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Mike Upchurch

@mikeup.bsky.social

Leftist loudmouth Tar Heel in Chicago. Headbanger, cocktail enthusiast, golf addict, Jeopardy! and The Chase champ, multivalent nerd.

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F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in
December 2025
We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change.
New York City Transit

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

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07.11.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11135    πŸ” 2059    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 116

I can hear it.

07.11.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo from The Guardian news website showing the first-ever white Iberian lynx in Spain. The big cat is mostly white with sparse, faint gray spots and large ears. It sits on a hillside, looking almost directly at the camera with large, gray-green eyes.

A photo from The Guardian news website showing the first-ever white Iberian lynx in Spain. The big cat is mostly white with sparse, faint gray spots and large ears. It sits on a hillside, looking almost directly at the camera with large, gray-green eyes.

Holy shit. I hope he gave the photographer his side quest before he ran off.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

07.11.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If she even made eye contact with them, they'd forget how to speak.

07.11.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a slippery slope to soup.

07.11.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He gets grilled about it because the political consensus within the Democratic Party on the issue is breaking down and as a result elite backlash against the ascendant POV is at an all time high. Trump doesn't get grilled about anything because Republicans aren't actually held to a standard at all.

07.11.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

ICYMI my piece about passports, thank you Liberal Currents for putting this back up on such an infuriating day.

06.11.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is such an idiot and often deliberately so.

07.11.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"You think I'm cringe? Yes, I am. Revolution is not for the ironypilled. Look at us: Transes, Palestinians, SWs... blocklist-fodder. We'll all be banned before Singal is. And yet, π™π™šπ™§π™š π™¬π™š π™–π™§π™š. Where are you, doll? You're here! You're not on X, you're π—₯π—œπ—šπ—›π—§ π—›π—˜π—₯π—˜, and you're ready to π™‹π™Šπ™Žπ™"

07.11.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

07.11.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 12517    πŸ” 5445    πŸ’¬ 382    πŸ“Œ 484

Oh god. Please tell me people aren't sending "boing baskets" for Valentine's Day.

07.11.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Swole arms wield swords.

07.11.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
06.11.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're getting desperate for that incitement and violent response that'll give them cover. Proud of Chicago for not giving in.

06.11.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you’re at the hardcore show trying to ignore the pit next to you

06.11.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Hang on, I'll get my worm kit."

06.11.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

06.11.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 23193    πŸ” 8007    πŸ’¬ 670    πŸ“Œ 1522
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a group of people applauding with barbarosgif written in the corner ALT: a group of people applauding with barbarosgif written in the corner
06.11.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

aka one RFK Jr brain.

06.11.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups β€” a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

06.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

NOT CRYING

06.11.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Gentlemen: thank you for your service.

05.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 7651    πŸ” 792    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 11

These are incredible

05.11.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Grassroots enthusiasm and success = post-electoral accountability. They'll avoid that at all costs.

05.11.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Eric Adams somehow still got 6000 votes. Are there that many Turkish developers eligible to vote in NYC?

05.11.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

asking my psych to prescribe the same dissociatives usha vance is on

06.08.2024 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]

β€”Prop 50 wins
β€”VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
β€”Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
β€”Dems defend NJ-Gov
β€”Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
β€”Mamdani wins
β€”PA Dems win state supreme court
β€”ME anti-mail voting measure loses
β€”GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

05.11.2025 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7678    πŸ” 1866    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 245
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This person took this when they called the race

05.11.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 28819    πŸ” 7014    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 883

We've always been this. It just wasn't this visible.

04.11.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the complaints is lack of access to counsel and the DOJ is saying they can't sue now that they're out of the place that wouldn't give them access to the attorneys who could bring a suit?

04.11.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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