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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org
25 y/o North Carolinian. Omnium rerum principia parva sunt. Lefty Dem in Red County. NC Democratic Party. Progressive Politics. reblogging, likes, follows =/= endorsement. Randolph County, NC. #ncpol #uspol
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@kakape@mas.to (2026-05-19 23:39:15)
The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-19 06:19:39)
I cannot describe in words what I feel at the moment. Hate and Islamaphobia should have no place in this country. I pray for the victims and Families of the victims of the tragic shooting in San Diego.
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social (2026-05-18 22:54:49)
Today in Labor History May 18, 1979: An Oklahoma jury ruled in favor of the estate of atomic worker Karen Silkwood. Kerr-McGee Nuclear Company was ordered to pay $505,000 in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages for negligence leading to Silkwood’s plutonium contamination. On appeal, the court reduced the settlement to a pitiful $5,000, the estimated value of her property losses. In 1984, the Supreme Court restored the original verdict, but Kerr-McGee again threatened to appeal. Ultimately, Silkwood’s family settled out of court for $1.38 million and the company never had to admit any wrongdoing.
Silkwood first started working at Kerr-McGee in 1972. She joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union and participated in a strike. After the strike, her comrades elected her to the union’s bargaining committee. She was the first woman to attain that status at Kerr-McGee. In this role, one of her duties was to investigate health and safety issues. Not surprisingly, she discovered numerous violations, including exposure of workers to radioactive contamination. The union accused Kerr-McGee of falsifying inspection records, manufacturing faulty fuel rods and other safety violations. After testifying to the Atomic Energy Commission, Silkwood discovered that her own body and home were contaminated with radiation. Her body contained 400 times the legal limit for plutonium contamination and she was expelling contaminated air from her lungs. Her house was so contaminated they had to destroy much of her personal property.
Later, she decided to go public with documentation proving the company’s negligence. She left a meeting with union officials in order to meet a New York Times journalist. She brought a binder and packet of documents supporting her allegations with her. However, she never made it, dying in a suspicious car crash. The documents were never found. Some journalists believe she was rammed from behind by another vehicle. Investigators noted damage to th
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social (2026-05-15 09:53:16)
Cr: MeidasTouch
Psychotic...
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-18 02:01:15)
Black lives always matter. It's not conditional dependant on loyalty or being 'One of the good ones.' They always matter. If you think that's "woke" or that I'm wrong when I say this, then you really should seek therapy. #woke #democracy >
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-17 19:10:04)
New leaked "military operation" from the Trump admin in the Trópico de Cochabamba region of Bolivia. The operation, "Relámpago Tambaquí" will reault in the kidnapping of Evo Morales and the Massacre of native tribespeople in the area.
Disgusting.
#uspol #bolivia #morales #cochabamba #NoWar
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@tafnn@universeodon.com (2026-05-16 16:59:36)
Really, Kash? 😡
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@tafnn@universeodon.com (2026-05-16 17:13:00)
The RIGHTS OF MEN Do NOT CHANGE.
THE RIGHTS OF Women DO.
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-16 05:24:06)
Going through my phone I found an Old screenshot of a Trump advert on youtube. Remember when he pitched himself as the "Lower your taxes" president?
#Trump #Dems #PoliticalHumor
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-16 02:01:26)
I'm glad Hawaii stood up and stopped citizens united. I hope one day we can stop the greed of corporations bribing their way into legislation in North Carolina as well. I hope and pray that day comes soon.
the Citizens United decision enabled the bribery and corruption we see in politics today.
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-14 13:25:59)
CLARKSVILLE — UPDATE — racist streamer Chud the Builder charged with “criminal attempt: murder, employing a firearm during dangerous felony, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon”
Sheriff’s office post: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ViF...
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@AaronDavid@beige.party (2026-05-14 04:18:43)
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-14 04:17:19)
Fact-check: True 😕
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@ProgressivePower@newsie.social (2026-05-13 19:06:38)
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-13 17:30:30)
What kind of country are we where our president can't keep his fingers off the keyboard. Read a book Mr. President. Watch a film. Keep yourself offline for a day I promise it feels better than schizoposting.
#ReTruth
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@meidastouch@threads.net (2026-05-13 06:41:54)
Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions
Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times. While the rich and powerful remain protected by redactions, my name was exposed to the world. Now reporters from across the world contact me—I cannot live without looking over my shoulder.
