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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 2h
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... weekend please read. We can do better than this
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers? open.substack.com/pub/mikekonc...
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Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?
Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault newrepublic.com/article/2160... via @newrepublic.com
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FATALITY
A tweet from Joyce Carol Oates: overall takeaway from the Curtis Yarvin profile is that there must be millions of smart-aleck show-offy kids who annoy their teachers and go on to annoy other adults through their lives with their “contrarian” pose that hardens to a carapace over their faces; until, as adults, they still harbor a delusion that, if there is a king, or a fuhrer, he’d be impressed with the guys motor mouth and appoint him to his cabinet rather than deleting him with a negligent swipe of his wrist as Stalin did routinely.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The Era of Super Intelligence began in 2026, a year in which the United States simultaneously helped to protect associates of the world's most famous child sex trafficker, engaged in mass deportations of its most vital workforce, & started a disastrous war of choice in the Middle East"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined "​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump" after a federal judge found that the attorneys misused the court system in "settling" his IRS lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...
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Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement
A US appeals court declined on Tuesday ​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Thanks to Elizabeth Bruenig for saving me the trouble of reading this book that was on my list.
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Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
May God bless our Federal Judges, but we’re depending way too much on them.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 24/09/2026
thanks to @mjgault.bsky.social for covering this
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Who knew the constitutional crisis would come from something as petty as this!
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John Pontoon, dissident revenant @johnpontoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is about as accurate a description of Newsom's actions here as one could hope for. Assuming one cannot prove corrupt motivations, we're left staring at a breathtaking lack of political or historical intelligence.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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I Want You To Tell Me What “Socialism” Means
Before you tell me if it’s good or bad.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why We Need To End Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance danmunro.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
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Why We Need To End Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Systemic healthcare reform has to start with ending the employer’s role as gatekeeper.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Job Lock Is Real. The ACA Doesn’t Fix It. healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/job-lock-i...
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Job Lock Is Real. The ACA Doesn’t Fix It.
Millions of Americans are staying in jobs they’d rather leave because their health insurance is tied to their paycheck.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dog’s reaction when he realizes his sister was adopted into the same home. Original post
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Because nobody will be burning gasoline driving to jobs they don't have. naomiklein.substack.com/p/big-tech-a...
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The FBI’s new recruits are practicing bestiality the right way. by Ezra Klein
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/trum...
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The Trump-Era Laughter at Immigrant Suffering Is Deforming Our Souls - Christianity Today
Even those who want closed borders shouldn’t find migrants’ pain entertaining.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Important: Must-read of the 9/11 weekend. time.com/article/2026...
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How 9/11 Helped Shape Our Politics Today
"The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks transformed global politics as Western democracies abandoned many liberal principles and older conflicts over empire, decolonization, immigration and culture resurfaced in ...
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Antonio Esparza @antonioesparza.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The @jamestalarico.bsky.social YouTube channel has gained 100,000+ new subscribers since the banned Kimmel interview went live less than 48 hours ago.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stop Panicking About AI open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
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Stop Panicking About AI
Why are big AI firm trying to create billionaires from a technology they say may end the world? There are real risks to AI, but something is very off about the latest social panic.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The only possible way is if people are joyfully running towards a better option, not fearfully backing away from the worst of what they face today."
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As we worry about AI killing us all 10 years from now, can we take a moment to remember: Nuclear weapons still exist. Donald Trump is still President of the US.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Third Way politics get you a third place finish.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've had little doubt that Trump was planning to cheat like hell in the 2026 election, but asking every Republican to pledge to do so, and calling "cheating" by its actual name -- those are "innovations" I didn't expect.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct?
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Message to Canada: Continue to Fight Trump robertreich.substack.com/p/message-to...
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Message to Canada: Continue to Fight Trump
Most of us in the U.S. are with you
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That’s been the source of our problems. He holds rallies, he hears the worst people cheering his worst ideas, he thinks those ideas are popular.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See this chart? Workers’ share of the nation’s income is at the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947. Corporate profits’ share, on the other hand, is the highest it’s been since 1950. This is why we must build back worker power.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Weekend must-read: open.substack.com/pub/thetechb...
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a Hero to Men, Too. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/gloria-ste...
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Gloria Steinem was a Hero to Men, Too.
She proved that feminism is good for Real Men; even if the word itself terrifies weak men.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reading it now. Planning to donate it to my local library when I finish.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Well, they have no intention of using the JAGs for advice on the laws of war...
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Quote of the day. 🥾
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
September 1, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-... Important:
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September 1, 2026
Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Freedom Fraud healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/the-freedo...
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The Freedom Fraud
In the U.S. health care system, we’ve been taught to mistake corporate restrictions for “freedom of choice.”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am, in my gloomier moments, convinced he’s trying to flush out anyone with qualms about obeying grossly illegal and immoral orders before 2029.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don't listen to Stephen Miller. Very few people voted for this shit!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The priorities of the Democratic Party.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wouldn't it be ironic if this allowed Trump to get away with closing the Strait in the war on Iran more than he would have in, say 2019?
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Every State Can Afford Universal Health Care: A Taxonomy of Public Health Care Options cmarmitage.substack.com/p/every-stat...
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Every State Can Afford Universal Health Care: A Taxonomy of Public Health Care Options
Four models for state-level universal coverage, and how each one works.
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Mike Ward @mikew-ca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.salon.com/2026/08/27/t... 🐴🐎
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Trump's mystery meat problem
Cheap mystery beef, wild mustangs and the strange consequences of an opaque food system
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