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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not a button collector per se, but this has always been one of my favorites. Found on the ground in my old hometown in the mid-80s.

A pinback button with a picture of Jim Baker and the words: Jerry Falwell Can Suck My Dick.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He certainly considers himself the smartest, most experienced guy in any room.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Definitely an anger junkie with some reading comprehension problems (as I discovered).

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That looks pretty dry...🤔

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everything is very easy if you just lie all the time.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

trump can make up the how but nothing is self-executing and the process by which something becomes a reality matters a great deal as to whether it is a reality

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Holy shit! That's a HS flashback!! 😂

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A clever friend sent me this meme that said "Kash Patel might be in a bar pounding a wild turkey right now. He might also be having a drink." www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

nbcnews.com

Kash Patel defends FBI’s new policy on bestiality at Senate hearing

Sen. John Kennedy grilled the FBI director about a recently revised policy that doesn’t automatically disqualify job applicants who have engaged in bestiality.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The progressive and liberal folks who I came up with have mostly stuck to their guns even today, after the pressures/compromises of raising families and earning a living. Outnumbered for sure, but I don't think that's anything specific to a generational timetable. (3)

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

terribly right-wing ever since I can remember, but we came up in an environment that was, if not quite as cultish as the Trumpers, pretty fucking insanely devoted to Ronnie and the whole flag-waving aesthetic. The '84 and '88 Olympics were hard to live through (as I recall the time anyway). (2)

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think there was also plenty of alternative-aesthetic adoption during the mid/late 60s (see Zappa's WOITFTM for contemporaneous critique). Also, plenty of (mild) self-criticism apparent in popular culture like 'The Big Chill' about "how we forgot our values"... My cohort certainly has been (1)

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On the one hand I agree; on another, Reagan was elected by a whole fuckton of Boomers, Silents, and Greatest Gen (white) folks. I'm one of the first Xers and I didn't get to vote against him until '84. Most Boomers weren't Abbie Hoffman either...

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Best birthday present for me ever!

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Holy shit. That OP is like Ark of the Covenant-level incel. Face-melting.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've actually grown to be really fond of it-- it's like the ne plus ultra of Bobby Cheese (complimentary)!

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw them on that tour at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and Shenandoah was absolutely transcendent. Full out-of-body experience.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Totally got ABB vibes off Agitation Free! My brother and I thought there ought to be a krautrock Allman's cover band called the Allemand Brothers.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's where they keep the mats for nap-time?

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Velia River @veliarem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey the Commodore 64 was a gem of a machine, bro would get outsmarted by a typewriter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

elaborating on some points i've made on here youtu.be/goSvMAf2UKQ

youtu.be

There Was No Vibe Shift

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I grew up right next door to Chicago, and have lived there for the last 37 years. Not sure why I sound like I'm from San Francisco?

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

you know who is fucking awesome? And I am not tagging him so you all don't think I am just saying this to kiss ass or something Jamelle Bouie. In every fucking medium I see him, whether it is his writing, his posts here, his tiktok, interviews and youtubes, he's just awesome

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

'The United States' is not a specific patch of soil, it is a collection of communities under one constitution, bound by those self-evident truths. It can - and has - traveled. One of those self-evident truths is that someone *born into our midst* is, presumptively, one of us.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Damn! Chonky Boi on the right is gettin after it!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

was talking about this with ganz on the podcast today, but among the many reasons that race science is obvious nonsense is the fact that it is a giant exercise in begging the question. not one person obsessed with "race science" thinks that it might prove "white" intellectual inferiority...

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I only saw Col. Bruce once, in '93 at Lounge Ax, and it was a smoking show. Then a 13 y.o. Derek Trucks sat in and it got crazy good!

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It was so fun when he would post his weekly chapters of 'Giant's Harp." A friend of mine had an extended email convo with him about Terrence McKenna and his DMT experiences. Them was the days...

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

With a roaring fire in the background!

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Overall it wasn't much different than most places online (for me). I bounced from the WELL Dead forum when the I/P arguments turned out to be just as stupid and bloodthirsty as anywhere else.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It was a pretty great space for a long while. Loved being able to interact with Hunter back when it started... When the Phil vs Everyone Else narrative became dominant it got stupid (in some parts). 9/11 and the Iraq war revealed so many jingo chuds...

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Now I'm flashing back to the non-stop Phil discourse on the old DNC forums... oy. 🙄😂

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think it was Hunter who remarked that after the E72 tour the band "could have become anything" but they "decided to get big" (or something like that). I think Veneta was sort of the end of the beginning, for the band at least, not the counterculture writ large.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The original location in Lincoln Park was pretty good when I first went there in the early 80s.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sadly, Portillo's has gone downhill since the ownership change. Last few visits the sandwiches were much smaller, drier, and less flavorful.

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Fritz Eifrig @feifrig.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Love listening to Ripley play! I got to see Wooden Shjips on my 45th b-day in a small club here and my third mind was fully manifested; woulda sworn I'd been dosed but I knew I wasn't. Big fan ever since.

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 09/08/2026

LAST WORDS FOR JERRY GARCIA By Robert Hunter Not the same thing as the more widely published Elegy, which is magnificent and worth your time to look up if you haven't seen it. From a privately published collection of Hunter's elegies and funeral poems for friends and family

Go naked in the world,
Wind for your cloak and coverlet.
Whom the Gods love best
they reward with early death,
gather them into the sun,
reflect them in moonlight,
crown them with comets,
anoint them with shooting stars

Go naked to the Throne of Stars,
go as the stars go,
arrayed in their own
incandescent light.

Go and our hearts go with you.
Return to the sourceof the soul
by way of the Sacred River,
royal road to the sea
where all shall be music
and dreams shall be dreams
no more, but visions
of the World's foundation
scattered among the stars.

Dust shall be dust
and the voice of dust
shall be music,
pleasing to God
who sent it forth
in search of melody
to crown His silence
with eternal song

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