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Craig Cheslog
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GenXer against fascism. Talking politics, women’s soccer, WNBA, Manchester United men and women, USWNT, USMNT, Green Bay Packers, Boston Celtics, Chicago Cubs, and Taylor Swift. (he/him/his) My newsletter: https://thelongtwilightstruggle.com/.
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It involves a New York-related story. Why would anyone expect him to know? 🙄
Image is a screenshot of a February 19, 2025, post from the official White House Instagram account. The image is mocked up to resemble a Time magazine cover, with the word "TRUMP" in all caps replacing the magazine's title. The image includes a painting of President Trump wearing a crown with the words “Long Live the King” as a headline in the lower left corner. The caption for the Instagram post reads, “"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" -President Donald J. Trump”
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Interesting how the MAGA cultists forget why these protests ended up having the #NoKings branding.

We haven’t forgotten though.
Image is a screenshot of a February 19, 2025, post from the official White House Instagram account. The image is mocked up to resemble a Time magazine cover, with the word "TRUMP" in all caps replacing the magazine's title. The image includes a painting of President Trump wearing a crown with the words “Long Live the King” as a headline in the lower left corner. The caption for the Instagram post reads, “"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" -President Donald J. Trump”
October 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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#NoKings Sacramento. It’s true: the only monarch we want here is the butterfly.
Photo from thr Sacramento No Kings rally showing a state Capitol building in the background with many people holding signs in support of the No Kings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A screenshot from the television show Succession. Logan Roy is sitting on the end of a couch. Text at the bottom quotes Logan saying, “yeah. Tell them to fuck off.”
September 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The Republican kingmaker who was not part of the establishment. Legacy media reporters and editors are demonstrating just how out of touch they are. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Screenshot of two paragraphs from the New York Times obituary for Charlie Kirk. The text includes: "By the end of 2024, he was considered something of a kingmaker. He had been an early champion of selecting Senator JD Vance of Ohio as Mr. Trump’s running mate. Several of his biggest donors received positions in the Trump administration, and he was central in rallying support behind embattled cabinet nominees like Pete Hegseth, who was accused of sexual assault after Mr. Trump chose him to be secretary of defense. He likewise rallied his supporters against Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, who he said was not sufficiently supportive of Mr. Trump. She resigned in early 2024."
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Enjoying #TheShow here at #OracleParkSF with @staceybgreer.bsky.social! Let’s go #BayFC!
Craig Cheslog and Stacey Greer selfie at the BayFC vs. Washington Spirit game at Oracle Park SF. The Show Bay FC flag. Scorebard at Oracle Park SF with a soccer game in the foreground.
August 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman needs to be fired or resign. Putting player safety at risk must never be acceptable.
Screenshot of the lede paragraph of the Athletic story. The text includes: By Tamerra Griffin, Asli Pelit and Melanie Anzidei National Women's Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman threatened to fine the Kansas City Current after a disagreement over extreme heat procedures that delayed a match against Orlando Pride by roughly three and a half hours on Saturday, multiple sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic. Both teams were concerned about the extreme heat. The league wanted the game to proceed when possible so it could be televised.
August 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I guess those decades of strategery have not developed into great solutions for the Chamber’s members. Perhaps it is time for an accountability moment?
Buographical info about the author od the Chamber’s web post. “Neil Bradley Neil Bradley is executive vice president, chief policy officer, and head of strategic advocacy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He has spent two decades working directly with congressional committee chairpersons and other high-ranking policymakers to achieve solutions.”
August 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Were you aware of this situation @mollyknight.bsky.social @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social @joeposnanski.com?
Major League Baseball archive for June 13, 2023 showing no archived television game for the Oakland A’s fan reverse boycott game.
July 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Oh sure, Ken. I think you should get just as much privacy as you have been willing to give people who are pregnant seeking reproductive health care or trans people seeking gender-affirming health care.
Screenshot of text from the article: “Ken Paxton posted on X shortly after his wife. "After facing the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny, Angela and I have decided to start a new chapter in our lives," he wrote. "I could not be any more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God has blessed us with, and I remain committed to supporting our amazing children and grandchildren. I ask for your prayers and privacy at this time."
July 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The Oxford comma could be the new third rail of politics. From mamdanitimes.com.
Text of a fake headline, "Mamdani's Use of Oxford Comma Raises Questions Amid No Record of Attendance" from mamdanitimes.com, a website that creates New York Times satirical headlines about New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani:
July 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Are we sure this one is satire? From mamdanitimes.com.
Text of a fake headline, "In Mamdani, Some Democrats Recoil at Sight of Popularity" from mamdanitimes.com, a website that creates New York Times satirical headlines about New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani:
July 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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So why did you grant anonymity to an eugenicist who was publicly named in a March 2025 story from The Guardian? Why was this story so important to grant that privilege to this person @nytimes.com?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Screenshot from a Guardian story from March 3, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics “Jordan Lasker, AKA 'Cremieux' One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics. The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform's proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates. On 27 November, Musk reposted a Cremieux comment on falling birthrates, adding: "With rare exception, all countries are trending towards…”
July 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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If the Vice President believes that all that matters is the ICE funding and immigration enforcement, why allow Republicans to make the MAGA Death Bill so bad? Trump seems to be able to compel Republicans to agree to whatever he wants. So why not just do those things and extend the tax cuts?
Screenshot of a tweet by Vice President JD Vance: "Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions."
July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Damn it. Stop it with this. It isn’t 1992. Please read the GD room.
An image of a text message exchange from an unknown number. The message to me in a grey bubble: “SMS Today 11:31 AM James Carville just issued a grave warning on CNN. You have GOT to see >> https:/. delbene.to/sd56 Stop to quit” My reply in a green bubble: “I have no interest in any organization that uses James Carville as its hook.”
June 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Oh how I love this sign from Philadelphia today. #NoKingsDay
Screenshot of a photo from the Philadelphia No Kings protest on June 14, 2025. The text is black ink on cardboard. It includes a graphic of the Constitution with the phrase “Maybe this thing was a masterpiece til you tore it all up.”
June 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Welcome back to the playlist. I’ve missed you (but it was worth it)!
Screen cap from Spotify showing Out of the Woods (The Original Version) playing on my phone.
May 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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It is so important to make sure people are aware of the horrible history that makes some of us uncomfortable with the branding decision here.
Excerpt from Justin Horneker’s Talkin’ Soccer newsletter: Two, the usage of "Daddy Gang" in the official press release is a problem for a league that is directly born out of the ashes of Dan Borislow's inappropriate behavior at the helm of WPS charter club Magicjack. It's been 14 years since the incident occurred, so it's fair to assume that those working in the NWSL marketing department aren't aware of the foundation that their league is built upon, but it's worth calling out as players beg the league to actually follow up on complaints made to their anonymous reporting hotline.
May 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR
Clip from the movie Sneakers. “I might even be able to crash the whole damn system.”
April 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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GIF from The Untouchables. Sean Connery on the left, Kevin Costner in the right as they meet in a church pew. Connery’s character says “He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue!”
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Here’s what the real author of that book thinks. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
An image including a two-paragraph quote from a New Yorker article about the ghost writer of the Art of the Deal. The quoted text says: "I put lipstick on a pig," he said. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is." He went on, "I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization. If he were writing "The Art of the Deal" today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, "The Sociopath."
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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But I was taught that the unelected Senate parliamentarian was the most powerful official who existed when it comes to budget reconciliation.

