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Rory Michaels

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Working at the intersection of marketing, data, technology and media. Currently Global Streaming Product (🦚, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, Showmax) @ NBCU. 🌈 Recovering political staffer. Probably drinking coffee. Views my own. (He/Him/His) πŸ“NYC

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I’ve owned chuckhimout.com and .org for a while now. I think it’s time they got some use.

10.11.2025 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just caught the clip of @jaketapper.bsky.social parroting GOP talking points blaming dems for the Govt shutdown and YIKES.

29.10.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remain convinced that Tim Mellon so hated his stepmother Bunny that he’s funding Trump and his destruction to completely gut her and his father’s legacy. They would be ashamed.

25.10.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey. So Antifa literally means Anti-Fascist. And frankly. We should all identify as that.

09.10.2025 08:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My Izzy girl. My whole world. I will miss you forever.

08.10.2025 08:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is your reminder that a President cannot lawfully order the military to take up arms against citizens in the United States. He has already done so.

03.10.2025 01:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Peter Thiel was born in Germany.

I’m a direct descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a descendant of the mayflower. My family still owns the land that was given to them in a kings grant.

JD Vance would have you believe that Peter Thiel is β€œmore American” than I.

11.07.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren SΓ‘nchez’s A-list wedding guests flee after heavy thunderstorm ruins welcome party β€œIt just goes to show you can have all the money in the world but you can’t control the weather,” one onlooker said.

Making good use of our democratic weather machine. pagesix.com/2025/06/26/c...

27.06.2025 04:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void

β€œThe soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

25.06.2025 22:35 πŸ‘ 16357 πŸ” 5306 πŸ’¬ 748 πŸ“Œ 224

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years.

Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

26.06.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 5201 πŸ” 1484 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 54

Hey @hoyer.house.gov, it’s time to retire.

23.06.2025 03:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

22.06.2025 00:47 πŸ‘ 63714 πŸ” 14370 πŸ’¬ 813 πŸ“Œ 584

In context of the 3,000 arrests/day mandate, this means turbocharging arrests in construction, child&elder care, delivery services, transport, manufacturing. It also means desperate ICE agents prowling the streets for victims. Courts, check-ins, and interviews will be ground zero for arrests...

14.06.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 913 πŸ” 374 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 16

If you ever find yourself on the side of the argument that is pro banning books, or even restricting access. you are most definitely on the wrong side of that argument.

11.05.2025 03:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The A&E treatment in the UK. In a private room. Cost me nothing. Here they want 25k for less than 24 hours in a stretcher in a hallway in the ER that was packed with stretchers along the halls.

Something is incredibly broken in our healthcare system.

30.04.2025 04:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m lucky. I have amazing Health Insurance. I will pay only a very small percentage of this with my OOP max. But. It’s not JUST the insurance companies that are the problem.

30.04.2025 04:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just prior to this I spent a little under a week in the hospital in the UK. In the private ward. It cost me around $20k US out of pocket when it was all said and done.

This meanwhile is how the US hospital system bills, & that doesn’t cover the doctors. Or the 25k extra for the ER hall stretcher.

30.04.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I have seen approximately zero episodes of White Lotus but quote the show regularly. Today’s media landscape is so weird.

21.04.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration.

It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.

13.04.2025 04:32 πŸ‘ 1787 πŸ” 509 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 22
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The Onion is aggressively on sale.

Subscribing helps us hire comedy writers who get health insurance and even food to eat, with their mouths. That food is converted into energy which allows them to make sentences that make the government sad.

Sign up to let this continue:

membership.theonion.com

27.03.2025 17:14 πŸ‘ 3680 πŸ” 766 πŸ’¬ 99 πŸ“Œ 55
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So…lock them up?

24.03.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 50801 πŸ” 10865 πŸ’¬ 1895 πŸ“Œ 718

Are you stuck at Heathrow / Paddington / somewhere because of travel chaos in London today? Tell me about it - DMs are open or patrick.smith@nbcuni.com.

21.03.2025 09:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @schumer.senate.gov I’m an actual constituent. Is there any way to actually get ahold of your office anymore? Or are you dodging us like you’re dodging any real leadership?

19.03.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me too Gen Z, me too.

19.03.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

16.03.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 33671 πŸ” 8721 πŸ’¬ 618 πŸ“Œ 778

Committing now to donating, knocking doors, and making calls for the best candidates to primary @schumer.senate.gov, @nadler.house.gov, and Nancy Pelosi.

It is past time for the old guard to retire.

14.03.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is time for @schumer.senate.gov to step down or be primaried. His leadership, if we want to call it that, has been some of the most ineffective, wet-napkin, sophistry-laden, fascist-enabling kind of party leadership that is shameful for democrats. He has to go.

14.03.2025 20:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Doctors who treat trans patients say threats worsened after Trump’s orders Physicians say threats of violence are rising after President Donald Trump’s executive order labeled gender transition care for minors a β€œdangerous trend.”

Physicians who treat transgender children say threats of violence are rising after President Donald Trump’s executive order labeled gender transition care for minors a β€œdangerous trend.”

09.03.2025 18:31 πŸ‘ 344 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 15

When you talk about wanting a leader who can get the party on a message, who can hire, strategize and keeps the ducks Iine. Someone who gets organizing? Ken’s your guy.

02.03.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I opened up twitter a few minutes later to a message from Ken. It was his cellphone number. And two words. Call me. We talked. He had his reasoning. It was good. And he asked that I not counter the parties messaging. Especially during the convention. That was over a decade ago.

02.03.2025 09:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0