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Mike B.
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#SeparationOfFelonAndState Certified non-prophet
I never speak in absolutes.
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🎶Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait🎶
Photo of Pope Leo XIV rockin' out (singing into a microphone) surrounded by a crowd of men.
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Melanie dressed him for Christmas early.
Photo of Melania Trump (credit: The Guardian) in a black wool coat walking down the East Wing promenade of the White House between a line of blood red Christmas trees, her desecorative flair from Trump's first term.
November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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She turned toward him. In her hand, his rolled up copy of Forbes magazine came into view. He beamed thusly.
Pool photo of Trump in his Oval Office chair staring up adoringly to his right at NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani standing beside him. The flag with the President's seal visible over Trump's left shoulder. The U.S flag appears between the two men on the opposite side of the Oval window behind Trump's head.
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Yay!

Screen shot is from tonight's broadcast, but they say it happened yesterday. Buh bye, ICE.
Photo of NBC5 Chicago local news broadcast on TV. The image is an aerial shot of the Great Lakes Naval Base campus. The chyron reads: "Breaking News "DHS Leaves Naval Station Great Lakes"
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Operation Southern Spear?

Pie hole, pie hole /
It's off to war Pete goes ...

Pete rides shotgun, er, ACME rocket, while Miller floors it, towing Trump in the chariot behind.

(w actual alt text)

[Photo credit: Sid & Marty Krofft Productions/Nickelodeon via Cleveland.com]
Still of H.R. Pufnstuf in a blue satin sash standing on a platform with wheels being pulled behind the maroon Rescue Racer car/wagon. One Keystone Cop-like charater named Clang drives the Rescue Racer on its lower level while his partner Clang rides on top. In front of Clang is a red rocket (a la ACME from Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner cartoons) pointing forward. Behind him poking up through the roof is an exaggerated smoke stack with smoke visible. Cling and Clang wear old-time police uniforms with thick white waist and shoulder sashes, large, pointy badges on the breast, and narrow-brimmed police hats. Pufnstuf is a dragon(?) or lion(?) type character, stout and yellow with an oversized head and facial features. He has a small sprout of deep orange-red hair at the peak of his head and is the group leader and namesake of the 1970s kids' TV show. All three puppet costumes are inhabited by actors/puppeteers similar to the more recent Barney series.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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And this is how we'll be led.
Still of H.R. Pufnstuf in a blue satin sash standing on a platform with wheels being pulled behind the maroon Rescue Racer car/wagon. One Keystone Cop-like charater named Clang drives the Rescue Racer on its lower level while his partner Clang rides on top. In front of Clang is a red rocket (a la ACME from Wile E. Coyote & Roadrunner cartoons) pointing forward. Behind him poking up through the roof is an exaggerated smoke stack with smoke visible. Cling and Clang wear old-time police uniforms with thick white waist and shoulder sashes, large, pointy badges on the breast, and narrow-brimmed police hats. Pufnstuf is a dragon(?) or lion(?) type character, stout and yellow with an oversized head and facial features. He has a small sprout of deep orange-red hair at the peak of his head and is the group leader and namesake of the 1970s kids' TV show. All three puppet costumes are inhabited by actors/puppeteers similar to the more recent Barney series.
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Meanwhile, *much* farther south and east ...

(Happy to have even caught this much! Our little city tends to cast a thumb across the lens where cool nighttime phenomena are concerned.)
Woefully unimpressive, time-delayed photo of the suburban Chicago sky featuring a barren tree top lower right and diffused magenta and cyan bands of the Northern Lights trying mightily to dampen the twinkles of the Milky Way.
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Here's what's going to happen, people, when I become Weather PresidEmperor.

The burning bush is going to burn for exactly 10 days each fall. On the 11th day, it will be March 30th again.
Photo of a roadside burning bush with November red leaves at the corner of a line of mixed evergreens and other trees with still-green or golden leaves bordering a beige, recently harvested soybean field stretching into the distance.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Reason #7264 why it will take decades to rebuild and restore global relationships once the regime and its xian nationalist kink are gone for good.
Text from one passage in the article: Which leads me to believe that any U.S. military intervention framed around “protecting Christians” would not only misread the problem—it would inflame it. Nigeria’s constitution—much like ours—forbids establishing a state religion. For America to arrive proclaiming a religious mandate would offend both Nigerian Muslims and Christians, energize extremist propaganda about “crusader invaders,” and undermine the very communities we claim to defend.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Yellow text on medium gray background: Remember '26 is the tourniquet '28 is the surgery The following two decades? Recovery.
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I *live* in MS Word. Libre Office is a suitable alternative I need to explore. H/t Wil Wheaton:
Screen cap of post by Wil Wheaton from Oct. 22, 2025. It states: "I keep seeing friends who aren't thrilled that Word is newly enshitified. At the risk of sounding like one of Those Guys, there is a magnificent, full featured, entirely free alternative called Libre Office that works on all platforms. I've used it exclusively for over a decade."
October 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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#ETTD

For all intents and purposes.

