Jeff Esterholm
@jesterholm.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
Available now: The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point)
Second short story collection with Cornerstone Press set for October, 2026.
Available now: The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point)
Second short story collection with Cornerstone Press set for October, 2026.
Pinned
Sure, it took me a few years. But I got it done. (This previously appeared on some other social cotillion dance floor, but now it’s here. 👏🏻 )
Research accomplished this afternoon at the local historical society.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Research accomplished this afternoon at the local historical society.
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This isn’t just burying the lede.
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This isn’t just burying the lede.
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
80 candles for Neil Young. 🎂
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
80 candles for Neil Young. 🎂
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
“The eight senators who would likely be eligible to file claims are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) & Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).”
www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
House Republicans Hate A Major Provision In The Bill to Reopen The Government
"What they did is wrong," one House Republican said of the provision, adding it would never pass on its own.
www.huffpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The eight senators who would likely be eligible to file claims are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) & Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).”
www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...
Unusual and cruel, a felonious president and his sycophants galumph through our days. This nation is paying for its sins.
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Unusual and cruel, a felonious president and his sycophants galumph through our days. This nation is paying for its sins.
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Can’t make it up. The name of the Indianapolis suburb where a homeowner killed Maria Florinda Rios Perez on his front steps, as she stood next to her husband, ready for another day of cleaning other people’s houses?
Whitestown.
Whitestown.
House cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb
Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she came to the wrong address.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Can’t make it up. The name of the Indianapolis suburb where a homeowner killed Maria Florinda Rios Perez on his front steps, as she stood next to her husband, ready for another day of cleaning other people’s houses?
Whitestown.
Whitestown.
Holiday M&Ms that may not last the night. 😱
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Holiday M&Ms that may not last the night. 😱
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Tom Tiffany’s Terrible Health Insurance Plan
Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst
abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics
Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst
abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics
Tom Tiffany’s Terrible Health Insurance Plan: Less Coverage
Tom Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst
abetterwisconsin.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Tom Tiffany’s Terrible Health Insurance Plan
Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst
abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics
Tiffany has a lot of terrible ideas, but higher costs and less coverage for critical health care services are a couple of his worst
abetterwisconsin.org... #wipolitics
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Fox: Prices are up in the United States. For coffee, it's up almost 20%. Utility, up 11.7%. Electricity is up 5.1%. Vehicle repair, up 11.5%
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Fox: Prices are up in the United States. For coffee, it's up almost 20%. Utility, up 11.7%. Electricity is up 5.1%. Vehicle repair, up 11.5%
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Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Let a thousand sandwiches be airborne.
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Several teachers fled with a student and hid in the back of a pick-up.
They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'”
-- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'”
-- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
Daycare Teacher Pulled Out Of Preschool By Armed Federal Agents, 'Traumatizing' Families
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
blockclubchicago.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Several teachers fled with a student and hid in the back of a pick-up.
They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'”
-- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
They were 'terrified of being found. They weren’t sure what was going on. ICE, an attack on the school, they didn’t know.'”
-- Nathaniel Meadow, parent at the Rayito de Sol daycare center
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/05/d...
No election in my neck of the Upper Midwest, but am so damn delighted by the results elsewhere in our democracy. 🎇
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
No election in my neck of the Upper Midwest, but am so damn delighted by the results elsewhere in our democracy. 🎇
Nope, too many other delusions on Twitcher.
The only reason to be on Twitter these days is to read Bill Ackman’s delusional tweets.
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Nope, too many other delusions on Twitcher.
Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Live in London 2008)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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BREAKING: Abraham Van Helsing has just dragged former Governor Andrew Cuomo into limbo via a wormhole opened by a mystical amulet.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
BREAKING: Abraham Van Helsing has just dragged former Governor Andrew Cuomo into limbo via a wormhole opened by a mystical amulet.
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JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race, in a historic victory for progressives
Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
n.pr
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.
Clown car passenger.
Q: Trump posted that voting underway in California is 'rigged.' What evidence does he have?
Leavitt: The White House is working on an EO to strengthen our elections. It's absolutely true that there is fraud in California's elections
Q: What evidence do you have of that?
Leavitt: It's just a fact.
Leavitt: The White House is working on an EO to strengthen our elections. It's absolutely true that there is fraud in California's elections
Q: What evidence do you have of that?
Leavitt: It's just a fact.
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Clown car passenger.
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“I can still smell the onions and mustard, chief.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“I can still smell the onions and mustard, chief.”
Half.
So, Happy Thanksgiving from our national 🦃.
So, Happy Thanksgiving from our national 🦃.
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Half.
So, Happy Thanksgiving from our national 🦃.
So, Happy Thanksgiving from our national 🦃.