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micarlson.bsky.social
Nora's dad. Rufus' for 14+ years. Yank, Montréaler, Brit (adopted pre-Brexit).Writer, broadcaster & speaker on Culture (arts, books, film, Americana), Politics & (as Mike) commentator on Sports. Some poems. Accept no substitutes. His not Him before gerunds
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The president of piece. Piece of Ukraine. Piece of Palestine. Piece of US Treasury. Piece of Russian payoff for his Deutsche Bank loans...

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Perhaps that's why he feels so at home with the Russians.

submitted 7 hours ago • 14 comments

That’s a hat trick!

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Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken theonion.com/heroic-...

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And for the next month what do we do--on the job training?

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“Far from being dismissed as a useful idiot to hostile foreign powers, the British press continues to allow Farage to portray himself as a true British patriot, while he spends as much time as he possibly can outside of this country telling lies about us for money” open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1143 comments

Amen to that.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1228 comments

What is the point of a pseudonym when your other psuedonym is above the new one on the cover. Some shape shifting magic (and you're not the only one revealing the psuedonym--Rowling, Freedland etc) or is it just for the booksellers to understand where to shelve it while still cashing in on the name?

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This right here is why ALL billionaires can't be trusted. They see the world as transactional, ignoring the HUMANITY Zelensky wants his county's sovereignty to be respected. That's it. No transaction needed. Time to tax these people into humanity.

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And was platformed almost constantly by #bbcnews to push the far-right xenophobia & culture war of RefUK and the now mainstream of the Conservative & Unionist party

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Putting the bats into batshit crazy

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They say they will allow "well groomed beards" but that means Mattingly's 70s porn star stache is still Steinbrenner Verboten!

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New York Yankees drop beard ban after 49 years. So Lindsey Graham can bring a date to a game.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Gives him time to grow a nice well-groomed beard

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the funniest story in baseball is the ongoing saga of the Yankees debating the ethics and morals of The Goatee as if they're Obama in the Situation Room making the call for Seal Team Six to make the kill

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Trump’s approval numbers are going down faster than Lauren Boebert on a first-date.

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Basically, if the US hockey states were to secede and join Canada, we'd all be much happier. Esp if California & PNW came along for the ride

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This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

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The Curse of Trump... Super Bowl wrong side Four Nations wrong again You'd think Trump's got wrong deep in his bones

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The celebratory front page of today’s Le Journal de Montréal

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It's simply performative cruelty.

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Strangely enough, that money could just as easily be used to provide services, return water, power and rail to state control, and keep the NHS afloat selling it off to Wes Streeting's backers.

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The first rule of the Leopards Ate My Face Club is the leopard eats your face.

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Trump Boys Get Tongues Stuck To Frozen White House

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

This means Trump's planning on removing gold from Ft Knox and stashing it in the bathroom at Mar A Lago

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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

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Star of Leopard News Asks That Friend’s Face be Spared

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Mitch McConnell announced his retirement after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

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Lol

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Trump doesn't have to play 3D anything. He's got Project 2525 just as Bush had plan for an American century. The right has followed it for 30 years, now with a conscience free pair implementing it because it lets them play dictators. The more they destroy the more power & money accrues to their kind

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

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