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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 07/07/2026

I love this app, but this one is going to be a hard pass for me.

Screenshot of an application notification on my phone from the FotMob app letting me know that the extended official highlights of today’s USMNT match vs. Belgium are now available.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 06/07/2026

Superintendent Thurmond, you currently have 0.7 percent of the vote in the gubernatorial primary. I doubt Newsom is going to lose sleep about not getting your endorsement. This reform idea isn't new. It isn't a gimmick. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Screenshot of a paragraph from the Sacramento Bee story. The paragraph's text includes:

"“I’ve known this governor for a long time. We’ve been allies for a very long time,” Thurmond said. “I know that he’s going to run for president, and on most days he’s somebody that I would support, but this proposal to me is kind of a gimmick. I would say nine out of 10 times I’ll vote for him, but on the 10th day, if he’s putting forward things that I know are a gimmick and will not advance strong educational outcomes, then I’m going to be like, why should I support that?”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 29/05/2026

Okay, Stephen, you fascist ghoul.

Stephen Miller appears on television with sprayed-on hair to cover, badly, his balding head.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 25/04/2026

I just saw one of these misleading ads during halftime of the Bay FC at Gotham FC game on CBS. How does PG&E have money to spend on political advertising when they need to do more to upgrade their systems to stop burning down parts of the state?

Screenshot of a SF Standard headline: “PG&E launches $10 million PAC to take out gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer.” A photo of Steyer answering a question during a press conference with a gas station in the background is below the headline.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 17/04/2026

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is correct: Rahm Emanuel should never be president. Pundits are only going to embarrass themselves—and him (which is the only thing worth watching with Emanuel’s campaign). chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026…

Screenshot of a portio of a Chicago Sun-Times story about Rahm Emanuel’s presidential campaign.

Here is the text quoted on the image, featuring quotes from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

“I have very deep concerns about the former mayor of the city of Chicago. What he did in Chicago — from school closures to privatization to austere budgets,” Johnson said during his monthly appearance on WBEZ-FM’s “Ask the Mayor” program before a live audience.

“There was a boy who was murdered by a police officer and it was covered up,” Johnson added. “That’s disqualifying for me.” Johnson’s cover-up allegation was a reference to the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by now-convicted former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.

Dashcam video of Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times while the teenager was walking away from the officer with a knife in his hand was withheld by the city until a circuit judge ordered the city to release it 14 months after the shooting.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 02/04/2026

Trump can fire as many people as he wants, but no amount of these announcements will fix the Iran War or make us forget about the Epstein files.

A screenshot from the movie Mean Girls with Cady Heron (portrayed by Lindsay Lohan) looking to the left and saying “The limit does not exist.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 12/01/2026

Bankers thought this crap was more important than an independent Federal Reserve.

Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 23/11/2025

Oh, yeah!!!! My first-ever championship game! Washington vs. Gotham. Let’s do this! #NWSL

Right before kickoff before the NWSL Championship game. Players are waiting for the whistle.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 21/10/2025

It involves a New York-related story. Why would anyone expect him to know? 🙄

Image is a screenshot of a February 19, 2025, post from the official White House Instagram account.

The image is mocked up to resemble a Time magazine cover, with the word "TRUMP" in all caps replacing the magazine's title. The image includes a painting of President Trump wearing a crown with the words “Long Live the King” as a headline in the lower left corner.

The caption for the Instagram post reads, “"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD.
Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
-President Donald J. Trump”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 19/10/2025

Interesting how the MAGA cultists forget why these protests ended up having the #NoKings branding. We haven’t forgotten though.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 18/10/2025

#NoKings Sacramento. It’s true: the only monarch we want here is the butterfly.

Photo from thr Sacramento No Kings rally showing a state Capitol building in the background with many people holding signs in support of the No Kings rally.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 12/09/2025

The Republican kingmaker who was not part of the establishment. Legacy media reporters and editors are demonstrating just how out of touch they are. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Screenshot of two paragraphs from the New York Times obituary for Charlie Kirk. The text includes:

"By the end of 2024, he was considered something of a kingmaker. He had been an early champion of selecting Senator JD Vance of Ohio as Mr. Trump’s running mate. Several of his biggest donors received positions in the Trump administration, and he was central in rallying support behind embattled cabinet nominees like Pete Hegseth, who was accused of sexual assault after Mr. Trump chose him to be secretary of defense.

He likewise rallied his supporters against Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, who he said was not sufficiently supportive of Mr. Trump. She resigned in early 2024."

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 21/08/2025

NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman needs to be fired or resign. Putting player safety at risk must never be acceptable.

