Bruce Mirken

Writer and media relations consultant for several organizations, but all ravings here are strictly mine. Known troublemaker, transplanted from California to Hilo, Hawaii. I often post pics of the cute #reptiles who hang out near my house. Escapee from #Xitter. Do NOT patronize any business owned by Elon Musk.
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2024-10-03 23:55:42

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The other day someone on here tried to claim that the dockworkers were trying to sabotage Biden. Seems like they got it wrong.

2024-08-07 20:11:18

Folks have caught on to the evil agenda of #Project2025 and the fascists are running for cover. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-project-2025-2668915596

2024-08-04 17:45:15

"A new study shows that undocumented #immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund. The findings run counter to anti-immigrant rhetoric that #undocumented immigrants are 'destroying' social programs."
https://kansasreflector.com/2024/08/04/study-says-undocumented-immigrants-paid-almost-100-billion-in-taxes/

2024-08-03 16:22:32

"When #Democrats are now saying, 'These guys just sound a bit #weird,' it's because they've all been talking to each other for long enough that if you're not part of the #Republican cinematic universe, none of it makes any sense," Karpf said. "When you take a step back, their policy proposals are serious and dangerous, but they're also just so off-putting and ridiculous." https://www.salon.com/2024/08/03/pointing-and-laughing-democrats-leaned-in-on-weird-and-experts-say-its-working/

2024-08-03 15:56:36

"A forthcoming study seeks to inform how courts consider challenges to these [greenhouse gas] regulations by establishing once and for all that the lawmakers who shaped the Clean Air Act in 1970 knew scientists considered carbon dioxide an air pollutant, and that these elected officials were intent on limiting its emissions." #pollution #climate https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02082024/clean-air-act-carbon-dioxide-climate-pollutant-study/

2024-08-03 07:10:33

Any comments from #JKRowling?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olympic-boxer-angela-carini-italy-wants-to-apologize-imane-khelif_n_66ad4733e4b088291b690513

2024-08-02 20:55:43

I just made a donation to Democracy Docket, and you should, too. #voting #elections #democracy @npub1u97…c75y https://www.democracydocket.com/support/

2024-08-01 18:48:52

Remember a few years ago, when folks demanded to #AbolishICE? That was even a popular hashtag on the deadbird site. Well, it's still a good idea. https://www.thetrace.org/2024/08/ice-agents-immigration-enforcement-violence/

2024-08-01 07:45:28

"...the British Medical Association (BMA), voted in favor of a resolution to publicly critique the #CassReview used to crack down on gender affirming care for #trans youth in the United Kingdom, calling its recommendations unsubstantiated."
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/british-medical-association-calls

2024-08-01 06:52:11

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I can hardly wait for the follow-up story: "Is #KamalaHarris really Black? We asked 4 white guys in a Pennsylvania diner." #journalism

2024-08-01 00:33:19

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My cynical take: He has no expectation of winning the election or getting the most votes. He expects #MAGA election officials and #SCOTUS to steal it for him. His entire campaign is about keeping the base fired up, angry and ready to riot.

2024-07-30 17:16:07

"Alexander Hamilton viewed the courts as the “least dangerous” branch of the federal government because, without power of the purse and no army, it could not directly enforce its decisions. But we learned this term that the Supreme Court could upend the ability of #Congress to pass functioning laws and establish a king who is free to commit crimes." #SCOTUS https://progressive.org/latest/the-supreme-court-attacks-on-democracy-are-now-a-chilling-yearly-ritual-welner-20240729/

2024-07-29 17:35:50

"In all, #Trump is not just a random or generic aspiring dictator or demagogue. He is of a specific type: Donald Trump is a textbook example of the Führer principle applied in 21st-century America. The #Holocaust Encyclopedia offers this basic explanation of the Führer principle: 'The Führer's will became the foundation for all legislation... authority—in government, the party, economy, family, and so on—flowed downward and was to be obeyed unquestioningly.'" https://www.salon.com/2024/07/29/the-maga-principle-tested-grows-more-and-more-radical-with-each-passing-day/

2024-07-29 04:43:29

"The New York Times’s reporting on #JDVance’s long friendship with and conversations with a #transgender law school classmate — and now-former friend — is a reminder of how #Trump poisons all who come within his orbit but also a stark sign of just how eager Vance was to drink Trump’s hemlock.
Because it is the path, Vance has become an extremely anti-#LGBTQ politician."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-emptiness-of-jd-vance

2024-07-28 18:22:06

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I am so sorry that actual expertise offends you. Have a good life.

