Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
· Dec 14
I made a starter pack of people I follow who (a) post about news, politics, and law a lot, (b) don't post about a ton of other things, (c) have interesting takes that make me think. don't be offended if you're a mutual but not included, it's probably bc of (a) or (b) not (c) go.bsky.app/AqgdUFZ
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Pity the many Brian Cole's about to get misidentified by right wing influencers.
Brian Cole is the person in FBI custody who investigators believe left the pipe bombs, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Pity the many Brian Cole's about to get misidentified by right wing influencers.
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I'm at the combination
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I'm at the combination
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
bluesky wrapped but it's how many times you got a non-sequitur scolding reply to a joke post
bluesky wrapped but it's how many meaningless arguments you got into. and also your win/loss ratio
Bluesky Wrapped and it's how many times your own joke was explained to you
December 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
bluesky wrapped but it's how many times you got a non-sequitur scolding reply to a joke post
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
They should do MyChart Wrapped
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yes, it’s really that bad.
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
yes, it’s really that bad.
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the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the hater's council just vetoed this actually.
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.
"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members
problematic Spotify age gap relationship
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
problematic Spotify age gap relationship
listening to Pinkerton this morning and thinking once again about how it's better than the Blue Album
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
listening to Pinkerton this morning and thinking once again about how it's better than the Blue Album
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Here's something weird my neighbor Cassie pointed out: Chapter 42 of Cynthia Erivo's recently released book "Simply More" is almost verbatim words spoken by Ariana Grande in an interview a year ago. Grande is not cited or listed as a contributor or attributed in the book in any way. Weird!
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Here's something weird my neighbor Cassie pointed out: Chapter 42 of Cynthia Erivo's recently released book "Simply More" is almost verbatim words spoken by Ariana Grande in an interview a year ago. Grande is not cited or listed as a contributor or attributed in the book in any way. Weird!
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
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Just for everyone who grew up with Trump, I promise you that back in the day, everyone hated Congress but they actually did pass real laws.
It was actually fairly normal for them to pass bills that did things that weren't crypto handouts or funding masked kidnappers who torture immigrants.
It was actually fairly normal for them to pass bills that did things that weren't crypto handouts or funding masked kidnappers who torture immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just for everyone who grew up with Trump, I promise you that back in the day, everyone hated Congress but they actually did pass real laws.
It was actually fairly normal for them to pass bills that did things that weren't crypto handouts or funding masked kidnappers who torture immigrants.
It was actually fairly normal for them to pass bills that did things that weren't crypto handouts or funding masked kidnappers who torture immigrants.
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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Saying Austin Butler would’ve been better is maybe the most ridiculous part. Not only was he 16, he would’ve been a horrible fit
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Saying Austin Butler would’ve been better is maybe the most ridiculous part. Not only was he 16, he would’ve been a horrible fit
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wrong about the movie and wrong about dano
Quentin Tarantino says 'There Will Be Blood' had a chance to be his greatest film of the 21st century if it didnt have Paul Dano in it
"it’s supposed to be a two-hander, but ... [Dano] is weak sauce, man ... He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest fucking actor in SAG [laughs]"
"it’s supposed to be a two-hander, but ... [Dano] is weak sauce, man ... He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest fucking actor in SAG [laughs]"
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
wrong about the movie and wrong about dano
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maybe if he said the n-word once per scene he'd have gotten some respect from ole quentin
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’
Most filmmakers know better than to publicly torch another director’s film or an actor’s performance, but Quentin Tarantino has never really played by those rules. On a new episode of Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast, where the pair ran through their top 20 films of the century, Tarantino used his praise of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” as a springboard to lay into one of its key performers: Paul Dano.
Continue reading Quentin Tarantino Blasts Paul Dano As The “Giant Flaw & Weak Sauce” Of ‘There Will Be Blood’ at The Playlist.
dlvr.it
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
maybe if he said the n-word once per scene he'd have gotten some respect from ole quentin
andrew luck was a regular on wikifeet
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
andrew luck was a regular on wikifeet
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The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep
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HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
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and maybe you radicalize a dumb guy leftward! all upside!
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
and maybe you radicalize a dumb guy leftward! all upside!
incredible opportunity for Eastern European "girlfriends" who met their American boyfriends online. get a bunch of money from the guy, claim you flew out to the US, but got stopped by CBP and are now in ICE detention, then tragically be "disappeared" by the government
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
incredible opportunity for Eastern European "girlfriends" who met their American boyfriends online. get a bunch of money from the guy, claim you flew out to the US, but got stopped by CBP and are now in ICE detention, then tragically be "disappeared" by the government