mikaelka.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

The Situation, Feb 23, 2025: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 2 days ago • 1331 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Look to the Democratic governors for guidance. And elevate them whenever you can. This is the way. youtube.com/shorts/6ymbF...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

No notes

submitted 3 days ago • 768 comments

I mean the problem is that Democrats are like “we did talk about the threat of fascism” and voters were like “but my eggs”

submitted 6 days ago • 77 comments

I get the speed & brutality of massive destructive power grabs but I have yet to see anything that explains in any way how Trump to say nothing of musk are free to operate purely by malign fiat, untwisted, as sole owners of a country that had rules & cops & g-men & bench warrants til three weeks ago

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

For those asking where the Dems are, I might suggest: the right didn’t wait on the Republicans. They plotted the course & the Republicans followed, at first in small packs, but eventually all falling in line. The left may have to do something similar. Don’t wait on “the Democrats”. Show them the way

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

TFW a Trump-appointed judge writes that it is a "novel and complex" question whether Trump can be elected to a third term. Sigh. www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Republican lawyers and judges are rapidly moving this idea from “off the wall” to “on the wall.” We ignore or dismiss this at our own peril.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

submitted 11 days ago • 702 comments

well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

This column should terrify US tech companies. They need to ask themselves if they are really irreplaceable in Europe? Potentially huge economic upsides for Europe in a tech decoupling. And US tech companies would lose their 2nd largest mkt. Who again is picking this fight?

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 14 days ago • 429 comments

Damn straight—!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

You must understand that in the financial services industry—not only the big banks, but also the tech platforms that want to replace the big banks—there is no greater danger than a federal agency empowered to tell them, “no, you can’t steal from your customers, actually”

submitted 15 days ago • 32 comments

Once again, illegal and unconstitutional.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

The Great Dismantling. An insider perspective.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent, chilling piece by a current OPM employee giving an inside view of the reckless (and frequently illegal) Musk/Trump assault against the federal workforce. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

This week, @wired.com has gotten a lot of love on this here app. (Thank you!!) But I don’t think I can overstate what a force @bsky.app has become in influencing the entire media ecosystem. So refreshing to have a platform that isn’t actively hostile to hard news.

submitted 17 days ago • 315 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 17 days ago • 1712 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 17 days ago • 6591 comments

Still true: Vought is the coup. Everyone who votes for Vought is doing a coup. Tell your Senators to object to unanimous consent every time. Maximum procedural obstruction. Make the GOP change the rules — if they dare. They like the rules too.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

www.liberalcurrents.com/personal-dis...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

submitted 20 days ago • 165 comments