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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
TIME Magazine has released the full, unedited transcript of its interview with Trump alongside its cover story I put in the comments. I had to take several breaks to get through it, it's bad, really bad, because it's our President. If you've ever visited a loved one in a Memory Care facility you'd know the residents can give hours long dissertations without saying anything of substance, long strings of filterless free association that could lead anywhere. While Trump has always been a narcissist and a con man, he was also an effective communicator, you can't pull a successful con without that skill. What we see in this interview seems to be truly disturbing and we need to face it together as a nation and do something about it. Please take the time to read. time.com/article/2026/10/01/…
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Sen. Klobuchar fact checks GOP Sen. Schmitt: "Could it then be that the University of Iowa is the Hawkeyes? ...That might be the confusion... Perhaps you should've looked at it more carefully. You have the teams wrong sir.”
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt tries to force Jack Smith to admit he went to an Atlanta Hawks game (He went to an Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland)
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
In a bid to frame Jack Smith as a liar, Sen. Schmitt (R-Missouri) accused the former special counsel of perjuring himself after he denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game on Feb. 3, 2024. Smith had attended an University of Iowa Hawkeyes game that day. wapo.st/4yn1PLt
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Oh man the influencer instruction emails went out BEFORE the testimony 😂☠️
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify the viewpoints of Pete Hegseth.
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I remember that night. The initial statement from DHS, which was a lie, blamed Biden in the first sentence. My votes go to those willing to prosecute the entire Trump administration for their crimes and everyone who has committed crimes on Trump's behalf - ICE, Musk, "DOGE," etc.
An ICE agent scanned the wrong license plate, chased the wrong man, and ended up shooting Julio Sosa-Celis through his own front door. DHS’s first story: Sosa-Celis attacked agents with a broom and snow shovel. City surveillance video proved that was false — the whole struggle lasted about 12 seconds. DHS admitted its agents gave “untruthful” sworn testimony. Charges against Sosa-Celis were dropped with prejudice. The agent, Christian Castro, is now charged with 4 counts of assault + falsely reporting a crime. He fled to Texas. Greg Abbott is refusing to extradite him. Minnesota’s AG just sued Abbott to force it. A Republican governor is actively shielding a federal agent from facing trial for shooting an innocent man and lying about it under oath. Texas, you have a job to do in November. And then justice can finally be delivered.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
"And it wasn’t until midnight that he finally flipped his badge over to reveal it said ICE on it," said her sister Gia Calero. An officer present at the hospital questioned them about their immigration status, but the family says he did not identify himself as actually working for ICE. She states that they were told they would get an answer from "the ICE officer," and that it was not until around midnight that the man flipped his badge over to reveal the "ICE officer" had been him the whole time. Not until this moment did they realize the person they had been dealing with was an ICE agent all along. Mother: Grace Stephanie Calero Cabanilla, 39 years old, has a pending asylum case and a work permit. Daughter: Giulianna Mía Carriel Calero, 19 years old, has a visa that the family says is valid until 2030. Link to full story: telemundo.com/noticias/notic… By — Jessenia Hatti Barrett @JessyHattiNews Telemundo Miami 51 @Telemundo51
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Agents violently detain mom—still wearing hospital gown. Separate her from daughter—family never told where mom was taken to. Both were victims of being hit by car—with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero, 39, and her daughter Giulianna Carriel, 19, are both originally from Ecuador. Both women received severe injuries after a near fatal rollover crash when another car swerved into their lane head on. Made worse when the daughter suffered a seizure—after the trauma of seeing her mother violently handcuffed. Polk County Sheriff’s Office contacted ICE after deciding the women's paperwork looked suspicious. They have an ongoing formal cooperation agreement with ICE. Incident occurred at HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital in Kissimmee, Florida. Jessenia Hatti Barrett doesn't have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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Musk "unintentionally" killed thousands of people when he had "DOGE" illegally abruptly freeze USAID funding, causing food & medicine to not reach people relying on it. Musk doesn't want to admit his fellow racist murderer is guilty, as Musk is a Chauvin thousands of times over.
Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth.
