Mike Rhone
@mikerhone.bsky.social
software QA, theater nerd, 2-time LL one-day champion, forever #NeverTrump 🏳️🌈 he/him/his. I was @mikerhoneTM at the old place.
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Mike Rhone
@mikerhone.bsky.social
· Jan 23
Hello, Facebook (and real life) friends who are finding me here as they look for alternatives to Meta! Fair warning: I use this platform to scream into the void. It’s almost all politics, all the time. If that’s not your bag, no hard feelings. If you want to scream along, great.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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"that's correct, i intended to do the war crimes"
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"that's correct, i intended to do the war crimes"
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Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Remember, too, that Hegseth would have been rejected if a single additional Republican senator — or, JD Vance — had joined Sen. Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski in voting no with the Democrats. See: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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OMG. This is the "good-faith, very passionate" debate Bari Weiss pointed when talking about the people and discussions she wants "in the room" at CBS News.
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Wall Street Apes on X: "This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC" / X
This is actually insane 52% of all murders in the United States come from only 2 counties 1) Cook County, Illinois (Chicago and surrounding area) 2) Los Angeles County, California Repeat offenders in Chicago, the same 1400 people commit over 86% of the crimes. The same repeat https://t.co/QJe3KdBllC
x.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
OMG. This is the "good-faith, very passionate" debate Bari Weiss pointed when talking about the people and discussions she wants "in the room" at CBS News.
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
Dana Loesch, unchallenged, absurdly claimed that 52% of all murders in the U.S. are in Cook County and L.A. County. VID: x.com/WallStreetAp...
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."
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ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.
Around two dozen car/vans have sped out of the garage, with NYPD officers clearing the path. One guys tries to stop them, NYPD officers come chasing.
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ICE convoy retreats from Manhattan's Chinatown after hundreds of New Yorkers confront them.
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Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...
This is the monologue I referenced in my earlier post. Took me forever to get comfortable with it, but once I did… so beautiful. I think about it all the time.
One of my favorite Stoppard monologues. From Arcadia.
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is the monologue I referenced in my earlier post. Took me forever to get comfortable with it, but once I did… so beautiful. I think about it all the time.
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I said it and I'm glad.
May I suggest that Arcadia is the greatest play written in the English language in the last 150 years or so at least?
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I said it and I'm glad.
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my favorite passage of his
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
my favorite passage of his
Playing Valentine in Arcadia was one of the great joys and great terrors of my life. Hardest role I’ve ever done; I only felt like I was getting him in our closing week (oh, for the luxury of a dozen+ previews). I think about that play and role every time I put cream in my coffee. RIP Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Playing Valentine in Arcadia was one of the great joys and great terrors of my life. Hardest role I’ve ever done; I only felt like I was getting him in our closing week (oh, for the luxury of a dozen+ previews). I think about that play and role every time I put cream in my coffee. RIP Tom Stoppard.
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Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagine overdosing on your farts and posting this without realizing that your own words make you a pimp at best, if not a slaver.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.
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It’s very weird and very of our era that Border Patrol’s head goon is terminally online
Greg Bovino calls NANCY SINATRA "a main cause of violence"
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s very weird and very of our era that Border Patrol’s head goon is terminally online
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
Trump, with no authority to do so, demands the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela be closed as he threatens to bomb and invade the country.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Someone tell him if he backs down from this threat he can count it as another war he ended
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
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Second: As to intent, if the fact that SOME Americans die from drug overdoses means that all drug dealers are guilty of murder then every gun manufacturer is guilty of murder. And make no mistake: central American drug violence is powered by US guns. www.thetrace.org/2024/06/atf-...
Avoiding a Legal Battle, the ATF Has Released Near-Unprecedented Gun Trafficking Data
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has released records detailing the origin of guns smuggled from the United States to Mexico and Central America, marking just the second time in...
www.thetrace.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Second: As to intent, if the fact that SOME Americans die from drug overdoses means that all drug dealers are guilty of murder then every gun manufacturer is guilty of murder. And make no mistake: central American drug violence is powered by US guns. www.thetrace.org/2024/06/atf-...
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.