Seth D. Michaels
Bert of the Intellect, Ernie of the Will
DC based, comms at @ucs.org (all opinions mine), ambivalently Online, generally polite, still People Magazine's Seth D-est Man Alive. please don't argue in my notifications
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- "The guidance was really favorable to companies in a way that’s a little bit detrimental to individuals," a totally unsurprising "revelation" about the Trump administration's "populist" tax policy www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- these billionaires will punish the existing customer base of any media outlet for not wanting the product that the billionaires think they *should* want
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- median Trump voter
- Texas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
- "Bezos loses $100 million in a year on the Washington Post" is roughly equivalent to "Seth buys two pretty-nice pairs of jeans and a sweater"
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsIt is worse than this, I think. Bezos would be eminently capable of getting good value for the paper in a way that would leave his personal wealth intact. He is disfiguring it because he believes owning it, and doing *this,* best serves his interests.
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsIncredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsBezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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- it's like a hospital staffed by doctors wearing necklaces made of bones and dried human livers around their neck, all bragging about how good at medicine they are
- Reposted by Seth D. Michaelsone thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsBezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard
- Video call: WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray says the paper plans to lay off hundreds of staff, cutting into its local, international, and sports coverage (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
- One is tempted to ask how many refugees and ex-cons Mike Johnson is taking into his care and attending to with kindness and hospitality as an INDIVIDUAL believer
- big if true
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsI wish the Epstein nightmare weren’t the most heinous and disturbing shit that’s ever happened, because what these files reveal about how much labor it takes to create the illusion of everyday frictionlessness for the uber-wealthy is so appallingly fascinating
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- of fucking *course* "we should stop worrying so much about climate change" is part of the groupthink of the Epstein-affiliate bubble. just like with racist pseudoscience, all these guys want to hear is "current power arrangements are good & natural and the problem is the people concerned about them"
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- that's because it's not a "fraud crackdown"! it's an obviously dubious pretext for straightforward collective punishment of people he hates! Trump's allies can and do grift as much as they want
- similar to how RFK Jr and political leaders at HHS said nothing substantial about the CDC shooting, and immediately pivoted back to the anti-vax messaging that inspired it
- I spoke with several VA staffers, most in Minneapolis, who say they've heard almost nothing from VA leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. They report low morale, blocked memorials and a feeling that the VA is downplaying it. New from me @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...
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- real Chaos Is a Ladder guys, these two
- this math is both accurate and rude
- "There is no disjunction between the political movement that is so frantically preening and whining and lying on social media ...and the one prosecuting an aimless, endless, brutish reign of terror...They are two sides of the same coin." @davidjroth.bsky.social defector.com/fascists-are...
- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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- "The apartheid state was a police state. Free speech was tremendously proscribed...A society that targets newspapers, universities, migrants, and protesters ultimately makes most of its supporters’ lives miserable, too." www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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- Chris Wright could have written “nuh uh!” on a Post-it in crayon and it would have about as much scientific and legal validity as the actual report with less effort
- Yes! people attached to pseudoscientific “explanations” about gender (and race!) are actually attached to the systems of dominance that they benefit from and that this pseudoscience justifies
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- Beth Van Duyne on the phone with all her friends who sit on corporate boards of directors today
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- Who Framed Roger Rabbit rules. 5/5, lightning in a bottle, somehow still looks good today
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- Let’s Remember Some Guys (Pejorative)
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- Reposted by Seth D. Michaels"We're on our own" "no one is coming" is a common strain in this online discourse. But rather than absolutely rightful fury or cowering fear, this has awakened true, hyper-localized government of/by/for the people: feeding each other, protecting each other, demanding end to occupation by regime.
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- Reposted by Seth D. MichaelsWhat I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.
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