Mike Wilson

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Former engineer turned musician and real estate investor.

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I think it might be time to revisit this 2016 @vox.com classic from @volts.wtf to remind ourselves why this freakout is happening: The entire US political system is premised, at the atomic & subatomic level, upon 2 equally choiceworthy sides. It can't allow a clear choice, & so will *make* it even

I forget who posted it (maybe it was you, even, lol, and I paraphrase) but I can't get past the "Biden has one bad debate and no other missteps since, Trump the felon says something batshit crazy every day and the media is still on the bad debate guy"

Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton downwww.vox.com Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

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Just reupping www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Not ‘Bluffing’: Inside the MAGA Efforts To Make a Second Term Even More Extremewww.rollingstone.com “Yes, we do really want to burn it all down,” says a Republican close to Trump.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Me, I’ve been dropping relevant Project 2025 rundowns in any story I can (there’s a lot). My analysis, reading across sections of the “Mandate” document, of Project 2025’s vision of straight white patriarchal power was pub’d in February: newrepublic.com/article/1788...

There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next Januarynewrepublic.com Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.

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This will be one about hope, though maybe not "hope" as it is usually meant. Hope is a defiant act taken against those who would sabotage any act of reparation—and sabotaging repair is exactly what fascism does. For this reason, hope is what is needed right now. www.the-reframe.com/a-fools-hope/

A Fool's Hopewww.the-reframe.com How to be hopeful people in this age of deliberate ignorance, empty optimism, lazy cynicism, and manufactured despair. A more useful definition of hope than these false ones we're offered.

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When you see the way the press is treating Joe Biden for aging in public, you see how they could treat Donald Trump for committing fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection and never, ever will.

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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

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Glad to see some members of Congress taking the issue seriously.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.

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Three days after the debate every Sunday news shows invited an avowed election-denying fascist on the air in an overt effort to legitimize them as good-faith commentators The news media is openly pro-fascist

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“A massive exodus of competence.” I worry that far too many people are tuned out and unaware of the fascist train speeding towards us. Must Watch: John Oliver on the Horror of “Trump’s Second Term”

Must Watch: John Oliver on the Horror of "Trump's Second Term"littlegreenfootballs.com John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse than his first term, and what Trump has in common with a hamster.

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Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.businessinsider.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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Are you a young voter? Are you dissatisfied with the election? The olds have a message you should see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9...

Nail Communications | Dear Young People, Don't Vote | Hero Videowww.youtube.com This country belongs to whoever shows up. And do you know who shows up for every election? Old people. But only 46% of people18-34 years old voted in the las...

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Christ, are we really going to descend into fascism in the middle of a booming economy with a successful progressive policy president before we start talking about the fact that propaganda works and people’s ideas about politics are just mostly what they’re hearing from everyone else

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Hannah Arendt perfectly anticipates a profound truth about Trump, right-wing media, and the Republican Party 70 years before the fact.

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We have to stop ignoring how crazy he is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Let’s Talk About Trump’s Gibberishwww.theatlantic.com Rambling about shark electrocutions is not normal.

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Hey remember when Utah launched a carelessly thrown together form to report trans people in public spaces? New snitch line is up, but requires a Utah IP address to submit. Would be a real shame if a bunch of people used VPNs to fill it with useless data again. hotlineform.utah.gov/equal_opport...

wake up bluesky a new utah snitch line just dropped (you'll need a vpn if you're outside utah for this one) hotlineform.utah.gov/equal-opport...

Hotline Form | Errorhotlineform.utah.gov

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New in PN: Sinclair injects deceptive attacks on Biden's age into dozens of local broadcasts (with @juddlegum.bsky.social) www.publicnotice.co/p/sinclair-b... Check out this video showing local Sinclair anchors reading from the same script 👇

Sinclair anchors read same script while attacking Bidenwww.youtube.com Watch Sinclair launder the WSJ's hit piece on President Biden's mental fitness into local news, with anchors all reading from the same script: "This could be an election decider." More in Public Notice: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/sinclair-biden-slipping-wall-street-journal-hit

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Please take a few minutes to read this piece. We’ve gone from slow rolling to billionaires putting their feet on the gas pedal and thumbs on the scales to normalize fascism in the MSM narrative so they don’t have to pay taxes and can decry any rational, humane public policy as “woke”

democracy dies in the hands of billionaires www.thehandbasket.co/p/washington...

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"These are awful people who like imposing cruelty on out groups and blaming them for all their problems. You can process that into a political 'position,' but really these are just shitty people, even if you can't say that out loud." -- @volts.wtf

David Roberts on why this campaign is driving him crazywww.publicnotice.co "We’re in a situation where we have this lying, abusive, obviously nutbag figure, and we can’t acknowledge to ourselves what’s happening."

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💥 Big news! Our partnership with NDRC will ensure pro-democracy state legislative candidates in key battleground states have the resources they need to run impactful, effective campaigns. Read more from Axios. www.axios.com/2024/06/05/e...

Democrats to flood battleground states with millions for state-level raceswww.axios.com They aim to flip or hold on to state chambers in Arizona, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Make your own bumper sticker here

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Good WaPo article about the whole "Appeal to Heaven" flag kerfuffle...and not just because it quotes "yours truly." Gift link. wapo.st/3WZyMhc

At center of Alito controversy, a flag celebrated by extremistswapo.st Since its origins in colonial times, historians say, the Appeal to Heaven flag has been used to justify political violence. It has been adopted in recent years by Christian nationalists and others on ...

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Hey, perhaps some of the critiques of the Trump prosecution are valid. I propose we have a neutral legal expert look at them, have legal representatives from both the prosecution and the defense make their cases with evidence and testimony, and then have a group of 12 citizens render a judgment.

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Abduction of a Sabine Woman, by Giambologna, 1579-83, 📸 by @Warren_Hypes

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Gift link: Jamie Raskin. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/o...

Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Caseswww.nytimes.com Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

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For those saying that Americans are righteously angry because the level of prices is up even though the rate of inflation has fallen, a history lesson

“We cannot survive as a democracy if only one party is willing to accept defeat. We will not keep our constitutional republic if half of the country will subvert election results to empower one man.”

I am very worried about the asymmetry created by GOP election denialism. I hope you take a few minutes to read what I wrote and to share it with others. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The Dangerous Asymmetry of Election Denialismwww.democracydocket.com From Marc | We cannot survive as a democracy if only one party is willing to accept defeat.