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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Damnit Tom, I’m just getting into Starfield and now I want to play Xcom again…where will I find the time? You have to understand your influence has consequences.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

North Americans or South Americans, describing by continent. Or “peoples of the Americas”.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Well I didn’t…but my rep is Greg Stube and I hate that guy too

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It never ceases to amaze me that people don’t realize how much worse things can get.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

There is some, were they more competent we would be in worse shape

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

lol I was just being glib, and it was a throw away joke. Never taken a woman to a baseball game, nor been to one in like 20 years

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What if the date is going to a baseball game?

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I come for the national security and international relations expertise, I stay for the Simpsons references

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I mean, he was a bit of an asshole still. I understand why it was done at the time. But perhaps we’ve moved on from it being pertinent

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I love FDR, and think he did wonderful things for the country, and the west. But he certainly expanded the executive, and I cannot support an overly powerful executive branch. No matter how justified I found Roosevelt to be in hindsight.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

“One of” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that last sentence lol, there are some high bars to clear in that category

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I can’t help but disagree lol, my fabuloso scented bags are great!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I appreciate the sentiment, but automation destroyed more jobs than outsourcing ever could

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Tbf, they couldn’t say they didn’t know then either

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Who tf is Bonnie blue? And wtf is wrong with people? Lol

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hopefully he’s one Big Mac away from a natural and peaceful end. No martyrs, just an end to this madness. Maga may continue, but I don’t think it has power without the cult of personality

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

You rarely get iconic symbolism so on the nose. Writers would probably call it unrealistic

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

My state allowed me to vote when I was 17 in the primary because I’d be 18 by the general election. My candidates didn’t win, but I’ve shown up for every ballot since. Even done some local volunteer work from time to time. Think you have me beat by working for a state rep

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The notion that crime and the economy were so bad 2023-24 that Americans reacting to objective personal material conditions had to do a fascism does not hold water. If material, why would it be disproportionately white? Do you think nonwhite people don't experience crime or economic challenges?

Graph of US unemployment rate over time, with a circle highlighting the low unemployment rate of the 2020s

A graph of US price changes, with a circle around the relatively low (in historical terms) inflation in 2022-24

A graph of violent crime rates in the US overtime, showing considerable declines since the early 1990s.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

You have the honor of being a man both extremes can attack for social clout. Kinda impressive tbh

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Ok so that’s a lie. Frankly I trust the officers more than the enlisted, but I think it’d be tough for the majority of the military to turn their guns on the people.

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a man wearing a hat and a hoodie is talking to another man .

ALT: a man wearing a hat and a hoodie is talking to another man .

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I will obey the orders of the chain of command is hardly giving allegiance to him. This isn’t an Obama change, and the oath is still to uphold the constitution

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Seems obviously, painfully, untrue. Centrist? Nope. I say you’re working a troll farm, or getting info from unreliable sources.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I’d reckon he’s referring to Stephen Miller

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

That’s historically illiterate.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I’ve taken your advice to block and move on lately.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Your threads are great places to block annoying accounts. It’s like a public service.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I think “or wants to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Not enough people understand this. Some want billionaires to be brilliant masters of industry. Some want them to be evil geniuses, capable of manipulating world events with ease. But yeah, they’re just folks, and more than you’d think are dumb as a box of rocks

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My view is that the country is not yet fascist, but Trump and the devoted MAGA are. How close is that to your view?

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Specifically those two. Many Dem representatives are doing better. Neither leader in congress is right for the moment.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Would have been just Jim-dandy if the DOJ had brought these charges against Trump.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The south never had the ability to seriously threaten the north in terms of conquest, all they could do was try not to lose.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

For what it’s worth I read the article, thanks for that btw, and I get it. I don’t entirely disagree. Frankly I don’t know what to do. Easy to blame the median low information voter. I live in a red county and I know most working class have a total misunderstanding of where the Dems even are.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

My connection isn’t apparently good enough to load that. I’ll say that people are fickle though, and the political pendulum is real

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Where’s your source on that? I’d say we’re a center left to center right country, depending on the decade, if you average us all out

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

One of the reasons I *do* fight with people over the Fairness Doctrine is that I have a vain hope that people will understand that there is no magical solution to authoritarianism. "If only we had Law XYZ" is lazy.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You know what? Yours aren’t as bad as I thought. But Stancil isn’t an asshole, just goes against the grain. He is often right too, with a heart in a good place.

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I got $20 that says you’re rude on a daily basis on social media. Just a feeling

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

At best it’s socialism, but most likely democratic socialism lol

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2025

@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.” Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m sorry, I’d thought it clear. Many are suggesting minorities not sign up with protest organizations out of fear of retribution from the regime. I hope this clarification helps

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This squabbling over whether or not to participate in large opposition orgs is ridiculous

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Michael @shenanigansk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It was worth fighting for rights then, just as it is today. And people of color have a long history of standing up to oppressors, I think they’re tougher and much more resilient than the Stancil haters suggest. Every one of us should be using the 60s SCLC playbook right now

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