Mike Shaw
@zax2000.bsky.social
A yokel Bostonian bumbling around Seattle. Stints in 北京 and Bali along the way. I used to craft/edit journalists' spam. Geopolitics is my jam. I post, therefore I am.
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Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Rand Paul: "My plan is this -- let people on the Obamacare market, which is about 4% of America, a small number of people, let them buy their insurance through Costco, Sam's Club, Amazon ... "
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey Rand, how about if all 340 million Americans banded together into a larger group? Then we’d have even more negotiating power!
Our long, national Brady-less nightmare is (almost) over.
It’s about time something good happened to Boston.
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Our long, national Brady-less nightmare is (almost) over.
This is fascism.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is fascism.
Another absolutely astonishing piece of journalism from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social . While the content is both shocking & not at all surprising, the scope & depth of reporting is breathtaking. Just incredible work. This is what the news should be. Bari Weiss is a joke compared to this stuff.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Another absolutely astonishing piece of journalism from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social . While the content is both shocking & not at all surprising, the scope & depth of reporting is breathtaking. Just incredible work. This is what the news should be. Bari Weiss is a joke compared to this stuff.
Compare this with the statements of the President of the United States of America.
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Compare this with the statements of the President of the United States of America.
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Ouch
December 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Ouch
We need more people in Congress who kkow how to experience joy.
adorable series of 4 photos i captured last night featuring @katmabu.bsky.social @bencollins.bsky.social and @presidentblue.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
We need more people in Congress who kkow how to experience joy.
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The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.
bradyunited.org
@bradyunited.org
Waiting to hear protests from all the anti-govt conservatives about the Feds combinimg govt databases w/state voting rolls to create a "Citizenship Look-up" tool.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
🔊 Listen Now: Why some U.S. citizens are being kicked off voting rolls
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 10:28
one.npr.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Waiting to hear protests from all the anti-govt conservatives about the Feds combinimg govt databases w/state voting rolls to create a "Citizenship Look-up" tool.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
[crickets]
I guess they'll be OK with databases of folks who've bought guns and/or have gun licenses when Dems are in charge.
This is fascism.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is fascism.
This is fascism.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This is fascism.
Will get just as much snow as here, apparently.
Mt. Rainier Suffers Seasonal Affective Disorder, Will Winter in Tucson: tinyurl.com/26jb3nnr
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Will get just as much snow as here, apparently.
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
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As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not
I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
As of today, the only person in this Daily Penn visual that hasn't been fined millions of dollars or convicted of a felony is Luigi Mangione, believe it or not
Just think how much owed tax money we could collect from rich folks if the IRS was half as aggressive as NYC's tax collectors.
"Over a five-year period ending in 2024, auditors recouped $13.8 billion in unpaid taxes."
"Over a five-year period ending in 2024, auditors recouped $13.8 billion in unpaid taxes."
Rich New Yorkers Threaten to Leave. Then They Find Out How Hard That Is.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Just think how much owed tax money we could collect from rich folks if the IRS was half as aggressive as NYC's tax collectors.
"Over a five-year period ending in 2024, auditors recouped $13.8 billion in unpaid taxes."
"Over a five-year period ending in 2024, auditors recouped $13.8 billion in unpaid taxes."
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"In a memo, SBWU calculated the total annual cost of its demands to be approximately $80 million over the course of the contract. It said the amount was less than new CEO Brian Niccol’s pay over four months in 2024." #NoContractNoCoffee
NEW: As Starbucks baristas mark 4 years since their first successful union vote, they reached another milestone: The longest open-ended, national strike in the company’s history. I visited the U District Seattle store to talk to workers on the picket line: www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/12...
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"In a memo, SBWU calculated the total annual cost of its demands to be approximately $80 million over the course of the contract. It said the amount was less than new CEO Brian Niccol’s pay over four months in 2024." #NoContractNoCoffee
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I like to think it's a level above math-y wishcasting. Math-y ballparking.
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
😂
Had my annual checkup today. My first time doing it first thing in the morning. Wow.
While I've not had a bad experience at the doctor's office since returning to the US, the attitude, mood & energy level of the staff this early is like night & day from the afternoons. They're downright cheerful.
While I've not had a bad experience at the doctor's office since returning to the US, the attitude, mood & energy level of the staff this early is like night & day from the afternoons. They're downright cheerful.
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Had my annual checkup today. My first time doing it first thing in the morning. Wow.
While I've not had a bad experience at the doctor's office since returning to the US, the attitude, mood & energy level of the staff this early is like night & day from the afternoons. They're downright cheerful.
While I've not had a bad experience at the doctor's office since returning to the US, the attitude, mood & energy level of the staff this early is like night & day from the afternoons. They're downright cheerful.
This is just math-y wishcasting at this point, but also totally plausible (if voters stay energized & show up + there are good Dem candidates). State-level wins next year will have absolutely enormous implications when the 2030 census takes place.
Republicans are scared shitless after the TN-07 special election showed a 13-point shift against them. What would that look like nationwide? Democrats flipping about 600 state legislative seats, winning 6 new state trifectas and breaking a lot of supermajorities heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/10/h...
How Tennessee 7th’s 13-point Democratic shift would look across the nation for 2026
Last week, Republicans won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by 9%, and it has them scared shitless. That’s because the margin was 13% worse than the previous representat...
heartlandsignal.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is just math-y wishcasting at this point, but also totally plausible (if voters stay energized & show up + there are good Dem candidates). State-level wins next year will have absolutely enormous implications when the 2030 census takes place.
National media is biased towards federal offices, but all of the Dem wins in local races across the country this year are probably the biggest indicator of what's possible in next year's elections.
Yeah, the Sheriff race was centered around ICE and it wasn't particularly close. The DA race was closer but still a 7-8 point win for the first time a Dem has held that position since, like, the Gilded Age. My township will have a Dem majority for the first time as far as anyone can tell.
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
National media is biased towards federal offices, but all of the Dem wins in local races across the country this year are probably the biggest indicator of what's possible in next year's elections.
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This explains a lot.
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This explains a lot.