Michael Ditto
@janus303.bsky.social
Musician. Entrepreneur. Pornstar*.
*not intended to be a factual statement
Current profile pic: Silas Soule, badass. Look him up.
*not intended to be a factual statement
Current profile pic: Silas Soule, badass. Look him up.
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one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
In the teens’ defense, as someone who worked campaigns for 25 years and dealt with the press at every level, way too much of this does in fact happen! I can give specific examples of each of these things being true from one campaign in one election cycle. Is it typical? No, but far too frequent.
A grim portrait of the journalism profession the way teens see it. Via AP. apnews.com/article/news...
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In the teens’ defense, as someone who worked campaigns for 25 years and dealt with the press at every level, way too much of this does in fact happen! I can give specific examples of each of these things being true from one campaign in one election cycle. Is it typical? No, but far too frequent.
Obviously that’s not a thing, but I would make one observation: if Joe Biden had gotten an abdominal MRI (or CT) they would have found his prostate cancer, maybe even before it metastasized. I have no problem with the President of the United States getting too many lab tests.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Obviously that’s not a thing, but I would make one observation: if Joe Biden had gotten an abdominal MRI (or CT) they would have found his prostate cancer, maybe even before it metastasized. I have no problem with the President of the United States getting too many lab tests.
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This is just the 14 words abridged
Leavitt: "Leaders have a duty to preserve the integrity and character of our nation's national identity."
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is just the 14 words abridged
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Today the FCC accepted for filing the application for Nexstar (Fox31) to acquire TEGNA (9NEWS) and has set a pleading cycle (public comment) to run through late January with a ruling to follow. The FCC says Nexstar is requesting two ownership rule waivers.
docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today the FCC accepted for filing the application for Nexstar (Fox31) to acquire TEGNA (9NEWS) and has set a pleading cycle (public comment) to run through late January with a ruling to follow. The FCC says Nexstar is requesting two ownership rule waivers.
docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...
This is important. I’m really concerned about how people On Here and beyond are just positioning themselves as Luddites, not as a party with a plan.
Demagoguing about data centers in order to get elected on this issue makes perfect sense. But the forces pushing power prices up are many, & structural, & data centers are only a small piece of the puzzle. When you get elected & then power prices continue rising ... then what?
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is important. I’m really concerned about how people On Here and beyond are just positioning themselves as Luddites, not as a party with a plan.
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If you want to know why all this "electricity prices are the new egg prices" stuff makes me nervous, consider that nowhere in this entire NYT story about it does anyone even so much as mention in passing *what Dems plan to do about it*.
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you want to know why all this "electricity prices are the new egg prices" stuff makes me nervous, consider that nowhere in this entire NYT story about it does anyone even so much as mention in passing *what Dems plan to do about it*.
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I noted a while ago that the President wasn't doing any rallies, which he obviously loves, or loved, to do. A much deeper/more informed look at that phenomenon:
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I noted a while ago that the President wasn't doing any rallies, which he obviously loves, or loved, to do. A much deeper/more informed look at that phenomenon:
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December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment
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Cc: house and senate democrats. Do something. Take away funding for his office for gods sake
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Cc: house and senate democrats. Do something. Take away funding for his office for gods sake
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Another example of anti-semitism out in the open in politics.
Tina Peters’ ally and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann blames “Satan Jews” for imprisoning Peters: Governor Polis, AG Weiser, DA Rubinstein, SOS Griswold.
Oltmann then repeats his call for executions by hanging.
Tina Peters’ ally and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann blames “Satan Jews” for imprisoning Peters: Governor Polis, AG Weiser, DA Rubinstein, SOS Griswold.
Oltmann then repeats his call for executions by hanging.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Another example of anti-semitism out in the open in politics.
Tina Peters’ ally and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann blames “Satan Jews” for imprisoning Peters: Governor Polis, AG Weiser, DA Rubinstein, SOS Griswold.
Oltmann then repeats his call for executions by hanging.
Tina Peters’ ally and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann blames “Satan Jews” for imprisoning Peters: Governor Polis, AG Weiser, DA Rubinstein, SOS Griswold.
Oltmann then repeats his call for executions by hanging.
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
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Trump: I'm going to pardon massive drug kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández, bc I don't think former leaders should be held accountable for their crimes.
Also Trump: But I'm going to make thinly sourced claims that Maduro is a drug kingpin so I can rationalize an illegal war based on that claim.
Also Trump: But I'm going to make thinly sourced claims that Maduro is a drug kingpin so I can rationalize an illegal war based on that claim.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Trump: I'm going to pardon massive drug kingpin Juan Orlando Hernández, bc I don't think former leaders should be held accountable for their crimes.
Also Trump: But I'm going to make thinly sourced claims that Maduro is a drug kingpin so I can rationalize an illegal war based on that claim.
Also Trump: But I'm going to make thinly sourced claims that Maduro is a drug kingpin so I can rationalize an illegal war based on that claim.
I did the math on 400 tons, which is the number most widely used: the leathal dose of cocaine is around 1.2 grams. Using standard government math (size of drug bust divided by the lethal dose), 400 tons is enough to kill 333 million Americans. Therefore, Joe Biden saved 333 million lives.
President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I did the math on 400 tons, which is the number most widely used: the leathal dose of cocaine is around 1.2 grams. Using standard government math (size of drug bust divided by the lethal dose), 400 tons is enough to kill 333 million Americans. Therefore, Joe Biden saved 333 million lives.
This morning he says there’s a no-fly zone, this afternoon he says “don’t read anything into it.” The president is unhinged and needs to be removed.
President Trump when asked by reporters on Air Force One today whether his airspace comments meant strikes against Venezuela are imminent, replied: "Don't read anything into it." www.reuters.com/world/america...
Trump confirms conversation with Venezuela's Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had spoken with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, but did not provide details on what the two leaders discussed.
www.reuters.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This morning he says there’s a no-fly zone, this afternoon he says “don’t read anything into it.” The president is unhinged and needs to be removed.
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Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
If I was working at OU, I would just start handing out 100's to every student and stop writing comments.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
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The Afghan man accused of gunning down two National Guard members had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden cross-country drives. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Suspect in National Guard attack struggled with ‘dark isolation’ as community raised concerns
www.stripes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Afghan man accused of gunning down two National Guard members had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden cross-country drives. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
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This right here from @marionicolais.bsky.social
If Jared Polis can’t defend #copolitics election systems then what’s he really saying, to both election deniers and county clerks? He’s putting the latter in even more danger.
If Jared Polis can’t defend #copolitics election systems then what’s he really saying, to both election deniers and county clerks? He’s putting the latter in even more danger.
Nicolais: Gov. Polis’ continued silence on Tina Peters effectively puts him in her camp
The governor refuses to take a strong stand against federal attempts to take custody of Peters and presumably provide preferential treatment
coloradosun.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This right here from @marionicolais.bsky.social
If Jared Polis can’t defend #copolitics election systems then what’s he really saying, to both election deniers and county clerks? He’s putting the latter in even more danger.
If Jared Polis can’t defend #copolitics election systems then what’s he really saying, to both election deniers and county clerks? He’s putting the latter in even more danger.
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Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Honestly it's funny that he is *quite literally* saying "deregulate and reduce the burden of taxation on business to create jobs" and nobody on the left will criticise him. Good.
If you’re taking sides on this TikTok clip, you shouldn’t. All four people in the video are grifters. They’re making bank doing this bit.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If you’re taking sides on this TikTok clip, you shouldn’t. All four people in the video are grifters. They’re making bank doing this bit.
“Small Business Saturday” is a marketing gimmick by American Express, not something local entrepreneurs came up with. It’s like saying Happy Lobsterfest or Prime Day. Can’t wait for Toyotathon!
It’s Small Business Saturday.
Local entrepreneurs represent the best of America.
They deserve our support today and always!
Local entrepreneurs represent the best of America.
They deserve our support today and always!
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“Small Business Saturday” is a marketing gimmick by American Express, not something local entrepreneurs came up with. It’s like saying Happy Lobsterfest or Prime Day. Can’t wait for Toyotathon!