Mike H
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🏳️🌈 be kind Bills Mafia…avid runner (slow), Nike Pegasus r my favs Go Irish☘️ Sabres & Amerks! Mostly post here so I don’t make people I know cranky on FB. I like Canada 🇨🇦 I’m an American patriot 🇺🇸 DEI > ICE
To paraphrase; Crime, for lack of a better word is good (apparently) *Sharing a gift 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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We once again look to the likely unpredictable “motivation” when the preventable, actionable “means” is willfully ignored. *Ps, not an exclusive AP issue, but instead a US failure
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d agoInvestigators are trying to determine what led a 24-year-old man to open fire at an Idaho fast-food restaurant , in an attack that left three people dead and seven others wounded before authorities say he killed himself.
“The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE's plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center…” religionnews.com/2026/07/27/i...
Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas
SOCORRO, Texas (RNS and El Paso Matters) — The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE's plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center. And the town...
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Just strikes me as bad that the Trump administration & GoP are based on hate www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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For no particular reason this feels relevant; He sighed from the depth of his spirit and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation."
this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
My Small Language Model (SLM, aka my brain) reading every “AI” LLM article for the past year or so; “This ain’t gonna end well” - ps, reposted due to my typo
Dr. Fauci had us wear masks during a global pandemic. RFK Jr. collects raccoon penises. But okay.
Statement on the current status of Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja’s immigration case.
For a little unintentional comic relief from the news… read a NY Times column on exercise. Made sense. Then I notice > 1.3k comments. Huh? Here’s one that belongs in the hall of fame. Dog walkers are a dedicated bunch!
The new Buffalo Bills alternate uniform... I'm at a loss for words. The Cyber Truck of uniforms. Is it too late for someone to bury them all somewhere deep to be forgotten?
They had me at “insurance companies would not fully insure Meta’s facility because of its size and location in the Louisiana Delta flood plains” - sharing a gift 🎁 link to read this important (& I suspect ultimately tragic) tale of greed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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Post a perfect album from the 1990s
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 1990s.
Apple TV & related being down making me curse like a drunken sailor until I figured out it wasn’t just me. Then I stopped swearing and just threw the remote Tech is great - when it works
“Cockroach Janta Party” - very impressive & courageous… 🎁 sharing a gift link for an overview www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/w...
Who Are the People Protesting in India? (Gift Article)
Some of the young demonstrators who forced out the country’s education minister described their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.
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The two people who are breaking through the noise and cutting through to the essence of what is happening right now with deeply damaged Donald Trump are Jon Ossoff and Hunter Biden. Here is Hunter's very perceptive take on the messy scene at the White House Correspondents Dinner:
The Trump-Vance administration is suing the Catholic Church to build a border wall beneath a statue of Jesus Christ — weeks after Pope Leo XIV stood at a migrant landing dock and defended the people the wall is meant to keep out.
“Nothing Could Be Less Catholic” — Trump Is Suing the Church to Remove Shrine for Border Wall
Rep. Veronica Escobar’s Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act would halt the federal seizure of 14 acres of diocesan land beneath a 29-foot statue of Jesus.
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Kristen Clarke, former assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ: By not investigating these ICE cases, you’re sending a message to ICE officers that it doesn’t matter. I think it is fair to say that Todd Blanche is the most unqualified nominee we have seen in recent times.
Just saw The Odyssey in IMAX. Wow. If you have the chance, it’s a must see!
He's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
Mary Magdalene finds the tomb open before sunrise. She mistakes a man for the gardener — until he says her name. He gives her a job: go tell my brothers. From the garden to the upper room, the Christian faith belonged to one woman. Not even Peter had it yet. She was the church at its birth.
“Run Like Mary Magdalene” — Pope Leo XIV’s Vision for Women in the Church
Gregory the Great turned her into a prostitute with one sermon. Fourteen centuries later, Pope Francis handed her an apostle’s feast — and from what I heard in Rome, Leo is only getting started.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.
"We are adults who respect the rule of law and the Constitution, can run the country and will get you back to work in good-paying jobs while bringing down prices and trying to make life affordable. Also we are not far-left lunatics."
Sean Mills@seanmills1020.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat should the messaging be for Democratic candidates to win back enough swing voters?
BREAKING: $4 is back/ according to GasBuddy data, the national average just hit $4/gal again. 2026 is now the first year ever to reach $4 in two separate surges: once in the spring, now again. not in 2008, not in 2022, not ever. two $4 runs in the same year.
Tip: put 30 large with Kalshi that Trump will put a tariff on hurricanes this week
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w agoCHEVRON: Petronius facility shut down and personnel evacuated amid Tropical Storm Bertha threat.
Huh, just caught the end of “A Few a Good Men” - I’m thinking Whiskey Pete may have a very different take away than I did
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
