Interested Milwaukee Citizen
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A semi-anonymous account for someone who wants to be active in Milwaukee community he calls home | he/him
It’s interesting to me how sports betting being based on human skill and not pure chance could actually be worse, since it results in losers feeling like their loss was actually preventable (instead of being pure luck and chance)
sports betting is bad for society. it's not really a close call.
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
It’s interesting to me how sports betting being based on human skill and not pure chance could actually be worse, since it results in losers feeling like their loss was actually preventable (instead of being pure luck and chance)
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We are much better served with leaders who made it through college with a B average but believe in liberal democracy than leaders who got straight As and believe in nothing but their own success
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We are much better served with leaders who made it through college with a B average but believe in liberal democracy than leaders who got straight As and believe in nothing but their own success
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I think meritocracy is in large part how we ended up with such a useless elite even on the left. They are, almost to a man, careerists who think strongly-held moral values are, at best, an impediment to success within the meritocratic system.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I think meritocracy is in large part how we ended up with such a useless elite even on the left. They are, almost to a man, careerists who think strongly-held moral values are, at best, an impediment to success within the meritocratic system.
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
NEW: Transgender Activists to Dine with Pope Leo XIV during Sunday's Jubilee for the Poor
Papal luncheon with trans advocate Alessia Nobile set for Sunday at Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor, highlighting a legacy of outreach and hopes for continued inclusion.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.
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For obvious reasons Catholic bishops are never going to be a turbolib constituency but this is basically as close as you can get of an institutional condemnation of the Vice President from his religious community
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
For obvious reasons Catholic bishops are never going to be a turbolib constituency but this is basically as close as you can get of an institutional condemnation of the Vice President from his religious community
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The problem is that some status professions, like journalism, are actually load bearing. It doesn't matter if fashion houses or tv studios are just nepotism factories. It absolutely matters if the people covering the Presidency got their jobs because they were good at the top 10%er circle jerk.
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The problem is that some status professions, like journalism, are actually load bearing. It doesn't matter if fashion houses or tv studios are just nepotism factories. It absolutely matters if the people covering the Presidency got their jobs because they were good at the top 10%er circle jerk.
A comparison of elections in New Jersey and Virginia, which fortunately have the same classes of Senators.
This chart compares the difference in margin b/w the two stats for the same office since 2000. Generally, NJ was 10pts better for Dems than VA, but they have become more even since 2014.
This chart compares the difference in margin b/w the two stats for the same office since 2000. Generally, NJ was 10pts better for Dems than VA, but they have become more even since 2014.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A comparison of elections in New Jersey and Virginia, which fortunately have the same classes of Senators.
This chart compares the difference in margin b/w the two stats for the same office since 2000. Generally, NJ was 10pts better for Dems than VA, but they have become more even since 2014.
This chart compares the difference in margin b/w the two stats for the same office since 2000. Generally, NJ was 10pts better for Dems than VA, but they have become more even since 2014.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Also, Bannon is asking Epstein to influence the administration because it’s beyond his own reach… but within Epstein’s?
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Also, Bannon is asking Epstein to influence the administration because it’s beyond his own reach… but within Epstein’s?
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just saw a dad on a front-loader cargo bike with his daughter in a rain cover reading a book with the biggest grin and got damn if that isn’t the good shit. looked like an ad. wonderful stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
just saw a dad on a front-loader cargo bike with his daughter in a rain cover reading a book with the biggest grin and got damn if that isn’t the good shit. looked like an ad. wonderful stuff.
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I think the Biden debate was extremely clarifying for a lot of folks
regardless of where you fell on the “Biden should step down” issue, it was obvious what it looked like when the Times really went all in
not a single thing Trump has done has, apparently, merited the same level of focus
regardless of where you fell on the “Biden should step down” issue, it was obvious what it looked like when the Times really went all in
not a single thing Trump has done has, apparently, merited the same level of focus
It's more that people have noted how adversarial they were with Biden and Democrats and how that attitude completely vanishes with Trump and Republicans.
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I think the Biden debate was extremely clarifying for a lot of folks
regardless of where you fell on the “Biden should step down” issue, it was obvious what it looked like when the Times really went all in
not a single thing Trump has done has, apparently, merited the same level of focus
regardless of where you fell on the “Biden should step down” issue, it was obvious what it looked like when the Times really went all in
not a single thing Trump has done has, apparently, merited the same level of focus
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All of BLS has been furloughed since October 1st. That means no one was collecting data in Oct. You can’t just walk into a Costco in mid-November and find out what the price of a good was in October. That’s why an October CPI isn’t possible.
October jobs data may never be released, White House says
October jobs data may never be released, White House says
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been unable to collect price data and employment information during the record-breaking government shutdown.
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
All of BLS has been furloughed since October 1st. That means no one was collecting data in Oct. You can’t just walk into a Costco in mid-November and find out what the price of a good was in October. That’s why an October CPI isn’t possible.
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50-60 and sunny is perfection. Above 60 and I sweat too much. Below 50 and I need gloves.
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
50-60 and sunny is perfection. Above 60 and I sweat too much. Below 50 and I need gloves.
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Y’all average out to the correct answer of low-60s
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Y’all average out to the correct answer of low-60s
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A powerful new exhibition that opened this month at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' and it will tug at your heart strings:
Jewish Museum opens powerful "Violins of Hope" show
A new exhibition that opened Nov. 5 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' but seeing these 24 instruments - each of which has some co...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A powerful new exhibition that opened this month at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' and it will tug at your heart strings:
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this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this
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something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
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As @carlkinsella.bsky.social aptly pointed out, so much of what we engage in shouldn’t really be *called* social media when it’s just algorithms designed to keep me looking at all costs. I would argue ye olde chat rooms and BBSes were more social media than modern Facebook is.
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As @carlkinsella.bsky.social aptly pointed out, so much of what we engage in shouldn’t really be *called* social media when it’s just algorithms designed to keep me looking at all costs. I would argue ye olde chat rooms and BBSes were more social media than modern Facebook is.
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It’s always projection
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It’s always projection
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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What's ironic to me about Silver's turn is that he literally wrote a book about how to be a better thinker and analyzer of data called The Signal and the Noise, and one of its essential points is that people who are experts in one thing assume they're experts in OTHER things. And well.......
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
What's ironic to me about Silver's turn is that he literally wrote a book about how to be a better thinker and analyzer of data called The Signal and the Noise, and one of its essential points is that people who are experts in one thing assume they're experts in OTHER things. And well.......
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This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is genuinely funny coming from a guy whose entire life is an endless stream of bitching and moaning while he leads the party of divorced dads who are mad their families hate them
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this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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tbh the fundamental issue with public safety in america is that there are so many guns that is extremely likely that whatever unarmed public safety outfits you have will lean heavily on the ones with guns for further protection
The police should be broken up into like four forces each with different responsibilities and applicant pools.
My take as well: We need everything from "social worker who can dodge a punch" to "SWAT team" because sometimes someone's having a psychotic break in public and sometimes someone has a gun and hostages. The police being our one-size-fits-all solution is pretty stupid in that light.
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
tbh the fundamental issue with public safety in america is that there are so many guns that is extremely likely that whatever unarmed public safety outfits you have will lean heavily on the ones with guns for further protection