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Mike McLintalk

@sporkupine.bsky.social
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NYC-based lover of truth, justice & the American way (in the Superman sense of it, not some right-wing hijacking of the phrase). Former techie trying to be techie again. Enjoy democracy, working the polls & ⛵️

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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Well well well. Last time I watched this series in 1999 the spurs swept and I wept. But oooh now, my heart ❤️ is aflutter!
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 04/05/2026
I found this to be so beautiful.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Worth taking the time to read this. What an incredible public servant.
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Depluralize a movie. The Brother McMullen
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/02/2026
People who immigrate to the U.S. come here to find safety and opportunity and contribute to our communities. We should be welcomed with dignity, not demonized.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Heartbreaking story about women and girls raped in Eastern Congo who can no longer get medication to prevent HIV transmission, because of Trump administration's USAID cuts: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... Careless men in DC make decisions, and Congolese girls suffer.
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Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I just completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A woman recently went viral for holding up a window sign during a traffic stop, part of a growing trend of drivers using cards to assert their rights instead of speaking to police.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/11/2025
How I slept during Biden // How I sleep during Trump.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is an incredible edit
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I don’t think Cuomo is going to be doing anything remotely close to this in standing up for New York
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The Fire Lord has just endorsed Cuomo
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 03/11/2025
We've got you 👍
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I know that some people see foreign aid as wasteful but limiting the spread of deadly diseases is in all our interests
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/10/2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2025
Read more about your rights when interacting with military troops or federal agents at aclu.org/deployment_kyr
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Preach! 🙏
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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 02/10/2025
"Congolese government data shows that in Suza’s province, deaths caused by malaria nearly tripled in the first half of this year." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.
USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/10/2025
It’s important for us to speak out against acts of political retribution. The Trump Administration is taking away your money to punish you for their political shutdown. We’re going to fight to get it back.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Awesome special! And very heartfelt and uplifting! Love what you are wearing at the end! Please head over to NYC!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Powerful message!
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 30/08/2025
“The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has also been placed on administrative leave, according to the email…. She has more than 200 research publications, and her work has led to several clinical trials of first-of-their-kind vaccines.” www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s departm...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
👇👇
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I still want to know what happened with the 20 million dead people that Musk said were getting Social Security payments. His DOGE gang couldn't find any. So are they still getting their checks?
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@KayeKoonce.bsky.social. @kayekoonce.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This bright, sweet girl explains how Medicaid helps her brother—who has a trach & GI tube—go to school, make friends, live. She’s right: too many think Medicaid’s just for the elderly. It’s not. It’s for families like hers. It’s what makes life possible. #CancelTrumpsMedicaidCuts
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center. Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Don’t do Prime. Do this instead.
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“Mamdani aimed for Stuyvesant HS but only got into the Bronx HS of Science. Asian parents are disappointed. Did he throw the game? Was there a larger conspiracy at hand?”
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A few weeks ago, an important — and largely private — chapter in my life ended; I’m incredibly thankful to @lawfaremedia.org for giving me a forum to write the next one.
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Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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LawdyMsClaudy @flyme2damoon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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How to Join the Tax Strike (instead of a lifetime of fascism)
by PsychoPete with ArleneE ArleneE
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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An illustration of a young girl in silhouette with a ponytail, standing against a fiery orange and red background. Over her figure is a handwritten quote in white text that reads: “The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.” – Tolstoy. The intense backdrop and the child's silhouette create a haunting, powerful visual emphasizing the quote's message about the dangers of complacency toward evil.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In 80 seconds, AOC has completely dismantled the #BigUglyBill. Dems should turn this into a prime time campaign ad NOW. “This Bill is a deal with the devil”💥 @aoc.bsky.social
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Medicaid has many names. Imagine if every maga moron looked up whether their healthcare is actually Medicaid. Imagine if they did that tonight. If you're related to a maga moron... maybe point this out?
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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Trump regime to kill about 14 million people, mostly in Africa. This is our holocaust and we need to speak out, whether it is a vote-getting issue or not! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading science journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
In Sudan/Darfur, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal - www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#QuoteoftheDay #Pinks 💖
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Mike McLintalk @sporkupine.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Fall Out Boy recently remade Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the Fire” that covered 1989-2023. I think we need yet another remake that covers just the last 6 months. And more to come…
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Ron Hacker @ronhacker.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
"We are devastated and heartbroken at the loss of our parents, Melissa and Mark. They were the bright lights at the center of our lives, and we can't believe they are gone. Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much.
"We want everyone to know that we are both safe and with loved ones. We are grateful for the outpouring of love and support we have received, and we appreciate your respect for our family's privacy as we grieve.
"Our family would like to thank law enforcement for their swift action that saved others and for the coordination across communities that led to the arrest of the man who murdered our parents. We especially would like to thank the officers who were first on the scene to our parents' home and their heroic attempts to rescue our mom and dad.
"Our parents touched so many lives, and they leave behind an incredible legacy of dedication to their community that will live on in us, their friends, their colleagues and co-workers, and every single person who knew and loved them.
"If you would like to honor the memory of Mark and Melissa, please consider the following:
• Plant a tree.
• Visit a local park and make use of their amenities, especially a bike trail.
• Pet a dog. A golden retriever is ideal, but any will do.
• Tell your loved ones a cheesy dad joke and laugh about it.
• Bake something — bread for Mark or a cake for Melissa, and share it with someone.
• Try a new hobby and enjoy learning something.
• Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace.
"Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
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