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@mikewords

Writer. Journalist. Ph.D. molecular biologist. Former biopharm exec. Sentient neural network. Small Language Model.

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White House: War Isn’t Hell. War Is Effing Awesome. You Are Hell. Once, war was justified by ho-hum lies about WMDs. Now, it’s Childish Gambino grooves and the Book of Revelation. Get with the program.

Operation Epic Fury is just a bunch of men, several with extremely violent personal histories and fantasies, jacked up on geopolitical rage and a meme set that combines medieval superstitions, Call of Duty, and the glorification of violence as an end in itself. trib.al/4yacev4

10.03.2026 14:29 👍 79 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 3

So many people predicting the bribe-pardon…because of course.

10.03.2026 14:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump won't say if he'll send armed agents to the polls. So Dems are suing to find out “Trump wants to bully and cheat his way through a midterm election that he knows Republicans will lose, but we won’t let him,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin said.

🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding President Donald Trump’s administration unveil their plans, if any, for deploying federal officers or troops on election day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

10.03.2026 13:38 👍 1989 🔁 672 💬 63 📌 22

I wish this take weren’t spot-on, but it is.

10.03.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great quotes in military history.

@atrupar.com

10.03.2026 11:35 👍 5371 🔁 1482 💬 515 📌 176

The Trump administration’s defense of the Iran school bombing is the same script they used for the Epstein file “discrepancies” and the ICE shooting “video errors.” They count on a tired public to look away while the gap between their explanations and the casualties keeps widening.

09.03.2026 13:22 👍 182 🔁 63 💬 5 📌 5
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My most recent column for @usatoday.com is in print today.

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

09.03.2026 13:59 👍 30 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2
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NYT: The video “shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

09.03.2026 09:45 👍 1281 🔁 530 💬 60 📌 30
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09.03.2026 03:16 👍 18918 🔁 6380 💬 1190 📌 444

This is the man Senators who present themselves as serious human beings are going to rubber stamp into the office of Director of Homeland Security. Show some self-respect and some love of country and vote no.

08.03.2026 17:04 👍 3427 🔁 1077 💬 169 📌 54
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08.03.2026 16:04 👍 6371 🔁 1065 💬 162 📌 37

As if you needed any more evidence that "Faux News" is state-run propaganda media:

08.03.2026 15:00 👍 2990 🔁 977 💬 133 📌 39

Entitled hypocrites, everywhere you look.

08.03.2026 16:33 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I find solace in the news that the Virginia legislature has prohibited public schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was a “peaceful protest.”

Education and truth ultimately is what will prevent this national disaster from reoccurring.

That, and patient, thorough accountability.

08.03.2026 16:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."

08.03.2026 14:47 👍 2107 🔁 781 💬 1249 📌 772
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TAPPER: One of your points of contention with Noem was how she jumped to conclusions about the killings of Pretti and Good, but Markwayne Mullin said equally false things. Does that give you pause?

TILLIS: It gives me pause that you had people like Stephen Miller calling the shots.

08.03.2026 13:11 👍 1889 🔁 468 💬 107 📌 35
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Page One in Miami:

@miamiherald.com

08.03.2026 13:55 👍 6254 🔁 2124 💬 149 📌 90
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“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.”

@washingtonpost.com #J6
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

07.03.2026 19:12 👍 3538 🔁 1252 💬 164 📌 74
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No More Benefit Of The Doubt Last Sunday, we discussed a number of cases pending in front of federal district judges in Minneapolis.

Some judicial opinions have to be read in full, like the one I parse for you to night, from Judge Tunheim in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

07.03.2026 07:21 👍 1309 🔁 415 💬 35 📌 25
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Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?

07.03.2026 12:04 👍 6282 🔁 3436 💬 569 📌 263

The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.

06.03.2026 12:52 👍 18264 🔁 5096 💬 1335 📌 308
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Annnnd the old lickspittle is back.

05.03.2026 22:29 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

This is quite an amazing thing for a sitting US senator to say.

05.03.2026 21:32 👍 1262 🔁 257 💬 48 📌 9

Everyone should read Trump’s long word salad quoted in full by @hcrichardson.bsky.social when he was asked why the government has not been able to help get Americans out of the war zone.

Joe Biden was forced out of the presidency for less.

05.03.2026 10:02 👍 357 🔁 126 💬 8 📌 6

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

05.03.2026 17:31 👍 18752 🔁 7310 💬 796 📌 414
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05.03.2026 15:01 👍 14490 🔁 5759 💬 524 📌 251
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Well would you look at that

05.03.2026 15:44 👍 28352 🔁 8022 💬 841 📌 341
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Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

03.03.2026 21:48 👍 20392 🔁 8492 💬 2471 📌 1184

This is the energy I was looking for in this hearing. This might be the greatest clip of a Senate hearing in history. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

03.03.2026 18:01 👍 2054 🔁 505 💬 107 📌 24

True, and his seat is going to go blue. Still, to me at least, it’s refreshing to see a little courage in any GOP senator, even way too late.

03.03.2026 18:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0