Oh wait. That’s only when Democrats are in the majority. How naive of me.
Image of text from the article. That text is: “The Senate parliamentarian is in charge of interpreting and enforcing those rules, and ordering lawmakers to strip out any provisions that do not comply. But this year, Senate Republicans are saying they will rely on their own interpretation of the budget rules where it concerns their tax cut plans, sidestepping the parliamentarian altogether.”
April 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I guess his faith in Christ doesn’t quite inform every aspect of his life since he rejects the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount.
Text on a white background from his website: Keith met the love of his life, Tracy, at a Young Life Christian Fellowship group. Faith in Christ is the foundation of their lives and marriage. Their faith informs every aspect of life and serves as the chief motivator for Keith's service to others.
March 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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It appears that @keithself.bsky.social’s faith in Christ doesn’t quite extend to every aspect of his life.

Instead he is one of those self-righteous heretics who rejects the message of the Sermon on the Mount (among other teachings).

Fighting back against these monsters is necessary.
Text from Rep. Self’s campaign website bio: “Keith met the love of his life, Tracy, at a Young Life Christian Fellowship group. Faith in Christ is the foundation of their lives and marriage. Their faith informs every aspect of life and serves as the chief motivator for Keith's service to others.”
March 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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With Trump playing the stupid tariff card, Cory Doctorow explains how countries that signed free trade agreements with the USA now have an opportunity to stick it to big tech and help lower tech prices for all users around the world. I hope someone chooses this path. pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/f...
An image of a quote from the Cory Doctorow blog post linked in the post. "But foreigners don't have to tolerate this nonsense. Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores – for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets – to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech. The first country or bloc (hi there, EU!) to do this will have a giant first-mover advantage, and could become a global export powerhouse, dominating the lucrative markets for tools that strike at the highest-margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in the history of the human race. Like Jeff Bezos told the publishers: "your margin is my opportunity"
March 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM