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Michael Carlson

@micarlson.bsky.social

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Nora's dad. Rufus' guy 14+ years. Yank, Montréaler, Brit (adopted pre-Brexit).Writer, broadcaster & speaker on Culture (arts, books, film, Americana), Politics & (as Mike or Iron Mike) Sports. Some poems. Accept no substitutes. His not Him before gerunds

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · Jul 14

"There are those who would say it all breaks even because the rich get ice in the summer while the poor get it in the winter" . -Bat Masterson

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20h

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 3h

JVVance in Vance heaven

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6h

Epic Freudian slip

"We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology" -Mike Johnson

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4h

Somehow it's only "demonizing half of the country" when Democrats mildly criticize Trump supporters. This just doesn't count

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, instead of putting weapons on the moon, how about we take care of our home.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

Just a thought: Instead of Argentina, how about we bail out America first?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 14h

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 13h

Nepo on all sides of the family

Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 13h

Fortunately, though it takes @politico.com a long time to awaken to reality, they also have a very short memory & quick delete function

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 16h

Sadly he couldn't own slaves

Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 16h

I thought Connor McDavid was the King of Canada

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

Holy Crap!. This is amazing! Newsom certainly has a great social media game.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 1d

JV Vance's "kids"

luckiiyu7.bsky.social @luckiiyu7.bsky.social · 1d

Yuck! 🤮

Meet The Master Race
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Meet The Master Race

Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Was it an order or simply a polite suggestion understanding she might be very busy in the Lords. Or Monaco. Or UAE, whatever.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

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Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Marshall's version of "centre left" is basically "centre right" where centre is old fashioned centre Tories (eg Hesletine) or far-rightist Labour (eg Mann, Austin, Berger). But #BBCnews is already centre right headed toward far authoritarian right

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing