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esqueer.net
Imagine Lauren Boebert in the situation room surrounded by Trump, Bondi, Todd Blanche and others trying to get her to vote against the Epstein files release and she suddenly realizes she's neck deep in a pedophile cabal cover up.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
jcech.bsky.social
@cjzero.bsky.social did you get the CU quarter back getting stacked by his hair with about 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter?
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president trump sir, antifa says you cant bring the big beef meximelt back to taco bell on a full time basis, theyre saying trump doesnt have "the juice"
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
jcech.bsky.social
I'm gonna need more tortillas.
numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 25d
I thought I told you to fuck off.
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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jmritchey.bsky.social
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Oct 16
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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3r1ng.bsky.social
It’s good that we are all learning that Bad Bunny is a US citizen but we should also talk about voting rights of Puerto Rican US citizens.
October 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
jcech.bsky.social
Manufactured outrage has introduced me to Bob Vylan and Kneecap so far this year, but I was already aware of GWAR. Sorry pearl clutchers.
zenofdesign.com Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · Sep 22
I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.
September 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
jcech.bsky.social
@cjzero.bsky.social Can I get a gif of the Notre Dame 4th down conversion with roughly 3:00 left?
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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motherjones.com
The phrase “transgender ideology” has “increasingly become a shorthand for everything that threatens the MAGA-preferred vision of the nation, of the people, of the family,” says Joanna Wuest, professor at Stony Brook University.

Here is a timeline of the term's use after the death of Charlie Kirk.
It's never too soon for the right to blame trans people
A timeline of false "gender ideology" claims about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
www.motherjones.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
in this instance, yes, it confirms a lot of people's priors, especially On Here. But it's James O'Keefe ffs. He's incapable of reporting information accurately, regardless of the political valence
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
jcech.bsky.social
I do not trust anything produced by James O'Keefe.
I do not trust anything produced by James O'Keefe.
I do not trust anything produced by James O'Keefe.
I do not trust anything produced by James O'Keefe.
I do not trust anything produced by James O'Keefe.
I do not trust anything produced by James O'
September 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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wesburdine.bsky.social
Here's the Letter to the Editor I was worked up enough to write about Karen Tolkkinen's inane article.
One of the most defining features of contemporary journalism is its condescension: the noble desire to explain to its reader–ignorant and unworldly–the complex viewpoints of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than In the Star Tribune’s employment of Karen Tolkkinen to help enlighten sheltered and parochial urban dwellers of the views of “Greater Minnesota.” Tolkkinen’s most recent “Shooting sounds different in rural Minnesota than in the city,” is a perfect encapsulation of this style of writing. Tolkkinen, you see, believes that we city folk just don’t understand real America. Never mind that many of us grew up in such places, never mind that a vast majority of us are quite familiar with rural America. I’m not Minnesotan born, but I was a Boy Scout, so I grew up shooting guns. My Uncle Earl used to sit on his porch in Shreveport, Louisiana with his pistol and shoot the heads off turtles that would poke out of the lake to eat his garden. I’ve been around guns. It sounds the same in rural Louisiana as it does in Midway, where I live. Most of the people I interact with on a daily basis came from rural places or have spent a good portion of their lives there. We do not need Tolkkinen to enlighten us, especially since it is always just so she can reinforce a Republican talking point. She does not have any interest except in the most crass and basic of politics, dressed up in carharts and trucker hat cosplay. In her article, she tells us how gunfire culture means something different in rural Minnesota. In “the big cities,” we’re to understand that guns mean gang-banging and danger lurking around every corner. And in Outstate Minnesota, guns mean fathers and sons bonding. It’s this sort of kitsch propaganda that doesn’t serve the reader at all, because it presents false cliches as insight. In 2021, 80% of suicides by gun happened in Outstate Minnesota and 67% of all gun deaths that occured in Minnesota occurred from someone taking their own life (from Protect Minnesota’s 2022 report). The sound of gunfire sounds different in Outstate Minnesota because writers like Tolkkinen and the Star Tribune editors are not concerned with shining a light on issues in Minnesota, they’re concerned with partisan political fights and the endless drivel of culture wars. If you were interested in the truth, you would think about the ways in which gun shots in Outstate Minnesota carry just as much violence and threat as they do in Saint Paul or Minneapolis. Even the political fight that Tolkkinen wants to have is the laughable (and I mean laughable) contention that to ban the types of weapons used in mass shootings would “open the door” to more violence such as driving vehicles into crowds. She even invokes the Oklahoma City Bombing to argue against gun control. It’s guns. It has been and always will be the unfettered gun-lust of people so obsessed with violence that the rest of us have to suffer. Do better.
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov please hop right on this bandwagon!
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 29
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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dburghart.bsky.social
New from IREHR:

Minnesota Mass Shooter Steeped in Far-Right Lore, White Nationalist Murderers

irehr.org/2025/08/27/m...
Minnesota Mass Shooter Steeped in Far-Right Lore, White Nationalist Murderers
irehr.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
jcech.bsky.social
letsgomathias.bsky.social Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · Aug 27
the shooter appears to be part of this horrifying, gamified world of people who worship mass shooters. his gun was scrawled over in a similar style to the Christchurch shooter's.

Terrorgram was a hub for a lot of this, which I wrote about here a few years ago www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas...
The Sacramento Dildo Saleswoman Behind A Neo-Nazi Network Advocating For Mass Shootings
Her propaganda canonized white supremacist murderers as "saints." She may have helped inspire a shooting at a gay bar. Now she's been unmasked.
www.huffpost.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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apocalypticanow.bsky.social
The Years of Lead (Poisoning)
August 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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nationalsecuritylaw.org
Diddler on the Roof
August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
jcech.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Why is the accused Minnesota shooter charged with second-degree murder rather than first-degree murder in the complaint unsealed tonight?

Minnesota law requires first-degree murder to be charged by a grand jury. Presumably the DA can file an amended complaint with the more serious charge later.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 16
The Star Tribune reports that the criminal complaint against the accused shooter has now been unsealed. He's been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder.
Live: Assassination suspect apprehended in Sibley County and charged, officials say
Officials planned to hold a press conference at 10:30 p.m.
www.startribune.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
jcech.bsky.social
I was really hoping for more from the parade.
a man in a red and white uniform is being lifted in the air by other men
Alt: Teams of seven acrobats each perform on motorcycles during an India Day Parade
media.tenor.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social
>playing the theme from Band of Brothers for the 82nd Airborne
June 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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rickperlstein.bsky.social
1. Let's put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) www.wired.com/story/shooti...
Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry
The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”
www.wired.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
jcech.bsky.social
NFL Hall of Famer and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice (at the time) Alan Page asked me where something was in a grocery store.
bolt451.bsky.social "Timeless" Toni Soprano @bolt451.bsky.social · Jun 13
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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smcgee.bsky.social
Pretty easy for Minneapolitans to believe
thomasha.bsky.social Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · Jun 9
Cannot express how big the disconnect is between what Angelenos are seeing/saying to each other right now and what delusional rabid conservatives are barking online. I know it's par for the course, but this is another level.
June 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM