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Michael Wade

@mikewords.bsky.social
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Writer. Journalist. Ph.D. molecular biologist. Former biopharm exec. Sentient neural network. Small Language Model.

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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 8h
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 11h
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h
"The widespread effects of DOGE’s efforts—the cures that won’t be found; the vaccines that won’t be made; the food meant to save lives, left instead to rot..." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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‘Elon Is a Nuke’
A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 11h
Many more dismaying examples of the GOP vision of “education” are in this excellent piece. We’ve seen the GOP try this in NC too. If the word “civic” is in the curriculum they push, that usually means censorship.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h
Whoever recruited this guy to run for Senate, take a bow.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At this point, there is no ambiguity about what just happened: Trump has stabbed the Ukrainian nation in the back in exchange for a shipment of diesel that would be a roughly 17 hour supply for the US market. It shows how easily Trump is manipulated by Putin, Xi and other dangerous dictators.
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Helpful reminder that the daily algorithmic scroll of doom is actually weak sauce.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2026
Katie Zacharia posted about vaccine conspiracy theories, the upending of constitutional norms, and the president seeking a third term—much of which she appears to have tried to expunge from the record before taking the job. NEW from Brendan Hartnett: lnk.thebulwark.com/3VIrwHQ
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The Deleted Tweets of the New White House Press Secretary
Katie Zacharia is ready to defend Trump. The Constitution? Less so.
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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As ever, Gary Kasparov understands exactly what's going down.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In case you were wondering why Donald’s biggest fans suddenly went silent . . .
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So this is all midterm theater. And what did Trump give Putin in return? Money to kill more Ukrainian civilians?
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He’s just doing the royal we now?
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 Just in: The US has sanctioned the ICC. "We ​will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate," Marco Rubio said in a statement.
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EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is insider trading an official act? Asking for a Chief Justice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Somebody was asking me tonight: Why can't Dems ever get their act together? Me (approx): Yes, sure. But can you remember a stronger slate than Dems are putting up in big races right now? Cooper? Ossoff + Bottoms? Talarico + Hinojosa? Turek + Sand? Benson + El-Sayed? Brown + Acton? Hamilton? Etc
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff and Abdul are kicking serious ass simultaneously right now
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Live-streaming a firing squad should bring prices down immediately.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love the WaPo's AI summaries of reader comments on articles. I find they are considerably more incisive than the namby-pamby articles themselves. So I asked Claude to summarize the NYT reader comments for "How Trump Has Alienated Voters for the G.O.P." Bang on. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
The comments are overwhelmingly unsympathetic to the disaffected Trump voters the article profiles. The most-recommended themes, by a wide margin, are that these voters turned away over gas and grocery prices rather than chaos, corruption or morality, and that none of them accept responsibility for putting him in office twice. Fausto’s line that it took “higher gas prices for them to reconsider” got about 5,000 recommends, and Barbara Kruger’s note that none of them mentioned “Trump’s lack of morality” got about 4,600. Many readers ask some version of “how could you not have seen this coming,” pointing to Jan. 6, the bankruptcies and New Yorkers who “knew from the beginning.” A sizable minority puts more of the blame on the Republican Congress that let him “run amok.” Plenty of commenters say they don’t believe the story at all: they think Trump voters are hard to poll, will “fall in line” on Election Day, and that the press has hyped a blue wave before. Others worry less about the voters than about Trump trying to rig or contest the midterms. A smaller but notable set of self-described lifelong Republicans say they’re not staying home but voting straight Democratic. A few commenters push back on the scorn, saying the “smugness” and “bludgeoning” of these voters is why Democrats keep losing them and that the party should focus on cost of living. Tavernise herself chimed in, saying that after talking to Republican voters since 2016, this is the first time she’s heard such a clear break from Trump.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In which we learn, among other things that Stephen Miller trains FBI agents in counterterrorism, and wants to train all the FBI's counterterrorism resources on Democrats who dare to criticize the Leader, starting with groups in his community in suburban Virginia. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A rising tide lifts all yachts.
Goldman's Top Leaders Set to Score More Than $500 Million With Special
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WALL STREET EYES $9OB PROFIT, RECORD BONUSES
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I do wonder if MAGA brain rot has actually made him this stupid or if it’s just an act.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026
a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"It’s impossible to overstate how frustrating it is to hear a senator plainly admit that he made a terrible — and hugely consequential — decision simply because he was too stubborn or cowardly to do the right thing." www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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The most infuriating admission Thom Tillis made in his new book | Opinion
It perfectly exhibits what has always been so frustrating about Tillis, which is that he knows better. | Opinion
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m also currently listening to the wind, and I love what it’s saying.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026
“Do you like the President’s decision to rename your company ‘Mississippi’ because the Amazon is in South America? That’s good, right? Also his decision to rename you ‘Billiard Ball Bezos’, because you’re bald? Will you go along with that? What about this spoonful of shit he wants to watch you eat?”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thom Tillis just said "Mitch McConnell's brain is as strong as it ever was" on MS NOW, which is just fucking ridiculous. A company man to the very end. No real courage here.
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Michael Wade @mikewords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It seems barely possible, but Michael Whatley would be worse. Vote for Roy Cooper in NC.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is how you do it. This is how you write it. “The Trump administration says none of this is happening…. We’re showing you every case — the reality that the administration denies — along with the receipts.” projects.propublica.org/american-cit... Thank you, @propublica.org.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I continue to be fucking flabbergasted at the media reporting Dennis Hastert had a "fall from grace," which is a weird way to say he was caught paying hush money to cover up sexually abusing teenage boys.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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