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michaelakellar.bsky.social
Mechanical Engineer (Ret.), Writer, Artist, 🔞 #Democrat, #WhiteRose, #GoodTroubleMaker, #MakeYourPlan, #WitnessAndTestify, @[email protected], No DMs Please, Abandoned Twitter 11/05/24
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I always think of this 2018 oral history of Stephen Miller’s high school years, in which almost all his peers remember him as loathsome, racist, oppositional, inaccurate, and constantly playing the victim card lamag.com/politics/ste...

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Tell Congress: Demand the resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 1 hour ago • 10 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2140 comments

Found out why this chopper landed on the road👇

submitted 1 hour ago • 6 comments

The California legislature and city & county governments should file injunctions and draft emergency legislation prohibiting the quartering of now-federalized troops on private property including hotels under the Third Amendment. Make the Guard bivouac on the ground on federal property.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

This is not new. Recall the New York Times publishing Tom Cotton's "Send in The Troops" to quash Black Lives Matter protests. And Republicans demanding to send the national guard in to Columbia last year. The GOP has been chomping at the bit for quite a while www.politico.com/news/2024/04...

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 2 hours ago • 622 comments

🚨 ALERTA PHILLY 🚨 Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas: 5th and Washington Ave 7th and Snyder Ave 5th and McKean/Wolf Chinatown Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

submitted 1 hour ago • 59 comments

The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was. People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.

submitted 1 hour ago • 38 comments

All of this is absurd "In a statement, the University of Michigan said it had not received any complaints about the investigators. It did not deny the surveillance" it shouldnt take a complaint to know this is wrong, & how you even supposed to make a complaint about people following you secretly?!

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Two-thirds of voters at Indiana University Bloomington’s sole on-campus polling site used their university ID to vote last fall. Indiana banned students from using these IDs for voting this spring. boltsmag.org/indiana...

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Tom Homan: We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what? We are already mobilizing. We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight

submitted 4 hours ago • 2630 comments

"If anything, I’d say the gallery was bending over backwards not to editorialize, with the effect of making Trump seem far more normal than he is." Why is Trump going after the altogether pretty reasonable National Portrait Gallery director? @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

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The good news is that Garcia is home now and should be allowed to defend himself in court, where photoshopped images will hopefully not be considered solid evidence. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

đź’Ą BREAKING: Ukrainian drones flew out of grain train car hatches and destroyed 13 Russian tanks and more than a 100 armored vehicles and other equipment being transported by the Russian train in occupied southern Ukraine. The hatches appear to have been opened by remote control, again.

submitted 6 hours ago • 84 comments

I.C.E. is disappearing Angelenos.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Guess I'm back on that All Cops Are Bastards shit again. I was trying to keep this account off the lists of enemies they're compiling. Oh well.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1931 comments

And yet people carry on like it’s just another day…

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

Glad to see Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland supporting Harvard as it resists Trump’s lawlessness and bullying. This is what leadership looks like. Shame on those caving to Trump’s abuses of power and assault on our Constitution.

submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 7 hours ago • 80 comments

Several Russian Z-bloggers report this. Spiderweb 2.0? "Another unthinkable fuck-up by our special services. There is no point in remaining silent any more. The enemy destroyed a locomotive with tanks and dozens of armored vehicles.

submitted 6 hours ago • 48 comments

Aggrieved whites pretending they only lost out because of "unfair advantages" to minorities is an old script. The Bakke ruling against racial quotas came after Allan Bakke was rejected by 12 different med schools. He sued the *one* that had a racial quota, arguing that and that alone kept him out.

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 8 hours ago • 276 comments

Imagine putting on all this tactical gear and latching onto a military assault vehicle so you can storm a minimall on Sepulveda and apprehend a line cook at family restaurant.

submitted 8 hours ago • 226 comments

As I said yesterday: We can no longer believe any numbers the Trump Administration gives us. 🚨 We must find a way to gather, organize, analyze and share data from local and state sources ... though R-dominated states may soon follow the Vought(P25)-Trump lead.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

The US record on protecting Afghans who helped our military in that war has been pretty weak to begin with, but now we are deporting them to a very credible risk of death. Why would any other allies on the ground work with the US military in the future?

submitted 6 hours ago • 30 comments

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1718 comments

Lmao

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

There are a lot of Democrats in safe blue seats with a wide latitude who simply choose not to do bare minimum things like sign a letter.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

BTW everyone when you mention something like Democratic establishment or leadership, Kamala Harris is STILL the leader of the Democratic Party until someone gets more votes than she has.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Pre Trump administration: The assault on the Capitol to overturn an election was not an insurrection, but protests against ICE is an insurrection

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You just know these criminals watched money go to Ashli Babbit’s family and said, “We need to get in on this”. But the amazing officers who fought that day have received nothing. Party of law enforcement my ass. I support @libradunn1.bsky.social @michaelfanone.bsky.social @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

Wait…the president of the United States threatening to use the powers of his office to go after a private individual for supporting an opposing political party? That sounds pretty darn authoritarian, pretty darn fascist…in otherwards, pretty darn un-American.👇

submitted 7 hours ago • 31 comments

Somebody call the Whambulance; ICE is taking it in the feels. LEAVE TODD LYONS AND HIS FASCIST MINIONS ALONE....

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Just been a very fascinating labor market story over the last 25 years around computer programming: 1) Dotcom bust and trend towards outsourcing craters job markets for programmers in 2001 2) Pipeline of college grads in computer science starts drying up as no entry level jobs are available...

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments