should keep sending out their own crazy crap like the guns/dinosaur/flag AI 010
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Let's pretend Trump gets into "heaven." Afterall, there are more stars in the universe than people who have ever been born. So there's some remote chance. What Trump would find is Twilight Zone Heaven -- where he gets whatever he wants but can't cheat for all eternity: www.imdb.com/title/tt0734... 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Sorry but I hope you're not suggesting Dems should retaliate by gerrymandering. Democracy protests are precisely what forced TX GOP to make political martyrs out of Dem legislators. It's the perfect opportunity to push our demands even farther. Don't commit the acts we condemn. Trump will crumble. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Brilliant as usual. I'd just change @jamisonfoser.bsky.social "privileging the lie" to "privileging the BS." When the media started this under Reagan, it was mostly lying more or less. But as a true autocrat, Trump pushes way beyond lying into gaslighting fabrication. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Newsom AI images trolling Trump are funny. Still don't like the posts in Trump gibberish. Because the media have been "privileging the lie" or what I call "privileging the BS" since Reagan: www.findinggravity.net/how-the-news... Regurgitating Trump gibberish, even in satire, normalizes it in media 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I for one hope Orange Satan gets into Heaven posthaste. Let somebody else deal with this schmuck for a change. And don't tell me his MAGA mobsters aren't hoping for the same. JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Mike Johnson, Elon Musk all are exploding in their pants jonesing to take over his grift. #FreeNicole 141
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Hey @nmpope.bsky.social quitting the redistricting TF is a shameful political stunt. U know a commission would only draw _state_ legislative districts not CDs. You're getting punked by the fascist John Block. Get back to the TF and work on an independent redistricting commission. 030
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025What's happening in TX is an American political spectacle on the level of the Watergate hearings 50+ yrs ago. Should lead the news cycle every day until resolved. This is nothing less than totalitarianism. A representative elected by the people is being held illegally as a political prisoner. 011
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 19/08/2025NM stands with our Dem neighbors in TX who have 24-hr police escorts to prevent them from breaking quorum in the TX legislature. Especially Rep. Nicole Collier. 46 of us attended our local protest in support of breaking quorum over anti-democratic GOP gerrymandering: www.reuters.com/world/us/tex... 043
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Brainiacs, gerrymandering is self serving by definition. In the case of Dems, it's retaliation not the restoration of democracy. You want a story? How about the betrayal of all of us who protested tyranny the last few months? How can anyone criticize Trump when a bunch of critics are reciprocating? 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Gerrymandering isn't an issue of moral virtue or strategy. The issue is whether you want to live democratically or not? Do you want to decide your future or do you want someone else to decide it? What you propose is retaliation. You're making all of us who protest Trump tyranny look like hypocrites. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Shout out to @nmpope.bsky.social for his outstanding support of the people of New Mexico who oppose produced water: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v... We know what truth & democracy look like.santafenewmexican.comTell the truth about produced waterEarlier this year, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission did exactly what we expect it to do — commissioners listened to the people, weighed the science and adopted a 120
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 17/08/2025This crosses a line. Bad enough you joined the Retaliatory Gerrymandering Bandwagon, which makes us look like hypocrites at our twice weekly Trump protests. But as you well know, nothing in politics or govt is permanent. Quit peddling the expedient reaction that we must match his gerrymandering. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Shall we oppose tyranny with tyranny? Gerrymandering disarms democracy. It serves only the politicians, not the people. This is exactly what Trump/MAGA want. Petition courts of law. Protest on the street. Demand democracy from our electeds. That's how we oppose tyranny. bsky.app/profile/camp... 111
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Hey @thedlcc.bsky.social @indivisible.org @commoncause.org gerrymandering serves only the politicians who do it. Not the people. Not democracy. You can't extinguish tyranny becoming a tyrant. Don't believe me? Maybe you'll believe these people. They haven't flipflopped. 020
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Imitating mouth noises that emanate from Orange Julius only encourages him. Nix that. Same goes for reporting any noises that don't correspond to a significant action. This accounts for about 99% of what leaves his pie hole. His fact free jerking off matters not. Only his level of political support. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Hey @scinm.bsky.social how about working with @indivisibleabq66.bsky.social on this: www.visibilitybrigade.com/group-direct... 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Clearly the Gov & her cronies are in cahoots with fossil fuels. No evidence to justify moving forward. This hearing trampled the rule of law and democracy: newenergyeconomy.salsalabs.org/wqcc-farce Mariel Nanasi and @newenergyeconomy.bsky.social are brilliant. I'm just very angry. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Dunno about dad gum crime in Tennessee. I do know the last time Tim Burchett went home he was kicked by a horse. Is DC crime worse than getting kicked by a horse? My wife & I visited DC before Trump was prez. We rode the Metrorail & walked everywhere. Had a lovely time. But we didn't see any horses. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025@commoncause.org doubling down on hypocrisy by calling themselves the leading anti-gerrymandering group. Says who? Right now you're leaders in shilling for self serving gerrymandering politicians. Then tripling down by soliciting donations for your hypocrisy. Don't make me drop off your mailing list 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Good grief. Newsom has taken tyranny to resist tyranny to the next level by immitating the tyrant's gibberish. One of the most embarrassing self owns I've seen recently, which says a lot. If anybody thinks he's leading the opposition, best case is civil war worst is we're circling the crapper. 010
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Et tu? Why is support for Dems at a record low? Because they're not doing enough to oppose Trump's anti-democratic law breaking, right? Now you're proposing Dems gain more votes by... doing the same things their voters oppose? Makes no sense. Dems need to champion not abandon democracy/rule of law. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Hey @commoncausenm.bsky.social you need to push back on the national's gerrymandering flipflop. Only serves pols not the people. Cannot defeat tyranny by becoming tyrants. The framers would call this hypocrisy. Keep litigating, protesting, demanding rule of law. www.commoncause.org/resources/po... 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Et tu? You're caving to the Dems like other nonpartisan orgs. I call BS. Gerrymandering is disarming the power of democracy. It serves only the political class, not the voters. GOP already controls Congress. 20 more seats won't make a diff. Won't change our fight in courts, protests, w/pol leaders. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025When Orange Turd swore his oath of office without touching a Bible every Fed with a gun -- including the military -- became his personal Goon Squad. That's why the FBI is in DC out of their jurisdiction. Why the Marines are helping ICE kidnap people off the streets in violation of Posse Comitatus. 020
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025This is a race to the bottom. A dorm room is fine for transitional but not indefinite housing. Until the need for housing becomes a right and not a privilege, we won't solve our affordability problem. Publicly finance dignified housing and never concede to SFAR & real estate investors. 000
Michael Fehr @michaelfehr.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Why does MAGA hate women playing basketball? Are they afraid of getting their asses kicked? Do they think Caitlyn Clark is going to lay a headlock on JD Vance? And what in the name of all that's holy is this AI monstrosity from Junior? Is he thirsting for Daddy? Is he snorting a barrel of coke now? 020