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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This cycle of the Telephone game is almost complete & we need more artists: www.telephonegame.art

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TELEPHONE An international arts game

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Making art books is a big commitment—and our poor dining room is a workshop—but I love the meditative process of physically spending time with a book.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Bsky—excited to announce that new art book project is live. www.ninechainspress.com They are only available by invitation — which you can request using form on the site or by DM.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I feel like Fox News going away forever would go 50% of the way toward the necessary repair. But yes: co-signing craziness by the media is a decades old problem.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I asked linear algebra how it was doing today—and it said nothing, because it’s just math.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

One of the most weirdly unnecessary self-destructs in recent memory. Not sure he’ll go to jail for any of this, but it’s hard to believe any of his businesses survive in their current incarnation or with him at the helm. Then there’s the question of how many actual crimes are being committed…

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Is he begging for us to protect immigrants, trans rights, free speech on campus? Or just his wallet?

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So great to see tens of thousands at the capitol in St Paul. We are not alone—and we’re not done.

“No Turd Reich” sign raised at St Paul, MN protest.

Massive crowd of tens of thousands at St Paul Capital grounds

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Can we just start calling DOGE “Roko’s Basket List?”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Of all the people to rip off, too. It’s, like: “we 3D printed an organic apple using nothing but Red Dye No. 2!”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

She did an amazing job on this piece.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Matt Gaetz has two fingers of vodka left in the bottle and three day old underwear on in his kitchen: “Even I wasn’t gonna fuck up this badly.”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“I’ll have the six finger taco, and… a chili cheese nightmare.”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

When I heard it was a sting, that was my thought—you have to have a recognizably awful pattern of behavior to be caught in a sting.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Remember folks—it’s taken us 300 years to engineer a strainer. It could take even longer to fix some of the rest of this shit.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I gotta confess: “what’s the craziest thing they can do?” has shifted several registers beyond what I ever would have imagined.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

He’s gonna feel so awkward later. The rest of them, I’ll give credit, did their damnedest.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I tell you what: they are definitely making a hash of things.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The problem is he’s so distasteful as to be inedible alone.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Anyone still wondering how that whole Trojan Horse trick worked?

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is the thing: the Democratic Party is as lost as Trump is evil. It’s, like: “Democrats, there is a vial of Save Democracy in a trunk behind that wall, just pull the torch!” Then you realize they used Wisdom as their dump stat.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Yeah—it’s pretty bonkers when we’re happy only the neighbor next to us and the family two doors down and across the street are Nazis. Can we just have mass screenings of “The Tin Drum?”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The world would be better served if more sci fi and fantasy entertainment ended in the seventh minute or on page nine: “Ooops: everyone’s dead, forever.”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“Space Caligula” is my new favorite… h/t to the crazy geniuses in Josh Marshall’s thread, where Musk was described this way. More important was the discussion: a LOT of GS employees are vets—as any vet who remembers all the GS folks (including friends who transitioned) would know.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

When you’re really looking to get gallons per mile, get a Bradley!

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oh how we made fun of those guys when I was in the Marine Corps in the first Gulf War.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yeah… if that little post didn’t send shivers down everyone’s spine, I’m not sure what could.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Next time he comes in, spank him with Foucault!

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

That really sucks, but please tell me it was Nietzsche.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Truly—this is so wildly stupid I don’t know what to make of it. It’s not even internally consistent: if you’re uneducated, how do you know the right questions to ask—or whether the answer is the one you’re looking for (even if it’s correct)?

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Well, Goldwater beat him by 60 years with “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” — but we used to be smart enough to drub those guys to the shadows.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It is bizarre watching people react like: “but that’s not how you’re supposed to do things!” as if he or they had any intent on preserving the status quo ante (or The Liberty League, Barry Goldwater, and Newt Gingrich had never existed).

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Emil Bove is Gustavo Fring’s still more evil twin.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It’s a never ending source of grim hilarity to me when people end this sentence with anything other than “bricks,” “bombs,” or “guns:” “if there’s one thing history has taught us about resisting a tyrant, it’s that people need ______.”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Truly, like: if you need a Post-It note with “Resist!” written in Sharpie on your forehead, don’t expect me to be silent.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Who’s looking forward to the Kendrick Lamar post-game show?

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sunday Poetry prompt: An Odd Number of Stanzas An Even Number of Sentences The Grammatical Mood Shifts on the Volta “Tell me about the weather inside”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Kara Swisher podcast with Ezra Klein this morning was a good window into a lot of this.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

lol. I do love a good MtG meme—and this one is fantastic. It needs instructions for paying the X, though: “Pay X, where X is the half the fucks you have left to give, minus the hopes you have in your graveyard.”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Truly—I watched the first two episodes when it came out and I was, like: “rubbish.” Now it’s brilliant. I also had this same experience with “Breaking Bad:” “Why is Malcolm in the Middle dad getting into drugs?”

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Gosh darnit, George—haven’t we learned that if we just give these thugs what they want they’ll be really nice to us and give us what we want, too?

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Truly—IV seems like the last good Civ.

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Joel Hernandez @minnesotaj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Seriously. They there isn’t some kind of drill mode/grammar guide is bonkers. Like: if I can buy a $7.99 laminated card of it and you have billions, what is wrong with you?

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