Mike Bertelson
@microbeta.bsky.social
US Navy Vet. Retired mechanical engineer. SME in the marking, handling, and storage of classified material. My wife and I were life long Republicans, Never Trumpers and voting Blue for the foreseeable future...MAGA Must Go!
And yet, more people voted against Trump than voted for him so...there's that. 😁
October 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And yet, more people voted against Trump than voted for him so...there's that. 😁
What the actual ĵk is wrong with people?
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What the actual ĵk is wrong with people?
In 2019, the Trump administration had to bail out US farmers due to tariffs on China.
From the “history repeating itself” file, Trump is now saying he wants to take tariff money that was paid by Americans and give it to Americans hurt by the tariffs.
Make it make sense.
From the “history repeating itself” file, Trump is now saying he wants to take tariff money that was paid by Americans and give it to Americans hurt by the tariffs.
Make it make sense.
September 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In 2019, the Trump administration had to bail out US farmers due to tariffs on China.
From the “history repeating itself” file, Trump is now saying he wants to take tariff money that was paid by Americans and give it to Americans hurt by the tariffs.
Make it make sense.
From the “history repeating itself” file, Trump is now saying he wants to take tariff money that was paid by Americans and give it to Americans hurt by the tariffs.
Make it make sense.
If the government trusted them to server they should trust them to stay in this country.
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If the government trusted them to server they should trust them to stay in this country.
Reposted by Mike Bertelson
Except, Miller, and the Trump administration as a whole, doesn't care about reality.
They're just pushing their scripted narrative and the Trumpers/MAGA are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
They're just pushing their scripted narrative and the Trumpers/MAGA are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Except, Miller, and the Trump administration as a whole, doesn't care about reality.
They're just pushing their scripted narrative and the Trumpers/MAGA are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
They're just pushing their scripted narrative and the Trumpers/MAGA are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
I love it!
Ann Telnaes won a Pulitzer Prize after she resigned from the Washington Post after they refused to publish her cartoon.
Bravo Pulitzer board for giving Bezos the bird!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bravo Pulitzer board for giving Bezos the bird!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
May 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love it!
Reposted by Mike Bertelson
Thank you Mark Cuban!
Michael Woodruff
Michael Woodruff
May 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Thank you Mark Cuban!
Michael Woodruff
Michael Woodruff
The stakes are incredibly high. AAMOF, in the 1930s Germany getting control of lawyers and the courts was the first thing the German government did.
Just sayin'...
Just sayin'...
I speak out because the stakes are too high to stay quiet in the fight for democracy. Looking to get off the sidelines?
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May 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The stakes are incredibly high. AAMOF, in the 1930s Germany getting control of lawyers and the courts was the first thing the German government did.
Just sayin'...
Just sayin'...
Reposted by Mike Bertelson
I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.
Question:
"DON'T YOU NEED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AS PRESIDENT?"
Answer:
"I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE TO RESPOND BY SAYING, AGAIN, I HAVE BRILLIANT LAWYERS THAT WORK FOR ME..."
He-Doesn't-Know!
Trump is unfit to be President of the United States.
"DON'T YOU NEED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AS PRESIDENT?"
Answer:
"I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE TO RESPOND BY SAYING, AGAIN, I HAVE BRILLIANT LAWYERS THAT WORK FOR ME..."
He-Doesn't-Know!
Trump is unfit to be President of the United States.
May 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Question:
"DON'T YOU NEED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AS PRESIDENT?"
Answer:
"I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE TO RESPOND BY SAYING, AGAIN, I HAVE BRILLIANT LAWYERS THAT WORK FOR ME..."
He-Doesn't-Know!
Trump is unfit to be President of the United States.
"DON'T YOU NEED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AS PRESIDENT?"
Answer:
"I DON'T KNOW. I HAVE TO RESPOND BY SAYING, AGAIN, I HAVE BRILLIANT LAWYERS THAT WORK FOR ME..."
He-Doesn't-Know!
Trump is unfit to be President of the United States.
Reposted by Mike Bertelson
Holy crap!
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
May 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Holy crap!
So, now Trump want's to rename Veteran's day to "Victory Day for World War I"
Not only no but ĵk no!
Not only no but ĵk no!
May 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So, now Trump want's to rename Veteran's day to "Victory Day for World War I"
Not only no but ĵk no!
Not only no but ĵk no!
Because the whole world thinks he's a ĵkin' clown who doesn't deserve their respect. And, I agree.
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Because the whole world thinks he's a ĵkin' clown who doesn't deserve their respect. And, I agree.
If I had done this, I would have lost my clearance, my job, and possibly prosecuted.
"U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday" www.reuters.com/world/us/def...
Defense chief Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details.
www.reuters.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If I had done this, I would have lost my clearance, my job, and possibly prosecuted.
I think we're either there or will be in a crisis very soon.
Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?
Clash between Trump and the courts sparks questions of a constitutional crisis
Every day it seems new conflicts arise between President Trump and the courts. Prompting another round of the question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I think we're either there or will be in a crisis very soon.
I think it's about time for this to happen.
April 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I think it's about time for this to happen.
No other reason but to hide the truth.
Totally. At this point, the people that they want to deport are detained. What reason other than eluding judicial review, including individualized determinations, would they have from moving so quickly?
The Trump administration’s desire to get more migrants into the El Salvador gulag is fanatical. The border’s closed, the men are detained—but they desperately keep trying to deport them. Maybe it’s all meant to accelerate self-deportation? But it feels more like “cleanse the nation of impure blood.”
April 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
No other reason but to hide the truth.
What the actual ĵk is the Trump administration doing? What is this country becoming?
If you're following @dollemore.com ...you should be.
youtu.be/H-3iQyWrFHA?...
If you're following @dollemore.com ...you should be.
youtu.be/H-3iQyWrFHA?...
American-Born U.S. Citizen Jailed for ‘ILLEGALLY ENTERING FLORIDA AS UNAUTHORIZED ALIEN!!!’
YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore
youtu.be
April 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
What the actual ĵk is the Trump administration doing? What is this country becoming?
If you're following @dollemore.com ...you should be.
youtu.be/H-3iQyWrFHA?...
If you're following @dollemore.com ...you should be.
youtu.be/H-3iQyWrFHA?...
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer, but this seems to be the test of whether or not we're in a Constitutional crisis.
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
Lawyers Urge Courts to Halt More Deportations of Venezuelans Under Alien Enemies Act
More than 50 Venezuelans were believed to be scheduled to be flown out of the country, presumably to El Salvador, from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer, but this seems to be the test of whether or not we're in a Constitutional crisis.
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
The SCOTUS has ruled 9-0 that the government violated Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's right to due process and must facilitate his return.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The SCOTUS has ruled 9-0 that the government violated Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's right to due process and must facilitate his return.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...