Mike Berre
@mikeberre.bsky.social
Northern woods, getting older, sometimes wiser.
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In Chicago, the consensus is "fuck Trump."
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
In Chicago, the consensus is "fuck Trump."
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the phillies when you ask them about playing at the bank during red october:
October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
the phillies when you ask them about playing at the bank during red october:
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These are the top ten numbers for hits in a baseball season. Note the dates, and who is there twice.
July 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
These are the top ten numbers for hits in a baseball season. Note the dates, and who is there twice.
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Did you hear about the executive who was embracing his peer until suddenly they were in the spotlight? Lots of awkward scrambling ensued and then the executive told his attorney general to release grand jury transcripts about the relationship.
July 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Did you hear about the executive who was embracing his peer until suddenly they were in the spotlight? Lots of awkward scrambling ensued and then the executive told his attorney general to release grand jury transcripts about the relationship.
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FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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June 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I feel like Musk could really blow MAGA's collective minds just by continuing to tweet out facts the rest of us have known for years but never penetrated their media bubble.
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there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens
June 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens
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I'm wondering what needs to happen for the political press to stop reflexively characterizing the GOP as the party of fiscal and economic responsibility. Because for most of my lifetime they have been the governmental equivalent of a cokehead who pays for everything with near-maxed credit cards.
Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.
Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits
Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I'm wondering what needs to happen for the political press to stop reflexively characterizing the GOP as the party of fiscal and economic responsibility. Because for most of my lifetime they have been the governmental equivalent of a cokehead who pays for everything with near-maxed credit cards.
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ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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May 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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In February 2020, active news readers were aware of the coming pandemic but not the mass public.
I’m getting the same sense of dread about how the trade wars are gonna hit the U.S. economy over the next few months unless Trump figures out an artful way to capitulate.
I’m getting the same sense of dread about how the trade wars are gonna hit the U.S. economy over the next few months unless Trump figures out an artful way to capitulate.
April 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In February 2020, active news readers were aware of the coming pandemic but not the mass public.
I’m getting the same sense of dread about how the trade wars are gonna hit the U.S. economy over the next few months unless Trump figures out an artful way to capitulate.
I’m getting the same sense of dread about how the trade wars are gonna hit the U.S. economy over the next few months unless Trump figures out an artful way to capitulate.
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Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.
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I want to emphasize something. If you get the column you saw in detail, but it's worth repeating.
Our economic and geopolitical relationships with Canada and Europe cannot be repaired. Destroying them forces our former partners into alternative plans that cannot be undone.
Our economic and geopolitical relationships with Canada and Europe cannot be repaired. Destroying them forces our former partners into alternative plans that cannot be undone.
March 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I want to emphasize something. If you get the column you saw in detail, but it's worth repeating.
Our economic and geopolitical relationships with Canada and Europe cannot be repaired. Destroying them forces our former partners into alternative plans that cannot be undone.
Our economic and geopolitical relationships with Canada and Europe cannot be repaired. Destroying them forces our former partners into alternative plans that cannot be undone.
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Twenty years ago, Mo Cheeks helped a 13-year-old girl through the National Anthem.
The Blazers invited her back to perform it again tonight, with Cheeks in the house.
The Blazers invited her back to perform it again tonight, with Cheeks in the house.
March 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Twenty years ago, Mo Cheeks helped a 13-year-old girl through the National Anthem.
The Blazers invited her back to perform it again tonight, with Cheeks in the house.
The Blazers invited her back to perform it again tonight, with Cheeks in the house.
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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It’s weird everyone thinks tariffs are so terrible for the economy. If something can only be in effect 72 hours how bad can it be
March 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s weird everyone thinks tariffs are so terrible for the economy. If something can only be in effect 72 hours how bad can it be
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A little short-term "disturbance" is a small price to pay for permanently higher prices, permanently reduced real wages, permanently impaired national productivity, permanent conflict with betrayed ex-allies, and permanent surrender of global influence to China.
March 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A little short-term "disturbance" is a small price to pay for permanently higher prices, permanently reduced real wages, permanently impaired national productivity, permanent conflict with betrayed ex-allies, and permanent surrender of global influence to China.
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Super Bowl 2026: The NFL, smarting from JD Vance’s criticism of the 2025 halftime show, presents Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Carrie Underwood singing “Camptown Races”
February 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Super Bowl 2026: The NFL, smarting from JD Vance’s criticism of the 2025 halftime show, presents Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Carrie Underwood singing “Camptown Races”
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Judges should immediately sanction attorneys who sign pleadings or make arguments in support the Birthright Citizenship executive order. State bars should consider disciplinary actions against them. Advocating for this is a stain on the profession. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Judge in Seattle blocks Trump order on birthright citizenship nationwide
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown had sued to block the executive order, calling it “unconstitutional, un-American and cruel.”
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January 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Judges should immediately sanction attorneys who sign pleadings or make arguments in support the Birthright Citizenship executive order. State bars should consider disciplinary actions against them. Advocating for this is a stain on the profession. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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The thing about the Trump strategy of "flooding the zone with shit" is Americans, media, and in particular social media users REALLY love eating shit.
January 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The thing about the Trump strategy of "flooding the zone with shit" is Americans, media, and in particular social media users REALLY love eating shit.
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Radley’s series about George Floyd’s death and the people trying to misrepresent it, is absolutely essential.
I will only comment that I’m not sure why some people are so obsessed with arguing that police didn’t kill Floyd when it’s so clear they’d be perfectly fine with it if they did.
I will only comment that I’m not sure why some people are so obsessed with arguing that police didn’t kill Floyd when it’s so clear they’d be perfectly fine with it if they did.
February 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Radley’s series about George Floyd’s death and the people trying to misrepresent it, is absolutely essential.
I will only comment that I’m not sure why some people are so obsessed with arguing that police didn’t kill Floyd when it’s so clear they’d be perfectly fine with it if they did.
I will only comment that I’m not sure why some people are so obsessed with arguing that police didn’t kill Floyd when it’s so clear they’d be perfectly fine with it if they did.
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All can be true:
1. Concerns about Biden age are legitimate - he'd be president at 86! Ds would go crazy in reverse situation.
2. But coverage is wildly disproportionate; both men are elderly & showing their age.
3. Most importantly, only one makes outlandish false statements & threatens democracy.
1. Concerns about Biden age are legitimate - he'd be president at 86! Ds would go crazy in reverse situation.
2. But coverage is wildly disproportionate; both men are elderly & showing their age.
3. Most importantly, only one makes outlandish false statements & threatens democracy.
February 10, 2024 at 3:11 PM
All can be true:
1. Concerns about Biden age are legitimate - he'd be president at 86! Ds would go crazy in reverse situation.
2. But coverage is wildly disproportionate; both men are elderly & showing their age.
3. Most importantly, only one makes outlandish false statements & threatens democracy.
1. Concerns about Biden age are legitimate - he'd be president at 86! Ds would go crazy in reverse situation.
2. But coverage is wildly disproportionate; both men are elderly & showing their age.
3. Most importantly, only one makes outlandish false statements & threatens democracy.