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@MichaelHardy

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Just a guy. Opinions are my own and all that.

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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
... told he was next in line to see a doctor once a space in ER opens up. SUNDAY 7am: jaundiced, weakened 85yo Father-in-law finally taken to a room in ER. Sees an ER Doctor *for the first time* 40 min later - nearly 17 hours after checking in at ER. This is a seriously broken system.
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Saturday afternoon: Liver specialist who's treating my father-in-law reviews lab results and tells family to get him to ER at Georgetown hospital immediately. Saturday 3pm: check at Georgetown ER. See a tech within the first hour to take blood and record vitals. Sent back to ER waiting room.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 15/02/2025
👇🏻👇🏻
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
here's today's post: "doddering old fool gets pantsed by Canada and Mexico" — and Democrats finally wake the fuck up. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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doddering old fool gets pantsed by Canada and Mexico
and Democrats finally wake the fuck up
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going: If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes? And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully. Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
really weird how everything Kamala warned us would happen is happening
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Senator Chuck Schumer sums it up
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The DOGE kids showing up at Treasury:
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If it feels like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to destroy our country from within, that’s because it is exactly what they are fucking doing.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Some good news for a change…👇 Pay ATTENTION, now!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
not gonna lie—were I potus I would def threaten Canada with ginormous tariffs if it would make them take Ted Cruz back
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So naturally, you know what to do…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Just saying.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Eccamp @eccamp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Congrats to Meidas Touch for beating Fox in audience ratings. Talk about a light in the darkness!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/02/2025
I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Any other person would be arrested…
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think we are all searching in vain for evidence that Donald Trump or Elon Musk are serving America rather than other interests. Their anger at USAID sounds like ventriloquism from Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. It makes no sense whatsoever to anyone who actually loves this country and its values.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2025
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 04/02/2025
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Front page of the nyt
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.
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Pete Fuller @petefullerga.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
everything is a conspiracy when you don't understand how anything works
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
LA Fire TikTok comments are BLEAK. Every conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard plus a bunch that are brand new.
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
TikTok (and Donald Trump) deserve to lose. The Supreme Court should give Trump a civics lesson. He does not have the authority to set aside the law. It should also draw a bright line between American speech, which is protected, and Chinese control of an American media outlet, which is not.
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Opinion | It’s September 2026, and the Pentagon Is Alarmed
The effort to ban TikTok isn’t about what’s on the platform but rather who runs it.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 09/01/2025
Russian bots launched a “pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign” on social media to support an anti-NATO Croatian presidential candidate, a group of researchers said.
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Russian bots boosted NATO critic ahead of Croatian election, researchers say
“One seemingly inauthentic Facebook account identified by researchers was found to post over 100 times a day,” the Centre for Information Resilience noted.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
when RAND corporation released their report on neo-medievalism I don't think they were expecting it to be this medieval
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Shortly after Citizens United, Jimmy Carter issued a stark warning about the role of Big Money in politics. May we remember the truths that he told us — and act to remedy them. bit.ly/4j6N1cC
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Jimmy Carter on the American oligarchy
He was a truth-teller. We should remember what he said — and act on it.
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
She looks happy to be there.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Some primetime blatant misogyny from Fox’s Jesse Watters. (Fox is poison, exhibit infinity)
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in hush money case www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
They are taking back campaign promises faster than they made them.
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Irony.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
He’s a complete crackpot.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Alito spoke with Trump on Tuesday, not long before Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in a New York fraud case. "Alito said the call was a routine job reference for a former law clerk." He doesn't care. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...
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Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing
The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing did not come up.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
14 million Americans owe over $1,000 in medical debt. 3 million Americans owe more than $10,000. Good luck convincing Canadians to give up their free healthcare.
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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Bad day for that lizard.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s why I’m mostly here now, in The Good Place.
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Let's do it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Trump's vile rants about the LA wildfires remind us that the MAGA project is all about degrading public life and denying our common humanity at every opportunity. On the pod, historian Nicole Hemmer is brilliant in tracing the deeper roots of this on the right: newrepublic.com/article/1900...
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Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Eruptions Over CA Wildfires Hint at Darker Story
As Trump unleashes vile attacks on Democrats over the Los Angeles horrors, a leading historian of conservatism explains how this fits into the right’s broader project of degrading public life.
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hank goin' old school!
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
ICYMI... Nothing about this is okay!
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@MichaelHardy @michaelhardy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie says welcome to the nerd zone
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says welcome to the nerd zone
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