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Dan in the Midwest

@danbsky.bsky.social
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Consumer of politics, work in D1 collegiate athletics, IT nerd. Everything is shittier when Republicans are in charge.

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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This tax reprieve is set to expire on Nov. 4th (and it's not clear the governor can extend it again on his own), so they will try to blame the sudden sixty cent jump on the Democrats even though they won't take office for three months. "Just the thought of Dumborats in charge drove up the cost!"
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our pols in IN aren’t too bright and believed Trump when he said it was going to be a short war so we’ve had a gas tax holiday for six or more months. Now people are just pissed at the no-tax price of $3.79. And our highway budget is blown so we have even shittier roads to look forward to.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Come on @brandonfriedman.bsky.social. We all know our current planes are a bunch of beardos, weirdos, and fatties. Hegseth is just decommissioning them in favor of some High-T Warfighter Advanced Turbo Combat Attack aircraft. Hoo-ay!
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one knew what a polycule was in the seventies but this couple was a verse or two away from creating one.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seems like only yesterday when the right wing was up in arms about a comedian mentioning Huckabee's "smokey eyes." The rage-gasm was amazing.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want an egg? It's fresh from my body.
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Chicken Lady Dances on Stage
Alt: Chicken Lady Dances on Stage
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pseudofolliculitis barbae
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And the beard thing is patently racist. A huge percentage of black males (50+%) that shave regularly develop pseudofolliculitis barbae - which is essentially skin bumps from ingrown hairs as the tightly coiled curls go back into the skin. It's not medically advisable for some men to shave everyday.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Surprised they didn’t go with double-plus good intelligence.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reginery worthy. Buy in deep discounted bulk at a loss and hand out at conservative events until gone.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The pain is real
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Johann's Irony
Alt: Johann's Irony
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, but I did not watch Jimmy Kimmel.”
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bare minimum Democrats need to stop referring to these guys as “my colleagues across the aisle.” Comity of the Senate is dead. Call these assholes out <checks notes> Chuck Schumer? … fuck me.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US will just be one more bankruptcy for DJT. Lack of access to Canada's massive raw materials aside, any guess how much precision manufacturing tools and research instruments come from Germany? It's not the kind of shit you can "just make here." Way to crush American manufacturing Republicans.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Huh. F’ them just the same. This is life - not Extreme Makeover: Republican Edition.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Big simpin’
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Speaking of lifeless, has anyone heard anything about Mitch?
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Like Hegseth on Friday night.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"No one knows how to deal with meteors better than Big Meteor's in Space Corp."
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the one hand it's impossible to out-stupid the president. On the other hand, you can't just ignore him if political satire is on your beat. Good effort but all too real.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We know the deal. They just aren't ready to admit it to themselves.
Screenshot from Reddit talking about Grindr servers struggling due to the Republican convention. Shows a tweet of a jumbotron image from the convention of a man in a speedo with the caption, "What the hell is going on at the Republican midterm convention???"
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure half of them believe they must've got the DOGE check and just spent it already.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We do lines off the conference table like it's cocaine. Just updated the sign: "7,672 days without a work-related pregnancy."
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
away any veneer that they were there to hold power accountable. So forgive me if I don't reflect on 9/11 as a shiny example of American unity and resolve but rather see it as a day to mourn the path not taken.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
and poured accelerant on the embers of our fascism. Our leaders showed themselves to be villains who cast aside the rule of law to lie us into a war and endorsed torture and black-ops sites losing whatever moral authority we once held in the world. Our media failed in spectacular fashion ripping
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I cannot tolerate 9/11 memorial days. I'm heartbroken at the lost lives and inspired by the self-sacrifice of the first responders, but everything did change that day. We created DHS and sold or freedoms for fake security. We lashed out like angry toddlers
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And the idea that there are centrist Republicans on the ballot is just bonkers. The spectrum is silently complicit to fascism and White Christian Nationalism to full-throated fascism and White Christian Nationalism.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
All those books filled with magic and demonic imagery in our SCHOOLS? Leadin' our children to the DEVIL!
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Internet frantically searching Google for "Pictures of Trump with Miss Piggy"
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
MBA administrators are the norm now in higher ed now. It’s been every bit the disaster we all thought it’d be when it started in earnest in the mid to late 90’s.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
That is completely unhinged.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not content with only losing their current war, they are laser focused on losing the next one too.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think he is offended that we live in a timeline where a literal king can accurately tell us how democracy works and that our "enemy" has more credibility than our own government. Just basing that on his other posts. Who knows ...
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think people underestimate how much knowledge our ancestors had about celestial movements. They watched the shit out of the night sky. Yes - isolated populations may have been scared, but overall they probably understood what was happening. Just the moon moving in front of the sun afterall.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Perfection. Everyone knows a jackass that wouldn't think twice about stealing your good pen and they are just uniformly shitty people.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Or at least foil a plot to shutdown the local amusement park.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They do not. However, people in Missoula also not going to be happy. On the plus side, fewer red state senators will lead to happier lives for everyone. Not that we could ever convince even one state to give up statehood...
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And/or Idaho. Five states joined to make one. We could call it Voltron.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We should probably throw Nebraska in there as well:
Map that merges the Dakotas with Wyoming and Montana to for a new state called Montdakoting.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
That is just a bananas coo-coo post. The decompensation is accelerating.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Additionally, 720,000 people dropped out of the workforce in July. One of the reasons unemployment is holding steady.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Left to center spectrum SO much less important than the answer to the question “Are you fight-coded?”
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And the window to put Trump behind bars has closed. The dementia and failing health are so bad I'll be shocked if he's still functional by the midterms. About a year ago I had him cashing out sometime before August. I'm going to miss that mark, but the drugs won't keep working. We blew our chance.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What's wild is that you can just open maps.google.com and drop a pin at any random location in any big city and literally just see that, "Damn. That doesn't look bad at all." You might land in an alley that has trash bins (heaven forefend), but the cities are basically fine.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If god were real those lips would’ve burst into flames.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Can we get a class action lawsuit going against anyone who bought a Trump flag?
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Higher Ed needs to unionize or behave like unions. All faculty at your campus should be striking.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Stop working with your colleagues across the aisle on anything until they find their spine and stop confirming his appointees and judges and do something about his obvious lawlessness. You can't tout that Trump is a danger to the republic and then turnaround a work with his followers.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Adults 50 and older dominate the broadcast TV viewing demographic. Also skews slightly to poorer and rural. This is the way.
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Dan in the Midwest @danbsky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I think he has dementia, and while he may have known in 2020 that he lost, his malignant narcissism coupled with a hugely diminished frontal lobe, he now 100% believes every stupid thing that comes out of his mouth - including that vandals damaged the reflecting pool.
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