Michael Mechanic
@michaelmechanic.bsky.social
Mother Jones editor; author of "Jackpot," an "entertaining and eviscerating" (Jane Mayer) book on America's wealth insanity (readjackpot.com); piano player turned punk rock drummer turned old-time fiddler; dad of Gen Zers; gardener; curmudgeon about town.
You absolutely should be deplatformed for that pun.
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
You absolutely should be deplatformed for that pun.
Yeah, well they have their share of 1 percenters for sure. When you hang around rich people, nice as some of them may be, they get really salty when you talk about things like taxing unrealized gains.
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yeah, well they have their share of 1 percenters for sure. When you hang around rich people, nice as some of them may be, they get really salty when you talk about things like taxing unrealized gains.
Science can and does fall into thinking ruts, and does need the occasional shakeup from within, but Kennedy is regurgitating old, thoroughly debunked ideas. Not bringing anything new to the table. And he's playing with people's lives. Vaccines are among history's top scientific triumphs.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Science can and does fall into thinking ruts, and does need the occasional shakeup from within, but Kennedy is regurgitating old, thoroughly debunked ideas. Not bringing anything new to the table. And he's playing with people's lives. Vaccines are among history's top scientific triumphs.
Also fascinating
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Also fascinating
I dunno, man. People wear or don't wear their wedding rings for all sorts of reasons. Seems like a pointless thing to speculate about.
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I dunno, man. People wear or don't wear their wedding rings for all sorts of reasons. Seems like a pointless thing to speculate about.