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Mark Patterson

@serfac.bsky.social

Writer, rank amateur photographer, former cult member, tech veteran, imposter syndrome survivor. Publishes “Things to Realize” on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/markpatterson

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Weekend Update with Emily Latella Editorial - Saturday Night Live
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The only good thing to come out of the Fairness Doctrine

youtu.be/GQppLas38uI?...

15.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A culture that considers itself the only true “heritage” of a society is a culture that is inbred and diseased. It needs to go.

A culture that protects affluent powerful perps over the victims they assaulted, abused, and/or killed is a culture that must die.

Is that culture being replaced? Yes.

13.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I honestly don’t give a shit what Trump spews. The show was insanely great. And truly American.

09.02.2026 02:07 — 👍 88    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Right? It worked well for
Me.

09.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

08.02.2026 05:06 — 👍 14973    🔁 8449    💬 159    📌 310

Read it all please.

05.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 2381    🔁 1218    💬 70    📌 38
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It’s time to tap into your internal lesbian anger! Even if you’re straight. Now is the time to fight for your 1st Amendment rights! Let’s go!

28.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 2838    🔁 796    💬 89    📌 61

Weak people with guns.

26.01.2026 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only president to keep the Patriots out of the Super Bowl this century? Joe Biden

25.01.2026 23:00 — 👍 3722    🔁 568    💬 48    📌 39

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

24.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 38771    🔁 9595    💬 1120    📌 893
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Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.

“The federal government is no longer bound by law. If agents of the state may kill people in public without being investigated; if they have—again, per VP Vance—“absolute immunity” from prosecution then we are living in an authoritarian regime.”

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

25.01.2026 01:55 — 👍 1405    🔁 471    💬 60    📌 21
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2 asteroids the size of 22 penguins to pass Earth this weekend - NASA | The Jerusalem Post Both asteroids 2023 AT and 2023 AE1 are as much as 22 meters wide, meaning 22 emperor penguins. They won't hit us though – penguins are more likely to.

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.

www.jpost.com/science/arti...

23.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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19.01.2026 21:08 — 👍 13753    🔁 4082    💬 609    📌 384

Small-d “blame the victim” vibes.

14.01.2026 08:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Small D motherfuckers.

13.01.2026 10:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’ll keep killing until we stop calling them killers? Tom, put down the glass and sober up.

11.01.2026 20:54 — 👍 1212    🔁 239    💬 87    📌 13

Impeach. Convict. Remove.
Indict. Convict. Jail.
Repeat.

What the actual fuck? How many crimes does it take with this fucking guy?

03.01.2026 15:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

Must read www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

31.12.2025 21:35 — 👍 424    🔁 100    💬 17    📌 6

The writers had one idea: what if there was a Buddhist Rapture? and then blew it. I was done at Soylent Green but ep 7 was ridiculous.
I will say the goat in the last episode was the most real thing in the series.
I won’t be watching the new seasons.

31.12.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Refusing to be joined in Pluribus specifically because I don't want to share a mind with Stephen Miller. Fuck that guy

24.12.2025 23:06 — 👍 150    🔁 10    💬 5    📌 0
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37 years ago today: Dawn is breaking over a peaceful Nakatomi Plaza, after a rather turbulent Christmas Eve.

25.12.2025 14:51 — 👍 583    🔁 50    💬 16    📌 2

Thank God for their incompetence

24.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@kevingbrady.bsky.social it’s a better place.

16.12.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.

15.12.2025 16:45 — 👍 7663    🔁 1045    💬 438    📌 57
Sleepless in Seattle
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I can’t process the loss of Rob Reiner and his wife. I just can’t.

I can only be grateful I we shared this Earth together. I feel he’s been my friend for 55 years.

Humor. Humor is the way. May his memory be a blessing.
youtu.be/CVwwYxZzlSM?...

15.12.2025 13:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

12.12.2025 17:40 — 👍 10426    🔁 2725    💬 186    📌 140

We realize this is freaking insane, right?

11.12.2025 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.

09.12.2025 23:52 — 👍 1789    🔁 365    💬 87    📌 9

Trump is a killer and destroyer of men and women. Why would any of you be complicit?

04.12.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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