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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Wizard of Oz would scare the heck out of me every year it was shown all the way to age 10. The Exorcist as a teen and I knew people who actually began to believe that they were possessed. And finally The Day After as a young adult. I never finished watching the more realistic Threads.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@nauerbach.com Talk about poetic justice. Western Michigan thanks you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
Ashley Hinson voted repeatedly against efforts to end U.S. hostilities with Iran while taking more than $217,000 from oil and gas interests, including $38,500 since the war began. Meanwhile, Iowa gas prices have surged 60% since the start of the war as major oil companies report soaring profits.
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Ashley Hinson Got Big Money From Oil Companies After Repeatedly Voting For the Iran War
The price of gas for her Iowa constituents has risen by 60% since the start of the war, while oil companies are making record profits
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You're going to get the usual blather from one or more of the Virginia newspapers claiming strong turnout that exceeds Democrats in traditionally Republican leaning area's.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got my Virginia mail-in ballot out of the mailbox 12:30 pm today. On my way to the local drop-box. I don't trust the USPS with the completed ballot after 2020.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Damn. Larry Ellison screwed up Michigan football worse than @cbsnews.com.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe we need to tap the brakes on all Big 10 football preseason worship?
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@Disney and @abc. I don't want to see political attack ads for the Texas Senate race here in Virginia during a nationally televised college football game.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The only thing more sleazy than the state of Louisianas historically corrupt politics are the athletic programs at LSU. Men's and women's. Kim Mulkey after signing a pro basketball player from Russia with a Ukrainian on the roster. "I thought they might act as ambassadors" or some such bs.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our government has awarded a $158M contract for the care and feeding of unaccompanied migrant children to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Much more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Unsolicited advice for Democratic candidates be they "establishment" or "progressive". Treat financial backing from AIPAC the same as you would from the NRA. It's not wise. Especially now. Personally I don't care as long as it's a Democrat that prevails in the general. No repeat of 2016.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thomas, Alito and Goursh go beyond terms like "Conservative" and "right-wing". Way beyond.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.espn.com/college-spor...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
www.espn.com/college-spor...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
www.bankingdive.com/news/citizen...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The parting NBC shot from the Kentucky Derby looked like a CPAC convention.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Talk about judicial activism! Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...
Screenshot of a tweet from New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel describing an NYT editorial criticizing the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights Act as judicial overreach, noting that six conservative justices overruled a law Congress reauthorized with bipartisan support 20 years prior. Includes a thumbnail linking to the NYT opinion piece.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It's been a vintage performance (non) by DeAndre Ayton in game #3 @lakersnation.bsky.social .I mean just brutal. Ayton had all the intensity of a 2 toed sloth. Sleeping.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Amazon has cut Prime by 50% in a "special offer". Tariffs, the Iran war and Melania have taken a financial toll I suppose. People are opting to put gas in their cars.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Less than 200 days before early voting in some states, there's a new campaign to fight any Trump Admin. interference in voting Skye Perryman, CEO of DC-based watchdog group Democracy Forward, tells @meidastouch.com the US can't "normalize" Presidential overreach in local elections
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Basically they're wagering that Black and Latino voters don't actually understand the issue. But will vote on the deceptive images and phony quotes.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Basically they're wagering that Black and Latino voters don't actually understand the issue. But will vote on the deceptive images and phony quotes.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/04/2026
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” (Published Oct. 2025)
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Melania Trump sounds like a politician trying to get out ahead of a negative story to come. Why now? Today?
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
These are the deceptive flyers anti-redistricting GOP PACs are sending to Democratic voters in Virginia. Particularly heavily Black and Latino areas.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
These are the deceptive flyers anti-redistricting GOP PACs are sending to Democratic voters in Virginia. Particularly heavily Black and Latino areas.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
All the kid had to do was hold the ball until fouled. @dukemensbasketball.bsky.social
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
@lakersnation.bsky.social Hopefully JJ didn't step on his crank with the much too premature insertions. The Pacers didn't get the memo.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
They used to jokingly ask why was Bruce Willis a star. Why is Logan Webb considered an ACE @nbcsgiants.bsky.social? Brutal in early innings.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
@axios.com has become Tass. Dutifully echoing every bit of misinformation the Trump administration drops about the Iran war.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Qatar sure got a rawer deal for that jet than the Venezuelan woman who gave up her Nobel Peace Prize.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world. The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen. Stand up and FIGHT BACK.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Ayton is like Roberto Duran @lakersnation.bsky.social . Hands of stone. He fumbles away multiple should have been assists.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2026
Nate Cavanaugh has gone viral recently for his taped deposition about DOGE eliminating "DEI" grants. He's also a key figure in our story from last year. We found that he helped expose a sensitive Afghanistan program, leading to a brutal Taliban crackdown.
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DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.
Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2026
NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB
TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
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University of Notre Dame @notredame.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Remembering the life and legacy of Lou Holtz: go.nd.edu/06005d
Black and white image of Lou Holtz commemorating his death with the years 1937-2026.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
As we will soon see, FBI counterintelligence agents quickly identified Drokova as one of a large number of key RIS ties to Epstein who enmeshed him in US RIS operations. US media have been exceptionally dim-witted about this.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The NCAA schools better change their football calendar or they'll be beating the Jr high school ranks for assistant coaches. College assistants are fleeing to the NFL in droves to avoid the 12 month a year grind that is now collegiate football in the playoff/transfer portal era.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Top Palantir and OpenAI executives are funding a new AI industry Super PAC, which has already amassed $100M to spend on the 2026 midterms. They want to stop anyone who supports guardrails on AI from being elected. We must not let them win. www.youtube.com/watch?v=imtkNL4v2ks
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Big Tech's AI Power-Grab
Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained body cam footage of the FBI raid on Fulton County's elections hub. In one video, Fulton police and the FBI spar over the search warrant to seize the 2020 ballots. "One way or another, the records are coming with us today," an agent said.
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Police body cam footage shows confusion at FBI raid of Fulton elections office
Body camera footage obtained by the AJC indicates issues with the search warrant slowed the FBI, even as agents came prepared to take 2020 ballots by force.
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Rams corners are paying homage to the Packers Carrington Valentine, Keishan Nixon and Nate Hobbs in the NFC title game. Clueless in coverage.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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irishkj55.bsky.social @irishkj55.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You won't see this on the ACC network in 24 hour loops
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.
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