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Mike Shaw

@zax2000

A yokel Bostonian bumbling around Seattle. Stints in 北京 and Bali along the way. I used to craft/edit journalists' spam. Geopolitics is my jam. I post, therefore I am.

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Well, you can say goodbye to this trade route for a while.

10.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wut?

10.03.2026 06:21 👍 311 🔁 33 💬 15 📌 0

What a delightful badass. Read the whole thread:

10.03.2026 01:30 👍 51 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1

Make Russia Rich Again.

10.03.2026 02:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your occasional reminder that Trump ran on lowering prices.

09.03.2026 15:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hm. Seems kinda fishy that the President of the United States is making investments in companies whose fate he is deciding.

09.03.2026 15:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's one of those SNL skits that's literally just reenacting the thing verbatim.

Just unbelievable. What an obnoxious pick.

09.03.2026 03:45 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

09.03.2026 02:42 👍 3123 🔁 742 💬 103 📌 87

Your occasional reminder that Trump ran on lowering prices.

09.03.2026 00:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just sick.

08.03.2026 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

American sailors will be escorting tankers full of Chinese oil, all while easing sanctions on Russia, who is actively feeding targeting intelligence to Iran.

What the eff are we doing?

08.03.2026 18:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I had a nice temporary movement this morning. Nobody died.

08.03.2026 18:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm old enough to remember when Fox & the right wing lost their sh!t over President Obama wearing a tan suit to a press briefing.

08.03.2026 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait. @atrupar.com gets vacations? Who approved that?!

08.03.2026 18:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your occasional reminder that Trump ran on lowering prices.

08.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chillingly bloodthirsty. What a disgrace.

08.03.2026 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

08.03.2026 18:14 👍 5753 🔁 1675 💬 121 📌 69
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Kalshi out here actively advertising for folks to bet on the outcomes of wars.

This whole damn administration is corrupt as hell.

08.03.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oven clock, we meet again.

08.03.2026 12:01 👍 934 🔁 193 💬 13 📌 9
March 8 on the calendar where it is printed: "International Women's Day" and "daylight saving time begins (clocks forward)

March 8 on the calendar where it is printed: "International Women's Day" and "daylight saving time begins (clocks forward)

Thank you for having International Women's Day on the shortest day of the year

05.03.2026 21:59 👍 632 🔁 102 💬 29 📌 6

we have saved daylight

but at what cost

08.03.2026 12:30 👍 2466 🔁 433 💬 50 📌 25

If Daylight Savings Time has taught us anything, it's that time travel sucks.

08.03.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security

"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"

Be like Spain.
bsky.app/profile/jere...

06.03.2026 23:37 👍 182 🔁 55 💬 4 📌 4

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

07.03.2026 23:52 👍 7797 🔁 2443 💬 239 📌 62

Just need to work on those prompts.

08.03.2026 00:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Inch"

07.03.2026 01:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

05.03.2026 22:00 👍 16545 🔁 3357 💬 259 📌 175
Preview
Iran War Poses Test for Justice Dept. After Firings Deplete National Security Ranks

President Trump was asked on Thursday if Americans needed to worry about the possibility of terrorist reprisals by Iran inside the United States. He responded, not quite reassuringly, 'I guess.'"

What the eff are we doing?!

07.03.2026 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If @thepressbox.bsky.social had a "Should've Been A Strained Pun Headline" category, this would be a winner.

07.03.2026 00:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What? Lady stargazers?!

Today it's Betelgeuse. Next thing you kkow, they'll want the vote.

07.03.2026 00:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0