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MichaelDorset

@stillcraftsman.bsky.social
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No DMs. Craftsman at heart, draftsman by profession. I'd retire tomorrow if I could afford it; I've got lots of stuff to do at home. If hope can save democracy, I'm trying to do my part. It's not easy. I was/am OldWhiteGuy on the bird app, FWIW

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not sure why this imaginationless reactionary murder-covering-up sack of shit has any buzz right now but if he does it's because the dumbest, most imaginationless assholes at The Bulwark, the Times and Neera Tanden want him to while exactly zero other people, and FEWER Democratic rank-and-file, do.
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Stop Trying to Make Rahm Emanuel Happen
Elite political reporters are eager to boost his presidential bid. But there has seldom been a candidate more poorly suited to a historical moment.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every single one of these weird Pelosi-ish Democratic leadership Democrats who declares "we are capitalists" should be reminded daily that the fusillade of horror happening in the United States right now is the absolute fucking ZENITH of capitalism and then be pressed to explain why that is good.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual scientific assessment that has tracked the rapidly changing Arctic for the past two decades.
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MichaelDorset @stillcraftsman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good luck, @francescahong.bsky.social!
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I would like to huzzah the profound brilliance of Democrats running all candidates past Republicans to make sure they are unattackable by Republicans, meaning an entire Democratic Party field of venomous Jesusy "remigration"-spouting neo-nazi assholes. Then we'll be "electable," boy howdy.
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"The Schutzstaffel is bad but necessary and we can reform it to do good" is just the dumbest fucking argument you can make, Conspicuously Tin-Eared Insanely-right-wing-leaning Mainstream Core of the Democratic Party.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"When I derailed the train nobody died because there are many other trains that people might have conceivably used." yeah but they did die, they died and now they are dead because you killed them, you fucking death's mask frog voice mass-murdering Nazi prick you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hey. Hey. You know what else shocked the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects? EVERYTHING DONE BY THE NEO-NAZIS RUNNING THE COUNTRY THAT THE TIMES HAS JUMPED OVER ITS DICK TO LEGITIMIZE, SOFTBALL AND OBFUSCATE FOR A YEAR A FUCKING HALF
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brooklyngal-ny.bsky.social @brooklyngal-ny.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The emoluments clause, called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal employees from receiving gifts, payment, or other object or service of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers,
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/07/2026
We white settlers simply don't have any more right to be here than anyone else. That's the bottom line. That's what "no one is illegal on stolen land" really means. We simply do not have any moral right to exclude other people from a country built by force and genocide.
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Someone get a camera on Carville 24/7 so we can actually see the moment where half his brain explodes out of his eye socket.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/07/2026
3/3 ..And it feels like we're back where we were before we started the war—except maybe a little bit worse off. And my understanding is that the ceasefire says we've now got 60 days to develop a plan to deal with the nuclear issue, but we don't know yet what that plan is.”
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/07/2026
2/3 …This administration, or a prior version of this administration, pulled out of it, which caused then Iran to develop more nuclear capacity. We've now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. ⬇️
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/07/2026
🧵 1/3 Obama explaining the situation with Iran “There was a deal in place in which Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons that the entire international community, including Israeli intelligence, our own intelligence agencies, assessed was working. ⬇️
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I understand that our institutions are going to recognize the authority of the Supreme Court, by the way. What I'm saying is it's very important for *us*—all of us—to view the fascist 6 as completely illegitimate, and let that observation of obvious truth inform our politics and worldview.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In my opinion hardwood Democrats who don't want to be replaced shouldn't have sucked shit for so long without listening to everyone screaming at them about it. We need to see so many of them replaced in so many primaries. Every time it happens is cause for hope and should cheer people everywhere.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Don’t exonerate Musk. He gave us Trump because he knew Trump would allow him to do it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.
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Grimm (My Normal Name Is My Halloween Name, Duh) @grimmreality.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
When I was a kid, the allegories of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone shaped my sense right and wrong way more than Sunday school so, while I am not looking forward to Ellison Paramount launching Star Trek: Genocide Is Actually Good Sometimes, it is fucking well going to happen.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
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Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
NEW: A House Appropriations subcommittee voted 8-6 to advance a Census Bureau funding bill that calls for excluding people living in the states without legal status from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2026
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi
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The hidden power keeping wages low
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Every day I encounter afresh how unnecessary most human suffering is, how much can be prevented by basic decency and baseline competence. And encounter afresh how much worse even the worst of this is made by the daily emotional terrorism of a supremacist leader and his morally vacant enablers.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump: the pope is weak on crime Pope: [descends to his cave, pulls cowl over face, Batman-growl voice] we’ll see about that
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Is the fact that the Iran war wasn’t congressionally authorized something we no longer talk about? Seems like the reporting/discussion now just assumes that Trump can just do whatever he wants wrt the use of force
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Serious Reminder: When it comes to the midterms, vote like you don't want to be imprisoned in a former Amazon Warehouse for criticizing Donald Trump.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 19/03/2026
From Life magazine, March 10th, 1921. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
💯 on 🎯
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/03/2026
SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.
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Top architecture firm won’t design more ICE prisons after employees revolt
They thought their firm focused on humane design. Then they learned of the private detention center contract.
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MichaelDorset @stillcraftsman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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oncewewerespacemen on Instagram: "The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home.And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost thi…"
The word is out. To keep Firefly flying, we need a home.And for that, we need you. Like this post, comment on this post, repost this post. Tag a friend, tag an enemy, even tag a Reaver. Give us some “quantifiable analytics” that we can use to convince folks that this is something people want.#BringBackFireflyView all 23,222 comments
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is interesting. It’s from Caolan Robertson, an independent reporter on the front lines in Ukraine.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
thank you for freeing all of us up from meaningful work that brings us and others joy so we can do something else
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Don't shun people just because they have different beliefs about blotting out the sun to usher in a new age of eternal darkness. We have to find an answer in the middle.
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MichaelDorset @stillcraftsman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
On War open.substack.com/pub/steveins...
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On war
The strikes on Iran, the Constitution, and the people.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote. Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2026
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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