Jacob Michael Politte
@jmpstl.bsky.social
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Jacob Michael Politte
@jmpstl.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Former Professor sues STLCC, three administrators
Details have emerged on what led to Dr. Emily Neal’s departure in the fall of 2022.
www.meramecmontage.com
Recent story I worked on regarding STLCC being sued by a former Professor
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Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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📣 New Podcast! "34 - It Was a Beige Turtleneck, so It Really Made Him Look Like a Human Penis (S13E7 Russian Brides)" on @Spreaker #cragenisode #izabellamiko #lawandordersvu #russia #russianbrides #sergeieisenstein #svu #svupodcast #timothybusfield #vory_v_zakone
34 - It Was a Beige Turtleneck, so It Really Made Him Look Like a Human Penis (S13E7 Russian Brides)
Adam's Paternity Leave continues, so why not cross the jump right back to where the Randomizer kicked us out to immediately after we did the three-part mega-Cragenisode? Patreon payments are frozen for the time being. A few resourceful new Munchies have figured out a work-around where you can join as a free member and upgrade from there to a paid account which charges you for one month and unlocks the back catalog behind the respective tier of the paywall. After that first payment, you won't be charged again until we're dropping new content (which we'll warn everyone is coming), so if you want more of this it can be had, along with access to the fully uncut episodes from 100 to present and Movie Club episodes.
Praise be to the SVU Gods and the Randomizer because this week's Munchstallment “Russian Brides” has it all. The seventh ep from Season 13 not only thrusts a rusty Captain Cragen into undercover duty for the first time since before Cabot and Amaro were born, but it also traumatizes you with way-too-specific details as to what our vic went through before perishing. Add to that the unrealized prospect of high-end koozies, the irony of nicknaming a neighborhood Odessa by the Sea when the O.G. Odessa is in fact by the sea, a journey into the daunting world of the vory v zakone, and the fact this this episode feeds directly into the huge three-parter we just spent the past three weeks poring over, and you've got the recipe for a very tasty Cragenisode with a blini and a heaping portion of Captain Don's bottomless pit of sorrow.
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Both of us on: FMWL Pod (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/9271395 & https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679521/10596164), https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kTfwThoHift65Yv7GJItB?si=bTqjYsrmRCa-I8rRiiSAcg from Ratchet Book Club, https://www.spreaker.com/user/14744598/the-thin-man-munchie-boys-final talking about The Thin Man, and last but not least on the seminal L&O podcast …These Are Their Stories (http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/sick and http://www.lawandorderpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/plastic).
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The Next New Episode Once We're Back from Adam's Paternity Leave Will Be: Season 16, Episode 14 "Intimidation Game"
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September 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
📣 New Podcast! "34 - It Was a Beige Turtleneck, so It Really Made Him Look Like a Human Penis (S13E7 Russian Brides)" on @Spreaker #cragenisode #izabellamiko #lawandordersvu #russia #russianbrides #sergeieisenstein #svu #svupodcast #timothybusfield #vory_v_zakone
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"Wars often give the commander in chief a chance to present himself as the voice of the nation and a rallying point for patriotism. Trump’s laziness, and his obvious disdain for the American public and the Constitution, has meant that his call to war has resulted in little enthusiasm...."
New in PN: Trump’s reckless Iran strikes could backfire spectacularly
"America has entered few wars with less forethought, less deliberation, and more contempt for the public. Trump has recklessly endangered the country and world. It’s not much consolation that he may also have endangered himself."
"America has entered few wars with less forethought, less deliberation, and more contempt for the public. Trump has recklessly endangered the country and world. It’s not much consolation that he may also have endangered himself."
Trump’s reckless Iran strikes could backfire spectacularly
America has entered few wars with less forethought, less deliberation, and more contempt for the public.
www.publicnotice.co
June 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Wars often give the commander in chief a chance to present himself as the voice of the nation and a rallying point for patriotism. Trump’s laziness, and his obvious disdain for the American public and the Constitution, has meant that his call to war has resulted in little enthusiasm...."
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Germany to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2029, sources say reut.rs/4nfEE0j
Germany to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2029, sources say
Germany will boost defence spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product by 2029, sources said on Monday, aiming to send a strong signal with its 2025 budget ahead of this week's NATO summit in The Hague.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Germany to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2029, sources say reut.rs/4nfEE0j
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Plagued by the looming threat of disruptive protests, the upcoming Venetian wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former news anchor and licensed pilot Lauren Sanchez may be one of the city's most anticipated and closely guarded events.
Venice is wild with rumors over the secretive Bezos-Sanchez wedding | CNN
Invited guests have been required to sign NDAs, but here is everything we know so far about the wedding of Jeff Bezos to Lauren Sanchez.
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June 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Plagued by the looming threat of disruptive protests, the upcoming Venetian wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and former news anchor and licensed pilot Lauren Sanchez may be one of the city's most anticipated and closely guarded events.
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Imagine if TNA had a world-respected woman in talent relations to help them recruit some of these upcoming free agents!!!
May 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Imagine if TNA had a world-respected woman in talent relations to help them recruit some of these upcoming free agents!!!
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Look, for all of its faults at least the Catholic Church is absolutely not taking advice from Lindsey Graham on who is going to be the next Pope.
April 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Look, for all of its faults at least the Catholic Church is absolutely not taking advice from Lindsey Graham on who is going to be the next Pope.
