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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sexism and inch-deep, performative politics. 🤜🤛

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's okay. I'm sure there was a tiny disclaimer at the bottom with the number to call if you have a gambling problem.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 09/07/2026

New from me: flaminghydra.com/issue-602/

Fascism, to borrow a line from a friend, is a politics of action. There is no intellectual basis for its precepts but that does not mean its campaigns are executed without strategy. Fascism is all strategy and no goals. Indeed, fascists are far less constrained in strategic terms than their enemies are, because a fascist need never interrogate the morality, legality, or even the rationality of a given tactic so long as it serves some immediate end; it's the rest of us who are left to ask whether violence is permissible and whose voices ought to be heard and respected within our coalition and whether we ought to acknowledge land theft, and these are the things that assholes like to make fun of or condemn as "cancel culture." But they are also a source of community and strength and inclusion and, crucially, foresight. What do the fascists plan to do after they round up and exterminate all the Jewish and Black and brown and disabled and homeless and queer and leftist people? Will there be layoffs at the death camps? You can already see a yawning imaginative void among tradwife influencers and right-wing movie directors, for whom utopia is a matter of stapling together 1950's advertising imagery and the early Spielberg movies. There's no vision of the future, only a bowdlerized past that can't be recovered, not least because it never existed. There was never an America where Haitians couldn't cross the border.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think there are some syndicalists under the vanity. I can't get the Swiffer back there.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I watched the trailer for this a couple weeks ago and I think I squealed.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I cannot explain to you how deeply terrifying and anger-inducing it is to have cops and national guard marching down your street after dark and despite constantly posting about occupied Memphis no one gives a shit. yes, I mean my actual street where I live. I live posted it.

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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com · 25/05/2026

I loathe the cult of the car.

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europeans will ride a train going 200 mph through the alps while drinking wine and americans will sit in traffic on 1-95 for three hours eating a gas station sandwich and say "at least i have my freedom" brother you are imprisoned by a honda accord

9:59 PM 3/27/26

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is pretty rich coming from someone from Texas, a state that has never struggled with energy delivery.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The hallway sequence just confirms my take that walking without looking like you're trying to remember how to walk is the single hardest challenge an actor faces.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yikes! Worked across the street for years. I think that's the Pfizer HQ or the building next to it.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Until our Lebron Jameses and Lamar Jacksons choose soccer as youths, this is where we'll stay. As someone who grew up a soccer player and fan in the '80s, it's a near-miracle. But I can see how it's deeply unsatisfying to others.

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"And that's why I've today decided to dress as the greatest warrior of them all: Liberace"

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When you inevitably interview yourself in the mirror, will it be a hard-hitting, warts-an-all exposé or a puff piece?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

MAGA really is a movement for ethnic cleansing. Lying about law and history to overturn birthright citizenship makes it plain. As do calls for "remigration." The counterargument is that these voters didn't want what their signs called for, and don't feel about it what their facial expressions show.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

HAHA! 26 followers for those assholes on Bluesky. *chefs kiss*

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pretty over the top, yeah, but that's funny. I take pride in winning without memorizing a single list.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So here is what I think you're going to see: - people trying to win Dem seats by changing their language or moving left on policy but not on structure - more money going to center candidates - more of that money being massaged to look less gross

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I admire the resilience to do that a great deal. I find merely observing to be corrosive and jading.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You’re more generous to their original motivations than I find myself able to be.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

They will never get the shit out of their diapers that Bernie and AOC put there.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And I’m supposed to believe the real anti-semitism is Mamdani’s refusal to issue a blanket condemnation of using the word “intifada”.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is how a modern liberal society collapses in on itself.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And to centrist Dems, this seems to be the cataclysm, not the resulting death, misery, destruction, and authoritarian entrenchment.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I guess the kidding around is pretty much over, huh?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's not Brooke's religion and it isn't mine, but some jesus dude allegedly said: "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men."

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

WTF? That doesn't sound very Freestyle to me.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Like they'd been confronted with a Da Vinci Code puzzle and the answer was under one of the 500 different-sized lids beside the machine.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

All of his followers are wondering why cookies are part of this combo. "Biscuits? Are they under those flat scones?"

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The most annoying thing about the Michelle Obama discourse was all the meta analysis about respect towards the Obama family. My god. The insult is just a old attack on Black women and Trump doesnt like Black people. Its not complicated and its all tiresome. open.substack.com/pub/darrello...

open.substack.com

President Trump Just Hates Black People

Why mince words about something so transparent and unapologetic?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/06/2026

HEY CHICAGO! The city wants to sell your parking meter company to the same private-equity firm that owns Omni Air International, the worst of the worst of ICE's charter airlines. The city council's finance committee is meeting about it TOMORROW. 1/

A screenshot of the finance committees agenda

AGENDA OF MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026
11:00 A.M.
CITY HALL - SECOND FLOOR - COUNCIL CHAMBER

SUBJECT MATTER HEARING
1. An ordinance authorizing the approval of the ownership transfer pursuant to the Chicago Metered Parking System Concession Agreement (O2026-0025407)
NO VOTES WILL BE TAKEN

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you or someone close has been called a “picky eater,” COLOR TASTE TEXTURE may be right for you! I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide that’s all about finding what works for individual sensory needs. For all ages and cooking ability.

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Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just filed my piece. This case is even worse than I thought. They're not just coming for Black people's hair. They're coming for ALL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS passed pursuant to the Spending Clause. These fucking people must be stopped.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My wife would be nodding along to this thread and so happy for you.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Stop talking sexy. I have work to do.

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Was watching Welcome to Wrexham and the bar owner/food truck guy was serving the local construction crew sandwiches with fried egg, two links, *and* a rasher. Would have to be a python to get it in your mouth and they were clearly the standard breakfast for those guys.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/06/2026

just a huge shout-out to the volunteers who are giving their time and money to get my dude home to another state. whatever you think Minnesotans have done for our neighbors, they've done more and are still doing it

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Headed to Dublin and environs at the end of July and I can't wait. Ireland is one of my favorite places on earth.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 22/06/2026

🙌preach this thread🙌

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Mike Upchurch @mikeup.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I prefer to think of ours as playing an invisible cello. A little sad but classier.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I love this. Unmute.

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