MIKE STEYELS
Lost culture writer tryna navigate this mid dystopia. BK to BKK.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSHi #PortfolioDay! I’m Syd and I’m a freelance illustrator. I love painting details and using intense colors/light ♥️♥️
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThe AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, says academic Alex de Vries-Gao, founder of Digiconomist. AI-related water use now exceeds entire global bottled-water demand, too. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSPretty notable that Republicans in a deep-red state declined to go along with a partisan power grab specifically because of the toxic, violent culture Trump encourages. www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELS“We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth... We’re the workers who develop, train, and use AI, so we have a responsibility to intervene...” www.fastcompany.com/91450846/ama...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSTruth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELS"Happy Genocide Day" Corrected Thanksgiving mural seen in Pensacola, Florida
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSTired: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a long consumerist advertisement for a corporation-based American hegemony that peaked before the forever wars. Wired: Shaggy and Busta Rhymes are dad rock now.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELS"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSspanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
- Missed this @bandcamp.com primer on Surinamese music in the Netherlands electronic scenes from earlier in the year. Nice context on its cultural roots and some big chunes too ^^ daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSNew from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system. And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSGIANT FLASHING RED AUTHORITARIAN ALERT apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSAgain…
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSNew from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSlicense plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSAcceding to President Donald Trump's demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump political foes. n.pr/4i25hnd
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSYou probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSIn the last week, we’ve seen federal officials threaten or scheme to arrest a governor, federal judges, and a former president.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELS“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThanks to SCOTUS, they couldn't touch Obama even if he did the worst stuff in Trump's imagination. But also thanks to SCOTUS, no one can stop them from trying -- and running DOJ into the ground in the process. Consequently, we have entire agencies whose mission right now is to salve a sad man's ego.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThe most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSReally thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELS"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSBen pointed out in that piece that the price of solar panels is getting so low, that you can buy a panel for just twice the price of a wooden fencing sheet the same size:
- cooked. literally. news.un.org/en/story/202...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSI MAY BE STUPID , - dashare.zone ADMIN
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSAt least six AI-powered or AI-assisted artists have debuted on its charts over the past few months.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSevery time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSthis is objectively hilarious
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSNEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis. Only 2 judges have sided with ICE. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSBREAKING: There has been another ICE raid at a Home Depot today — this time in Phoenix. In this Huddled Masses exclusive, @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reported that immigration groups are weighing a boycott of the chain.
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Former interim NYPD commissioner Tom Donlon described the NYPD as a criminal enterprise. How would it even be possible to reform an organization that’s rotten from the inside out? @awinston.bsky.social describes the mess Adams leaves in his wake. - Reposted by MIKE STEYELSPresident Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen the federal government. n.pr/4oN75mp
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThe lowest cap on refugees since the program was established in 1980 comes as the U.S. prioritizes resettling Afrikaners from South Africa.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSIn a post on TikTok, former CBS News producer Trey Sherman said CBS laid off all the people of color on his production team while white staff were reassigned. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-...
- If 308 billionaires were a country, they’d be the 15th highest carbon polluters www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSI can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSSNAP benefits expire in one week.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSAn alderperson’s staffers — both U.S. citizens — were detained by Border Patrol amid the Little Village immigration raids. blockclubchi.co/3WOuS9t
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSNBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSa functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThis is nuts. And we would like to know more about these "guided missile warheads." Good reporting via @juddlegum.bsky.social / @popular.info
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSMillions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits, all thanks to the government shutdown.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThe Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSEXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSWOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSThe lesson is clear: There is one set of laws for the president’s supporters, and another one for those who have run afoul of him.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSExtraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSWhen the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSRecommended.
- Reposted by MIKE STEYELSIllinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?