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The cheers at the end are particularly sickening. They’ll never be able to make the excuse “But I didn’t know.”
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
April 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The cheers at the end are particularly sickening. They’ll never be able to make the excuse “But I didn’t know.”
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The softest men alive have convinced the world that they are the image of rugged masculine toughness out of service to their combustion engine god
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The softest men alive have convinced the world that they are the image of rugged masculine toughness out of service to their combustion engine god
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I would have faith in better outcomes going forward if I felt that people actually were learning lessons and getting more informed. I'm not sure they are, but maybe pain will be the teacher we need to cut the shit and make obviously responsible choices next year and beyond.
April 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I would have faith in better outcomes going forward if I felt that people actually were learning lessons and getting more informed. I'm not sure they are, but maybe pain will be the teacher we need to cut the shit and make obviously responsible choices next year and beyond.
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2016 was a picnic compared to last year's election. It changed my entire outlook on American society. But it's also water under the bridge, and we have to do our best to move forward. I still find a lot of joy in my little corner of the world even if our politics is an exploding clown car.
April 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
2016 was a picnic compared to last year's election. It changed my entire outlook on American society. But it's also water under the bridge, and we have to do our best to move forward. I still find a lot of joy in my little corner of the world even if our politics is an exploding clown car.
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It was a world historical fumble that changed the trajectory of America in a way we won't recover from in my lifetime.
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It was a world historical fumble that changed the trajectory of America in a way we won't recover from in my lifetime.
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Looking at how insane a business ride Nitro was during its existence really makes AEW's run during the same span of time seem impressively stable. I'm gonna ramble heeere in a thread.
March 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Looking at how insane a business ride Nitro was during its existence really makes AEW's run during the same span of time seem impressively stable. I'm gonna ramble heeere in a thread.
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From Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir, probably one of the most visceral depictions of grief and trauma I've recently read.
January 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
From Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir, probably one of the most visceral depictions of grief and trauma I've recently read.
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She's now in grief and positive platitudes can't help, speaking from experience. The urge to quickly push ppl to be okay is so damaging w trauma and grief and I hope people give her the space and time to feel and deal with this pain in her way. I hope she has a strong and loving circle around her.
January 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
She's now in grief and positive platitudes can't help, speaking from experience. The urge to quickly push ppl to be okay is so damaging w trauma and grief and I hope people give her the space and time to feel and deal with this pain in her way. I hope she has a strong and loving circle around her.
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Her love- and partner of 14 years- committed suicide- it's a completely soul altering event and she will never, ever be the same again. Time is now before his death, and after his death. Her life has irreversibly changed for the worse. She will not be okay, and it's okay and healthy to accept that.
January 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Her love- and partner of 14 years- committed suicide- it's a completely soul altering event and she will never, ever be the same again. Time is now before his death, and after his death. Her life has irreversibly changed for the worse. She will not be okay, and it's okay and healthy to accept that.
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Absolutely bizarre to see people say they hope Aubrey Plaza is okay after her husband's death. She is absolutely not fucking okay and she will not be okay for a long time, guys. I get the urge to give positive platitudes but there's also the option to just give condolences and leave it.
January 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Absolutely bizarre to see people say they hope Aubrey Plaza is okay after her husband's death. She is absolutely not fucking okay and she will not be okay for a long time, guys. I get the urge to give positive platitudes but there's also the option to just give condolences and leave it.
It was LITERALLY meant for that
Trump laments the “unqualified children” he says are coming into the country
January 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It was LITERALLY meant for that
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This is a profoundly depraved response to a national tragedy, there's no other way to say it
Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers
January 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is a profoundly depraved response to a national tragedy, there's no other way to say it
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Here's Trump's order pinning blame for the DCA crash on Obama, Biden, women, and people of color
January 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Here's Trump's order pinning blame for the DCA crash on Obama, Biden, women, and people of color
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Trump appoints an acting FAA head the day after a deadly plane crash
January 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump appoints an acting FAA head the day after a deadly plane crash
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"With this executive order, we officially declare that anything that goes wrong while we're in office is the fault of Biden and Black people."
Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers
January 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"With this executive order, we officially declare that anything that goes wrong while we're in office is the fault of Biden and Black people."
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A US judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said reut.rs/3PWTRUF
US judge blocks Trump administration from transferring transgender inmate
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday.
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January 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A US judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said reut.rs/3PWTRUF
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We curated the best gifts for boyfriends, including ones for him at every price point and for nearly every hobby.
The 65 Best Gifts for Every Type of Boyfriend
We curated the best gifts for boyfriends, including ones for him at every price point and for nearly every hobby.
nymag.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We curated the best gifts for boyfriends, including ones for him at every price point and for nearly every hobby.
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The executive order was one of multiple first-day Trump directives aimed at overhauling the federal workforce of 2.3 million — including a hiring freeze, a strict return-to-office mandate, an update of hiring rules and changes designed to bring more accountability to career senior executives.
Trump reinstates plan to strip protections from federal workers
President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy from his first term that could strip employment protections from tens of thousands of federal workers.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The executive order was one of multiple first-day Trump directives aimed at overhauling the federal workforce of 2.3 million — including a hiring freeze, a strict return-to-office mandate, an update of hiring rules and changes designed to bring more accountability to career senior executives.