Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 6mBut no changes on funding hate groups? They’re keeping that going apparently 020
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14mI’m not a highly paid democratic consultant but “decarbonizing the economy means disconnecting our happiness and livelihood from the worst people on earth” seems like a good message 000
Reposted by Michan Connormtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7hIt took massive interventions into the market for this to be the case, part of Trump's scheme to turn American consumers into customers of last resort for otherwise stranded Saudi oil reserves 539359
Reposted by Michan ConnorMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5hIt's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech. 13989242
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 9hEspecially not keen on getting an American Cromwell out of this 2240
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 9hA place where lawless white supremacists mounted an incompetent defense and then ran away and let others lie about what they did for almost 2 centuries is very fitting for Paxton to end his political career. 000
Reposted by Michan ConnorRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14hCrazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it. 482537688
Reposted by Michan ConnorTruthout @truthout.org · 11hFormer US Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate candidate in Michigan, saw his personal wealth soar after he was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2011, thanks in large part to his marriage to the CEO of a powerful military contracting firm.buff.lyMike Rogers’s Wealth Soared as His Wife’s Firm Won Billion-Dollar ContractsDespite concerns about conflicts of interest, Rogers was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee. 49456
Reposted by Michan ConnorJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12hThe argument for taxing the rich harder is about paying for social support systems, yes, but its utility in democracy is limiting the amount of power that any one individual can wield over the rest of us 718056
Reposted by Michan ConnorJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22hThis bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it 494417692
Reposted by Michan ConnorNoel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 23hImagine working for Starlink in TX, CA & WA, going home to your own family at night knowing the product Musk sold to Ukraine for battlefield Wifi use is now being turned off so Putin can murder children in Kyiv. There must be some kinda ‘paper trail’ in your offices. Leak it now. 221361603
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 21hIt’s time to revisit the entire concept of contracting this kind of infrastructure. Letting a crank fascist control this resource is insane 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Maybe it has the makings of intimidation because that’s what it is? Clearly Stephen Miller was bragging to his wife about it inspiring her to send out a gloat-tweet to their fascist followers about pushing the Muslim Somali woman around 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026We are ten years into the Trump era can we possibly stop pretending that these assholes remain unheard? 000
Reposted by Michan ConnorMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Read @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social's new profile of Stephen Miller, "American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork." zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi... 301001231
Reposted by Michan ConnorDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comWhat’s Wrong With Civility?Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless. 7334163
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The clips I’ve seen are damning to the “settler” movement so I can’t imagine what Bari cut out 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Nobody has ever been more That Fucking Guy than this fucking guy 000
Reposted by Michan ConnorAnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If Ilhan’s home was raided, do the same for this guy. 553324816
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Has it dawned on Jeffries that he’s not too far down this list himself and some solidarity would help? 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The thing is that one party is cheering this on and wants more of it. Hope they’ll come around? Hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which one fills up. 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You could also call it “high on your own supply” 020
Reposted by Michan ConnorKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions. 241982364
Reposted by Michan ConnorDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing. presswatchers.orgThe world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press WatchOur top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda 762952933
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is hysterical because the Sopranos are a bunch of morally stunted goons who demand respect for their own ancestors’ struggles and literally spit on every other ethnic group in Newark. 100
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We are six months from “Monday Night Rehabilitation” at the Kennedy Centerstatic.klipy.comIdiocracy City ViewALT: Idiocracy City View 000
Reposted by Michan Connorpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike. 11189931523
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Maybe RFK will start recommending everyone let their syphilis progress to tertiary stage 000
Reposted by Michan ConnorKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Operation Warp Speed developed Covid vaccines, “and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government responsibility”nytimes.comOpinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological ThreatsThis is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community. 0319
Reposted by Michan ConnorJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...nytimes.comInside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history. 5293112
Reposted by Michan ConnorAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"The counseling office checks graduation requirements. Wash U has been working to get software to do the same job. System cost the school $99M to implement. At that price, the school could have hired 20 work-study students for well over a century." globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 413858
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Great weekend for douchebags getting served. I didn’t watch a second of football but I’m here for the comeuppance clips 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Using cromulent and seeing who gets it is a pretty good litmus test 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It is beyond disgusting for universities and publishing houses, the ostensible institutional protectors of intellectual life and work, to embrace slop 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A wastewater treatment plant saves lives and makes existence better while symbolizing our power to live better lives collectively. We can’t degrade our greatest civic monuments like that. Freeway interchanges are what he deserves 020
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There used to be an expression “Manning Face” and if any football fans want to thank New England for anything that’s it 000
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Arch Manning seems like a real prick so BOOMER SOONER 010
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026All of us means all of us. Chickenshit Dems are losers. 010
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Clearly A&M needs more bonfires and dressing up to play army, like things were before everything was gender 020
Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Aside from the fact that no CEO actually wants to capture an audience when they can roll up debt on the company’s credit and pay themselves a huge salary this is the best business reporting of the year 000