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Michael Sweeney

@mikeshawk.bsky.social
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Dialysis patient, tethered to an Oxygen concentrator, cat lover, hope to live long enough to vote for Harris/Walz. KN6GES I DID!

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Listen Live & Worldwide on the @netrootsradio.bsky.social Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
All of Trump's picks are WEI hires. White Exceptionalism Intended.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20/11/2024
Several Democratic governors have moved swiftly to protect their states’ progressive policies from Trump. If you live in one of the 17 states with a Democratic trifecta, check out our new blueprint for blue states to prepare for Trump 2.0.
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Democrats Safeguarding Democracy: A Blueprint for Blue States to Prepare for Trump 2.0
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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At The David Brooks Navel Observatory
Remember how I've mentioned 3,000 or 4,000 times that Upscale Wingnut Welfare Queen #1 -- Mr. David Brooks of The New York Times --...
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Listen Live & Worldwide on the @netrootsradio.bsky.social Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Michael Sweeney @mikeshawk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An old landscape image of mine. Pigeon Point lighthouse in the fog.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/11/2024
Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This keeps happening.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/11/2024
This is what fascism looks like, folks. Things are going to get very, very ugly. Fast.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Deep State Polka Party! @deeppolka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Sorry, but this never gets old for me.
Person posts a link to a CBS News website article explaining how evangelical Bible-thumper Ken Ham’s Noah’s Ark-themed park Ark Encounters is suing its insurance company because heavy rains have damaged the ark.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”
Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid:

“Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s.

Over half of those deported were US citizens.”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
MAGA’s embrace of RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” is so funny because these same people CRUCIFIED Michelle Obama for daring to suggest that American kids should have access to healthy lunches in school.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/11/2024
Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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Michael Sweeney @mikeshawk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
@infidale.bsky.social Ahh. Welcome. I’ve been hoping you would show up here. 😁
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Every American deserves to see the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Repost if you agree.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The general silence of most elected Democrats right now is unacceptable. We need to hear them expressing their opposition to the danger loud and clear. It strengthens us. Elizabeth Warren is a notable exception.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We often talk about how Trump ran on an explicit authoritarian platform. But this is also true of corruption: During the campaign, Trump openly promised to govern in the interests of wealthy elites, and won anyway. He'll feel emboldened to be more corrupt. My latest: newrepublic.com/article/1884...
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I dunno, seems pretty bad www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...
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Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candi...
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
FUN FACT: Trump's pick to oversee the Department of Justice can't pass an FBI background check.
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The Professional Left Podcast @proleftpodcast.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Professional Left Podcast Episode 854: From The Sus-Crime To The Ridiculous
"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century." -- Montesquieu Links:   ...
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Helluva haka by a rightfully outraged 22yo NZ Maori MP against a bill to downgrade the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi. This was Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's response to the bill, a war challenge to its reading and to the proposing party. (The speaker suspended her for a day for "disorderly conduct".)
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Tanya Lynn @beyoually.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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Michael Sweeney @mikeshawk.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
If NATO is smart, they will eject the US and change all the passwords.
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Shanikka1961 @reneechantler.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Amen, @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social. Amen.
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Michael Sweeney @mikeshawk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Gato Tuesday.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Kristi Noem is not going to eat your pets heading the DHS, she's just going to take Fido to the rock pile and put a bullet in his brain pan.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The role of disinformation, podcasts, and the 'manosphere' by @ChiTownKev www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The role of disinformation, podcasts, and the 'manosphere'
We begin today with David Remnick �of The New Yorker and his autopsy�of the 2024 presidential election and some of the dangers that American democracy now faces. How you interpret and prioritize ...
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
So, what happens if they blow up or otherwise destroy a large number of ballots waiting to be retrieved? www.wired.com/story/dhs-el...
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DHS Warns Law Enforcement Election Deniers May Attempt to Bomb Drop Boxes
In a series of reports reviewed by WIRED, analysts at the Department of Homeland Security warn of a “heightened risk” of right-wing extremists carrying out attacks around the election.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/10/2024
This is a good, simple walkthrough by a political scientist of how polls can be so noisy (it also hints that Harris could be up by *much large* margins than current polls suggest) goodauthority.org/news/electio...
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Polling paradox: what actually shapes the numbers?
Likely voters, past voters, demographics and more – how pollsters weight 2024 election poll data matters a great deal.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Whatever is going on with $DJT is likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the United States, and it is totally flying under the radar.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
"We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.” --speech from a key Trump ally and an architect of Project 2025 www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
We have to vote in numbers greater than the votes they burn up in firebombed ballot boxes, that's how important this election is.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @KagroX Listen Live & Worldwide on the @NetrootsRadio Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
I keep going back to this WaPo article from August, which unpacked how much right wingers were relying on ads demonizing immigrants and how deceitful those ads were. These kinds of ads laid the background for Trump going full fascist yesterday. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...
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Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border
The Washington Post analyzed more than 700 campaign ads that mention immigration to see how the issue is being presented to voters.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
VP Kamala Harris Roundup - "With your support, I am fighting for our nation's future." by @LindaLeePeacock www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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VP Kamala Harris Roundup - "With your support, I am fighting for our nation's future."
Tuesday (Jul 30), VP Kamala Harris kicked off her Presidential campaign, speaking before a packed and electrified�stadium, in Atlanta, Georgia (normal capacity 8,000, over 10,000 attending,�and ...
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Bad Built Butch Body is my new punk band name.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
“Unite the Right” marching with actual Nazi flags, but it’s the lefties bringing back 1930s Germany. Sure, Jan.
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday by @BillinPortland www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
I LOL’d And when I LOL, I like to share the moment. Via The Daily Show... HE. LIKES. BEER!
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 21/04/2024
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath by @ChitownKev www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The aftermath
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin today with Annie Karni of�The New ....
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
On today's Kagro in the Morning #KITM: What if the FISA bill doesn't get passed in time? Leonard Leo defies Sen. subpoena. Russia's Groupon purchase of western pols. FL Gimmetarians want their socialism back. Rosalyn MacGregor sends a story on a Methodist schism & reads one on the "Church Militant."
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Kagro in the Morning - April 19, 2024
You think that David Waldman has it easy as host of the KITM Show? The Freedom Caucus released their FART team 20 some hours before our Friday show. All of t...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
"This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place," Andres said. "Even if we were not in coordination with the (Israel Defense Forces), no democratic country and no military can be targeting civilians and humanitarians." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car'
Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 31/03/2024
#GunFAIL
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Michael Sweeney @mikeshawk.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Beautiful. 😻
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @KagroX Listen Live & Worldwide on the @NetrootsRadio Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Caribbean Matters: Lawmakers slam DeSantis' threats to Haitian refugees by Denise Oliver-Velez @Deoliver47 www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Caribbean Matters: Lawmakers slam DeSantis' threats to Haitian refugees
It’s déjà vu:�F lorida Gov. Ron DeSantis, no longer in the spotlight for his failed Republican presidential�campaign, has threatened a repeat of 2022’s �“send refugees to Martha’s Vineyard��
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
A hallmark of the reactionary movement against it was also police unions and departments and their political allies making the propaganda push that they will stop doing their jobs if citizens aren’t nicer to them. The behavior of a protection racket, not a taxpayer funded service
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The Mighty OCD @mightyocd.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Kagro in the Morning is LIVE at 9 AM ET! with David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social Listen Live & Worldwide on the @NetrootsRadio Live Player www.netrootsradio.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2024... #KITM
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