Screenshot of the lede paragraph of the Athletic story. The text includes:

By Tamerra Griffin, Asli Pelit and
Melanie Anzidei

National Women's Soccer League
commissioner Jessica Berman threatened to fine the Kansas City Current after a disagreement over extreme heat procedures that delayed a match against Orlando Pride by roughly three and a half hours on Saturday, multiple sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic. Both teams were concerned about the extreme heat. The league wanted the game to proceed when possible so it could be televised.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 09/08/2025

I guess those decades of strategery have not developed into great solutions for the Chamber’s members. Perhaps it is time for an accountability moment?

Buographical info about the author od the Chamber’s web post.

“Neil Bradley

Neil Bradley is executive vice president, chief policy officer, and head of strategic advocacy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He has spent two decades working directly with congressional committee chairpersons and other high-ranking policymakers to achieve solutions.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 10/07/2025

Oh sure, Ken. I think you should get just as much privacy as you have been willing to give people who are pregnant seeking reproductive health care or trans people seeking gender-affirming health care.

Screenshot of text from the article:

“Ken Paxton posted on X shortly after his wife.

"After facing the pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny, Angela and I have decided to start a new chapter in our lives," he wrote. "I could not be any more proud or grateful for the incredible family that God has blessed us with, and I remain committed to supporting our amazing children and grandchildren. I ask for your prayers and privacy at this time."

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 08/07/2025

The Oxford comma could be the new third rail of politics. From mamdanitimes.com.

Text of a fake headline, "Mamdani's Use of Oxford Comma Raises Questions Amid No Record of Attendance" from mamdanitimes.com, a website that creates New York Times satirical headlines about New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani:

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 08/07/2025

Are we sure this one is satire? From mamdanitimes.com.

Text of a fake headline, "In Mamdani, Some Democrats Recoil at Sight of Popularity" from mamdanitimes.com, a website that creates New York Times satirical headlines about New York Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani:

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/07/2025

So why did you grant anonymity to an eugenicist who was publicly named in a March 2025 story from The Guardian? Why was this story so important to grant that privilege to this person @nytimes.com? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot from a Guardian story from March 3, 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics
“Jordan Lasker, AKA 'Cremieux'
One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics.

The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform's proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates.

On 27 November, Musk reposted a Cremieux comment on falling birthrates, adding: "With rare exception, all countries are trending towards…”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 03/07/2025

If the Vice President believes that all that matters is the ICE funding and immigration enforcement, why allow Republicans to make the MAGA Death Bill so bad? Trump seems to be able to compel Republicans to agree to whatever he wants. So why not just do those things and extend the tax cuts?

Screenshot of a tweet by Vice President JD Vance: "Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions."

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 30/06/2025

Damn it. Stop it with this. It isn’t 1992. Please read the GD room.

An image of a text message exchange from an unknown number.

The message to me in a grey bubble: “SMS
Today 11:31 AM
James Carville just issued a grave warning on CNN. You have GOT to see >> https:/.
delbene.to/sd56
Stop to quit”

My reply in a green bubble:
“I have no interest in any organization that uses James Carville as its hook.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 15/06/2025

Oh how I love this sign from Philadelphia today. #NoKingsDay

Screenshot of a photo from the Philadelphia No Kings protest on June 14, 2025. The text is black ink on cardboard. It includes a graphic of the Constitution with the phrase “Maybe this thing was a masterpiece til you tore it all up.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 30/05/2025

Welcome back to the playlist. I’ve missed you (but it was worth it)!

Screen cap from Spotify showing Out of the Woods (The Original Version) playing on my phone.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 10/05/2025

It is so important to make sure people are aware of the horrible history that makes some of us uncomfortable with the branding decision here.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 27/04/2025

Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR

Clip from the movie Sneakers. “I might even be able to crash the whole damn system.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 08/04/2025

Here’s what the real author of that book thinks. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

An image including a two-paragraph quote from a New Yorker article about the ghost writer of the Art of the Deal. The quoted text says:

"I put lipstick on a pig," he said. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is." He went on, "I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.

If he were writing "The Art of the Deal" today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title.
Asked what he would call it, he answered, "The Sociopath."

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 05/04/2025

But I was taught that the unelected Senate parliamentarian was the most powerful official who existed when it comes to budget reconciliation. Oh wait. That’s only when Democrats are in the majority. How naive of me.

Image of text from the article. That text is: “The Senate parliamentarian is in charge of interpreting and enforcing those rules, and ordering lawmakers to strip out any provisions that do not comply. But this year, Senate Republicans are saying they will rely on their own interpretation of the budget rules where it concerns their tax cut plans, sidestepping the parliamentarian altogether.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 13/03/2025

I guess his faith in Christ doesn’t quite inform every aspect of his life since he rejects the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount.

