Mike Hoekstra
@mikehook.bsky.social
Husband and dad, administrator and history teacher, owner of too many cats and dogs. Interested in faith, history, and Alabama football discussions (maybe someday politics ... too soon).
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I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.
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Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader?
This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking
This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking
December 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Remember when Presidents did national speeches for emergencies or times where a nation needs to hear from their leader?
This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking
This angry old man is literally screaming and clearly panicking
Who knew that the Allstate commercial we’d have to watch 1 million times during games this year with Meghan Trainor and Patrick Mahomes was actually trying to tell us something. #mahomes
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Who knew that the Allstate commercial we’d have to watch 1 million times during games this year with Meghan Trainor and Patrick Mahomes was actually trying to tell us something. #mahomes
Imagine calling yourself a small government conservative and yet contorting yourself into thinking this is in any small bit OK.
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Imagine calling yourself a small government conservative and yet contorting yourself into thinking this is in any small bit OK.
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.
Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.
Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.
Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.
Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.
Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.
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I forget who said it initially but yeah, the biggest question you could ask anybody concerning American politics right now is "Who was president in 2020?"
July 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I forget who said it initially but yeah, the biggest question you could ask anybody concerning American politics right now is "Who was president in 2020?"
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I suppose folks are now beginning to understand how Trump may have navigated himself into serial bankruptcies.
April 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I suppose folks are now beginning to understand how Trump may have navigated himself into serial bankruptcies.
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May I introduce you to the financial panic of 1873? 1893? 1907?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?
Trump: "You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff based. We had no income tax." (This is nonsense.)
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
May I introduce you to the financial panic of 1873? 1893? 1907?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?
The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction?
The introduction of Jim Crow segregation?
The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890?
The Populist revolt?
The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
April 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.
March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There's something grimly ironic about Trump, whose criminal guilt was quite clear based on public information, managing to land in the White House rather than a prison cell thanks to dragging out Due Process, now handwaving process away and assuming the right to brand criminals by fiat.
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Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
Zelenskyy gives a thumbs up after getting berated by a visibly agitated Trump
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
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This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
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The lesson for everyone still going on and on about how we can’t stop Trump is that you are wrong. Public pressure works. Pushing Congress works. Stop whining and start yelling. Hegseth and Gabbard cannot be confirmed.
November 21, 2024 at 5:38 PM
The lesson for everyone still going on and on about how we can’t stop Trump is that you are wrong. Public pressure works. Pushing Congress works. Stop whining and start yelling. Hegseth and Gabbard cannot be confirmed.
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so much of the right-wing backlash in this country is driven by indignation at the idea that there should be consequences for being a shitbag. it is truly a shitbag uprising.
classy stuff at the latest school board meeting in my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota (the same town Pete Hegseth is from)
these people are more emboldened than ever to be their absolute worst selves
these people are more emboldened than ever to be their absolute worst selves
November 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
so much of the right-wing backlash in this country is driven by indignation at the idea that there should be consequences for being a shitbag. it is truly a shitbag uprising.
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Jake Paul fight RFK Jr. next
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Jake Paul fight RFK Jr. next
It turns out that the drama of “will my spinning red wheel hit 100%” was much more entertaining than the actual Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight.
November 16, 2024 at 5:43 AM
It turns out that the drama of “will my spinning red wheel hit 100%” was much more entertaining than the actual Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight.
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Here’s something that everyone needs to know - the evangelical support that put DJT in the White House was the result of at least 40 years of hard core back door political networking & campaigning by leaders who saw the church as an army of foot soldiers to lead, not as souls to shepherd.
November 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Here’s something that everyone needs to know - the evangelical support that put DJT in the White House was the result of at least 40 years of hard core back door political networking & campaigning by leaders who saw the church as an army of foot soldiers to lead, not as souls to shepherd.
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My plea to reporters is to not call it the Department of Government Efficiency. It is not a Department. It is almost certainly going to a Federal Advisory Committee, and it is very important that reporters accurately convey that Vivek and Elon are working on an advisory committee.
November 13, 2024 at 1:19 AM
My plea to reporters is to not call it the Department of Government Efficiency. It is not a Department. It is almost certainly going to a Federal Advisory Committee, and it is very important that reporters accurately convey that Vivek and Elon are working on an advisory committee.
Is there much of a college sports presence on here yet of journalists and “insiders”? Not seeing much come through when I search for Alabama football. #RollTide
November 12, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Is there much of a college sports presence on here yet of journalists and “insiders”? Not seeing much come through when I search for Alabama football. #RollTide