Mike Pomatto
@mikepomatto.bsky.social
Educator, PhD student @SIUE I research race, ethnicity, and slavery politics in the early republic focusing on the Midwest. St. Louis MO. Descendant of immigrants 🇵🇱 🇮🇹. Bear down!
I hope Google knows that when I post assignments on Classroom, I'm also telling every student I have contact with that the company is wrong and kowtowing to an idiot. FFS.
Confirmation that Trump wanted to speak in NYC. Since…. EVERYTHING IS A LIE
Milo Yiannopoulos, a career opportunists with no integrity put stock in riding the coattails of the least honest career opportunist. They'll all fall hard eventually.
In my closest Lee Greenwood voice: Well, I’m embarrassed to be an American…”
The ten super-rich dudes who will make money off of this don't care about safety, security, jobs, or anything else but profit$. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Bill Gates was an AI optimist. Now he’s scared of what could go wrong.
In an essay, the Microsoft co-founder sounds the alarm about artificial intelligence’s risks to safety and security, jobs and children’s well-being.
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I would rather eat IMO’s pizza than Trump beef. #ifyouknowyouknow
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
As long as these SCOTUS justices are on the bench we don't have a constitution.
The Missouri GOP presents Amendment 3 as a ban on transgender surgeries for children, which never happens, but includes a ban on abortion that the citizenry has already voted against in referendum. jesspiper.substack.com/p/deja-vu?r=...
Déjà Vu
Abortion is back on the ballot
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This days after the Missouri Supreme court affirmed that the Secretary of State, who is not a legislator or a judge, can squash a citizen-created referendum to have a vote on redistricting. The decision stated the referendum had too many issues to consider. www.propublica.org/article/miss...
Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...
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The assault on the working class continues as "Mr. Bessent has been trying other approaches to push down borrowing costs" that will, in due time, cause inflation to eat away at wages and incomes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/b...
Treasury Turns to Interventionist Tactics to Lower Interest Rates
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reinventing the government’s role in the world’s most important bond market.
nytimes.com
"Market Correction" is tech-crypto-investor bro speak for recession. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/a...
'Worrisome': AI is driving a looming market correction, European central bank economists warn
History suggests valuations will tumble even if they are a fair reflection of the transformative power of AI, according to a European Central Bank analysis.
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Navarro is purposely misleading or is willfully ignorant of the cause of the decline in manufacturing in the United States. The history begins in the 1970s with the Reaganomics. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
Opinion | It Was a Great Scam While It Lasted
U.S. tariff rates are not for rent.
nytimes.com
So we’ll put it here. www.reddit.com/r/Progressiv...
From the ProgressiveHQ community on Reddit: 🚨 BREAKING: Lady Gaga said: “This is our opportunity to vote against Donald Trump,” and her video was removed from Facebook and Instagram. This is what Rep...
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This change will only occur if you win control of the House and Senate in November. Please participate in the election. 🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙
May I recommend On Bullshit by the philosopher Harry Frankfurt. He argues that bullshitters are worse than liars because they don't care at all about the truth, only their agenda.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoWHAT -- Rep. Lisa McClain totally makes shit up, claims "82% of women who got the vaccine in their first or second trimester had a miscarriage"
Whatever happened to honesty, integrity, and respect? Conservatives are so bad at this and lie willfully for appeal.
