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unmikely.bsky.social
Old dad, fortunate husband, nonprofit marketeer, jaywalker, viajero, Chicagoan by way of many places.
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Washington Post vs. The Guardian. Every day the Post reminds me that cancelling my 30-year subscription was the right choice.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

submitted 2 days ago • 3060 comments

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 147 comments

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night. When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts, she said: "well we all are going to die." 🫠🫠🫠🫠

submitted 11 days ago • 1916 comments

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

submitted 12 days ago • 107 comments

Years ago I met a guy, Andrei, from Moscow. I’d just read Lenin’s Tomb and was curious about growing up in the USSR, living through the fall of communism. I asked Andrei how it felt to learn he was lied to about history. “Oh, Mike,” he said. “We always knew we were being lied to.” wapo.st/4jJoCsV

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 91 comments

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

submitted 14 days ago • 299 comments

Sixth day since branches fell on sidewalk in front of $1.8M “unparalleled luxury” home at 4256 N. Keeler. #atproperties advertises it as being “steps from Belding Elementary” but can’t seem to get anyone to clear it. A big “fuck you” to kids walking to school. www.atproperties.com/12352299/425...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

yep, again: my wife's entire team was recently fired from her nonprofit hospital a month ago because the Trump administration ceased all Medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year 95% of the stories I read never mentioned Medicaid once

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

I’m a cynical person but I just got emotional watching 99 people from 42 countries (including my wife) become U.S. citizens at on oath ceremony. In her remarks, the judge specifically mentioned that these 99 new Americans have the right to criticize their government, and to love whomever they want.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments