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drmick.bsky.social
Chemical Engineer, Dad, Democrat- working to build a better future for my baby girl. Sustainable materials, polymer science. Too many hobbies to list- leatherwork, MtG, books, tabletop games, and politics get most of my spare time.
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Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1418 comments

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

submitted 8 hours ago • 303 comments

Honestly the thing that is making this site worse is the endless conversation about whether this site is good or not. Stop taking the bait! This is the most tedious shit imaginable!

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

I am obnoxiously engaged and did not know there was a DNC Vice Chair contest going on

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

A tiny thing that will always bother me is when people say that windmills ruin their view. Windmills are pretty. They aesthetically enhance open flat fields. They're clean and stark and graceful.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

submitted 15 hours ago • 420 comments

Exactly, and this was very good. However, the McDonald's small fries becoming more expensive turned a lot of people into Nazis, which was extremely bad.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

My work here is done

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 497 comments

I'm really trying not to doom but the military is being nakedly partisan here and its a total deterioration of their oaths and public trust. Like how does a Democratic president trust the neutrality of the military after this? Unconscionable.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

My vote in the 2028 Dem primary has one (1) condition and it's consequences for these people

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

They’re ripping kids out of their parents’ arms—again. In America. In our names. DHS raids don’t just “enforce law”—they shatter families like glass on pavement. A child’s scream isn’t collateral damage. It’s the sound of a democracy losing its soul. This is cruelty by design.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

About as many Americans live in LA as do in every single "small town" combined

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

People don't wait outside of Home Depot to do backbreaking day labor because they can afford to not work

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

The media considers it deeply inappropriate to accurately describe Republicans and what they believe. On a related note none of you have seen a single news report about OMG GROCERY PRICE SO HIGH since Trump took office.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

the fascist birthday parade isn't for another week and they're already glazing it

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

There is zero proof they're real government agents. Masked faces, no ID or badges, irregular "uniforms." If you want us to believe this, give us some names and faces.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

I will not vote for for anyone in a Democratic primary who will not enforce repercussions

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Dear journalists. When the US President is openly accused of paedophilia the story is either impeachment or defamation. If not, the story is how words have lost all meaning, truth has lost all value, and journalists are now completely desensitised to lying and corruption.

submitted 5 days ago • 324 comments

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

submitted 6 days ago • 310 comments

The way politics works is that Dems pass legislation like the IRA that are explicitly designed to spend more money in red states than blue states, and they get repaid by having the next president illegally seize the money Congress allocated to blue states www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 6 days ago • 349 comments

Phrasing, please

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend. Sometimes two horrible people hate each other as much as you hate both of them.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

I can't believe that two of the most obnoxious narcissists in history couldn't stay friends forever.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments