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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I have a nifty Bill Clinton official presidential seal key fob somewhere around here somewhere, and I didn't have to give him my Nobel Prize to get it

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

There is nothing classy about Jack Daniels

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The phrase "correct papers" is more likely to provoke low level ptsd in a retired professor than good mental health

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Trump is bragging again about acing a cognitive test. Fortunately for him, they removed the Armenia v Albania screen

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

There is nothing bizarre about it if you realize market forces, including distribution through private supply chains, not state government policy, determines the energy mix. State-level ideology literally has nothing to do with it.

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Nancy Mace just discovered MAGA is misogynistic. Next people who are not White might also notice another conspicuous pattern. Who knows where this leads?

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Don't forget what never happened

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If you hear the word "detox" and it doesn't involve dialysis, you're already off to the races

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The drive to strip birthright citizenship is much more than one of Trump's anti-immigrant antics--its an attack on the Constitution and all of its protections

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

With all due respect... but this is a practical question. People need to mobilize--what is happening is a fledgling effort to consolidate some form of authoritarianism--in open populist warfare against the elites including the general officer corps, who they are purging

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is not 'elite' policymaking. Trump is a populist who is acting with hostility for the elites. The military, its general officer corps, the intelligence and foreign policy establishment, and most businesses hate the idea of a war. Right wing populist have replaced the old elites.

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Nobody invites Lane Kiffin to parties

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Smells like Lame Duck Flambé for Thanksgiving!

Charts the decline in the 3-day floating average of Trump support over the last month from over 44% to under 41%

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Trump: the Other White Meat

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Excellent explanation for why we need single-payer health care

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Its called "single payer"! You know, socialism!

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Ft Wayne? Nothing against the fine folks who live there

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Watch out, everyone—a narcissist is never so dangerous than when he faces rejection

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Wait a second... you mean we benefit from importing goods and services that we don't produce well here? And that would mean we could sell goods and services we are good at? This is revolutionary! Who knew!

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Look up 'sarcasm' on Google

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

And you know the rule: anyone who campaigns for the Prize and loses is no longer eligible

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We have those those people in Florida--mainly around Orlando --but they are not free-ranging. They are confined to reservations with names like "Disney World"

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

As a Floridian, the outstanding thing here is the car that patiently puts on its signal and goes slowly by the pedestrians--under no condition would that happen here--pedestrians get near a curb at their own risk

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Who looks threatening--these guys or the frogs?

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Who are you going to believe: Kristi Noem, puppy killer, or your own eyes

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Yes, and the residents are lying and videos and photographs are lying, and the journalists are lying, and everyone with friends and family who are reassured that everything is fine in Portland and Chicago are lying, the Portland dogs out on their walks are lying, the IPA is lying, the truth is lying

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If the federal government were really interested in solving the violence problems in midwestern cities they would swoop in o the hand-full of firearms stores in NW Indiana that supply most handguns to gangs throughout the region and shut them down

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

To borrow a phrase 'every word (he says) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’”

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

From the front in war torn Portland--notice the terror in the eyes of the police officers! The horror! This is the Big Lie unfolding in real time--one third of the country thinks two of our greatest cities have crumbled into disorder--and its a complete fabrication

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We are all Oranians now, if that's a word

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Or the plague, which is why Camus is relavent today

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

So says Hobbes—many have noted that fear is an insufficient means of securing collective action—legitimacy must be secured. Some basis of legitimacy has to exist so that most people go along as if they believe the order of authority has a basis in reason or faith—we are in a legitimization crisis

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Rarely does photojournalism capture the realities of the front lines in urban warfare so vividly! This has Pulitzer written all over it!

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Democratic backsliding began with Newt Gingrich in the House violating established norms, Fox News broking journalistic norms to pander to grievance, and the Supreme Court blew up limitations on the wealthy dominating electoral communications, and other structural changes in the 1990s

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms, held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape, & we’re all out of shared norms & have shredded our last rolls of tape. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Is this satire? I can’t tell anymore

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Batman on METV: Egghead, played by Vincent Price, takes over Gotham City and fires everyone competent, and bans the dynamic duo—prophetic?

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

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