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Mike Ward

@mikeward.bsky.social
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(he/him) @sthmtnmike from the bad place. Artist, illustrator, book reader, mandolin & guitar picker, Lego sorter & curator.

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Snazana @snazana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh, yeah, you want to hear this!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saw Avengers Endgame Encore with my 13yr old huge Loki fan but for unknown reasons we did not get the bonus scene with Mobius & TVA :-(
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
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Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers. @brianmwise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The best kind of masculinity is the kind that doesn't give a fuck if you wear a tutu and have a beard because your daughter wants you to be a fairy princess. Or if your son wants to be on the dance team, not baseball. Men are not defined by what some idiot thinks is masculine.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike “Reek” Johnson.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kash Patel defended his new policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee which allows the FBI to hire agents who have engaged in bestiality and it barely gets noticed because there are 50 other things happening from these clowns each day that are worse.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forever War.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We used to have little house parties and play Heroes III taking turns in the hot seat. The even host named his dog Solmyr! Looking forward to reading this interview…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Yes, yes, I hear the carbon monoxide alarm going off, but I still need to stay here because this is where my knitting community is, you see. Also, the only place I can get news about the Premier League. I have no choice. I'll be OK."
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop. Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community. Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered. Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Forever War.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I would call it a Forever War.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Past time to call this Trump’s Forever War.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Where's Mitch?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These 4 older planes in formation just passed by Harper’s Ferry WV/Brunswick MD/Lovettsville VA:
4 propeller planes in a V formation backlit against a partially cloudy evening sky.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨Vindicated at last!🚨 I’ve been yelling about this for nearly a year. Washington Post now confirms that a massive secret bunker/command center hardened against WMDs already exists under the White House. It was built in 2010 & completely undercuts Trump’s excuse for his ballroom/bunker! [gift link]
wapo.st
Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
• a list of all of the supposed trade demands the US made to Canada goes viral with 900 shares • the list gets tracked back to the original source • turns out it's just an AI-hallucinated summary of a bunch of media rumours God damnit guys
Someone named fede shares a list on bsky earlier today: "The USA demanded Canada's capitulation as if it had lost a war"Someone named Nils Gilman says: "it's an AI synthesis of all publicly reported demands"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“This war has involved one cover-up, after cover-up, after cover-up by Team Trump. Within the first 72 hours of the conflict, the administration was…trying to cover-up the true nature of U.S. troop casualties – a suppression of information…that persists to this day. And… zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
While getting ready for school, my kid noticed the Progresso Soup shrinkflation - cans are now 18.5 oz when a few months ago they were 19oz.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/08/2026
Anyone who doesn't think we had autistic kids back in the day didn't know the kids I knew in elementary school, the ones that were called "hyper" or "spastic" or were suspected of having "water on the brain," etc. Kids today are a lot better off with a formal diagnosis and treatment.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Data centers are unpopular. The GOP is all in on them because that’s where Trump’s sugar daddy money comes from. Dems can suckle from the same teat or they can do the smart thing morally and politically and join the anti data center wave.
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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
if you're buying weed from any of these companies you're directly donating to Trump www.fec.gov/data/committ...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Terror in our streets, funded by our tax dollars.
Screen grab of a hyper emotional, out of control federal agent pointing a gun at a driver
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Rewatching the Loki series for the first time since it aired, reminding me how promising those early Disney+ days were.
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
DRAGON'S LAIR (1983, Don Bluth)
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last night, the GOP members of the Senate approved Trump’s effort to destroy the rule of law in the US, wreck the Justice Dept., enable rampant corruption, defend pedophiles, and attack the president’s enemies. And they know they did those things. An egregious violation of their oaths of office.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Into Season 4 of Deep Space 9 - more than I saw when it was on. The acting is so good in this show. Just saw the episode where old man Jake saves Sisko. So good!
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It is a GENIUS messaging strategy to link AI and data centers to dick swinging toxic masculinity and I want more of it.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This Gen-Xer quit the sauce almost 5 years ago now.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Terrible news! The acting in this show was top notch!!
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
epstein class is perfectly clear language that people should use. its verbal shorthand for literally the most infamous billionaire pedo of the last 100 years.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
news.com.au
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over.“
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/07/2026
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Begging you fucking people to realize that criticism in the form of quote-dunking is just engagement. I absolutely share the dislike of where the Atlantic has gone editorially, so the best response is starving it of oxygen.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Summary of The Banjo, Narrated by Alison Brown, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/iYIfotONCpg?... Full carousel on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DbA27tgFry... #WeAreAmerica250 #HeatherCoxRichardson
First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing The Banjo, Narrated by Alison Brown, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Alison Brown traces the history of the banjo, from its roots in enslaved Africans' musical traditions to its lasting influence on American music.

Brown is a Grammy-award winning banjoist, co-founder of Compass Records and recovering investment banker.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What could go wrong?
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Live in the moment; don’t rush time.
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Mike Ward @mikeward.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just watched it again yesterday; new/deeper meaning each time.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“Victor, Salgado’s brother, remembers how an ICE agent mocked him then: ‘Se querían escapar, verdad?’ You wanted to escape, right?”
It’s still not clear how many ICE officers were shooting, how many shots were fired or how many officers were involved — much less who, exactly, did the shooting. We certainly haven’t heard directly from the agents who were on the scene. 
Instead, the congresswoman said, the agents involved in the shooting were rapidly “whisked away” from Houston the next morning.

Including, we assume, the ICE agent at the scene where Salgado lay bleeding. Victor, Salgado’s brother, remembers how an ICE agent mocked him then: “Se querían escapar, verdad?”

You wanted to escape, right?
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
where have all the captions gone?
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