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Many interests. News (38 years in the news biz in Wisconsin). Progressive politics. Pop culture. Vintage soul/R&B/rock LPs. Old sports cards. Baseball. Ballparks. Back roads. Dive bars with good food. Old muscle cars. Local + Packers historian (4 books).

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The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

08.10.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 739    πŸ” 282    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 6

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

07.10.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6880    πŸ” 3311    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 239

The Deep State did it.

08.10.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure the answer to this mystery is in an 88 year-old computer file.

bsky.app/profile/cnn....

08.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

07.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5681    πŸ” 2678    πŸ’¬ 342    πŸ“Œ 333

Cosplay for Losers

08.10.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 617    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 9

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop β€œleft-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag β€” meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

07.10.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3585    πŸ” 1352    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 73
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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

I’ve repeatedly said we need messengers not martyrs. The below link will let you sign up for a No Kings Protest near you.✊🏽

If you’ve never been to a protest, grab a friend & attend. We have a Constitutional right to protest. Use it while we still can.❀️

Register: courage2025.org/nk2
#Courage2025

07.10.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 12

What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.

07.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 645    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 11
Pressed by Democrats on Justice Dept. Politicization, Bondi Goes on Attack

Pressed by Democrats on Justice Dept. Politicization, Bondi Goes on Attack

If the New York Times wanted to focus on the most relevant aspect of Pam Bondi’s testimony, this headline would say that she dodged questions. Instead, NYT postures as β€œobjectiveβ€œ and treats Bondi’s appearance as if it’s a pro wrestling match.
This is media cowardice.

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Taco Chump did that.

08.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dishonest, unserious, fear mongering, performative bullshit. Perfect for unserious, fearful people who want to be fed bullshit.

08.10.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 285    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 3

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

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Definitely not dementia.

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

this seems to get to the heart of The Life of a Showgirl (gift link)

defector.com/taylor-swift...

08.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Take a moment to listen to the inimitable Jane Goodall. RIP. ❀️✊🏽

08.10.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Most normal people care about the cost of food, utilities and healthcare, and those costs are all going up. Many MAGA people care about the Epstein files, and none of those are coming out. These are two drums Democrats should be beating. One brings people to them, the other fractures the opposition.

07.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Never forget that Wisconsin under Scott Walker was the test lab for this. It's been 14 years, and we're still fighting for fair maps.

08.10.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

07.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13725    πŸ” 4417    πŸ’¬ 715    πŸ“Œ 188

Worked for me.

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Pam Bondi won't say what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that border czar Tom Homan pocketed in an FBI undercover investigation that the Trump regime dropped.
We don't even know if Homan paid taxes on the ill-gotten $50,000.
Crime is no longer against the law with these crooks in charge.

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Mapping mundane filming locations all across Los Angeles:

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When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.

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A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ , Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson !" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom , Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

07.10.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10488    πŸ” 3649    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 104

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. β€” This should shake everyone to their core.

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