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Brett Lorenzen

@brettlorenzen.bsky.social
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JD, LLM. Jack-of-all-trades. My posts are my own. "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” – Edward Abbey

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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They assume this post implies violence. But the same outcome would occur if the journalists merely stared directly into Melania’s eyes…..
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The intelligent way to employ data centers 💯🎯
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"How did you get into TTRPGs?" We were located about 90 miles from Lake Geneva and D&D made it to us fast. We had a weekly 8-10 person game night with rotating DM duties in high school starting fall 1979.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oops.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Your hint that corporate America doesn’t see the price of gas dropping for years.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I heard Jack Smith is attending the Hawkeyes vs Buckeyes game in Iowa City today. And Eric Schmitt is setting up a sting at the Milwaukee airport.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just FYI: Inflation did NOT decline last month. Instead, the Trump Administration adopted a new method of calculating inflation to make it look lower. Americans know what they are paying. They know that prices are rising faster than wages. Trump expects his base to believe his lies.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A short lesson on diesel exports: Each day, the US produces about 1.3 million more barrels of diesel than it consumes and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of diesel. The high price of diesel in the USA is NOT due to a shortage. The price is high because it is set by world markets. 1/3
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social: “Jared Kushner should be up there the first day you have the gavel. And then after that, I'd start subpoenaing every company these guys have a contract with.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “The kids are where I think everybody needs to start looking.”
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because we don’t need that information any more?
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More using government money to promote Trump. This time an SMS from the GSA.
An SMS message encouraging Americans to vote from vote.gov arrives emblazoned with a photo of Donald Trump.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I find it interesting that despite the highest diesel prices ever, and the biggest shortage, we aren’t hearing squat from the biodiesel folks. Because it turns out that biodiesel is not less expensive than regular diesel even when diesel is expensive, and isn’t a magic solution to fuel shortages.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a fan of Thomson-Reuters (and their $1500/month AI system), but they are right in this case.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a Michigan fan, I guess I can empathize with Eric Schmitt. The Iowa Hawkeyes are exposing a lot of people as gigantic frauds these days.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The form for this event has fine print telling you that if you submit, you agree to receive Trump SMS and emails. There is no option to decline.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
eric schmitt screen grab
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dude, your guy promised Americans he'd fix EVERYTHING on day one. DAY ONE.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amind the hoopla over RFK Jr's MAHA movement and his and Hegseth's fixation on testosterone levels, the reality is that the 2nd most widely used pesticide in the USA has been proven to cause chemical castration and even sex change in various animals. Naturally, no research on people.
theguardian.com
Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Having a comedian there seems redundant.
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RAYGUN @raygunsite.com · 28/09/2026
Iowa vs Ohio State. Winner will be the only one allowed to use THE in their name?! New shirt online now, in stores this week: www.raygunsite.com/collections/... #raygun #hawkeyes #iowa #THEOhioStateUniversity
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
zinnedproject.org
Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There’s still time for Iowa to punt one more time before half time #hawkeyes
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My Iowa-Michigan prediction: The total number of combined punts will exceed the total combined team scores.
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Drives Like a Dream @urban-achiever.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i wonder if the people at flock see the irony in this.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Forgot to post yesterday that a Polk County Court dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and its former pollster, Ann Selzer. Read the strong defense of the First Amendment and comprehensive dismantling of "consumer fraud" claims: www.bleedingheartland.com/static/media...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Fire stations are paying more and waiting longer for new trucks. Why? A few big corporations bought up the fire truck industry and jacked up costs. That's not right. Corporate greed can't come before public safety.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But they’re not willing to ban customers who use them
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh FFS.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I noticed Apple weather has capitulated…..
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Iowa is going to exceed the O/U for the whole game in the first half.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So not only must universities host speakers who are hostile to their mission and members, but they've got to guarantee their safety while doing so? Kirk made a career off the Professor Watchlist, leading many academics to fear for their safety. Do they get to send TPUSA a bill for their troubles?
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Someone made me an offer I couldn’t refuse And a driftboat followed me home today. (For the fly fishers out there, it’s a 1992 Adipose South Fork Skiff. Almost mint, but it’s getting a full restoration this winter….) #flyfishing
A vintage 1992 Adipose South Fork Skiff driftboat sits on the banks of a river awaiting a float. The boat has two seats and a rowers bench in the center
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This should be EVERYWHERE.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
Promoting an illegal war in the Middle East by fear mongering over weapons of mass destruction on the 9/11 anniversary is a little on the nose
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The single biggest phone spammer I have ever encountered is the damn White House. How do you block that crap?
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The ONLY outcome of a surplus should be sharing it, through services or lower taxes, with the American people There simply is no other legitimate outcome.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nice to see someone raising this issue.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I log in to Ticketmaster early to get Stevie Wonder tickets, and as soon as I am let in there are 677,000 people in the queue ahead of me. I liked it better when you had to mail in requests with a refundable money order months in advance. You had to really want it.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RS with your home river. Upper Delaware River system: East and West Branches, Beaverkill, Willowemoc.
The Highway 97 bridge across the east branch of the Delaware at sunrise.  The sun is above the Catskill mountains, and the river winds between the ridges.
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Brett Lorenzen @brettlorenzen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why doesn’t Nicholas Cage just kick its ass?
apple.news
Malibu residents evacuate after massive, expanding sinkhole opens at Nicolas Cage's house — Los Angeles Times
Evacuation orders were issued for 31 Malibu homes due to a massive and expanding sinkhole in the driveway of Nicolas Cage's property.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
heartlandsignal.com
Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism headline:

> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#satire
Trump Details Harrowing
Flight 93 Battle Where 
He Personally Wrestled
Hijackers While Yelling
‘Let’s Roll’

[pic of plane flying]  

Satire
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 07/09/2026
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot… hartmannreport.com/p/has-the-me...
hartmannreport.com
Has the Media Normalized the GOP’s Voter Suppression Right Before Our Very Eyes?
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot…
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