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Elon Musk is not just a “Nazi.” Elon Musk’s psychology is comparable to neo-Nazi mass murderers Anders Breivik, Brenton Tarrant, Patrick Crusius and Dylann Roof. He is a mentally ill, emotionally broken teenage boy committing mass violence in order to make the world safe for white people. He won’t stop until millions are dead. This isn’t name-calling, and it’s not theoretical. What he has done with DOGE will kill countless people in countries we were helping with life-saving food and medicine. He didn’t do it to save money, he did it because he hates Black and brown people and he wants them to die, as fast as possible. Elon Musk wants to destroy the social safety net in America so he can disempower and identify the ethnic groups he wants to imprison, enslave, and ultimately eliminate. He wants to incentivize white births because he’s terrified of being replaced himself, a condition he was born into as a son of apartheid South Africa. He’s fine with dismantling the health care system because the only people who will die from measles, in his mind, deserve it. It’s not just being a memelord, and it’s not just greed, it’s enacting eugenics as national policy. Elon Musk was taught by his father that he is a special little boy born for greatness — destined to live out the dreams of great Nazi rocket scientists. And then his father abused and abandoned him, and married his half-sister. When Elon was required to go into the military, Errol Musk told his son to leave because he didn’t think Black people could run the government and thought everything would collapse. So, Elon went to Canada and quickly schemed his way into America with his father’s money. His mother, Maye Musk, is a racist, detached sociopath who encouraged her son’s bullying, narcissism and megalomania and passed down her father’s imperial, technocratic dream of a North American Empire, his vicious racism and antisemitism, and his admiration for Adolf Hitler. Elon Musk’s white supremacist upbringing, inherited wealth, and reliance on foreign governments and their proxies in America made him the perfect target for radicalization and usurpation. Seeing an opportunity to make his destiny come true, he made the decision in 2022 to “correct the course of civilization” by going into business with Putin and the Saudis to buy Twitter and systematically turn it into a Nazi indoctrination system. He is committed to the destruction of western liberal democracy because, as a psychopath, he cannot understand empathy, and finds the concepts of human emotion, altruism and charity to be “inefficient” — and contrary to his desires to cleanse the world of those he finds unclean and unworthy. These are quintessential National Socialist “ideals”. To obfuscate his genocidal plans, Musk introduced concepts like “effective altruism” and “longtermism” which are how oligarchs say “I’m going to steal everything you own and spend it on things that I want, regardless of what you think or who it hurts.” He obsessively promotes the concept of “suicidal empathy” to rationalize his own raging sadism. The failure of the press and Silicon Valley to recognize his homicidal worldview has led to civilizational errors like giving a racist foreigner the keys to our space program — after buying into his teenage sci-fi fantasies of Mars that he lifted from Wernher von Braun, Hitler’s premier rocket scientist. It’s all a hoax to recreate humanity in his own deviant image. Elon Musk is a serial killer who is sitting on the floor of the West Wing with his gaming laptop hacking the US Government to make America more white, patriarchal and violent. He is a global security emergency who will absolutely try to use a nuclear weapon if he has the opportunity and feels that his power is being threatened. Every legal effort must be made to stop him. Right now. Elon is not just a “Nazi”. As someone who has studied him for years, I promise you, if we let him, he will kill more people than the original did.
SpaceX is a hoax. Starlink is surveillance. Teslas are dangerous. X is a psyop. Elon Musk is a Nazi.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
This was my favorite part of the interview with Ellen Burstyn on the Criterion edition of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She was so fierce! You could tell she'd been setting people straight on method acting for decades.
The women of The Actor’s Studio:
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Here is my interview with Christopher Nolan: are you a bard for a civilization at dusk?