2024-07-28 17:56:00

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That's how mainstream reporters do it: They cite "experts" rather than seeming to opine themselves. There's lots to criticize about the Post, but they got this one basically right.

2024-07-28 17:38:35

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Trump is actually quite skilled at making these sorts of threatening statements with wording just imprecise enough to allow for an innocent explanation, even if both we and his supporters know what he means and that the "innocent" version is just a fig leaf. The Post was right to call this out.

2024-07-26 18:43:53

The scary lengths to which some #Texas prosecutors will go to try to jail #librarians. #censorship #LGBTQ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-librarians-banned-books-investigation-texas-rcna161444

2024-07-26 01:51:05

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Thanks to everyone who's shared this. Now, could you all PLEASE make a donation to Advocates for #Trans Equality?
https://transequality.org/

2024-07-25 20:25:58

#ElonMusk's #trans daughter has had enough: "Calling me dead on a podcast with JORDAN PETERSON of all people while basically admitting you have zero reading comprehension by saying you were 'tricked' into signing documents that you read over multiple times is basically a parody of itself... This entire thing is completely made up and there’s a reason for this. He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there..." https://www.advocate.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson

2024-07-23 17:36:38

Why #KamalaHarris is the perfect opponent for #Trump: "As I reported from Milwaukee, it's not just Trump anymore. The entire GOP has leaned hard into toxic masculinity and often overt #misogyny. The Republican National Convention was a grotesque display of both. The convention stage was a traffic jam of men who had been violent towards women or made excuses for violence starting with the nominee himself." https://www.salon.com/2024/07/23/the-simple-reason-why-kamala-harris-has-donald-running-scared/

2024-07-23 00:48:30

#ElonMusk is a fascist POS and no one with a conscience should still be on #Twitter/ X.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kamala-twitter-account-follow-limit-elon-musk/

2024-07-22 19:55:52

Welp, it didn't even take #Republicans a whole day to go full #racist on #KamalaHarris. I'm sure this will go over well.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-republicans-racist-sexist-attacks-kamala-harris-1235065295/

2024-07-22 16:10:49

"Let’s be clear: Calling a person of color a #DEI hire is what #racism looks like. It springs from the white supremacist myth that people of color are inherently inferior to white people, hence, we can only achieve success and visible positions with the help of a program." #KamalaHarris
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-is-trumps-worst-nightmare

2024-07-22 03:52:05

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He's right, of course. That said, #Republicans will mount much a more concerted and organized effort to steal #Election2024 than they did 4 years ago. I hope Dems are ready.

2024-07-20 15:56:53

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No, Biden and Trump are NOT equal.

2024-07-20 04:13:18

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I remain torn about #Biden, but if he steps aside it MUST be #KamalaHarris. Anything else would be electoral suicide.

2024-07-18 20:25:09

The "#ProLife" and "pro family" party wants to hurt #children with disabilities. #project2025 https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/project-2025-would-end-head-start-and-hurt-children-with-disabilities/

2024-07-10 15:55:14

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I was a PGE customer for 28 years. They are a staggeringly terrible company. But PGE does have a perfectly good website that shows you power outages, which was the issue in the post I responded to.

2024-07-10 03:33:28

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Not America, just the failed state of #Texas. 🤣

2024-07-09 00:08:48

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Biden has had gait problems and that's the doctor's specialty.

2024-06-28 04:07:07

I don't often put on my professional hat when posting on here, but I need to say a few words about the #PresidentialDebate from the point of view of a 23-year #communications professional whose work has dealt almost entirely with policy communications. That's included working on both electoral and lobbying campaigns, including debate prep. A short 🧵 : 1/

2024-06-28 02:37:25

I just saw someone posting that we shouldn't talk on social media about #Biden's weak #PresidentialDebate performance because then that's what the media will cover. Sure. It's not like they watched it or anything. Folks, we need to honestly face the fact that American democracy is in deep, deep trouble.

