Publisher- Ruffian Books. Journalist 40+ yrs. Founder of Alternative Press/AP Music Awards. Professor/Music & Entertainment. Former blue check.

Cleveland, OH
Joined April 2008
MikeShea_96 retweeted
Sad to see Live Nation gutting these important publications that supported our scenes for the last few decades
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MikeShea_96 retweeted
Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.
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"We're illegally funneling public $$ into private schools that donate to us but DON'T SUE US OR WE'LL TAKE EVEN MORE MONEY" nbc4i.com/news/politics/bill… Ohio's Republican government just openly using extortion now – at Ohio, USA
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Thank you Ben Affleck for saying it straight - that the AI "is going to wipe everything out" narrative is actually part of the hype-story pushed by AI companies who are desperate to prove the worth of their excessive valuations in the market.
Ben Affleck explains how he believes AI will never replace actors or screenwriting “We have the sense there’s this existential dread that it’s gonna wipe everything out! But that runs counter to what history shows… I think a lot of that rhetoric comes from people trying to justify valuations”
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Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now. I’ve been hearing some interesting chatter on the floor. Disclosure deadline is May 15th. We’re about to learn a few things. It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress.
NASDAQ call volume spiked minutes before the 90 day tariff pause was announced. Not a good look at all.
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Here are the updated estimates for how much Americans will pay for Trump’s tariffs. The average household will pay $3-$3.5K, and the poorest Americans will lose 4% of their income.
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Ohio House just passed S.B.1 —forbids colleges from teaching historic events like slavery or Holocaust definitely did happen. Mandates that students "reach their own conclusions about all controversial events." "They say Nazis should be taught from 'both sides' which is insane and very fascist," said one of the college students protesting the bill. The bill also prohibits universities from taking positions on a "controversial belief or policy." Defined as climate policies, politics, foreign policy, DEI programs, immigration policy, marriage, abortion, or "any belief or policy that is the subject of political controversy." Students marching the 3 miles from Ohio State University to the State Capital in protest said, "This would make us think long and hard before committing to stay in Ohio." #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited
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The roar sent chills down my neck and spine... Some people say tornadoes sound like freight trains, but this is much more menacing than that. xitter.cf/NickKrasz_Wx/status/19…
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A brave female reporter smashed Trump's fat face with a microphone.
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ATLANTIC: “Part of the risk (of Trump letting Musk make 🇺🇸 air traffic control dependent on Starlink for billions of dollars) is Musk could simply choose to switch it off.” We have reached Bond villain territory. theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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OK, Europe. Here is your first test. You should not only ban Tesla from Europe, you should turn his factories into weapons production for your self-defense. If you fail, you will be Western Russia within 5 years.
As I was saying, maybe a bit more forcefully. Europe, you are on your own. Do the following, right now: 1. Kick America out of NATO and bring Ukraine in. 2. Build an Army of Europe. Build nukes. 3. Ban Musk and all his products, especially this website. We are the Axis now.
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Read/copy/repost if you can From an anonymous OPM employee on Reddit. submitted 3 hours ago by Throwaway918284: "I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM. I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service. Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen. The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest “yes man” you'll ever meet. He never says no. It’s clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck. Under his name, they’ve sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn’t even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security. Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency. Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various “test” message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road. The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed. Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it’s looking pretty grim."
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Americans. If you have/had an Irish grandparent, contact the Embassy of Ireland in Washington DC. You are eligible for an Irish/EU passport. Just in case you want to get out of Dodge. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
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On top of 25% tariffs, Trump says he plans to abolish the income tax and replace it with a national consumption tax of 23%. This will be a massive tax hike on about 50% of the poorest filers.
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MikeShea_96 retweeted
Wow -- Rep. Brad Sherman tells Trump, "I would never turn to somebody from Louisiana and say, 'you keep living on your cousins's coach until Louisiana agrees with me on a woman's right to choose.'"
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MikeShea_96 retweeted
file under: two can play that game mexico president sheinbaum gets out an old map to show her own “territorial claims” on the united states.
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This is what’s left of the Pacific Palisades. The mall survived. Most everything else is gone. Homes, apartment complexes… businesses.
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More evidence of what's coming. The giant tax prep companies, like H&R Block and TurboTax, hate that consumers can file their taxes directly so they are getting ready for Trump to eliminate Direct File so these corporations can charge you for a service you don't need.
NEW: Reps. Adrian Smith and Chuck Edwards wrote Trump a letter today urging him to terminate the IRS’s new free tax filing service, otherwise known as Direct File, on “day one” through an executive order. It’s co-signed by 27 House Republicans. adriansmith.house.gov/sites/…
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