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Retired planner, hiker, union activist, canoeist, radio journalist, trombone-player, trouble-maker.

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‘Shut Up, Mother! Shut Up!’ Pleads George W. Bush To Dick Cheney Skeleton Dressed In Suit

‘Shut Up, Mother! Shut Up!’ Pleads George W. Bush To Dick Cheney Skeleton Dressed In Suit

‘Shut Up, Mother! Shut Up!’ Pleads George W. Bush To Dick Cheney Skeleton Dressed In Suit https://theonion.com/shut-up-mother-shut-up-pleads-george-w-bush-to-dick-cheney-skeleton-dressed-in-suit/

07.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 2083    🔁 248    💬 19    📌 8
Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's third (and as it turned out last) Socialist mayor, celebrates his victory on election night, April 4, 1948.

Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's third (and as it turned out last) Socialist mayor, celebrates his victory on election night, April 4, 1948.

While New York City just elected first socialist mayor, #Milwaukee has had 3 of them

www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

05.11.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Former US VP Dick Cheney dead at 84, Punchbowl News says Former U.S Vice President Dick Cheney has died at 84, Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman said in a post on X on Tuesday.

Can't wait for all of the accusations of not mourning correctly.

04.11.2025 11:35 — 👍 123    🔁 16    💬 7    📌 6
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The first honest American president Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

30.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finding Home on Highway 14: Episode 3 - WORT-FM 89.9 Nicole Gruter brings us the latest installment of her travelogue “Finding Home on Highway 14.” But she joins us live from our Madison studio. Did her vehicle break down? Did she find a magical portal ...

Nicole Gruter brings us the latest installment of her travelogue “Finding Home on Highway 14.” But she joins us live from our Madison studio. Did her vehicle break down? Did she find a magical portal that warps time and space? Listen up and find out.

www.wortfm.org/finding-home...

28.10.2025 03:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Money, Lies & God - WORT-FM 89.9 Author Katherine Stewart will tell us about her new book, “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.”

Author Katherine Stewart tells the Monday 8 O'Clock Buzz on WORT FM about her new book, “Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.”

www.wortfm.org/money-lies-g...

28.10.2025 03:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wisconsin Elections Update - WORT-FM 89.9 The Wisconsin Elections Commission appeals a court ruling requiring citizenship checks for voters. And who would have guessed that Representative Scott Krug would become the voice of moderation in the...

The Wisconsin Elections Commission appeals a court ruling requiring citizenship checks for voters. Who would have guessed that Representative Scott Krug would become the voice of moderation in the State GOP? Votebeat Wisconsin’s Alex Shur joins us with an update.

www.wortfm.org/wisconsin-el...

28.10.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gen Z protests - Wikipedia

USA, learn from the global youth.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Z_p...

27.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Workers Under Shutdown - WORT-FM 89.9 The federal government shutdown enters its fourth week with no end in sight. What’s not getting done, and how is the shutdown affecting government workers? We’ll talk with Nicole Cantello, EPA scienti...

Nicole Cantello, AFGE Local 704 President and Aryn Melton Backus, a former CDC employee and a member of Fired but Fighting talk to the 8 O'Clock Buzz about life under shutdown.

www.wortfm.org/federal-work...

21.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Birdability Makes Birding Accessible - WORT-FM 89.9 Participating in birding, one of the most popular and fastest-growing outdoor activities in the country, shouldn’t depend on being physically abled. Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance’s Brenna Marcisek ...

Participating in birding, one of the most popular and fastest-growing outdoor activities in the country, shouldn’t depend on being physically abled. Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance’s Brenna Marcisek and Birdability’s Cat Fribley talk about Birdability Week.

www.wortfm.org/birdability-...

21.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Growing Up Native in Wisconsin - WORT-FM 89.9 Ho Chunk Elder and storyteller Sherman Funmaker will give us a preview of his story workshop at Meadowridge Library.

Ho Chunk Elder and storyteller Sherman Funmaker gave the Monday 8 O'Clock Buzz on WORT 89.9 FM a preview of his story workshop at Meadowridge Library.

www.wortfm.org/growing-up-n...

21.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act The results will be "catastrophic."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

16.10.2025 04:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

16.10.2025 02:45 — 👍 1245    🔁 411    💬 63    📌 22

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate-backed Wall Street Democrats and embrace Zohran Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

15.10.2025 17:21 — 👍 2437    🔁 660    💬 72    📌 31
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Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

15.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 8300    🔁 3016    💬 2395    📌 1227

Things that should be self-evident, but apparently aren't.
- Democracy is good.
- More democracy is better.
- Fascism is bad.
- Anti-Fascism is good.
- Diversity, equity and inclusion are all good.
- Racism, inequity and exclusion are all bad.
- Black lives do, in fact, matter.

11.10.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

07.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 11105    🔁 2878    💬 85    📌 126
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‘Not a punchline’: 15 dehumanising quotes on Gaza atrocities by US figures Van Jones apologises for joke about dead Palestinian babies, but not alone when it comes to insensitive remarks on Gaza.

Genocidal, vile, racist scumbags, everyone of them.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

08.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stephen Miller’s cousin calls him ‘face of evil’ for role in immigration crackdown Miller’s cousin said that she feels that she needs to ‘grieve for what he has become’

The banality of evil.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

06.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

-Governor Pritzker

04.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 27    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Are we in a civil war, yet?

04.10.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought the GOP was all about states' rights.

04.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

04.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 6434    🔁 3890    💬 215    📌 529

I thought the GOP was the "states' rights" party.

04.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stehen Miller would deport his own grandmother.

04.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mario Guevara

Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

24.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 6374    🔁 3749    💬 37    📌 70

Poverty isn’t an accident. It’s a tool. The government and wealthy elites keep millions struggling to maintain control.

That’s why universal healthcare and #UBI don’t exist, they’d break the system of power.

24.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 74    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 2

Maybe they won't be able to put an army in the field. Wouldn't be the worst outcome.

25.09.2025 01:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.

Shocking that this has to be said.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

23.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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