Mike Kienzler
@mikekienzler.bsky.social
Bucket list: Spitting on a certain grave. While I wait: ukulele, banjo & pickleball.
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Springfield native C.W. Post transformed America's breakfast. But he couldn't escape his own demons. New on SangamonLink: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/c-w-post-...
C.W. Post, creator of the breakfast cereal busineess
Springfield native Charles W. Post created the breakfast cereal industry and made a fortune. He was charismatic and innovative. He also suffered from lifelong illnesses, physical and mental, that b…
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March 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Springfield native C.W. Post transformed America's breakfast. But he couldn't escape his own demons. New on SangamonLink: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/c-w-post-...
Springfield native C.W. Post transformed America's breakfast. But he couldn't escape his own demons. New on SangamonLink: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/c-w-post-...
C.W. Post, creator of the breakfast cereal busineess
Springfield native Charles W. Post created the breakfast cereal industry and made a fortune. He was charismatic and innovative. He also suffered from lifelong illnesses, physical and mental, that b…
sangamoncountyhistory.org
March 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Springfield native C.W. Post transformed America's breakfast. But he couldn't escape his own demons. New on SangamonLink: sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/c-w-post-...
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I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.
"Any prolonged pause in funding could disrupt HIV treatment programs, leading to treatment interruptions, rise of drug-resistant HIV. That’s playing with fire, risking progress that we’ve made over decades to control the HIV epidemic”
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Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide (Gift Article)
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
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January 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm not saying that the Republican Party has entered a dark pact with Moloch, laying the lives and souls of untold millions on the altar of sacrifice and offering up their lifeblood in return for electoral victory, but I am saying that if they DID do that, their policy approach would be identical.
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The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.
“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
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“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
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Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.
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January 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids.
“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
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“I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.”
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Ppl don’t care if P45 is dumb, cognitively impaired, venal, all they want him for is the permission. Permission to be openly racist, openly N4z1s, openly misogynist, openly bigoted in every way. There are three ideologies that support P45: Don’t tax me, don’t regulate me, don’t judge me for bigotry.
January 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ppl don’t care if P45 is dumb, cognitively impaired, venal, all they want him for is the permission. Permission to be openly racist, openly N4z1s, openly misogynist, openly bigoted in every way. There are three ideologies that support P45: Don’t tax me, don’t regulate me, don’t judge me for bigotry.
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Hint to Dems: "they are going to kill you" counts as a kitchen table issue to voters
if any Democrats besides AOC want to weigh in about the misrule that's already been prevalent over this first week that'd be pretty cool
January 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hint to Dems: "they are going to kill you" counts as a kitchen table issue to voters
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I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
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Yeah these pardons are legal and constitutional...and also an abuse of power, and cause for legitimate impeachment and removal.
This is NOT a reason for exercising the pardon power & it's not a legitimate use of presidential authority even if Trump is legally entitled to do it. Rewarding people for their political support of your candidacy by pardoning their kids is a sign of political corruption.
January 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Yeah these pardons are legal and constitutional...and also an abuse of power, and cause for legitimate impeachment and removal.
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FWIW it’s an understandable reaction to think “but he’d be insane to do that on camera, there MUST be some other explanation” if you’re not attentive to how thoroughly pickled in adolescent online edgelord culture Musk’s brain is, & how ubiquitous “ironic” fascist symbolism is in those circles.
January 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
FWIW it’s an understandable reaction to think “but he’d be insane to do that on camera, there MUST be some other explanation” if you’re not attentive to how thoroughly pickled in adolescent online edgelord culture Musk’s brain is, & how ubiquitous “ironic” fascist symbolism is in those circles.
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This is perfect explanation
January 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is perfect explanation
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you won't often see a judge come closer to calling a DOJ attorney a Nazi than Judge Coughenour does here:
"There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
"There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
January 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
you won't often see a judge come closer to calling a DOJ attorney a Nazi than Judge Coughenour does here:
"There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
"There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?"
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Let’s be fair.
He’s a *mean, stupid and vindictive* drunk.
He’s a *mean, stupid and vindictive* drunk.
Ah, yes. Let's put a drunk in charge of the military. What could possibly go wrong?
🚨 Pete Hegseth's nomination to lead the Pentagon clears a key hurdle in the Senate
All 47 Democrats plus Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins vote NO.
All other Republicans votes YES.
McConnell voted YES, for anyone wondering.
He’s set to be confirmed tomorrow.
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All 47 Democrats plus Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins vote NO.
All other Republicans votes YES.
McConnell voted YES, for anyone wondering.
He’s set to be confirmed tomorrow.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Let’s be fair.
He’s a *mean, stupid and vindictive* drunk.
He’s a *mean, stupid and vindictive* drunk.
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Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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January 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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The ludicrous fucking popinjay would need to get worlds smarter just to be dumb as a potato.
Trump: "I don't think we should give California anything until they let water flow down."
January 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The ludicrous fucking popinjay would need to get worlds smarter just to be dumb as a potato.
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Elon Musk Appears To Give Nazi Salute
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January 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Elon Musk Appears To Give Nazi Salute
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A protest movement has erupted across Reddit, where dozens of subreddits banned X links to protest Elon Musk.
More than 50 Reddit communities ban X links to protest Musk
The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
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January 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A protest movement has erupted across Reddit, where dozens of subreddits banned X links to protest Elon Musk.