Michael Salerno
@mikenjd.bsky.social
Broadway lawyer. Lover of entertainment, politics, and woefully, the New York Mets.
Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Breaking: Democratic primary voters narrowly voted to oust Representative Shri Thanedar of Michigan on Tuesday, nominating democratic socialist Donavan McKinney for a deep-blue, Detroit-area district in the latest sign of the party’s hunger for new blood. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
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I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Disney and TikTok have announced a partnership that will bring creator videos to Disney+ 🔗 blogmickey.com/2026/08/disn...
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Can't we just get Wonderful World of Color instead? Summer Magic? EPCOT Magazine? WDW Inside Out?
BlogMickey.com@blogmickey.com · 4h agoDisney and TikTok have announced a partnership that will bring creator videos to Disney+ 🔗 blogmickey.com/2026/08/disn...
Donald Glover Reacts with 'Good'
ALT: Donald Glover Reacts with 'Good'
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 13h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
"AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." Good lord [positive]
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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I think winning a race where you get outspent by like a factor of 10 is a pretty solid outcome all things considered, if you wanted a landslide, I dunno which race you were watching
Politico@politico.com · 8h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.
Trump: "We control the strait totally" (Trump is currently trying to negotiate to open the strait because Iran controls it)
Run that on a loop in the TikTok feeds.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoTrump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"
Max Miller story is providing incredible cover for the 65 year old NC Republican congressman who was just found to have been texting his female staff shit like "I had to leave the party because you brought your bf with you 🥺"
when are we as a nation going to have a serious conversation about whatever is happening in ohio
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agowhoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
10yo: That's so Unc. 13yo: Bro, I'm only three years older than you. 10yo: Yeah. Sad. 13yo: So when you're a teenager, you'll be Unc? 10yo: No. Because I have so much aura.
1 in 8 young people personally know someone who has been the target of deepfake nudes. The DEFIANCE Act stands to give those survivors a chance to seek justice. Whether my name is on the bill or not, we must not allow sexual predators to run amok. We must pass DEFIANCE.
weird how he didn’t find jesus on this until he saw miller’s latest polling numbers
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h agoMoreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet it. I don't care about the politics at all"
oh cool so you created 5 million new jobs for those people right?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...
Sesame Street: Making Crayons
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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You mean you got taken by the guy who's entire existence is a scam who has never created anything ever and is only thought of a a genius because a style reporter from the WaPo said so? Weird. I cannot believe this is happening
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
When you get two cats, how do they decide which one will have a tiny chirp like a pixie’s doorbell and which one will wail like the ghost of a jilted bride?