Mike
@mikefleche.bsky.social
New Jerseyan who supports congestion pricing and transit. Also appreciates cats, bikes, paddling, hockey, cooking, and geography & history. Previously in Minnesota and Chicago.
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A lot is written about antisemitism on the left while there's seemingly very little about Islamophobia and anti Arab sentiment in liberalism.
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A lot is written about antisemitism on the left while there's seemingly very little about Islamophobia and anti Arab sentiment in liberalism.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Yes. But remember: Know Your Values, Frame The Debate. Do not accept an unfavorable frame from hostile questioners! It is very hard to do this and requires explicit training because we are socialized from a young age to respond to questions directly (accepting the questioners frame)
Not to defend this word salad much, but part of this tendency of mainstream Dems is because the media relentlessly asking, "how will you do/pay for that". And if the Dem actually coughs up a workable detailed plan, the media just declare it unworkable. Something they NEVER do to Trump or the GOP.
October 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Yes. But remember: Know Your Values, Frame The Debate. Do not accept an unfavorable frame from hostile questioners! It is very hard to do this and requires explicit training because we are socialized from a young age to respond to questions directly (accepting the questioners frame)
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the hijack of cbs is a great impetus to fund indie media! but the parallel to twitter is instructive here bc after musk took it over *a lot of people stayed there,* cooking their brains in right-wing slop. and cbs' reputation among low-info normies is much better than twitter's ever was.
Well, when Elon destroyed Twitter, a lot of us move here to BlueSky. So as Bari Weiss and her ilk destroy MSM, why don’t we all move to independent media networks?
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
the hijack of cbs is a great impetus to fund indie media! but the parallel to twitter is instructive here bc after musk took it over *a lot of people stayed there,* cooking their brains in right-wing slop. and cbs' reputation among low-info normies is much better than twitter's ever was.