MickieD
@mickied.bsky.social
Military brat>AZ>NY transplant; earned my orchestra production, college admin, camping, pie baking, marriage, mom, house hound, manual drive, swearing & sarcasm Girl Scout badges along the way.🐾🗽
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So Cosplay Barbie Noem is just arm candy; got it.
Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
February 6, 2026 at 8:42 AM
So Cosplay Barbie Noem is just arm candy; got it.
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MeidasTouch sent a reporter to look for waste, fraud, and abuse behind the Melania movie. Here’s what we found.
February 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
MeidasTouch sent a reporter to look for waste, fraud, and abuse behind the Melania movie. Here’s what we found.
We're gaining momentum! After raising over $1.7 million in just the first 24-hours of this campaign to end the chaos, crush corruption, and cut costs, Sabato's Crystal Ball has already shifted this race in our favor.
January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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I’m Alex Vindman and I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Chaos, corruption and sky-rocketing costs are crushing ordinary people, while the billionaires and career politicians profit.
I stepped up when my country needed a soldier and now I’m stepping up again to fight for Floridians.
I stepped up when my country needed a soldier and now I’m stepping up again to fight for Floridians.
January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Our nation's communities are broken.
For the first time nationally, more children are seeking help for ketamine use than for ecstasy. Norfolk reflects that wider shift in drug patterns among children – including two in primary school.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Primary-aged pupils among hundreds suspended for drug use in Norfolk
Almost 300 pupils in Norfolk schools were suspended or excluded for drug use last year, including children of primary school age
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Our nation's communities are broken.
This is obscene.
This five year old is still in jail
January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This is obscene.
Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
January 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The data center scourge.
January 27, 2026 at 1:13 PM
The data center scourge.
At this point, the raging, paranoid stupidity is simply pathetic.
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 AM
At this point, the raging, paranoid stupidity is simply pathetic.
AI up-charge.
This chart by @nathanielbullard.com is one reason data centers are driving up our electricity prices. Tech companies usually build data centers close to cities, where accommodating their GW-scale power demand entails costly reinforcement of wires or transformers. Utilities pass those costs on to us.
January 20, 2026 at 2:09 PM
AI up-charge.
I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people.
Trumpism is fascism.
Trumpism is fascism.
January 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
Man Detained In Minnesota Dies In ICE Custody—Gov. Walz Demands Probe
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
www.forbes.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:25 AM
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
Cowardice and greed.
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Cowardice and greed.
Army reservist says he's spent weeks trying to free his wife from immigration detention
Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez had an asylum case pending and no criminal record, her brother and husband said.
Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez had an asylum case pending and no criminal record, her brother and husband said.
Army reservist says he's spent weeks trying to free his wife from immigration detention
Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez had an asylum case pending and no criminal record, her brother and husband said.
www.nbcnews.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpZ... Courtesy of @tizzyent.bsky.social
A WSJ article claims the starting price for a presidential pardon is $1 million but there is more
YouTube video by TizzyEnt
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpZ... Courtesy of @tizzyent.bsky.social
The innocent victim murdered by enraged government domestic terrorists.
Yes, it is beyond insanity. Luckily, the American people aren’t buying it.
January 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
The innocent victim murdered by enraged government domestic terrorists.
There is a difference between diplomacy and sucking up. I can hone my diplomacy skills, sucking up is not in my genetic makeup.
January 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
There is a difference between diplomacy and sucking up. I can hone my diplomacy skills, sucking up is not in my genetic makeup.
American safety in decline
Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
January 8, 2026 at 10:01 PM
American safety in decline
The continued dismantling of federal support for American communities and its peoples.
Here in California we have the resources, capabilities, and will to respond when our citizens need help. Good luck to those tiny red states when disaster strikes. Continue to vote against us in Congress and we’re not going to send our people and money to bail you out of the next one.
FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The continued dismantling of federal support for American communities and its peoples.
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FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
January 7, 2026 at 4:47 AM
FYI:
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
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So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
January 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM
So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
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The difference between Republicans and Dems?
Republicans demanded the release of the Epstein files when they believed the lie that it was all Dems in them.
Once they learned that Trump is probably all over them they started blaming the victims.
Republicans demanded the release of the Epstein files when they believed the lie that it was all Dems in them.
Once they learned that Trump is probably all over them they started blaming the victims.
January 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
The difference between Republicans and Dems?
Republicans demanded the release of the Epstein files when they believed the lie that it was all Dems in them.
Once they learned that Trump is probably all over them they started blaming the victims.
Republicans demanded the release of the Epstein files when they believed the lie that it was all Dems in them.
Once they learned that Trump is probably all over them they started blaming the victims.
Homogenized average level media idiocy? With commercials? How off-putting.
This is how and why NewsNation became another Fox News clone.
"Advocates" are typically going to be experts on the subjects being reported, so they can explain facts and context that ordinary people.
Those ordinary people are often idiots who are often clueless about subjects.
"Advocates" are typically going to be experts on the subjects being reported, so they can explain facts and context that ordinary people.
Those ordinary people are often idiots who are often clueless about subjects.
January 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Homogenized average level media idiocy? With commercials? How off-putting.