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mikegmcg.bsky.social

@mikegmcg.bsky.social
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Skeptic, nerd, attorney, political junkie, etc. I love film, art and jokes. “Scratch any cynic and you’ll find an idealist who’s been disappointed.” ~G. Carlin

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Black Mosquito @blackmosquito.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s Safer in the Front... 🔥 We've just added a few new @crimethinc.com zines to our shop! Click here for the category: black-mosquito.org/de/lesen.htm...
Mehrere Crimethinc Broschüren liegen auf einem Haufen auf Asphalt. Das erste Cover hat die Überschrift It's Safer in the Front, Taking the Offensive against TyrannyMehrere Crimethinc Broschüren liegen auf einem Haufen auf Asphalt. Das erste Cover hat die Überschrift Make Ready, Safeguarding our Movements against RepressionMehrere Crimethinc Broschüren liegen auf einem Haufen auf Asphalt. Das erste Cover hat die Überschrift Anarchists in the Movement against police and white supremacyZwei Crimethinc Broschüren liegen auf einem Haufen auf Asphalt. Das erste Cover hat die Überschrift Rapid Respnse Networks in the Twing Cities
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Turns out by striking the Russian data centers, Zelensky has done more to protect American democracy than the entire Trump administration. #Ukraine #RussianInterference
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...
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Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Poland’s embassy in Washington blasts Tucker Carlson for justifying Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. Bogdan Klich, the embassy’s chargé d’affaires, called his comments “false” and “deeply troubling” and demanded that Carlson retract them and apologize.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dude, same.
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is no such thing as unskilled labor.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...
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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner
Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Pentagon breach left the unencrypted personal records of more than 3 million people accessible for nine months, exposing Social Security numbers, addresses and military roles. Days later, FBI staff data containing similar information was also breached.
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FBI and Pentagon Staff Records Exposed in Breaches Disclosed Days Apart; FBI Employee Data Compromised, 3 Million Pentagon Records Left Accessible for Nine Months
More than 3 million Pentagon personnel record, including Social Security numbers, addresses and military jobs, were left exposed for nine months. Days later, hackers claimed they stole FBI staff data ...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russian disinformation campaign is actively using AI-generated deepfakes and voice-cloning to create fake videos of recognizable Hollywood celebrities attacking the Democratic Party. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Matt Berry as Steven Toast asking “Who?”
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Karen Bass’s LAPD is openly defying a judge’s order to hand over moonlighting records, and it's obvious why. They are desperately hiding a shadow workforce where cops moonlight for ICE contractors, creating blatant conflicts of interest. It's time to enforce the subpoena and demand accountability.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two things can be true.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That’s quite a ration you got there. Wonder why? 🧐
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You do know nobody wants this, right? They don’t want AI actors, they don’t want you to interview AI actors, they don’t want the data centers, and on and on and on. You’re carrying the water for an unnecessary part of a dangerous industry. Go find Mitch McConnell and interview him..
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I listen to an unhealthy number of online debates and one thing that the slightly less dumb MAGAs bring up is that stimulus checks from COVID spurred inflation under Biden, whom they blame for the inflation (despite Trump starting the policy). Can’t wait to see them flip-flop on this!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We need to normalize union organizing in every sector of American life.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Released today! Special edition! I love it!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Without willpower or imagination, this ring is basically useless.
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Interesting that he makes this joke about New Mexico but not New England.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uh what? www.newsweek.com/allison-guer...
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Woman who exposed FBI official for working with Russian oligarch found dead
A judge praised Allison Guerriero for her "extraordinary contributions" to counterespionage ops on behalf of the United States.
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mikegmcg.bsky.social @mikegmcg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’d love to see more analysis of this with Moulton as a case study.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges
The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
you guys know that if you're a DSA member you can get a free subscription to @inthesetimes.com? www.inthesetimes.com/DSA
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
MEMPHIS: “Authorities said Tyrin Johnson turned toward the National Guard with a gun while running from them… But autopsy shows a bullet went in his back and exited through his chest…” One Guard member who fired was 19 — too young to be Memphis PD. No body cam. #UnSafeTaskForce
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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back
An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has again temporarily blocked Trump’s new mail-voting restrictions, issuing a 14-day hold after the Postal Service finalized its rules. The legal fight could soon return to the Supreme Court.
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exhaustedradical.bsky.social @exhaustedradical.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tim Curry does not currently have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 😞
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/08/2026
A Flock camera was pointed directly at a community pool... you know, for reading license plates of course.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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