goingonawalk
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One of those three people is Bernie and you don’t have to like or agree with him but this is something he is excellent at that and it should be copied by dems
The thing about the Democratic Party is it has about 9000 people who want to message about message and about 3 who actually want to do any of the messaging themselves
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
One of those three people is Bernie and you don’t have to like or agree with him but this is something he is excellent at that and it should be copied by dems
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I hope this is how at least one person is just now finding out for the first time lol "Mark Epstein" oh I didn't know he had a brother "asked Jeffery Epstein" ugh hate that guy "to ask Steve Bannon" wait what "if Putin" lmao what "has the photos of Trump" lol piss tape amirite "blowing Bubba" omg
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I hope this is how at least one person is just now finding out for the first time lol "Mark Epstein" oh I didn't know he had a brother "asked Jeffery Epstein" ugh hate that guy "to ask Steve Bannon" wait what "if Putin" lmao what "has the photos of Trump" lol piss tape amirite "blowing Bubba" omg
Excited for the inevitable ‘I went to Bluesky and was intentionally obnoxious and they didn’t like it can you believe it?!’ denouement of this little play
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Excited for the inevitable ‘I went to Bluesky and was intentionally obnoxious and they didn’t like it can you believe it?!’ denouement of this little play
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50 years ago today, #OTD in Weather History, on November 10, 1975, the Great Lake ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.
So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
50 years ago today, #OTD in Weather History, on November 10, 1975, the Great Lake ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.
So it is time for the annual reupping of my thread on her loss.
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Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
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LBJ was the last president this concerned with "ball room".
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
LBJ was the last president this concerned with "ball room".
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downvotes are a mild way to note when something sucks and without them we get pointless, endless pile ons. downvotes are one of the things that make reddit good.
May 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
downvotes are a mild way to note when something sucks and without them we get pointless, endless pile ons. downvotes are one of the things that make reddit good.
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the absolute funniest demographic chart maintained by the City of Minneapolis is its map of divorced dudes (they're all in Downtown West)
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the absolute funniest demographic chart maintained by the City of Minneapolis is its map of divorced dudes (they're all in Downtown West)
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Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
Misanthropic Thoughts
What follows is not quite something I believe, nor even something I fear. It is something I fear I believe, my worst tendencies as a think...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...
There’s something about how left leaning people who grow up in stable healthy families are particularly susceptible to this
coming off of an article about french towns tilting less toward fascism if the tour de france comes through, one thing reads especially clear from this: in all human interaction, people want to feel important. sometimes that stems the tide of monsters. other times, monsters use that to play you.
Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.
October 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There’s something about how left leaning people who grow up in stable healthy families are particularly susceptible to this
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I don't even know how to begin to explain this to people outside the US. Here goes
-US seniors can access Medicare, which covers a lot, but leaves you with out-of-pocket expenses
-Medicare advantage plans have higher premiums, claim better coverage, etc, but 1/4
www.startribune.com/fairview-acc...
-US seniors can access Medicare, which covers a lot, but leaves you with out-of-pocket expenses
-Medicare advantage plans have higher premiums, claim better coverage, etc, but 1/4
www.startribune.com/fairview-acc...
Fairview access at risk for 33,000 patients in UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage
The contract dispute adds to uncertainty in a market where seniors already face disruption
www.startribune.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I don't even know how to begin to explain this to people outside the US. Here goes
-US seniors can access Medicare, which covers a lot, but leaves you with out-of-pocket expenses
-Medicare advantage plans have higher premiums, claim better coverage, etc, but 1/4
www.startribune.com/fairview-acc...
-US seniors can access Medicare, which covers a lot, but leaves you with out-of-pocket expenses
-Medicare advantage plans have higher premiums, claim better coverage, etc, but 1/4
www.startribune.com/fairview-acc...
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At my old workplace there was once a chicken-wing eating contest and one contestant was going so slowly that a coworker shouted out scornfully, “He’s just eating lunch.”
June 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
At my old workplace there was once a chicken-wing eating contest and one contestant was going so slowly that a coworker shouted out scornfully, “He’s just eating lunch.”
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"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
The Partisans Are Wrong: Holding No Sincere Beliefs Is the Way to Win
“Moving to the center would enable Democrats to confront [Trump] more aggressively and effectively because voters would see them as credible.” — Fr...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."
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are people seriously unable to rotate "the ACA is exponentially better than the nightmare we had before it" and "the ACA fell far short of what should be considered an adequate healthcare system for a country with this level of wealth" simultaneously?
what the hell are we doing here, y'all
what the hell are we doing here, y'all
October 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
are people seriously unable to rotate "the ACA is exponentially better than the nightmare we had before it" and "the ACA fell far short of what should be considered an adequate healthcare system for a country with this level of wealth" simultaneously?
what the hell are we doing here, y'all
what the hell are we doing here, y'all
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(aborted manager in heaven) I would have loved to touch base with you…
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(aborted manager in heaven) I would have loved to touch base with you…
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Just found my new favorite startup
May 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just found my new favorite startup
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May 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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not now bby mommy’s being a fashion expert online
May 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
not now bby mommy’s being a fashion expert online
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH