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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 11h

Any Dem President wannabes wanna make that pledge?

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 September 1789:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0248

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's like a school of terrestrial redhorse in a feeding frenzy.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/106217-Moxostoma-pappillosum

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nice tires on your ICE vehicle, officer. It'd be a shame if something happened to them.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I bet they are. That was probably the batch Putin was supposed to send with spies to release in major U.S. cities 2 weeks before the election so Trump could declare a national emergency and shut down elections. Wait, did I post that or just think it?

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's a Chess move ONLY if you follow through to pressure/primary the centrist Dems who want to preserve the status quo, their power, and corporate funding at the expense of any REAL progress toward that "world we want to live in." Otherwise it's just Chutes and Ladders: 10 steps forward, 9 back.

Chutes and Ladders, a popular board game published by the Milton Bradley Company starting in 1943.

It's based on Snakes and Ladders, a worldwide classic board game that originated in ancient India as Moksha Patam ('liberation lesson'), which was brought to the United Kingdom in the 1890s.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Left Dem voters repeatedly turning out to help centrist Dem politicians stay in power is analogous to parents who protect their children from the natural consequences of poor decisions: it does them no good in the long run.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not too difficult to block that 4th remaining exit. All it takes is a little incompetence. Or maybe a couple drones.

A massive container ship (the Ever Given) got stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal on March 23, 2026, halting marine traffic for almost a week.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/world/gallery/suez-canal-stuck-ship

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@kairyssdal.bsky.social You just gotta love that unbridled optimism over at CNBC, where "stocks are mixed" despite showing all three major indexes in the red right below that title 🤣

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But "other, more serious choices" might not be as willing to ask Putin to help again this November.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Kushner (Hakeem Jeffries' new buddy) and Witkoff are okay with Putin keeping oil prices high by aiding Iran (U.S. soldiers' lives are a sacrifice they're willing to make). The real reason they're meeting with Putin is not that, or peace with Ukraine, it's to ask for help with U.S. elections. Again.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The parties are part of the same machine. One part of that machine cannot seriously damage the other part without hurting itself. The machine only produces for the highest bidder. To provide the illusion of choice, in some years, more of it is painted red. In other years, more is painted blue.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This much? (FUN FACT: #5 on the list, Brownstein et al, continued lobbying the U.S. Govt on behalf of the Saudis AFTER the Saudis murdered Washington post journalist Jamal Khashoggi...yet Hakeem Jeffries is happy to take their money). @housedemocrats.bsky.social @usprogressives.bsky.social

Source (8/29/2026): https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/hakeem-jeffries/us_congress/organizations?mpid=1050304

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Establishment Dems (like Jeffries) and establishment GOP have EXACTLY the same boss: 💰 (and if you're wondering who the "third party" is in the definition below...it's we the voters. All of us, from left to right).

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Guardian refers to the costume as 'offensive' (in quotes); the NYT says it was 'criticized as racist.' Neither papers have the backbone to just call it offensive and racist themselves, as if it were a grey area. Cowards.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nipples on an alligator might be very useful...for distracting drunk rednecks just long enough to earn the gator an easy meal.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One option is to primary Jeffries, and anybody who votes for him to be Speaker, before the 2028 elections. Collaborators in the relatively recent past would have wished that's all that happened to them.

The 4th of 6 members of the Nazi collaborationist Milice (Vichy police) moments before being shot by a Maquis firing squad, in front of brick factory where 23 patriots were executed by the Germans in July.
Location: Grenoble, France
Date taken: September 2, 1944
Photographer: Carl Mydans

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe we can get him to trade in "The Beast" for a black custom 1961 Lincoln Continental four-door convertible (there's plenty of room for Natalie Harp in the trunk).

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Or, if that doesn't drive home the contrast, there's this version:

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The pattern suggests this is a bot or a MAGAt shitposter. Ignore it.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Are things so bad that we hope viruses will come to rescue our country? open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Story 1: "Meta says its AI model hacked another company, adding to worries about bots." (ABC News) Story 2: "This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature" (NY Times)

https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/meta-ai-model-hacked-company-adding-worries-bots-135437950

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Prove to the people of Kentucky that you're alive or...or...or I shall taunt you a second time!

French knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's a fine example of convergent evolution. He's evolving a pleated throat (like a humpback whale) so he can swallow Big Macs efficiently and get back to telling lies more quickly.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I caught a nice drum just a few weeks ago :-)

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Trump was just a symptom of the real problems in our country, which made somebody like him inevitable. If we focus too much on Trump, just because he's an obvious comic book villain, we are digging ourselves into a deeper hole. When he's gone, let's not celebrate too much. The real work begins.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sure you can. You can even haul dirt in a golf cart.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don't want to be one of those that post pics of their food, but this is as much about welcoming Spring back to the Driftless as it is about tonight's dinner, so...

Purple and green asparagus from the garden. Pheasantback mushrooms from a dead cottonwood nearby.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The foundational issue is a recurring theme throughout history. It will be interesting to see how it plays out this time.

Ned Ludd, mythical figurehead of the Luddite movement, a 19th-century uprising of English textile workers who smashed machinery to protest the loss of their livelihoods during the Industrial Revolution.

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Driftless Dan @driftlessregion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Donald Trump channels his inner third grader after entire world calls him on his bullshit.

https://people.com/politics/why-is-trump-raising-his-middle-finger-in-public-appearances/

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