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Hizzoner James Blood

@hizzonerlfk.bsky.social
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The OG mayor of Lawrence, Kansas. Abolitionist, Colonel, Jayhawk, Statesman, beard aficionado, dead since 1891. No love for bushwhackers. #LFK

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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Missouri covering itself in glory as usual this week, I see.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ugh.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If AI is so flippin' great why isn't it solving climate change or washing my socks?
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wear it loud and wear it proud.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
[Mayoral Musing] What kind of lavish parties would I throw if I had a shady Russian benefactor?
static.klipy.com
Batman Pondering
Alt: Batman stroking his chin while actively pondering.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A 65° morning is a pleasant change of pace from the garbage weather of late. Good temps to go oppose Bushwhackery in all its myriad, insidious forms.
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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Masterson opens and comes out swinging, calling Holscher the most radical candidate, and practically has to scream into the mic to overcome the booing and shouting from the crowd. Holscher opens by saying, "First of all, we didn't shake hands ..." #ksleg
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Go K.U. beat Mizzou
Colonel Charles R. Jennison, the original Jayhawker
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Crush the Bushwhacker menace, obvi.
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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One thing I need to make clear is that Kansas, both the state and the university, has been invoking John Brown and abolitionism for years, maybe decades. He’s painted on the interior of our state capitol. The hype videos are merely repurposing a heritage that already exists.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do dead citizens also get the imaginary $5k?
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Old Doc Marshall was a turd, E-I-E-I-O! And in Great Bend he had some lawyers, E-I-E-I-O! With a lawsuit here, an arrested young Mom there! Here a usurious interest rate, there a lack of basic human decency. E-I-E-I what an asshole.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Roger is an idiot AND an asshole. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator.
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please let this be the last hideously hot day of 2026. Please, please, please.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In honor of today's Border War discourse: There's a time and place for Missouri. And that time is never and that place is hell.
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John Brown: American Abolitionist
Alt: John Brown: American Abolitionist
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Things I will be disdainfully ignoring today: 1. Erika Kirk Op-Ed in the NYTimes 2. Anyone talking about Hasan Piker. 3. Missouri
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Ted - KC3OL @tedholdahl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Green Heron at the Lawrence, KS Arboretum 9/5.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good morning friends and neighbors! Happy Labor Day to you! Personally, I will be celebrating the great work of destroying Bushwhackery in all its myriad forms today.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What do both Kansas in September and your beloved dead mayor have in common? Astoundingly, inexplicably, unnecessarily hot. 🔥
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh wow. Did not expect this from the MO Supremes.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another innocent victim of this Bushwhacking heat dome.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Honestly, our public relations team in the years after Kansas bled was crap.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Note to #ksleg Republicans: trying to pass your garbage constitutional amendments in August doesn't work.
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Rob Zerwekh @zerwekh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Journal-World is effectively going back to being an afternoon paper by switching to postal service delivery. The Sunday edition, which was thin anyway, is ending. www2.ljworld.com/announcement...
www2.ljworld.com
Journal-World to move delivery to U.S. Postal Service as hiring challenges persist for newspaper carriers
The Lawrence Journal-World is moving delivery of its newspaper to the U.S. Postal Service and will replace its Sunday print edition with a new Weekend Edition that publishes on Saturdays. Postal deliv...
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why this September isn't pumpkin spice flavored at all! It tastes like unending fiery hell. 🔥🥵🌡️
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Lawrence is now listed on Costco's New Locations page for October, 2026. #LFK Dead Mayors love $1.50 hot dogs.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." Wendell Berry 1934-2026
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm frustrated that I have an addlepated ninnyhammer who resides in Florida for a senator.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The last day of August when a dead mayor's attention turns to autumn... *Checks forecast* Well fuckety-doo.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am giving serious consideration to renaming the Missouri River the "Jayhawker River." Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
She also seems to be the rare very rich person who was how I *hope* I would be as a very rich person, which is to say she just gave people money constantly, because she had plenty and she cared. I think among other things that this would be SO FUN.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a time poisoned by reactionary nostalgia for a fake white christian past that never existed it is sobering to consider the fact that all it really seems to take to be universally beloved is to care about children, reject racism and other forms of discrimination, and promote decency
Mr. Rogers Dolly Parton
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly was the best of us.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Saints be praised, it's going to feel like a miracle. #LFK
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh hey, more rain.
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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, who fractured a political glass ceiling as the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate, died Friday. She was 94. #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/08/22/k...
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Kansas political trailblazer Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker dies at 94 • Kansas Reflector
A champion of bipartisanship and common sense, former U.S. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, dies.
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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It is my birthright as an American to not have to give a shit about what British royals are up to.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Good morning! Happy move-in day part 1! Welcome KU kids! Welcome confused and/or emotional parents! Welcome impatient siblings and other assorted hangers-on! It's going to be a great year!
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good morning, friends and neighbors! We got some morning showers and a fairly decent afternoon on deck. It's incredibly green out there for mid August. Go forth, keep an eye out for Bushwhackers lurking in the shrubbery, and enjoy your day!
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good morning friends and neighbors! It's not looking too unpleasant out there today. Get out and enjoy the last days before Move-in commences in earnest.
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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 18/08/2026
A free program at First United Methodist Church will explore the history, symbols and food traditions of Juneteenth, including Kansas communities’ long-running Emancipation Day celebrations. lawrenceks.news/4xS2Nid
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Free event in Lawrence to explore Juneteenth food traditions, Kansas history
A free program at First United Methodist Church will explore the history, symbols and food traditions of Juneteenth, including Kansas communities’ long-running Emancipation Day celebrations.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good morning Lawrencians! This week's #LFK forecast has move-in day(s) with 100% chance of confused KU kids and parents in giant SUVs rolling the wrong way down Tennessee and Kentucky. Welcome and CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
10 Day Forecast: 100% chance of 10 more dog days.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Might be best if people from New York would take a 20 year break from leadership positions in the Democratic Party. Just sit a couple decades out. Go see a Broadway show. Watch some rats eat pizza. Whatever floats your boat.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Another day, another extreme heat warning. Seek shade and hydrate if you're spending time outside today.
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Russ Fischer @russfischer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kansas in August is an increasingly-humid 95-degree pit of despair BUT you can get ears of sweet corn the size of a Louisville Slugger for 55 cents.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kansas Republicans: Our Koch Masters would like to make the judiciary as bought 'n' crazy as the legislative branch. Kansans: We're good, thanks.
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13/08/2026
Big bus stuck (Near Lawrence KS, but nowhere near any bus route that I'm aware of)
A Lawrence/KU city bus. It is several hundred yards down a gravel road, to which it is perpendicular. One end of the bus is threatening to encroach on a cornfield, and the other what I believe to be alfalfa.
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Adam Hamilton messaging me 25 times a day. Chillax, dude. We are not that close. Since you love being moderate so much, how about we moderate how much you be texting?
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Hizzoner James Blood @hizzonerlfk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy first day of school to all the little Lawrencians and their teachers in USD497!
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