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MK | Michael Knudsen

@popbytes.bsky.social
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Less Hogg discourse 👋🏻 More discourse on how we are going to take back the House and maybe the Senate in the 2026 midterms—nothing else matters
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Everything is so f*cked—and my biggest fear is that we will never be able to vote out this completely corrupt administration 😟
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
THIS SHOW! 🙌🏻 #TheRehearsal
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Angelina Jolie must be so embarrassed by her dad 😬
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🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 30/04/2025
It’s almost like some of you have no fucking idea that control of the House and Senate is necessary to make this happen..
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
EXACTLY
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/04/2025
⚡️ Pope Francis has died, Vatican says. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, in his residence in Vatican City, the Vatican news service reported.
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Pope Francis has died, Vatican says
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, in his residence in Vatican City, the Vatican news service reported.
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I know who I want in 2028—but really we only should be talking about 2026 right now—we must focus on flipping the House and Senate—then we deal w/ 2028
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 21/04/2025
Turns out a notoriously sloppy drunk wasn’t the best choice for Secretary of Defense. So weird.
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Spoiler Alert: Hegseth will not resign or be fired—in another time and place he would be—but nothing will happen to him—and our military will continue to be led by an incompetent fool who was a Fox ‘News’ weekend host 🤦🏼‍♂️
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Let’s just remember that the previous Sec of Def Lloyd Austin was raked over the coals because he failed to disclose he was undergoing medical treatment for CANCER—the hypocrisy from the right is insane—because it is a cult—seriously 😒
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Yes to @michelenorris.bsky.social sitting in for @ayman.msnbc.com today—I love Ayman but Michele is an excellent choice—we need more of her on @msnbc.com 🙌🏻
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So much to keep track of! I hope the DC circuit issues a similar rebuke like the 4th circuit! Thanks for clearing the confusion up!
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Is this an appeal of the 4th circuit’s decision?
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Never thought I’d see the day when the IRS is trying to remove Harvard’s tax exemption (via direction from a sitting US president) while Scientology remains untouched—we are living through the worst of times 😡
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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 18/04/2025
I find myself getting sincerely emotional about this. That he’s, under the circumstances, okay. That his wife and kids know this after an agonizing month without him. That a Democratic politician cared enough to go and see him, even after getting told no at first. Trying matters. Fighting works.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
What ACTION looks like
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
@matthewjdowd.bsky.social Glad to see you on here—once again you were spot on tonight with my girl @stephruhle.bsky.social 🙌🏻
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I don’t know how those reporters can sit there and listen to this ridiculous bullshit that just pours out of the Press Sec — she is so f*cking awful — her tone alone is like nails on a chalkboard 😒
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Dodgers lost tonight because ETTD—they shouldn’t have gone to the White House 🤷🏼‍♂️
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I’m deeply disturbed and upset over this ruling—we are not in war time and that fucker should not be able to remove people with no due process—they’ve already made mistakes and there will be more unfortunately—it didn’t have to be this way and I’m just really upset 😢
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The majority seems to be affording the president a strong presumption of regulatory-assuming good faith and respect for constitutional boundaries. But everything this administration has done since Jan. 20 rebuts that presumption (a reality that may be dawning on Barrett, but apparently not Roberts or Brett Kavanaugh). As Boasberg has shown, and Sotomayor noted, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act in secret so it could hustle
migrants overseas before courts could intervene. Why should he now receive this extraordinary, undeserved assistance to continue operating what is so obviously an unlawful program, with a pinky promise that he'll afford due process this time to those ensnared on the thinnest of pretenses? Roberts' decision to bail Trump out is a deeply ominous sign that the chief justice wants to rein in lower courts standing in the way of the MAGA agenda. If he does, it won't just be Venezuelan migrants who pay the price. J
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
BREAKING Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman and Decision Desk HQ have projected that Susan Crawford will win the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. A major victory for Democrats.
Dave Wasserman &
@Redistrict
I've seen enough: Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, preserving liberals' 4-3 majority.
6:41 PM • 4/1/25 • 873 Views
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
God bless @corybooker.com He did it! He beat the record set back in 1957 by Strom Thurmond 🙌🏻
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 01/04/2025
This story is nuts. flip.it/x2l7Wh
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Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Such a distillation of the con: guess who got Musk's $1 million check yesterday? The head of the Wisconsin College Republicans. meidasnews.com/news/republi...
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Republican Operative Nicholas Jacobs Locks Twitter After Elon Musk Check Controversy
Jacobs received a $1M check from Musk at a rally in support of Brad Schimel
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Just got this email from Galpin Motors Inc (where I bought my Mazda)
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
What if Lloyd Austin was married to a producer at MSNBC and casually brought her around to sensitive military meetings? That Pete Hegseth needs to resign 👋🏻
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Our VP is such a condescending prick—listening to his crap in Greenland is driving me up the wall—what an asshole! 😒
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
That Pam Bondi makes my skin crawl—her voice is beyond irritating—and if Merrick Garland was running his mouth like she is—heads on the right would explode—we need that same level of outrage—she’s completely politicized a position that simply shouldn’t be 😡
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025
🚨 BREAKING Democrat Dan Goughnour wins a special election for the Pennsylvania State House, breaking a 101-101 tie and securing Democratic control of the chamber.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2025
OSSOFF: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct? RATLIFFE: No OSSOFF: This is an embarrassment
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/03/2025
Secdef Lloyd Austin went to the hospital for prostate issues. The GOP was trying to crush him. Seems kinda small today huh
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’ve never seen Pete this angry and rightfully so. Trump and his administration are incompetent and they are putting this country in danger. Unbelievable fuckup.!
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Especially looking forward to tonight to hear what @maddow.msnbc.com has to say about today’s news 😬
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What if VP Harris was going on TV casually talking about taking Greenland despite what Europe was saying?! Again—not normal 😑
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What if Biden had gone on psychotic rant on social media demanding an unflattering portrait be removed from a state capitol’s wall?! Let’s be clear—this is not normal 😑
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NONE of this is normal
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/03/2025
Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.
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There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane.
His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.
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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This motherfucker threw every American on Social Security under the bus today. With cynicism, hubris, and rancor. Where are the calls for his resignation? Or at least his apology for insulting the integrity of the elderly and the disabled, people who earned a critical lifeline? Reprehensible.
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
She’s so fucking annoying
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
2017 seems like good times now that we are living through 2025 😒
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“Shameful” is too kind a word. But you’re right, this kind of moral cowardice will not pay off. Especially for people who care to look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
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MK | Michael Knudsen @popbytes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
War with China? What the heck is going on?! Ugh
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An outrage. Disgusting.
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