Mike Rhone
@mikerhone.bsky.social
software QA, theater nerd, 2-time LL one-day champion, forever #NeverTrump 🏳️🌈 he/him/his. I was @mikerhoneTM at the old place.
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Mike Rhone
@mikerhone.bsky.social
· Jan 23
Hello, Facebook (and real life) friends who are finding me here as they look for alternatives to Meta! Fair warning: I use this platform to scream into the void. It’s almost all politics, all the time. If that’s not your bag, no hard feelings. If you want to scream along, great.
Playing Valentine in Arcadia was one of the great joys and great terrors of my life. Hardest role I’ve ever done; I only felt like I was getting him in our closing week (oh, for the luxury of a dozen+ previews). I think about that play and role every time I put cream in my coffee. RIP Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Playing Valentine in Arcadia was one of the great joys and great terrors of my life. Hardest role I’ve ever done; I only felt like I was getting him in our closing week (oh, for the luxury of a dozen+ previews). I think about that play and role every time I put cream in my coffee. RIP Tom Stoppard.
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Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
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It’s very weird and very of our era that Border Patrol’s head goon is terminally online
Greg Bovino calls NANCY SINATRA "a main cause of violence"
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s very weird and very of our era that Border Patrol’s head goon is terminally online
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
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Second: As to intent, if the fact that SOME Americans die from drug overdoses means that all drug dealers are guilty of murder then every gun manufacturer is guilty of murder. And make no mistake: central American drug violence is powered by US guns. www.thetrace.org/2024/06/atf-...
Avoiding a Legal Battle, the ATF Has Released Near-Unprecedented Gun Trafficking Data
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has released records detailing the origin of guns smuggled from the United States to Mexico and Central America, marking just the second time in...
www.thetrace.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Second: As to intent, if the fact that SOME Americans die from drug overdoses means that all drug dealers are guilty of murder then every gun manufacturer is guilty of murder. And make no mistake: central American drug violence is powered by US guns. www.thetrace.org/2024/06/atf-...
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
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I don't want to get my hopes up about a GOP Senator actually acting on core American principles against the Trump regime's egregious violations, but Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker vowing oversight of illegal Caribbean boat strikes looks like a move in that direction.
Now follow through.
Now follow through.
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I don't want to get my hopes up about a GOP Senator actually acting on core American principles against the Trump regime's egregious violations, but Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker vowing oversight of illegal Caribbean boat strikes looks like a move in that direction.
Now follow through.
Now follow through.
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I have friends who served in Afghanistan who relied on translators during their mission. I have also gotten to know people who worked in the Karzai government. All were targeted by the Taliban after we left. They all loved America more than Trump ever has.
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have friends who served in Afghanistan who relied on translators during their mission. I have also gotten to know people who worked in the Karzai government. All were targeted by the Taliban after we left. They all loved America more than Trump ever has.
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Like so much Trump does, it will take decades to restore the damage. The people he is targeting are people who helped America even as it put their lives at risk. There isn't a country in the world where people who share our values won't think twice next time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Like so much Trump does, it will take decades to restore the damage. The people he is targeting are people who helped America even as it put their lives at risk. There isn't a country in the world where people who share our values won't think twice next time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Some time ago I learned somebody had put me on a block list comprised of people who swear too much. Now I’ve learned that there’s a @profanity.accountant bot that will tell you how much. I bet my number is pretty fucking high.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Some time ago I learned somebody had put me on a block list comprised of people who swear too much. Now I’ve learned that there’s a @profanity.accountant bot that will tell you how much. I bet my number is pretty fucking high.
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Goldsmith was head of George W. Bush's DOJ OLC and is a respected conservative, not afraid of executive power. He's not John Yoo, but then I think even Yoo has expressed doubts about the legality of these strikes
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”
open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Goldsmith was head of George W. Bush's DOJ OLC and is a respected conservative, not afraid of executive power. He's not John Yoo, but then I think even Yoo has expressed doubts about the legality of these strikes
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Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
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Whoa.
Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..”
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
@adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict
dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Whoa.
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Is the reason they had to dig back to 2019 because Trump is golfing?
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Is the reason they had to dig back to 2019 because Trump is golfing?