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Nate

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Aged hipster | Teacher | Catholic | Sober | Luddite consumer of Warhammer & 70s/80s comics | Heretic of Joyce, Hemingway, & O’Connor | Indie underground, extreme metal, and jazz purist | Fromage maestro | Iowan by day, existential custodian by night.

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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 8h
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pete rogers, professional diaper changer @petemrogers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i know the nfl just started doing fun jerseys but how the vikings have never done a prince jersey is beyond me. makes just too much sense
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The war on empathy, led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and embraced by Trump and his MAGA movement, is a systematic rejection of Christian systematic theology as established from the second century. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Flakey Foont @flakyfoont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You want to know why? This is why. It's yet another scammy grift. www.netcraft.com/blog/sloveni...
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Slovenian .SI Domain Registrations Outpace .AI
Netcraft research reveals how President Trump's proposal to rename artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" (SI) coincided with a sharp increase in .si domain registrations. Learn how speculati...
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Believe me"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Checks all the boxes
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: Iowa GOP governor candidate Zach Lahn campaigns as a “family farmer” and rails against out-of-state investors. But records reviewed by MeidasTouch paint a very different picture.
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Zach Lahn is a Millionaire Investor Who is Running a Misleading Campaign Claiming to Be a Family Farmer
Iowa Gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn claims to be a family farmer, but in reality he is an investor and political consultant who doesn't live on his farm
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Flakey Foont @flakyfoont.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
um I think they show it all the time every day
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good. Damn good.
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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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/09/2026
Republicans are trying to hoodwink us into believing they are not in lockstep with Trump. Ashley Hinson of Iowa has a record of voting with Trump 100% of the time, but suddenly she claims to be my partisan…
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Christina Bohannan @bohannaniowa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With Miller-Meeks, every vote is up for sale! iowaindependentnews.com/elections/mi...
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You might want to fill up…quick. Bottom line: Iran and Yemeni attacks on Saudi pipeline mean that not only will control of the Strait limit the oil going through, there will be less oil to go through even if the Strait was opened. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics
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Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come
The effects of the U.S.-led war on Iran are about to intensify in the form of huge jumps in the prices of gasoline and diesel, analysts predict. And despite the Trump administration's assurances, a ne...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
NEWS: Rep. Ashley Hinson’s financial disclosures show her reported assets have climbed substantially since she entered Congress, including a multimillion-dollar private stock holding tied to her husband’s former company.
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Ashley Hinson's Net Worth Has Increased 15x Since Coming to Congress, Including Earning $1M Last Year From a Stock She Claimed Not To Have
Hinson continues to make big money off of a stock while campaigning against stock ownership by members of Congress
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ashley Hinson’s own campaign admitted it: She supported cuts to Social Security. Iowa seniors worked their whole lives and paid into Social Security. I’ll fight every day to protect it.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While others said enough is enough, Ashley Hinson, Iowa’s least bipartisan member of Congress, voted to continue the war in Iran for a 7th time.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📺 NEW AD: Ashley Hinson’s net worth has increased up to $8 million since she went to Congress. Coincidence? C’mon
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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David Short ❌👑 @verseoftheday2.com · 12/09/2026
Saint of the Week St. Ignatius of Antioch September 12, 2026 verseoftheday2.com/2026/09/12/s...
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Saint of the Week St. Ignatius of Antioch
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two of the 18 US service members killed in the Iran war were Iowans: Sgt. Declan Coady and Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien. Iowans among the injured as well. And Iowa of all places feels the rises of fertilizer and diesel prices due to the war. Plus, you know, there's caring about the country and the world.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Instead of culture wars and political games, our leaders should be focused on the needs of everyday Iowans. If we do that, we can get back to solving problems like high costs, corruption, and our cancer rates.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just as God raised up a pope from behind the Iron Curtain to help defeat communism, God has raised up a pope from the Americas to defeat the global scourge of MAGA authoritarianism — and to call our nation back to a land of dreams and dignity for all who inhabit it.
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I Love This Church. I Love This Country. And I Refuse to Give Up on Either.
Sixty-three days before the first nationwide election of Leo’s pontificate, here is what this movement exists to do. I’m asking you to join us for the stretch run.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s three top American cardinals spent several days in August with the leaders of Silicon Valley’s frontier AI labs, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington disclosed in a Labor Day Mass homily on Sunday. No outlet had reported the trip.