Text on a white background from his website: Keith met the love of his life, Tracy, at a Young Life Christian Fellowship group.
Faith in Christ is the foundation of their
lives and marriage. Their faith informs every aspect of life and serves as the chief motivator for Keith's service to others.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 11/03/2025

It appears that @keithself.bsky.social’s faith in Christ doesn’t quite extend to every aspect of his life. Instead he is one of those self-righteous heretics who rejects the message of the Sermon on the Mount (among other teachings). Fighting back against these monsters is necessary.

Text from Rep. Self’s campaign website bio: “Keith met the love of his life, Tracy, at a Young Life Christian Fellowship group. Faith in Christ is the foundation of their lives and marriage. Their faith informs every aspect of life and serves as the chief motivator for Keith's service to others.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/03/2025

With Trump playing the stupid tariff card, Cory Doctorow explains how countries that signed free trade agreements with the USA now have an opportunity to stick it to big tech and help lower tech prices for all users around the world. I hope someone chooses this path. pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/f...

An image of a quote from the Cory Doctorow blog post linked in the post. "But foreigners don't have to tolerate this nonsense. Governments around the world signed up to protect giant American companies from small domestic competitors (from local app stores – for phones, games consoles, and IoT gadgets – to local printer cartridge remanufacturers) on the promise of tariff-free access to US markets. With Trump imposing tariffs will-ye or nill-ye on America's trading partners large and small, there is no reason to go on delivering rents to US Big Tech.

The first country or bloc (hi there, EU!) to do this will have a giant first-mover advantage, and could become a global export powerhouse, dominating the lucrative markets for tools that strike at the highest-margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in the history of the human race. Like Jeff Bezos told the publishers: "your margin is my opportunity"

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 02/02/2025

I’m wondering if we should make sure that Trump and the apartheid guy understand that this movie is not an actual war plan.

A movie poster for the 1995 film Canadian Bacon featuring a huge boot with a maple leaf about to step on the Statue of Liberty.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 19/01/2025

The Telegraph's Tim Stanley quotes a joke Tony Blair included in his latest book that seems relevant today.

Blair includes a joke, a very good one, that feels accidentally pertinent. Some people die; the Devil appears and asks them, before they settle for Heaven, to take a look at Hell, because it’s not as bad as they’ve heard. They see Hell – “drinking and debauchery” – so ask to be damned. Then they wake up in the real Hell – “cold, miserable and horrible” – and demand to know why it looks nothing like what the Devil showed them. Ah well, says the Devil, “back then I was campaigning.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/12/2024

It’s such an outstanding song. Second year in the row with this song for me. I drive a lot, and 10 minutes is often exactly what I need.

Graphic showing my top Spotify Wrapped Song of 2024

All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/12/2024

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day! Here’s my report card for 2024. What was yours?

Graphic showing My Spotify Wrapped Top Artists for 2024

My Top Artists
1 Taylor Swift
2 Bleachers
3 Nicholas Britell
4 Sabrina Carpenter
5 Gracie Abrams

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/12/2024

Here’s my Spotify report card:

Graphic showing my Spotify Wrapped Top Songs for 2024

1 All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)
by Taylor Swift

2 Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)
by Taylor Swift, Post Malone

3 Modern Girl
by Bleachers

4 Succession - Andante Risoluto
by Nicholas Britell

5 How Did It End?
by Taylor Swift

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 08/11/2024

It is vital that as many people as possible follow Lesson 1 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s On Tyranny: “Do not obey in advance.”

Lesson 1 from On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder: “Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 04/10/2024

The reporter did an excellent job here.

Quoting from the article: “Indigenous people, including the Nez Perce tribe, have lived in the Columbia River Basin for thousands of years. Foreman was born in Lake Forest, Illinois.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 02/10/2024

This Cubs fan was glad to see @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social rip into Jed Hoyer for his insulting sustainability comments. The Cubs should be competing to win, not hoping things turn out okay.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 17/09/2024

I will forever be sad I was a bit slow to catch on to this place.

Bluesky card that I was user number 193,088 (top 10 percent) on BlueSky as they celebrate 10 million users.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 13/08/2024

He retweeted this four days ago. I guess Kirk didn’t mean it.

Image of a retweet from Kirk Herbstreit’s account that includes the quote that “I think a mature Christian is someone who is very difficult to offend.”

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 06/08/2024

I do enjoy the Walz political origin story. This is from a November 2018 profile in the Mankato Free Press by Robb Murray. www.mankatofreepress.com/news/lifesty...

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 23/07/2024

I am temporarily deep inside enemy territory. I am hoping my red Manchester United kit will help me blend in a little as I test some local adult beverages. Okay. Wish me luck...

A photo of me wearing a Cubs hat and Manchester United shirt while in front of a St. Louis airport newsstand.

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Craig Cheslog @craigcheslog.com · 15/07/2024

Political violence is never acceptable. However, we must not allow our response to it to facilitate the fall into authoritarianism. Here’s an important reminder from @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

Image featuring Rule #1 from Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Do not obey in advance.

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