Shane Madej
@shanemadej.bsky.social
I make a show called Puppet History and co-host a show called Ghost Files on a channel called Watcher. You may also recognize me from my iconic turn in CBS’s SWAT.
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Cannot recommend this daily Olympics recap enough. Fine fine work.
OLYMPICS NEWSLETTER, DAY 4
IT IS CURLING TIME IN AMERICA
(Plus, the medals that keep breaking, a killer podium, figure skaters using 1990s music, figure skaters using AI-generated 1990s music AND MORE!)
IT IS CURLING TIME IN AMERICA
(Plus, the medals that keep breaking, a killer podium, figure skaters using 1990s music, figure skaters using AI-generated 1990s music AND MORE!)
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Cannot recommend this daily Olympics recap enough. Fine fine work.
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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thank you elliott! and the same to you!
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
thank you elliott! and the same to you!
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I just wanna lay down in the garden and look at the opening snowdrops and maybe let the crows eat me, simple goals ya know
February 5, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I just wanna lay down in the garden and look at the opening snowdrops and maybe let the crows eat me, simple goals ya know
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Sometimes it's pure poetry
A wind came.
It blew across the land.
The pile of leaves that Frog had raked for Toad blew everywhere.
The pile of leaves that Toad had raked for Frog blew everywhere.
It blew across the land.
The pile of leaves that Frog had raked for Toad blew everywhere.
The pile of leaves that Toad had raked for Frog blew everywhere.
January 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Sometimes it's pure poetry
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We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow.
Here it is:
Here it is:
January 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM
We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow.
Here it is:
Here it is:
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
January 24, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.
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There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
Ok I was curious so I checked this out and basically he saves up all his daily farts in a 3-gallon Ziploc, then pops the bag over his head and ties it off like Ben Kingsley at the end of The House of Sand and Fog and huffs his farts until he passes out and is revived by his robot maid. Inspiring!
January 22, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Ok I was curious so I checked this out and basically he saves up all his daily farts in a 3-gallon Ziploc, then pops the bag over his head and ties it off like Ben Kingsley at the end of The House of Sand and Fog and huffs his farts until he passes out and is revived by his robot maid. Inspiring!
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If America makes it through this, anyone who murmurs platitudes about "binding up the nation's wounds" must be drummed out of public life. They tried that after the first phase of the civil war, and it just led to where they are now. The cancer must be excised and destroyed. Nothing else will work.
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:23 PM
If America makes it through this, anyone who murmurs platitudes about "binding up the nation's wounds" must be drummed out of public life. They tried that after the first phase of the civil war, and it just led to where they are now. The cancer must be excised and destroyed. Nothing else will work.
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If you show me proof you donated to this or any other food pantry/worthy cause in Minneapolis, GUESS WHAT?! Ima draw you a lil freakum!!! a real weird one!! i am working now so they may arrive slower but DAGNABBIT they will ARRIVE
January 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
If you show me proof you donated to this or any other food pantry/worthy cause in Minneapolis, GUESS WHAT?! Ima draw you a lil freakum!!! a real weird one!! i am working now so they may arrive slower but DAGNABBIT they will ARRIVE
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NEWS ANCHOR: we're getting word that two dozen ICE agents are in hospital after they started kissing a beautiful woman in a skimpy outfit with platinum blond hair only for her to tragically explode because she was actually a big stack of TNT.
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on "acts of violence" against ICE agents in Minnesota: "Pouring water on the ground so that it would freeze the ground in front of our federal law enforcement vehicles so that they would potentially slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
January 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM
NEWS ANCHOR: we're getting word that two dozen ICE agents are in hospital after they started kissing a beautiful woman in a skimpy outfit with platinum blond hair only for her to tragically explode because she was actually a big stack of TNT.
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
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"i asked chatgpt" well I asked amy klobuchar and she threw a stapler at my head
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 AM
"i asked chatgpt" well I asked amy klobuchar and she threw a stapler at my head
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
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My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
January 9, 2026 at 3:44 PM
My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet
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im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
January 8, 2026 at 2:53 AM
im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
Avatar 3 a mixed bag but provided us with the incredibly potent quote from Payakan that I will employ any time I lose an argument in 2026:
"You will never hear my Song again."
"You will never hear my Song again."
January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Avatar 3 a mixed bag but provided us with the incredibly potent quote from Payakan that I will employ any time I lose an argument in 2026:
"You will never hear my Song again."
"You will never hear my Song again."
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When you’ve taken down the Xmas decorations
December 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you’ve taken down the Xmas decorations