2024-06-21 05:31:48

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Thanks!

2024-06-21 04:47:58

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It's a shame that's paywalled.

2024-06-16 01:23:22

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Sorry, but that's just not true. Yes, Congress is bad, but Congress didn't make Biden declare the pandemic over, fail to do anything to encourage use of N95 respirators, push for better air purification in public buildings or caution the public about the dangers of repeated infections and #LongCovid.

2024-06-13 18:19:25

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And Rogers and Hammerstein stood their ground, when I'm sure cutting it would have been by far the easier choice.

2024-06-13 17:08:44

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Rogers and Hammerstein figured this out a long time ago: https://youtu.be/Vo0kVvdo_C4?si=5DLvwYIR-F2J6j_b

2024-06-10 00:24:51

#Israel's right-wing government may be about to get worse. https://www.commondreams.org/news/itamar-ben-gvir?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=41c352e4e0-Weekend+Edition%3A+Sun.+6%2F9%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

2024-06-05 19:10:28

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The graph showing the shift of wealth between income groups clearly shows hardly any change from 1970-79 and a much greater shift from 1979-89 and after. The report really isn't about causes, though such a report would definitely not be flattering to Reaganomics.

2024-06-05 18:47:22

New Pew Research report confirms what we all knew: The U.S. #MiddleClass is shrinking while both high and low income groups have grown. Welcome to the future the capitalists wanted. https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/

2024-06-04 22:52:42

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I think Alive and Well essentially folded when its leadership died. When I looked last year, the website was still up but hadn't been updated since 2008 or so. There absolutely are people on the loony right who still believe this crap because they think it helps them demonize Anthony Fauci. Here's an example from a site called American Greatness (seriously, you can't make this shit up): https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/19/fauci-b-c/

2024-06-04 20:53:42

Yes, #Israel is still preventing food and other aid from getting to the starving people of #Gaza https://www.commondreams.org/news/humanitarian-aid-gaza

2024-06-04 20:19:14

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Oh good! I'd forgotten how icky their website was on this. The guys who wouldn't talk to me want "open dialogue." Yeah, right.

2024-06-04 04:15:16

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Indeed they did and do. I had a bit of adventure with the #FooFighters when they were promoting #AIDS denialism: https://48hills.org/2021/05/opinion-aids-denialism-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/

2024-06-03 15:34:51

#Indigenous languages "often hold secrets to the inner workings of the planet, from the best times to plant certain crops to the healing properties of critical medicinal plants. However, a growing body of research shows that #ClimateChange is driving the loss of native languages worldwide—in big ways and small." https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02062024/todays-climate-indigenous-language-loss/

2024-05-24 04:26:48

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Do not try to understand the U.S. We're insane.

2024-05-19 16:37:36

#SilentSunday
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/468/716/941/196/731/original/19b68718909aeb5a.jpg

2024-05-15 22:19:30

New data show that #CharterSchools increase #segregation. I'm pretty sure that was the intention. Via @npub1sxc…qf96 https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/new-data-shows-charter-schools-increased-segregation-burris-240514/?utm_source=THE+PROGRESSIVE+UPDATED+LIST&utm_campaign=9780b34057-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_06_08_55_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_194f0c7083-9780b34057-186669797&mc_cid=9780b34057&mc_eid=42caf3e016

2024-05-12 02:34:38

Remember, kids, whatever issues you have with the Democrats -- and I have plenty -- when #Republicans control things, everything decent turns to s**t. Today's example (h/t @npub1ehk…prxs) https://thehill.com/business/4658227-trump-appointed-judge-halts-biden-administration-credit-card-late-fee-cap/

2024-05-04 04:37:26

#Netanyahu has done more to build support for #Palestine than anyone in the last 50 years.

2024-03-29 18:42:53

Most tourists visiting #Hawaii never get to #Molokai, sparsely populated and short on swanky resorts. They don't know what they're missing.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/180/438/909/835/786/original/bdfebe6734f7849d.jpg