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Mike Ongstad

@mikeongstad.bsky.social
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Democracy, foreign policy, politics and cyber enthusiast. Sci-fi snob and lover of bourbon, beer, BBQ, & books. Rage against the dying of the light.

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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Republicans be like "The Constitution lets states run their own elections, so no federal voting statutes or reforms. BUT ALSO states shouldn't be allowed to use the Constitution to determine eligibility for their own elections." 🤷‍♂️
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
How many rushing yards do you think you could get on the perfect play in the NFL? I recon I could get 4 yds behind a great O line on the perfect play call before getting absolutely demolished by a defender.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
The year is 2079. America is voting between McKynnahh-Leighe Johnson or her opponent, Ryder Koltan Matthews. SecState Ashlyiegh-Ann Reynolds is defusing vibes with China. The most popular baby name has no letters, but is a viral 30 second choreographed dance that elder Gen Zs ruined.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Just realized that 'Matt Berry voice' is one of my go-tos when reading for my son.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I'll never say a bad word about Hank Williams Jr's Are You Ready for Some Football Monday Night Football song. It was iconic. But Chris Stapleton & Snoop have absolutely crushed the new MNF anthem with their In The Air Tonight rendition.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Imagine that you own a network of billboards, and you’ve allowed people who pay you $8/month to spray paint dicks and swastikas on them. How many billboards do you think you’re renting to Pepsi after that
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Just saw an ad where the company tauts its "Space Age" materials. Y'all, the Space Age began more than 60 years ago. It's time to retire that trope.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Every Star Trek series has at least one episode where the crew is forced to play absurd roles in the fantasy game of a super powerful alien. I am now convinced those episodes were written by parents of toddlers.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Campaign leaders of the de facto GOP Preside trial nominee thought this was clever, appropriate, and good strategy. What more evidence do you need that our politics is fundamentally broken. themessenger.com/politics/tru...
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
True love is giving up the chez lounge of your couch to be a parking lot for little kid's trucks.
The most comfortable seat of the couch, the chez lounger, but covered in kids toys instead of my butt.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
A parade of work trucks with flashing lights is resurfacing the street in front of my house and my son is missing it because he's going to bed. I feel bad he's missing it, but not nearly bad enough to let him stay up another minute.
Terrible photo of a toddler's dream come true: a bobcat scooper with flashing lights doing road work just outside the window.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Damar Hamlin celebrating the Buffalo Bills training staff that saved his life has me a wreck my goodness twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1679…
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
Sun's out, but so is the thunder. Everyone have a good apocalypse I guess!
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
Nephew just informed me "Girl on Fire" is "an old song" from Sing 2. 💀💀💀
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
"Still punk as fuck" I whisper as I admonish myself for throwing a toddler food pouch in the trash can without replacing the trash bag.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
The transition from thinking being called dad is weird to muttering "what are you doing dad" to yourself when you screw something up is nefarious subtle.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 21/06/2023
Day care teacher asked my son how he skinned his knee and he had the gall to say "daddy push." Kid, you were running too fast with your toy lawnmower, don't try to church it up by blaming me.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 13/06/2023
I think my favorite thing I've taught my toddler son is to raise his arms above his head and say "RAAWWWRRR" when asked what sound a bear or lion or monster makes.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
Trump fundraising off of his indictment, proof that politics is on the absolute gutter. Also note he says he had a RIGHT to declassify the docs, not that he did declassify them. End of the day, he's being indicted for his actions, not politics.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
Man it is really freaking dystopic trying to explain to your toddler "we can only go out for a little bit because the air isn't good."
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 08/06/2023
Yeah that other site is a dumpster fire rolling towards a trash pile laying on top of a toxic waste site.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 07/06/2023
I thought Bluesky was the friendly social media platform but NO ONE here told me how damn good "For All Mankind" is, and I take that personally. Damn, that show goes hard.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 06/06/2023
Me going on Shark Tank: "@mcuban.bsky.social, I'm offering you 100% of my business. I have nothing but an idea, I don't know how to make it happen, I don't want to do the work for it. 1 million OBO." Cuban: 😑 gtfo
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 03/06/2023
A debt ceiling Oval Office address seems like a real miscalculation. This is an issue popular in Twitter and in the beltway, but one probably barely tracked by the average voter. And to be his first and only address, it just seems odd.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 03/06/2023
Gonna be really embarrassing when they have to legally change their name to NORTH Magadonia for copyright reasons. (I'm sorry for this really niche joke)
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 02/06/2023
Show me the TV or movie character you wanted to be growing up vs the one you feel like you became.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 31/05/2023
Me, when my son won't eat his Mac and cheese or his chicken nuggets:
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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com · 31/05/2023
Here's the latest poster for Good Omens Season 2. It's like a Where's Waldo game of clues...
Good Omens poster. A bookshop. An empty chair with a box on it. Books and such scattered around. tagline Unravel the Mystery
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
And to think, they laughed at me when I majored in news seismology. Well WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
May he rot in prison, safely removed from our democracy and forced to watch from his cell as his dreams for dictatorship are crushed, replaced by a resurgent pro-democracy movement born in response to his insurrection.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
At long last, someone who can speak to the major issues of the terminally online...
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 22/05/2023
Just finished Mrs. Davis on Peacock, and it was one of the most original and poignantly absurd shows I've seen in a while. 5 stars, 100% customer satisfaction. Go watch it now.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 19/05/2023
Real power is owning the way back machine. "Never mess with a man with a wayback machine. He can make it so that you were never born."
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
Whoo are the sports media folks on Bluesky? How do I get my sports fix on here? Need recs rather than searching every sports journo I can think of.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 16/05/2023
Something I haven't seen anyone mention about the Durham Report is how he put it out without the Attorney General jumping in and totally undercutting everything he said to protect his political interests. If nothing else, that demonstrates the current DoJ is far less political than Barr's.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
Political violence is one of the greatest threats to our country. It's the antithesis of democracy, and it's exacerbated by division, conspiracy, bigotry, and tribalism. All of the ills we're experiencing funnel themselves onto one disastrous and deadly path: violence.
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Man with baseball bat attacks Virginia congressman's staffers; suspect in custody
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia says a man with a baseball bat walked into his Fairfax office, asked for him, and then assaulted two members of his staff. Fairfax City Police in northern Virginia said in a tweet that a suspect is in custody and, the victims are being treated for injuries that are not life-threatening. In a statement posted on Twitter, the Virginia Democrat said the man entered his district office Monday morning and asked for him before “committing an act of violence” against two staff members.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 15/05/2023
I decided to try Mrs. Davis and in the first 5 minutes a nun gets run through ny a sword, then hurls her body at a dude's face, impaling him with the sword impaling her. Yes, I think I will like this show.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 14/05/2023
Mother's Days are for playgrounds, BBQ and being thankful for the best wife/mother imaginable. Today was a great reminder that the best days don't have to be complicated.
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Mike Ongstad @mikeongstad.bsky.social · 13/05/2023
Rolling into Bluesky like...
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