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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · Nov 11

4 decades ago the Federalist Society was created to destroy the fabric of the most successful democratic nation in history. It was a reaction to civil rights and the regulatory system that had built the middle class. They wanted unrequited wealth. They won. Now everybody’s miserable, even them. Yay

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

We don’t know the costs yet. But promise it shall be beyond our wildest imaginations.

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1h

ICE sent a Massachusetts 7th grader 500 miles away without his parents or even telling them

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

Not being totally sure what’s going on with Trump is the clearest sign of personal health.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

Is it the art of the deal to let your adversary know you can dismiss your offer before closing? It’s up to them. The best deal making involves giving things up for your old buddies!

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

Oh well. The sands of time run slow but fine.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

Haha an revanchist German oligarch owns my work sir, nothing to fear. Ask Karoline!

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

We certainly have heard from three little pigs a lot lately - Stephen Miller, JD Vance and Russell Vought.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 1h

It’s true. Qatar didn’t even give Trump a sniff before 2016. Like every single place that wasn’t once part of the Soviet Union.

Ah the sands of time. As it were.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2h

The ultimate “three tickets for Challengers please” photo

Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty in REDS

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 2h

AOC
MTG
Bernie
The American people

All sides and every corner know that medical insurance is extraordinarily broken and fertilizer to our institutional breakdown. There’s no better time than now to take on this fight.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 2h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 2h

There is not enough ointment made on earth to salve Trump’s wounds. To say nothing of the wounds he perpetuates on every single one of us.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 3h

This guy? This guy said something incredibly stupid for attention while accomplishing nothing? No way. wisconsinexaminer.com/2023/09/19/w...

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

Albany Park. Like Rogers Park an incredibly diverse neighborhood. Many refugees have been settled in these neighborhoods.

ICE is tear gassing people on residential streets.

This is like a foreign occupation.

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 4h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 4h

substack.com/@aaronrupar/...

Aaron Rupar (@aaronrupar)

Chris Murphy: "The VP is just not living in reality. There's no negotiations happening right now because Republicans are boycotting them. They are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt because th...

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 5h

ICE has so much of this energy. They get it from their leadership.

a woman in a white shirt is crying and smiling .

ALT: a woman in a white shirt is crying and smiling .

media.tenor.com

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 5h

Always worth remembering that choosing at any point to register as a Republican means you have imbibed your gateway drug.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 5h

Art of the deal bitches. So tired of winning, so easy, check my six pack out.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 5h

Have mine eyes deceived me? Has the television news media begun to finally get how to ask dissemblers and liars questions?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 5h

In the last week Stephen Miller said that the courts have determined that Donald Trump has plenary power.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 6h

The overlords 2025

onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 16h

The world is divided by those who enjoy dancing and all that follows vs the men that reject it and only can spread their misery.

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Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 17h

Hmm what does a personalized government that pays its military out of a presidential slush fund suggest about our checks and balances along with the demands of loyalty from the armed forces?

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 17h

This is a legacy of the Brave New World that Neal Postman predicted for us 40 years ago.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 17h

Every institution in the United States is broken.

Every single one.

Time to imagine something very different because there ain't nothing in the body to revive.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 17h

There is no depth too deep. There is no imagination too dark to contemplate the consequences of all of this.

Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social · 17h

He was exonerated and released because of The Innocence Project.

THE INNOCENCE PROJECT.