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Pope Leo XIV’s Top US Cardinals Visit Silicon Valley and Warn Millions Will Lose Jobs
McElroy, Cupich, and Tobin spent several days in August with the AI frontier labs, a trip no outlet has reported. At Sunday's Labor Day Mass, McElroy told union members what he heard.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“We must be a poor Church for the poor that fights for the sacred rights of housing, work, and land.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo: “Housing, Work and Land Are Sacred Rights”
Pope Leo XIV lays out a vision of a “poor Church for the poor” and declared housing, work, and land to be “sacred rights” — a moral manifesto for the age of AI and inequality.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Diesel prices hit a new record high as Iowans continue to pay the price for Ashley Hinson’s SIX votes to continue another war in the Middle East. It's time we focus on putting Iowans first, not funding another endless war.
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A Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's no coincidence that end-times theology became popular in America back in the 1970's, around the same time so-called Evangelical Christians started taking over the Republican party. Evangelicalism has always been more of a political movement than a legitimate branch of Christianity.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Let us be protectors of God’s creation.” — Pope Leo XIV
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TEXANS, VOTE FOR TALARICO!
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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Should come as no surprise, as State Auditor, I'm a numbers guy. When it comes to support from Iowans vs. out of state donors, here's a couple interesting ones:
The image is split into two sections comparing donation statistics. The left side features Zach Lahn with a red background, showing 83.92% out-of-state donations and 16.08% Iowa donations. The right side features Rob Sand with a green background, showing 61.45% Iowa donations and 38% out-of-state donations. A background of U.S. dollar bills is visible.
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wonder if Ashley Hinson's donors will let her sign on to this one before the election?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Whatever, I also wrote a number of fawning letters to Eminem, but he didn’t even reply. It was a whole thing, even.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And just like that, Ontario flipped the switch allowing electricity to flow to the United States, leaving 1,500,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. without lights or air conditioning during unusually hot weather. All because the immature moron in the White House had another temper tantrum.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NEW: Pope Leo said this weekend that “before borders, definitions and institutions, there are always persons,” after gutting JD Vance’s postliberal project. We must “counter the false realism that rearms minds, words and nations, with the realism of mercy that recognizes there are no enemies.”
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“Before Borders, There Are Always Persons” — Pope Leo XIV Answers MAGA in Rimini
Hours after gutting the postliberalism JD Vance sells as Catholic, the pope told 60,000 people that Catholic culture must counter the “alse realism that rearms minds, words and nations.”
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/08/2026
POW! THWACK! SMITE!
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Bless The Minneapolis Spider-Man Who Fought Fascism!
POW! THWACK!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/08/2026
Hanging? We need to call this what it is: LYNCHING. Ten Black Americans in less than two years. Every one of these deaths deserves answers, transparency, and scrutiny. No one should look at these images and expect Black Americans to shrug this off, especially in light of our history.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A Michigan Catholic deacon stands up for Muslims in Dearborn after a Christian nationalist rally called for their removal from the country: “To the men and women protesting in the name of Jesus, hurling hate at our Muslim brothers and sisters — not in his name, and certainly not on my watch.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Before you pay attention to any poll, ask yourself: 1. Who still has a landline? 2. Who answered calls from unknown callers? 3. Who wastes their time with surveys? And 4. Who cares what such stupid, lonely people think?
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
50 years ago today The Ramones played CBGB for the first time on this day in 1974 Here are the Ramones in their musical home a month later Ramones – CBGB, NYC (September 15, 1974) #punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NEW: The Times found about eighty Catholic nuns living in a New York Lutheran care center. Despite dwindling numbers, the work has not stopped: 500 nuns marched through Atlanta last summer for migrants, and Sister JoAnn, 91, was still carrying the Eucharist to an ICE facility days before she died.
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The Nuns Who Built Catholic America Are Living in a Lutheran Care Home
About eighty nuns make up more than a third of the residents at Wartburg in Mount Vernon, New York. Their final years are giving the Church one more lesson in gratitude, care, and Christian witness.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is absolutely insane, all of these undercover agents going into churches to surveil constitutionally protected speech. But it really says a lot about how they did all of this and found so little that violated the law. The administration was publicly shamed globally because of this resistance.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10/08/2026
Changes are coming to the commonly used sell-by dates on groceries in at least one state, and potentially more. to.pbs.org/4fN1NnW
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Why states want to change 'Sell By' labels on food
Changes are coming to the commonly used sell-by dates on groceries in at least one state. PBS News multiplatform reporter Tim McPhillips spoke to two experts to get their take on the food labels and h...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump cheated on his third wife with a porn star while she was at home nursing their newborn. Dr. El-Sayed married his college sweetheart at 22. Catholics choose Dr. El-Sayed’s America.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Guess who the immigrant is in this picture
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