With morbid alt text.
Screen capture of Google Earth showing the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea on a black background with the words "Planet Trump" in white text on top. The map labels are changed to read "Gulf of America" and "Sea of 5th Avenue." The latter refers to Trump's old humble brag about being able to murder someone on 5th Avenue in New York City and get away with it, and the fact that he is murdering many someones in the Caribbean and getting away with it.
October 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Meme of Donald Trump seated behind his desk in the Oval Office looking over and down at a child named after a letter of the alphabet and an occupied social media platform. In reference to Trump's illegal sinking of a seventh craft in the Caribbean Sea without having formally or legally declared war on ... anyone, the two white text bubbles read: "The boat was ‘uge! All white. Literally caked in coke the likes of which you’ve never seen. So I blew it out of the water. I blew it right out. Like a candle, but kaBLOOIE. I like candles. Thank you for your attention to this matter." and "Sir, that was a cruise ship." (Photo: Getty Images)
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Me with my very wordy "Access, not Excess" sign at Orland Park, IL #NoKings.
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Caught sight of a solo protester en route to #NoKings, pt. 1. Gave her a shout out, too.
Screen cap of a post from June's No King Day that reads: Today's #NoKingsDay honorable mention? The lone woman I passed at a controlled intersection in the middle of nowhere, motionless, quietly holding her sign deep in the grass away from the light traffic. And all the imrpovisers [sic] like her." Followed by three clapping hands emojis.
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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🎶 "That's me (on) the corner ... /"

#NoKings Orland Park, IL

'Bout the same size as No Kings #1 (~1,200)
Me standing behind my No Kings sign at 149th & LaGrange Rd. in Orland Park, IL.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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How it started (24"x36"), how it's going (36"x48").

#AccessNotExcess
#NoKings
White posterboard sign for No Kings 1. "Access, not Excess!" in black Sharpie. "No kings for me" in red Sharpie. Design for my 10/18 #NoKings protest poster. Main text reads: "Access, Not Excess" on a blue background.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Setting my freehand posters aside, I made a legible one on screen instead. 36x48 (with a foam core display board with wings). I just hope my broom handle is long enough to have something to hold onto.
Design for my 10/18 #NoKings protest poster. Main text reads: "Access, Not Excess" on a blue background.
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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This was just as true when @jasonkander.bsky.social posted it last night. Cite sources, please.
Screen cap of Jason Kander's original post from 10 hours before the current, uncited post from Blue Chronicle.
October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I bet the secretary's notes for tomorrow look something like this:
Parody photo of a white piece of fake letterhead with purple Sharpie-written comments mimicking the notes Kash Patel held during his recent House Judiciary Committee testimony. The note in the photo appears on letterhead with a Darth Vader sketch top center and the following text: From the Desk of: Darth Peter Good fight with Jar Jarhead (Don't!) Wear cape Make example. No choke all at once. Careful w/ light saber If they get unruly, have the boss finger-zap 'em. #BeBeast
September 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Hegseth to the assembled military leaders: "There is only one general now."

(With accurate Alt text)
Meme photo of the grumpy, rather-be-golfing, Felon-in-Chief Trump in a military dress uniform full of medals he could never earn, wearing blue, yellow, and magenta striped conical child's birthday hat, riding on the back of a Jeep followed by soldiers marching in parade formation down a street in Washington, D.C. posted on Twitter by @JesusChryslerII.
September 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Right on cue.
Screen shot of a post from yesterday implying that the president would contaminate the investigation and trial. Text reads: "The shooter needs to be caught, tried, and convicted no matter who they are. But I bet they go free on appeal because Trump and Vance won't be able to keep their mouths shut throughout the process."
September 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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My same fear.
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Photo of Don Trump at military school wearing a Staff T-shirt holding a basketball with five dialog bubbles citing his five fake bone spur excuses to dodge the Vietnam draft.
August 31, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Photo of Don Trump at military school wearing a Staff T-shirt holding a basketball with five dialog bubbles citing his five fake bone spur excuses to dodge the Vietnam draft.
August 31, 2025 at 4:46 AM