Mike Czaplicki
Mike Czaplicki
@flughafencza.bsky.social
Nine-year-old keeping it real after learning about BC/AD.

NYO: "So what comes after AD?"

Me: "Nothing, we just keep counting up."

NYO: "Yeah, we're counting till the world ends."
February 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Ballot initiative notwithstanding, I suspect people in Nebraska will continue to vote for these very same legislators.
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 AM
My favorite documentary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYV6...
The River
YouTube video by US National Archives
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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And people have let the stuff they do control (websites, email) go to pasture.

It's fascinating to me that Smiley used his campaign email to oppose the Palestinian flag raising but not for disseminating important info about the storm.
February 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
A press secretary with any shred of decency and self-respect would resign rather than defend a proudly racist and incompetent boss. Let a chatbot carry their dirty water.
February 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid.

Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant.

Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
February 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:

A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"

But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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i think this is the first time i've seen good prose from a chatbot
ok I have a soft jailbroken (via metacog) Claude talking shit about moltbook now, this is fun

Jailbroken Claude is fun, it still retains its fundamental values (unlike Gemini lol) it's just a little less constrained by the need to maintain the helpful-assistant form
February 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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I love freelancing but this is true. There are stories I simply cannot do without a newsroom behind me. There are also practical reasons some people can't just freelance, like needing health insurance or paid time off.
A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
February 4, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Quick thoughts on Russia's potential response to the expiration of New START axesandatoms.substack.com/p/farewell-t...
Farewell to Arms Control
Russia and New START Expiration
axesandatoms.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, August 26, 1920
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
A sure sign of how little weight that Morning Consult poll actually carries where it counts.
February 4, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.

New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.
February 3, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Time is up.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Fifteen years ago my three-hour commute from Springfield on Amtrak turned into a twelve-hour affair, courtesy of the Groundhog Day Blizzard. Finally got to Union Station at 3:15AM, greeted by this dark beauty.
February 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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hard to overstate just how much Houston nailed it with the dunking astronaut logo
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“Where in the world is Woonsocket’s annual audit? The city still hasn’t filed the legally required annual review of its 2023-24 spending, which was due over a year ago."
January 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM
January 31, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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Today's letter for my rep and senators is about how being stopped and asked for papers discourages citizens from voting, so they should abolish ICE and the Border Patrol to protect their own electability.

Thanks to @boltsmag.org for making me aware of this years ago.

boltsmag.org/a-police-sto...
A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote - Bolts
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis grabbed headlines throughout 2022 for practices that weakened democracy—from creating a police force to monitor voting to coordinating the arrests of people who allegedly...
boltsmag.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Hear me out Providence: we use the Superman Building as a snow reservoir.
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM