Mike Tolhurst 🐧🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦🌐
@miketolhurst.bsky.social
Illini, market liberal, history nerd, penguin enthusiast
As a Virginia resident, today's election coverage has me thinking of this clasic New Yorker cover for no particular reason.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
As a Virginia resident, today's election coverage has me thinking of this clasic New Yorker cover for no particular reason.
For some reason Chat GPT thinks Trump winning the 2024 election is fake news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
For some reason Chat GPT thinks Trump winning the 2024 election is fake news.
They do on Facebook! And I share it so all my normie boomer relatives can repost it!
September 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They do on Facebook! And I share it so all my normie boomer relatives can repost it!
Mike Lee is awful for other reasons, but a ton of Utah is owned by the feds. Here he is likely actually representing his constituents. Like, that's a lot of land out west that is federal land. I don't read this as necessarily meaning "sell off Yosemite" or taking away tribal land.
June 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Mike Lee is awful for other reasons, but a ton of Utah is owned by the feds. Here he is likely actually representing his constituents. Like, that's a lot of land out west that is federal land. I don't read this as necessarily meaning "sell off Yosemite" or taking away tribal land.
New Bretton Woods.
April 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New Bretton Woods.
He hasn't been Catholic that long? And he's been making pronouncements that claim to be speaking for Christianity?
Personally I would have pulled out this section of the catechism for Vance.
www.vatican.va/content/cate...
Personally I would have pulled out this section of the catechism for Vance.
www.vatican.va/content/cate...
April 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
He hasn't been Catholic that long? And he's been making pronouncements that claim to be speaking for Christianity?
Personally I would have pulled out this section of the catechism for Vance.
www.vatican.va/content/cate...
Personally I would have pulled out this section of the catechism for Vance.
www.vatican.va/content/cate...
Trump is tariffing penguins!
April 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Trump is tariffing penguins!
My other online purchase was this shirt.
March 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My other online purchase was this shirt.
I am making a point to personally import more Canadian goods these days, tariffs be darned. Just arrived.
March 19, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I am making a point to personally import more Canadian goods these days, tariffs be darned. Just arrived.
Phil, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for congestion pricing?
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Phil, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... But for congestion pricing?
May have been this book actually.
February 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
May have been this book actually.
There is a pretty good shirt. Maybe just an additional name or logo on the back?
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
There is a pretty good shirt. Maybe just an additional name or logo on the back?
US food imports
January 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
US food imports
US fuel imports.
January 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
US fuel imports.
Saw this and suddenly Mr. Trump's foreign policy proposals make more sense.
But I *do* hope someone tells Mr. Trump that you do not, in fact, get five extra armies every turn by controlling these territories.
But I *do* hope someone tells Mr. Trump that you do not, in fact, get five extra armies every turn by controlling these territories.
January 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Saw this and suddenly Mr. Trump's foreign policy proposals make more sense.
But I *do* hope someone tells Mr. Trump that you do not, in fact, get five extra armies every turn by controlling these territories.
But I *do* hope someone tells Mr. Trump that you do not, in fact, get five extra armies every turn by controlling these territories.
That sounds like Thumos.
Economics class becoming philosophy class!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos?...
Economics class becoming philosophy class!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos?...
January 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
That sounds like Thumos.
Economics class becoming philosophy class!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos?...
Economics class becoming philosophy class!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos?...
Canada needs to make an epic historical mini series about Isaac Brock and Laura Secord... For no reason in particular.
January 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Canada needs to make an epic historical mini series about Isaac Brock and Laura Secord... For no reason in particular.
Somewhere an 18th century British aristocrat is laughing at us.
January 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Somewhere an 18th century British aristocrat is laughing at us.
Have you considered OS/2?
December 30, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Have you considered OS/2?
Maybe we should start a thing! I think Jamelle Bouie is on the same wavelength.
December 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Maybe we should start a thing! I think Jamelle Bouie is on the same wavelength.
Fascinating that with folks leaving the house to join the admin the low key but potentially pivotal "manchin of the house" ... Got her degree in Kyiv.
December 16, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Fascinating that with folks leaving the house to join the admin the low key but potentially pivotal "manchin of the house" ... Got her degree in Kyiv.
If they start making memes of this with Trump and Vance we are in trouble. They are totally trying to start a religion.
December 7, 2024 at 3:01 AM
If they start making memes of this with Trump and Vance we are in trouble. They are totally trying to start a religion.
Good time for the Democrats to consider the merits of donor privacy.
December 6, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Good time for the Democrats to consider the merits of donor privacy.
You know who is also souring on central bank independence these days?
Russia!
Russia!
December 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM
You know who is also souring on central bank independence these days?
Russia!
Russia!