Shane Hotakainen
@coldbringer.bsky.social
Nerdy lefty elder punk and vegan from Minneapolis. I’m also a tabletop gamer especially RPGs. Currently GMing Dragonbane and soon Daggerheart. Playing Perils and Princesses
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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My kids have measles, there are no toys on the shelves, and I can't afford a steak. But at least there's no sign language interpreter at White House press briefings now.
December 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
My kids have measles, there are no toys on the shelves, and I can't afford a steak. But at least there's no sign language interpreter at White House press briefings now.
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Breaking news: Denmark has officially labeled the United States a national security risk.
Let that sink in. A longtime NATO ally — one of our closest partners — now sees America as a source of instability.
This is where we are. I don’t even recognize this country anymore.
Let that sink in. A longtime NATO ally — one of our closest partners — now sees America as a source of instability.
This is where we are. I don’t even recognize this country anymore.
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Breaking news: Denmark has officially labeled the United States a national security risk.
Let that sink in. A longtime NATO ally — one of our closest partners — now sees America as a source of instability.
This is where we are. I don’t even recognize this country anymore.
Let that sink in. A longtime NATO ally — one of our closest partners — now sees America as a source of instability.
This is where we are. I don’t even recognize this country anymore.
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The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social ok I listened to the new episode. I had no idea how bonkers The Farm was I feel bad for buying their cookbook in the 90s.
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social ok I listened to the new episode. I had no idea how bonkers The Farm was I feel bad for buying their cookbook in the 90s.
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Is this how the Department of “War” works now?
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Is this how the Department of “War” works now?
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Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
My audiobook reread of #LordOfTheRings with #TheReturnOfTheKing I can’t explain how much more I’m getting out of this read compared to reading the book on paper. Yay #dyslexia - the poetry and beauty of the language truck comes through.
#LotR #Tolkien #audiobooks
#LotR #Tolkien #audiobooks
December 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My audiobook reread of #LordOfTheRings with #TheReturnOfTheKing I can’t explain how much more I’m getting out of this read compared to reading the book on paper. Yay #dyslexia - the poetry and beauty of the language truck comes through.
#LotR #Tolkien #audiobooks
#LotR #Tolkien #audiobooks
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It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
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So proud of New Yorkers who trapped hundreds of ICE goons in a federal garage and stopped a big roundup of Canal Street vendors.
(For those who don’t know, Canal Street in Chinatown is known for mainly African vendors of knock off swank goods. It’s where ladies from Long Island buy their “Prãda.”)
(For those who don’t know, Canal Street in Chinatown is known for mainly African vendors of knock off swank goods. It’s where ladies from Long Island buy their “Prãda.”)
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So proud of New Yorkers who trapped hundreds of ICE goons in a federal garage and stopped a big roundup of Canal Street vendors.
(For those who don’t know, Canal Street in Chinatown is known for mainly African vendors of knock off swank goods. It’s where ladies from Long Island buy their “Prãda.”)
(For those who don’t know, Canal Street in Chinatown is known for mainly African vendors of knock off swank goods. It’s where ladies from Long Island buy their “Prãda.”)
Why does late November always make me want to reread the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit? I suspect Rankin and Bass in my childhood and Peter Jackson in the 00s have a lot to do with it!
#JRRTolkien #LotR #books
#JRRTolkien #LotR #books
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Why does late November always make me want to reread the Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit? I suspect Rankin and Bass in my childhood and Peter Jackson in the 00s have a lot to do with it!
#JRRTolkien #LotR #books
#JRRTolkien #LotR #books
Ok doing another #LotR reread. I will die on the hill that Tom Bombadil should have been left out of Fellowship. Jackson had the right idea!
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Ok doing another #LotR reread. I will die on the hill that Tom Bombadil should have been left out of Fellowship. Jackson had the right idea!
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I.C.E. is a government-run domestic terror organization.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I.C.E. is a government-run domestic terror organization.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
Here they are, kidnapping a father while his children plead for his life.
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Megyn Kelly is not just problematic in her defense of Trump and Epstein…she is emblematic of the decline in humanity infesting the Republican Party. The double standard for the definition of a child. The excuses…the rot at the center of the GOP.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy
Megyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Megyn Kelly is not just problematic in her defense of Trump and Epstein…she is emblematic of the decline in humanity infesting the Republican Party. The double standard for the definition of a child. The excuses…the rot at the center of the GOP.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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See more Northern lights here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
In vivid red and green, stunning aurora display sweeps across Minnesota skies
Northern lights lovers didn’t have to go far to see them ripple across the sky Tuesday evening. A show that included vivid red auroras visible to the eye, not just the camera — a relatively rare sight...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
See more Northern lights here: www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Someone really needs to run with this analogy…
Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Someone really needs to run with this analogy…
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Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
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In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.
Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.
Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.
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🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump & USDA going to Supreme Court to try and STOP SNAP Benefits from being distributed. This is truly the MOST evil thing I have ever witnessed by a sitting Administration. Absolutely DESPICABLE!
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Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump & USDA going to Supreme Court to try and STOP SNAP Benefits from being distributed. This is truly the MOST evil thing I have ever witnessed by a sitting Administration. Absolutely DESPICABLE!
www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
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So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.
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"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.