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@markwyner@mas.to (2025-03-10 16:14:25)
GitLab CFO, Brian Robins, says they are “aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less. What the Department of Government Efficiency is trying to do is what GitLab does.”
https://archive.is/okSlz
You either support fascism or you don’t. It’s binary. There’s no gray area or “aligning.”
Considering GitLab? Don’t.
Use @Codeberg instead.
(Hat tip @aphyr)
#Code #Dev #Development #Codeberg #GitLab #Fascism #GIT
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-13 03:54:04)
TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.”
And there you have it, folks
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-13 03:59:59)
If you think it's "woke" or "communist" to believe all human beings deserve a life free of discrimination for traits that they were born with, you are the problem.
Hatred is intolerable and we must hold fascists accountable. No exceptions.
#Woke
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-13 00:11:12)
@rand__althor@kind.social Chair of it
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-12 19:24:31)
I think the sheer amount of alt text I added to the image prevented it from being loaded on certain masto clients.
Here it is without alt so you can at least see it.
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-12 19:04:49)
In case you didn't already know: Congress Woman Viginia Foxx (who represents NC's fifth congressional district) is an insane conspiracy theorist. Here is her letter to a fourth grader who wrote to her about Electric Vehicles where she simultaneously calls both the child and his teacher "propagandized". Villainous behavior.
#NCPol #NCHouse #VirginiaFoxx #Foxx #Midterms #CarolinaPolitics
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@angrystaffer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-11 06:08:19)
Did you know every MAGA influencer is in a group chat with people close to the administration where they’re regularly given scripts?
They also have a website to sign up for influence campaigns that they never disclose.
They’re making bank off of lying to you.
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@firestorm@kolektiva.social (2026-05-11 01:14:57)
Our collective endorses the "Sunshine Over Surveillance" open letter published by Sunshine Labs, which urges Asheville City Council to vote NO on a $1.14M DOJ grant to expand surveillance through the creation of a "real time intelligence center," and the authorization of a separate 7.5-year contract with Axon.
In particular, we agree with the following major objections articulated by the authors:
"Public participation and procurement have been bypassed. Council has heard from only APD and the vendors. The 7.5-year Axon contract has had no committee review and is being authorized through Sourcewell—a cooperative-purchasing exemption that bypasses competitive bidding.
Residents need more information. The proposed Axon contract and the existing Flock contract are both unpublished. APD has refused a public records request for Flock audit logs. One agency on APD's Flock data-sharing list is Florida Fish & Wildlife—reported by @404mediaco to be running thousands of Flock searches on behalf of ICE.
Federal money is not free money. The current administration has explicitly conditioned federal funding on local ICE cooperation and pursued legal action against jurisdictions that limit it. The grant resolution itself acknowledges that compliance terms will be set "at the Federal level"—and reviewed only AFTER acceptance. Separately, Axon held approximately $31.9 million in ICE contracts in 2025.
Civilian oversight has been dismantled. Asheville's Citizens Police Advisory Committee was paused in 2020 and dismantled in 2024. APD points to self-audits—but in San Francisco, SFPD shared Flock data with ICE and out-of-state agencies 1.6 million times in violation of state law, undetected through two consecutive quarterly audits."
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As an abolitionist organization, Firestorm believes that police reform is unrealistic and opposes any investment in policing. Sunshine Labs demonstrates that even non-abolitionists should reject the undemocratic and opaque proposals under conside
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to (2026-05-10 19:14:09)
I had heard about the CloudFlare job cuts, what I had not realized is that after announcing them the company lost over 23% of its value in one sitting. I guess the trick of announcing job cuts to pump up your stock doesn't work anymore.
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org (2026-05-10 21:10:15)
Nerbo from the Andromedan Galaxy has zero mentions in the Files.
Trump is mentioned every other page.
We're releasing the wrong files.
#AlienFiles #UFOGOV
Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@ProgressivePower@newsie.social (2026-05-10 21:05:12)
When?
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-10 13:47:54)
🔥 @redstateupdate.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (MURFREESBORO): “The Supreme Court said there’s no racism anymore — then every state immediately started figuring out the most racist way to keep Black people from voting… things were real racist and bad, then Trump somehow made them worse.”
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@AIFree@mstdn.social (2026-05-05 07:20:00)
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Michael Kratzenberg 📢@kratzen@berg.mobilecourant.org boosted:
@charlesgaba.com@bsky.brid.gy (2026-05-10 03:05:08)
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