David Petroff
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David Petroff
@davidpetroff.bsky.social
Husband, dad, Sports Customer Onboarding Specialist for Genius Sports, former Edgewood College sports guy. Keeper of tons of useless knowledge. Good at travel and trivia. Bad at golf.
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Of all the things that have never happened, white people apologizing for being white has never happened the most.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Do less social media and your reading skyrockets. I went for 3-4 books a year to 15-20 just by intentionally not spending so much time scrolling.
I am both super excited about exploring these titles, and dumbfounded that there is time enough to thoughtfully read so many books, in one year, that you can cull a list of twenty great ones. I struggle to read 3 or 4 in a year! I need to reevaluate my life choices!
December 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Somewhere out there, someone has the unredacted files, and they need to do the right thing.
December 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Leave him the f*** alone. There’s nothing you could do with Calvin & Hobbes but ruin it.
December 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The only sadness will be that it didn’t happen much sooner.
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
They want a war so they can enforce wartime powers over immigration. That’s the ball game.
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This has to be an SNL sketch of a game show where Mike Johnson keeps buzzing in to say "I don't the answer"
Mike Johnson: "I have not had an opportunity to review any of that yet"
December 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
How many GOP congresspeople will claim they haven't seen his comments today? All of them?
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@sickoscommittee.org Just 52 college football games remaining this season.

11 CFP games
3 FCS tournament games
D-II national championship
3 D-III tournament games
34 Other Bowl games
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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13 years ago today.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Strong Michael Dukakis in a tank helmet energy.
December 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I am allowed to piece together numbers from previous losing #Powerball tickets, right? I can do that.
December 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
He willingly jumped into their car, and then was afraid he was being abducted?
The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa. The pair drove to...
www.mprnews.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What possible justification could there be for this?
Q: What happens to the oil on the tanker you seized?

TRUMP: Well we keep it I guess
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Anyone who has cared for an aging parent knows, that the person is usually the last to know when they are slowing up and losing their faculties.

Most others have loved ones to care for them. Not so for this one.
“I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now!”
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am so happy my kids grew up before the Elf on a Shelf era began.
December 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Code for “I’m going to extort payment from them”
Q: Should Netflix be allowed to buy Warner Brothers?

TRUMP: That's a question. They have a very big market share. I'll be involved in that decision
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The Big Bad Wolf promised he would not try to eat any little pigs.
In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The #WorldCup draw is going to get real fast when all these delegates realize Kristi Noem and ICE is waiting outside for all the African and Latin American people to exit.
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Billable hours remains undefeated.
Blown the fuck out
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM