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@mjmclain.bsky.social
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🍉 sustainability / equity / music / soccer / trail running / democratic socialist (he/him) #FILA

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wild how we went from "Wikipedia isn't a reliable source" to "Google isn't a reliable source"
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chihuahuas with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
News to me: Jon Brion produced Mac Miller's album Circles 🤯 (h/t NTS Radio) www.macmillerswebsite.com/release/circ...
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CIRCLES | Mac Miller
Official website for Mac Miller.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 Trigger warning 😬
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/09/2026
Hey kids, for our map, we would love to find the location of Ice-Kist Packing Company on Abbott Street, in Salinas, California, in 1934. It was a key workplace picketed during the Salinas lettuce strike at that time. Any assistance locating it would be much appreciated!
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! 🫠 pca.st/episode/fa76... @99pi.org
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100 Objects #15: Bundy Clock
In 1888, Willard Bundy created the first employee "time clock" — essentially a souped-up grandfather clock that could, for the first time, produce an accurate record of when workers arrived…
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@signalhillfm.bsky.social so good! Thank you for what y'all do. pca.st/episode/fd53...
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FEATURE | What's Inside the Moon
In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives.Jess Shane is an…
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 24/08/2026
Darth Vader provides the best update for Flock sentiment www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xOU...
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'Darth Vader' makes the case for Flock cameras at city council meeting
YouTube video by Guardian News
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Could we use Trump's tricks to make good green policy?
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.volts.wtf/subscribeEven as he has torn down climate policy, Donald Trump…
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 27/08/2026
This week on The Shoots: • Keeping Ukrainian fungal research alive during the war • A Tennessee opioid researcher and the Georgia agricultural sector inflate their impact • Disappearing public comments, greenhouse gas data, and NSF Grants Read and subscribe to our news digest for free:
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Why Study Mushrooms During a War?
Our Editor-at-Large returns to Ukraine for a third time
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My kids have measles, I have explosive diarrhea, we're losing a war to Iran, and the country is being run by a senile octogenarian and his mentally unstable nurse/stalker. But at least now they're taking the Muslim prayer rooms out of the airports.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"You cannot control other people, says S, when I complain about disappointments, and I know he's right. We cannot remake relational life by changing other people, only by changing ourselves." - Dog Days, Emily LaBarge
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Estrangement often happens when these two ideas of family collide and cannot be reconciled – when one member insists that biological or origin ties and hierarchies reinforce the family unit, and another insists that behavior does." theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
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The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings
Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of what family should be.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Here’s a fun fact for you: More cops have been arrested for stalking women using Flock cameras than there are trans athletes in sports."
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Little America on apple TV hits even harder during these dark days.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is a word?! Wordle 1,884 4/6* 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟦⬛🟦🟦⬛ ⬛🟦🟦🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't hear one justification for how AI will financially benefit the average American worker. pca.st/episode/0b4d...
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A.I. Hype Is Running Into Reality
Billions of dollars are flooding into — and out of — artificial intelligence, sparking concerns of a 2008-style economic bubble. The Opinion writer David Wallace-Wells is joined by the Yale economics…
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pablo Torre + True Anon - the podcast mashup we all need. Please keep 'em coming! pca.st/episode/fe74...
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Share & Call the President & Tell with Brace Belden and Liz Franczak
The hosts of TrueAnon and Pablo Torre obtain Trump’s personal cell number and debate what to ask him. Plus: “FreddyLA7,” Nicholas Adamopoulos, special presidential envoys, America 250, Woke 2, Tom…
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Gonna take me a minute to readjust to watching Atlanta United after basking in the glory of World Cup play for the last month. 😫
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🐻 Just another day in Asheville. (no zoom)
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"In America, we spent a few weeks as a soccer nation and a few days as a team everyone else on earth hoped would lose. The beginning was worth it. The ending was unbearable." www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
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The United States’ dream didn’t die. It was overturned (Gift Article)
Folarin Balogun and the USMNT's "dream" start was an uplifting story while it lasted. The beginning was worth it. The ending was unbearable.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
😭😭😭
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A continuity of conflict, 1776-2026 I wrote about how to approach a history that is complicated, inspiring, frustrating, uplifting, and horrifying – all at once, all the time. From the Declaration to Donald Trump. Some thoughts from my new piece (no paywall - please consider subscribing): 🧵
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From the Declaration to Donald Trump
Wrestling with a history that is complicated, inspiring, frustrating, uplifting, and horrifying. A continuity of conflict, 1776-2026
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Where's the PSA campaign to get folks to walk (and run) on the side of the road facing traffic?
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Such a solid playlist tidal.com/playlist/c0f...
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A New Depression: Alt-country Reimagined
Playlist - A New Depression: Alt-country Reimagined - 50 items
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
At least #Atlanta is #1 for something soccer-related! 😅 #AtlantaUnited #WorldCup2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Two studies published this week suggest that updated COVID-19 booster vaccines continue to provide meaningful protection against major adverse outcomes, cardiovascular complications, hospitalization, and all-cause death" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/upd...
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Updated COVID vaccines cut risk of hospital care, heart complications, new data reveal
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 22/06/2026
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Provided you do not care about or pay attention to the world, this worldview absolutely rocks."
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And he missed a PK!
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How many calories are in every fucking piece of mulch along the street in my neighborhood?! (asking for my dogs)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Trump promised an unconditional surrender in Iran. Today, he delivered on that promise.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Woof. The #Roku #FoxOne app is killing me...stutters and exits every 5-10 minutes. Maybe casting to the TV from the phone is the better option?
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
World Cup haters coming out hard (for good reason)! International football, bowing to nationalism. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
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Who, exactly, is this World Cup for?
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How has life improved for regular Americans as advertisements have increasingly consumed every waking minute of our lives the last 40+ years?
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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This Pride, make sure every trans woman that you follow, are mutuals with, goon over, or consume their work in general, has a roof over their head, their bills paid, and food in their kitchens. You wanna call yourselves allies? This is the work. Do it.
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Born on third, act like we hit a triple. 🇺🇸 pca.st/episode/79da...
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100 Objects #2: 60-Degree Screw
In the early 20th century, nothing quite fit — fire hoses couldn't connect to one another, football teams played with different balls, traffic lights meant different things in different states.…
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 11/05/2026
Today is our anniversary! We've gone through multiple iterations since 2018, but our vision remains the same: to provide you with actionable information to grow healthy, thriving communities. Make a tax-deductible donation to support our award-winning reporting: www.giveinmay.org/organization...
EIGHT YEARS OF TAKING ROOT IN OUR GLOBAL COMMUNITY
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean
YouTube video by GENER8ION
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/05/2026
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Weekend reading: I wrote about why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference - and about the lessons from the way America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and white supremacist violence. This week’s piece:
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Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile
A history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality – Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Throughline doing the lord's work pca.st/episode/b12e...
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The origins of the Socialist Party of America
Rapid industrialization reshaped American life in the mid-19th century. But as corporations grew larger and more powerful, working conditions for many everyday Americans worsened while wages stalled.…
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Better news than many of us might expect ⚡ pca.st/episode/9b68... Thank you, @volts.wtf
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The big stories from the last year in electricity
The think tank Ember just released its yearly Global Electricity Review. In this episode, I chat with co-authors Nicolas Fulghum & Kostantsa Rangelova about the biggest stories in the global…
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You ever notice the difference between the patriotic marketing for a war movie and the actual content of the film? Especially over the last 15-20 years.
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