owen j michael
@owenjmichael.bsky.social
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Angeleno from Chicago
Angeleno from Chicago
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A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
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They have no idea how bad they fucked up by telling everyone they got covered in piss
Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
They have no idea how bad they fucked up by telling everyone they got covered in piss
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800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
January 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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An officer attempted to arrest someone in the crowd. He was chased away.
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
An officer attempted to arrest someone in the crowd. He was chased away.
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Rally in Los Angeles tomorrow (Thu) at 5pm in solidarity with Minneapolis.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Rally in Los Angeles tomorrow (Thu) at 5pm in solidarity with Minneapolis.
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Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.
January 8, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.
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we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 AM
we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
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best way to end day 2: chicken roast and aloo bhortha from boishakhi
January 3, 2026 at 2:19 AM
best way to end day 2: chicken roast and aloo bhortha from boishakhi
Hm… not too sure about your newsworthiness layout choices here AP
January 2, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Hm… not too sure about your newsworthiness layout choices here AP
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it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.
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Zohran Mamdani being sworn in a few hours after Trump gives up on militarizing cities cannot be overemphasized
starting the new year with:
—massive D overperformance in Iowa to hold a state senate seat
—Trump giving up on national guard in blue cities
—Mamdani sworn in
seems like a series of good omens, maybe.
—massive D overperformance in Iowa to hold a state senate seat
—Trump giving up on national guard in blue cities
—Mamdani sworn in
seems like a series of good omens, maybe.
January 1, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani being sworn in a few hours after Trump gives up on militarizing cities cannot be overemphasized
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We don't need a New You in this New Year, we just need you. You in your fullness, you in all your messy beauty, you with all your creative joy and honest heartbreak. You. You are the only you we'll ever have, and we are not us without you.
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We don't need a New You in this New Year, we just need you. You in your fullness, you in all your messy beauty, you with all your creative joy and honest heartbreak. You. You are the only you we'll ever have, and we are not us without you.
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For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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observing, studying, noting it down,
December 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
observing, studying, noting it down,
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
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Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Wishing people would stop writing amazing things I want to click on at the transphobic, pro-Nazi Substack platform
December 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Wishing people would stop writing amazing things I want to click on at the transphobic, pro-Nazi Substack platform
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This week, the CHAAD Project, a hospitality worker advocacy group, released a ten-page tool kit for restaurant workers and owners on how to prepare and protect their most vulnerable employees amid raids from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This week, the CHAAD Project, a hospitality worker advocacy group, released a ten-page tool kit for restaurant workers and owners on how to prepare and protect their most vulnerable employees amid raids from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies.