Michael Clear

Michael Clear

@michaelclear.bsky.social

He Who Shapes, I often yell at television screens when a cake is brought out but not eaten

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It's bad enough I have to pay extra for this since Elon killed it's HBO release butt do I really have too watch all four hours to successfully "resist fascism"? I feel like I could get the gist after 20 minutes

Politico describing how Rahm Emmanuel eats a salad is funnier than anything The Onion ever published

Matthew Gillikin@mtgillikin.bsky.social

Starting my day with @ifbookspod.bsky.social letting me know that Politico wants us to be clear: Rahm Emmanuel eats salads just like the rest of us, but harder

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I don’t know how to break this to some of you, but a system isn’t what you think it does, a system is what it rewards and punishes. So a system that treats common gutter bigotry as normal but punishes snark about a suburban chain restaurant isn’t misguided or confused. It’s operating as intended.

The idea of a "historically accurate" movie that has a cyclops in it will never not be funny

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social

In July, an incensed Elon Musk vowed that Grok Imagine would produce a "full-length" and "historically accurate" adaptation of Homer's Odyssey to put Christopher Nolan's woke version to shame. Three months later, we got seven minutes of slop that Grok itself admits is not historically accurate.

People who think Trump is going to save them are so funny. If Trump had a way to change election results, he'd have done that a few times by now

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

Alaska Democratic Senate candidate got into a car accident yesterday and if that had happened to her Republican opponent, Trump would have accused the Democrats dozens of times of trying to kill him

Now do Twitter

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Why is Amy Acton's mother speaking with Trump in Michigan?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

Had much money did Elon sink into Brazil? Anyway the sane guy won that so RIP Elon's money

Michael Clear@michaelclear.bsky.social

This is good. Non-American political news these days is usually "Far right leader of Spain's Hitler Was Right Party has overwhelmingly won his election thanks to economic dissatisfaction and massive support from Elon Musk"

This is good. Non-American political news these days is usually "Far right leader of Spain's Hitler Was Right Party has overwhelmingly won his election thanks to economic dissatisfaction and massive support from Elon Musk"

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Normally you have to wait until Thanksgiving dinner to hear old men ramble on like this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

“Or just scrape dead animals off the highway. Those don’t cost anything. Everyone should be able to afford food then”

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

I’m waiting in the theater for Clayface to start and I think everyone will really appreciate me yelling “THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE COMIC BOOKS” whenever they have something that doesn’t match the comic books

So far the only two people in the country openly supporting the pro-child rape ad are the President and Vice President

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Ohio voter on Ramaswamy's ad: To bring up somebody's past or their trauma, that's just deplorable.

I finally saw You Can See Everything and walked out as the credits rolled asking myself “what the hell did I just watch?” but on the way out I saw that I’d gone into the wrong theater and had in fact watched Whalefall

I’m pretty sure the reason no one asks Trump about this is because they know he’ll say something like “Maybe 12 year old Amy seduced him”

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

im no big money political consultant or anything but im not sure “children lie about being raped for attention” is the most compelling midterm closing message for republicans

I keep telling people this but have yet to convince a single person to stop calling him a trillionaire

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

"Almost none of his net worth is held in cash. Nearly all of it is **unrealized equity** in companies he still runs, and he draws no salary. His wealth is not money he extracted and stored. It is the market’s estimate of promises he hasn’t yet kept." fortune.com/2026/06/23/e...

I haven’t seen You Can See Everything yet but I’m wondering if the surprise twist everyone is talking about is that the blood test machine developed by Elizabeth Holmes actually worked

To those of you who got self righteous when Biden pardoned his son, (assuming this story is true) if a friend of the President can't get decent healthcare in prison, how would an enemy of the vindictive President be treated? If you wanted Hunter to serve time you should have elected Harris

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I’m talking specifically to John Stewart, a guy who thinks Biden should have left his son at the mercy of the man who let his best friend (the world’s most notorious pedophile) die in prison

I will now damn the new Street Fighter movie with faint praise and say it’s not the worst movie I’ve ever seen and that it’s probably the best movie ever made with the words Street Fighter in the title. Should you see it? Not in theaters, no. Wait till you can watch it at home

Ironically for Vivek, the rapist protecting mother is now the top Republican choice for Ohio Governor and voters are demanding Vivek step aside so she can run

Literally no one talks about it except for Trump fans who say "Why is gas so expensive? I thought we stole all of Venezuela's oil"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

move over D-Day -- Trump says his Venezuela raid was "the greatest military maneuver ever"

Whalefall is a great movie for people who think that maybe their father was too kind and compassionate when they were growing up and wish he’d been more of an emotionally abusing asshole and a drink so that he could impart knowledge and skills to survive the most unlikely situation possible

My followers know I sometimes say this: “The Democratic Party leadership is old, rich and comfortable and they’re fine with being in the minority”

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

crazy that carville has been dining out for 30 years on attaching himself to one of the great political savants

The “longtime Republican strategists” are surprised because they expected their voters to be worried about things like “boys in girls sports” and didn’t realize that worrying about things like that are a luxury you get to have when you can easily buy things like food and gas

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

“Asked what they blamed for rising gas prices, those voters pointed to “corrupt politicians” and “billionaires” — a response that surprised some longtime strategists who’ve never seen government corruption emerge as a top issue for so many Republican voters.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/18/p...

BREAKING NEWS: the company that’s so evil that there are two movies about the evil things it does is still evil

Micah@rincewind.run

Dems need to haul Zuck up to Capitol Hill every week to answer for this shit treat these people like the political enemies they are

Hi all, it’s me, that celebrity you’ve loved since childhood. I’m just here to say immigrants are all garbage and only the closest thing the UK has to an actual Nazi party can save us. Ni!

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