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Even many actors (like Anya Taylor-Joy & Kristen Stewart) don't know what method acting is! Here's Ellen Burstyn talking about method acting in a recent interview with Farran Smith Nehme for the Criterion release of Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: youtu.be/WpvMPdObkRg?t=8m53s
Anya Taylor-Joy about method acting: "If you'll notice, women don't method act because we have things to take care of, so we can't completely lose our minds. I see acting as a controlled psychosis in a way. You're pretending to be somebody else and having their thoughts 16 hours a day, and moving like them, in their house, in their clothes. It's like having a sister or a roommate check in up here [in my mind] for a little bit. And I'm just very grateful that the people in my life understand that and know that. Sometimes if it gets out of hand, they'll call me by the character name and they'll be like "we need to check in again". But I can't imagine keeping it up all the time because again, you're going to work with hundreds of people and it is your responsibility to be good to them and to help them do their best job. If you're too invested in being an asshole then that's not gonna be very fun." 📹 Via: Complex news
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Ellen Burstyn is one of our greatest living actors & has been co-president for more than thirty years of The Actors Studio, which has taught method acting to many great actors (men & women both) over the decades. youtu.be/_5QWu2SRo54
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
I work at a theater and this claim is dumb. What’s the financial incentive for Universal Pictures to buy out their own tickets? It’s not like they have an Angel Studios ‘pay it forward’ strategy. They would just be splitting a cut of their own cash with theaters for no reason.
BREAKING: The Odyssey is FAKING ticket sales by buying up theaters/seats (Fraud) to make the movie look like a success (already $400 million in the hole) moviegoers are reporting having to take terrible seats (because full) but when they show up the theaters are mostly empty.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Ah, so the site took measures to prevent people who haven’t seen the movie from review-bombing it because you people are insanely annoying and universally despised, and you’re mad they did that. Got it
Big discovery on Rotten Tomatoes for The Odyssey. The real audience score is sitting at 56%, not the fake 97% they’re showing with their “Verified Audience” bullshit. A r/KotakuInAction user figured out how to see the actual numbers behind RT’s manipulation. Exactly what we’ve been saying. Real people are dragging this butchered mess, but Rotten Tomatoes is bending over backwards to protect it. Classic.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Stephen Miller’s obsession with mirroring Joseph Goebbels is obvious, from the fact that Miller literally impersonates him, to the nearly identical language Miller uses. Replace “Jews” with “radical leftists” in Goebbels’ infamous article “Der Jude” and you get the same result.
ICYMI, the reason @StephenM’s language is so blatantly derived from Goebbels is that he has studied & imitated him to the point they are stone-cold doppelgängers.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
This speech by @StephenM is so deeply evil it’s hard to fathom it coming from a White House employee. This is pure Nazism. The in-group is “morally superior,” “ordered,” “beautiful” & “normal.” The out-group is “abnormal,” “scarred” & “deformed.” The in-group goes to church on Sunday (Miller is Jewish). The out-group is “violent,” “junkies,” & “predators” This is precisely how the Nazis spoke about their political opposition. It is a full-throated commitment to eugenics as policy. In reality, you just need to watch Miller to see everything he claims to be afraid of: hatred, jealousy & violence. He is the most “deformed” man in America. Finally, when Miller brings up the boogeyman of “Antifa,” it’s important to remember the original “Antifa” were antifascists in Weimar Germany who were the first people sent to Dachau. There is no left vs. right anymore. There is life vs. death. — “The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids who goes to church every Sunday and is filled with the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress and to inflict pain and suffering. It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who were assembled to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism. Why is that? Why? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an antifa protest. Why did the people that are violently demonstrating? Why is there not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them through the course of their life and their decisions has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways. The point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instincts to all people and cross all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junky and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living. This is so much deeper than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. And the violent leftists for these deep-seated reasons, going back to the earliest wisdom taught to us in the Bible about coveting. And I'm not talking about rich versus poor. I'm talking about a much deeper kind of coveting. Coveting people who are morally superior. Who are superior in the simple, truthful way they live their lives. People that they look at who are happy and ordered and peaceful and contributing to the communities. That burns an ember in them and that's how you end up with the horrors we've seen throughout history. Where good families are dragged that into the street and executed.”
So this is disturbing. Trump is “unleashing a global campaign” to crush Antifa or whatever “with the same seriousness and ferocity… as jihadi terrorists.” This is just an umbrella for arresting anyone they want. He’s moving towards suspending habeas corpus and mass arrests.
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Michael Avolio | michaelavolio.bsky.social retweeted
Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”
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