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Michael E. Kanell

@michaelkanell.bsky.social
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Economics writer, cat guy, I love that dirty water

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
trump/gop wants you to think theyre truly at war with the msm, and i think that's the real "fake news" Why Trump’s battle with the mainstream media is smoke and mirrors www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Why Trump’s battle with the mainstream media is smoke and mirrors
Despite Trump’s constant complaining about “fake news,” the true nature of the relationship is a little more complicated.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nvidia's CEO (net worth ~$200B, annual donations <1%) admitted he doesn't know his own zip code, much less his address, and that he doesn't care if kids can do basic math. No "safety" product by such a company should ever be trusted. This message brought to you by #BringBackShame
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it long ago: They want to bankrupt this country and sell it for parts.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At what point do these corporations get charged with felonious activity? Humans certainly aren't allowed to mess with government websites or else the FBI would be knocking on their door. We all saw Wargames.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani is our mayor. Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more like this please. thanks. every member of congress has a nationwide tv network sitting in their phone. use it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just so pathetic. One after the other, Trump nominated people to the most important positions solely because they’re sycophantic cultists who refuse to even say he is wrong about something that impacts public health even when they know he is. This is a nightmare for America. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone ready? We only had 10 years of people saying that this was their endgame. If it doesn't happen by November, it'll happen before January 2029. Either way, these creeps have no intention of allowing our democracy to survive or ever leaving power.
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would seriously like to hear what the purpose of impeachment as a constitutional mechanism is if not for this
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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
so glad kash is on the case
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huh?!?! Stupid or venal -- You Make the Call!!!
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I dreamed that the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt rose up from his surreal wheelchair and just kicked this fucker's ass all the way to Hell.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No indication that you're being chased by law enforcement. You're at the wheel, what do you do? This is criminal insanity.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lidice. The Nazis. Look it up.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
like they did in 1993? and 2009? and 2021? perhaps you see the problem.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have “access” to Trump Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well as long as we're creating lots of jobs for our hard-working thugs. I mean, the for-profit prisons can only hire so many.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026
‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be
Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on
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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level
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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t think I’ve ever before seen US military personnel risking their careers like this. This is very different and worrisome.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oy.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The first mid-level disaster will shut down the clown show. Look up Three Mile Island.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
LEVINE: “.. It is a little strange that an industry is overwhelmingly saying ‘regulate us, otherwise in our pursuit of mammoth profits we will kill everyone,’ and the US government is like ‘nah we’d rather you have the profits.’” @matt-levine.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This story is horrific and reinforces why cops shouldn't be responding to calls like this. She's being held in the Burlington ICE facility, where her post-miscarriage infection worsened.
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He called 911 to get his partner help. But ICE came and took her instead. - The Boston Globe
For several nights, ICE held her at the agency's field office in Burlington without medical care. For more than a year, immigrants and their attorneys have alleged inadequate conditions at this facili...
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Is it simply impossible for mainstream media to clearly report what the Trump administration is trying to do - often successfully - to our democracy? (I think yes.) Good @sulliview.bsky.social column. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
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The truth about the midterms — and the media’s failure to convey it
Plus: the most distressing media news of the week and the most encouraging
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Never stops hitting me the way everyone in mainstream discourse agrees that if we want to help people, we first have to convince Republicans, while everyone in mainstream discourse also agrees that Republicans do not have to convince any of us before they hurt people.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It would be almost funny that the press insist that this is just upholding a commitment to being unbiased, neutral, and objective, because the unbiased, neutral, objective version of this story is “Trump leads supporters in a pledge to commit voter fraud” That is literally just what happened
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heard Graff with the incredible Meghna on NPR's On Point this morning. Great stuff about a horrific day and the ways we have gone wrong since.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Al Qaeda, a C.I.A. analyst wrote, “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a U.S. city.”
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I agree w/ Dean Baker -- this isn't about delusion. It's an out loud commitment to criminality and treason.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nope, that's not sanewashing, it's LYING! Trump explicitly called on his supporters to pledge to commit fraud to win the election. A reporter and/or editor badly needs to be fired.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the rest of the media wont accurately portray this. we will. Trump is now openly trying to bribe voters www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump is now openly trying to bribe voters
How much would your vote cost?
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NPR asked me for a quick reaction to Trump's vow to send every adult a $5,000 check. Here's what I said:
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