Mike Engel

@michaelengel.bsky.social

I like D&D and baseball and other nerdy stuff. Liberal in a red state. he/him/his

It's hard to fathom that this even needs saying, but MAGA's belief that white conservative adults all deserve a pass for "youthful foolishness" until they reach adulthood at the age of 46 makes it necessary. To articulate any version of "this poor girl" is to consent to a specious framework.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Because think about it: the vast majority of people in prisons aren't there for violent crimes. So if prisons are so bad at reforming and rehabilitating people that they do the opposite, that they turn people INTO marauding hordes, why is that an institution you're defending?