Michael Crawford
@michaelcrawford.com
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Exists simultaneously as wave and particle. Occasionally pretends to be a writer. See the rest of my nerdery at @progresscityusa.com Formerly @MiklCraw4d at The Old Place™
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Genuinely fascinating and terrifying to have a person who has never read a book or basically anything and only learns and retains about 5% of what the last person he spoke with told him running the country
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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I guess it would've been too much to expect any of the so-called journalists onboard AF1 to note that these were not "very small" demonstrations, and were in fact the largest demonstrations in 50+ years.
Trump on No Kings: "It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."
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OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.
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Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.
Trump says he's imposing new tariffs on Colombia but won't say what the rate will be
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Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not
Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels
www.nytimes.com
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The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.
Nothing but the best vibes for Tim Curry
Tim Curry Shares Details of His Stroke, Learning to Talk Again and Why He Was So “Scared”: bit.ly/48ERH6K
There's a sketch on MST3k where Frank is pretending Dr. F has died and they're getting all sorts of calls and celebratory floral displays ("I hope you die") from people like Jimmy Carter and Mother Teresa. It's going to be like that.
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Zohran Mamdani makes videos educating people about a trans activist and Donald Trump posts an AI video of himself shitting diarrhea all over American citizens.

The news media is trying to stop the former and help the latter.
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I get that there are times when disputes over news coverage are a matter of emphasis or perspective on big, sprawling events, but it feels bad for public trust in a publication when it fails to accurately describe a video that’s 20 seconds long, and that everyone can see.
Replace "leftist" with "UNC fan" and this could be a PP post
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"You college students are hypocrites because you won't provide the billions of dollars needed to rebuild Gaza after the genocide we did" is a hell of a thing to put in writing but okay
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
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we are in a self-awareness crisis
The Art of Marvel Studios’ What If...? hardcover book is $11.54 on Amazon (77% off, 272 pages) buff.ly/Pgp6fur
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There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
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Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.
In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.