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mikebrode.bsky.social
Husband, father, designer, builder. West African plains ape. Secular Humanist.
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Ban congressional stock and crypto trading now. The American people overwhelmingly support it. Time to get it done.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 2 days ago • 845 comments

"I just want you to know that what you need to do is call your representatives and make sure that these cuts are stopped."

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

submitted 2 days ago • 293 comments

This is an extremely dangerous practice for everyone in the country, and everyone should be paying attention to it.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

submitted 7 days ago • 125 comments

The pardons alone are reason enough to get him out of there.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 7 days ago • 503 comments

Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

submitted 8 days ago • 1119 comments

I did my own research and found a bunch of people calling themselves scientists, who dedicate their lives to doing research and publishing their methods and findings. They allow others to test what they find and get called out on bad practices. Turns out you don’t have to do your own research.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?

submitted 10 days ago • 154 comments

Still think it's pretty telling how muted the response was when Grok's Boer meltdown accidentally revealed how easy it is for the tech lords behind AI to manipulate it to their own ends. It won't always be so laughably obvious but it was treated as an "oops" and not a warning.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Happy Saturday #Bluesky 🦋 Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King Jr Have a Wonderful Day ☕️ ☕️

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Not going to pile on the onshore-iPhones guy directly but a philosophical problem you run into when doing onshore capex to avoid the whims of a mad king is that you have then done your capex in the country ruled by said mad king

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

submitted 12 days ago • 534 comments