Michael Artz

Michael Artz

@michaelartz.bsky.social

Union lawyer, disappointed in oh so many

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Ah yes, the imperial boomerang has once again snapped back on itself. I didn’t think “we need to be able to murder our people at home the way we’ve been murdering people abroad for decades” would be the message to take into the midterms, but here we are.

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why are our approval ratings so low ask the congressional democrats?

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Replying to @rodericka1.bsky.social

"Sheriff officers burned dog alive for no reason, laughed as dog’s owners cried" "Sheriff fond of torturing immigrants' dogs in front of them" "officers discussing who will kill dogs before they even arrive "White nationalists pervade law enforcement "Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime

• Police solve just 2% of all major crimes • One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police • 10,000 family dogs are killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") • Bodycam Catches Planting Drugs (parents lost their children due to these) • Why the NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year

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This is political pogrom where the sitting president of the United States targeted his own constituents out of pure strategic racism based on nothing but racist lies.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Last month, SCOTUS told the Trump admin it could end temporary protected status immigration programs. Today 350,000 people, mostly Haitians lose status & elderly & disabled Americans they are caregivers for will suffer along with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/b...

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If you’re considering whether terms like ethnic cleansing or pogrom might be applicable to impending government action, there could be a problem.

every accusation is a confession

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Don Jr.'s investment firm posts a 200% return: Jr. leads 1789 Capital, which has repeatedly bought shares in private companies before they've gone public, "often by leveraging their political and business connections to secure a stake." Many of those companies have major federal contracts.

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I get they aren’t going to dance on his grave, but I’m so tired of these Democrats who see Republicans as their friends who they just have polite disagreements with. Lindsey Graham was a monster who tried to end American democracy while cheerleading wars abroad but so glad he was nice to you.

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NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

propublica.orgKen Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Blows my mind that MLS hasn't run a single ad during the World Cup to remind tens of millions of Americans who are getting into soccer that it exists

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Trump: "No president has ever taken a cognitive test except me. I've taken three of them. One in the first administration. They're hard. The first question is easy. You have a lion, a bear, an alligator, and a squirrel. 'Which is the squirrel?'"

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“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

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Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

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“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)

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Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the US from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection, according to ICE. A tooth infection. He's death number nine.

tucson.comFlorence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official saysAn ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

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Replying to @seantcollins.com

Even without the political messaging The MAGA pitch is my "yeah we're creepy and evil and brutal but you need us to protect you from *the other*" Here's "the other" you need to fear: a bunch of hot people dancing and having fun

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