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Michael Mechanic
@michaelmechanic.bsky.social
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Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · Nov 19
It's a good day when your book shows up on a senator's desk. You can get your own copy via ReadJackpot.com/order
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.
Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 19h
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
"Miller slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power to send active-duty military troops into American cities based only on his delusions."
Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"
This is not how the Constitution works.
www.publicnotice.co
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h
Republicans are obsessed with throwing stones despite living in houses almost exclusively made of glass.
The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own
As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 22h
“You need to be tracking everyone that is close to them. If you know their bodyguards, if you know their spouses, if you know their kids. All those phones are very essential for the eventual killing of someone, you know.”

This really is one helluva story.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 23h
Gonna answer this one: yes.
He studies fascism. Is he now living through it?
After death threats for his work on antifascism, a Rutgers University professor fled the United States. "It's too late for preventative antifascism," he said. "I think we're in a new era."
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d
Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
How young Republican leaders talk when they think nobody is listening. Very classy.
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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404 Media @404media.co · 1d
A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.

🔗 www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d
Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 1d
I have been waiting for this @ninaburleigh.bsky.social piece on Laura Loomer, and it did not disappoint. Excellent piece.

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
Total racial profiling. I don't see them stopping white kids, who, after all, could be undocumented Moldovans or whatever.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d
ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
This really amounts to taxation w/o representation, and I seem to recall we actually went to war over this once upon a time.
Congress is losing its grip on the power to spend Americans’ money
Congress is supposed to control spending, but increasingly, the White House is dictating how America’s money is used.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1d
This analysis shows just how shortsighted and ignorant Trump's approach to trade is. America is waning as China rises, and he's merely accelerating the process.
Opinion | We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse.
www.nytimes.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d
“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'
A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 3d
In related news, Trump's minions are reportedly perpetrating a bloodbath at HHS and CDC right now. Some of them are high-level, critical people, experienced scientists whose absence will have dire consequences when the next major pandemic hits.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 4d
It is "incumbent on other democratic nations...to take whatever punitive actions are necessary against bad state actors—the United States sadly now included—to rein them in.”
Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
www.motherjones.com
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d
Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil."

"Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 3d
Neutral headline framing of such an obvious and dangerous falsehood is irresponsible journalism, full stop. It is enabling propaganda.
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Politico @politico.com · 4d
Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”
Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering
Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.
www.politico.com
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d
Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl
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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 4d
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 4d
“When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” Benioff continued. “That’s how it used to be.”

He's too young to remember, but back in those good old days, SF cops routinely terrorized LGBTQ people for asserting their rights.

Pretty disappointing, Marc.
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 4d
It is "incumbent on other democratic nations...to take whatever punitive actions are necessary against bad state actors—the United States sadly now included—to rein them in.”
Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
www.motherjones.com
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 4d
I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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