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Michan Connor

@michanconnor.bsky.social
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Ex-academic. Not a six-figure beltway political consultant. Opinions do not reflect those of my day job or anyone else

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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 6m
But no changes on funding hate groups? They’re keeping that going apparently
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14m
I’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
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h
It 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
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 5h
It'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.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 9h
Especially not keen on getting an American Cromwell out of this
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 9h
A 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.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Crazy 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.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11h
Former 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.
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Mike Rogers’s Wealth Soared as His Wife’s Firm Won Billion-Dollar Contracts
Despite concerns about conflicts of interest, Rogers was named chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12h
The 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
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12h
When you lose Jim Cramer
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 22h
This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 23h
Imagine 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.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 21h
It’s time to revisit the entire concept of contracting this kind of infrastructure. Letting a crank fascist control this resource is insane
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 21h
Shoulda studied Egyptology
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 21h
IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:
DOGS CAN PEE ON THE YARD 
IT'S TOTALLY FINE 
THAT'S HOW DOGS WORK 
SCIENCE IS REAL 
DOG SCIENCE 
THEY PEE PLACES
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Maybe 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
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We are ten years into the Trump era can we possibly stop pretending that these assholes remain unheard?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Read @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social's new profile of Stephen Miller, "American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork." zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...
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Dominique 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...
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What’s Wrong With Civility?
Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Wow
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The clips I’ve seen are damning to the “settler” movement so I can’t imagine what Bari cut out
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It’s called a bribe
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nobody has ever been more That Fucking Guy than this fucking guy
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If Ilhan’s home was raided, do the same for this guy.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Has it dawned on Jeffries that he’s not too far down this list himself and some solidarity would help?
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The 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.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sacco and Vanzetti
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You could also call it “high on your own supply”
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All 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.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely 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.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Like someone else I could name
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This 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.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We are six months from “Monday Night Rehabilitation” at the Kennedy Center
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Idiocracy City View
ALT: Idiocracy City View
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Maybe RFK will start recommending everyone let their syphilis progress to tertiary stage
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Operation 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”
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Opinion | We Need an Operation Warp Speed for New Biological Threats
This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We 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...
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Inside 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.
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Anna 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-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great weekend for douchebags getting served. I didn’t watch a second of football but I’m here for the comeuppance clips
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Using cromulent and seeing who gets it is a pretty good litmus test
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is beyond disgusting for universities and publishing houses, the ostensible institutional protectors of intellectual life and work, to embrace slop
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A 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
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There used to be an expression “Manning Face” and if any football fans want to thank New England for anything that’s it
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Arch Manning seems like a real prick so BOOMER SOONER
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
She’s just *more*
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All of us means all of us. Chickenshit Dems are losers.
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Clearly A&M needs more bonfires and dressing up to play army, like things were before everything was gender
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Aside 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
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These are some dumb fascist assholes
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