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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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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 18h
I love that the two senate debates tonight were the Muslim and Jewish guy who are both running against a guy named Mike.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h
Every day I read a dozen things so grotesque, so depraved, that i could never again trust or respect anyone supporting it. But even in a crowded field this stands out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19h
#CrushICE
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h
It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis. 
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23h
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i think its funny that after multiple stock market bubbles, the great recession and insane wealth concentration that people (conservatives and even some centrists) are so bewildered why socialism is increasingly popular.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
more big government as in give people healthcare and childcare less big government as in have the right to murder and cage them
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As is noted in some of the comments, this echoes some of the early moves by the Nazis to 'purify' the German nation. Judge these people accordingly.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Terrorists." Lying scumbag or world-class ignoramus -- it's often a tough call.
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
It's a computer program
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Michele Harrison @shellydogg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wait til the Medicaid cuts kick in January 1. They purposely waited until after midterms. They KNOW how hard that will hit. Every ad Dems show on tv should be about Medicaid cuts.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FLAG: Trump doesn't rule out using the Insurrection Act around the midterms during an interview with TIME. "I don't rule anything out or in." "I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes." time.com/article/2026...
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What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This underscores why it’s so hard to cover Trump. Every sentence contains multiple lies, true, but *also* each lie is made for a different reason. Some are premeditated, some a product of dementia, some a product of being raised in a cult, some only semiconscious, some born of fear. He’s a mess.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great school! Great department! Great location!! But hey, @riacton.bsky.social, the Marketing Dept says ya *gotta* mention it's the alma mater of Mayor Mamdani!!!!
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
This is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Neither has Craig Breslow
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kennedy, who is super-educated, may pretend to be a bumpkin, but he is in truth, a douche-bag.
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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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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey, he's pivoting, man!! How else ya gonna drive that white ball a hunnert-plus yards so your caddie can kick it out of the sand trap.
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
...and first time I heard Bad Bunny was halftime in the Super Bowl. (And, of course, it ain't my jam, but I was much impressed -- boy can bring it!!!)
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Michael E. Kanell @michaelkanell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, I mean, I've heard *of* it, on account of all these people yakkin' about it. But heard the song? Hell, no. I mean, gimme some Tanya Tucker Texas tunes and I'm sangin' along...
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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
I'm an old, techno-phobic f*ck and I had no trouble reading your gorgeous piece. Johnny Cash would be proud. And your father would kvell.
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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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