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jd for Safe Streets 🎃🚸 @thedirte.bsky.social · 12h

She has to just vocally reject this shit every day until it stops. Maybe that's not fair, but her current strategy is not working. If she's not going to do that, I don't want her to stay with the Fever.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Spending the evening playing some CK3. Nothing crazy, standard Playing Tall Bohemia. Made my PC outrageously ginger, so I can have fun watching those genes pop up a generation or two down the line.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Term limits do not necessarily need constitutional amendments

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this is what the constitutional convention looked like:

Woman yelling at cat meme, but check this out: the cat is having a Del’s, some hot wieners, and wearing a paw sox hat

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One knock on effect of Musk buying out Twitter is that the “respectable” racists have lost their sense of how many layers of kayfabe they have to slap on their bigotry.

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Tony East @tonyreast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is an awesome game.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fair enough! I will at least take some comfort in their desperation

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They are registered to lobby in the US on behalf of a foreign power. My understanding is that as long as you comply with registration requirements, this is speech, so it couldn't otherwise be regulated

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let me be very clear about precisely why this whole sports thing is bigotry since it is one of the top strategies of anti trans hatred right now.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the packers line could just give Love 3 seconds, that offense could cook

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I would be riding these highs for days, maybe weeks.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A complication from my tonsillectomy in the third grade led my mom to experience a scene seemingly from a horror movie. So I can only imagine the horrors this would present -- do not recommend.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given the fact that no one enforced nor attempted to enforce the administration's interpretation for ~30 years, is there an originalist interpretation for their position other than "Everyone else but us was wrong"?

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again: schadenfreude is a part of my cultural heritage and you cannot make me give it up.

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAGA is about to lose his farm

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! I kept looking for some explanation, but I've never played the game. For others like me:

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When republicans tell you who they are, believe them

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a bit younger than gen X -- an older millennial. I don't remember *seeing* "I learned it by watching you", but I remember seeing references to it in many places. I remember seeing "This is your brain on drugs" constantly, so it feels bigger, even if I'm not sure it gets referenced as often.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To the extent these people are guilty of anything, it's the equivalent of breaking the speed limit. Would we tolerate locking up speeders like this? Will we start calling them illegal drivers?

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first protest I ever went to, was as a kid holding a "Give a hoot, don't pollute" sign while protesting a hog confinement being permitted extremely close to a small town. This data is as incredible as CAFOs are depressing.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chiropractors strike again

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Iceland has my favorite naming system. If Jalen Brunson had a daughter there, her surname would be Brunsondottir

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think perjury should still be on the table for that lie of omission.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm half convinced that they fed a bunch of stuff to an AI, including texts that likely said "Go Hawks!" (which is what Iowa fans frequently cheer since nobody has time to say Hawkeyes every time), and asked for a connection to Fani Willis. The AI, being inhuman, connected two Hawks incorrectly.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm still willing to believe Jack Smith committed perjury by not mentioning Kate Martin was also playing. Lie of omission, surely.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ipso post factor ergo propter hoc: Go Hawks

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She dominated the Terps in that game though. And he'd have to say that since he's under oath, to be fair. If he wasn't at the other games, that's hearsay

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I came to post this exact thing. Thank you for your service

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Totally agree. People underestimate the value of just *being* in a place. Wander around without a plan and see what the locals do and where they go. Those things often get overlooked, but you'll remember them longer. If you stay at a resort, watch where the workers go for their food.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just like the last round of Tariff Checks never happened, we all know that new ones won't either. People who act like this is a real proposal are revealing themselves to be marks, and I'm sick and tired of this state falling for scammers instead of supporting the common good.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I weren't such a trusting, salt-of-the-earth type, I might suggest that Trump is lying once again in order to present the appearance of a lifeline to a flailing GOP that has failed this state while in power for over a decade.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And here's the same section today

Screencap from Mesabi Metallic's now updated website stating:

"$18B

Investment across Minnesota and Iowa

$95B

Economic output over life of Iowa facility

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construction jobs at Iowa site with 1,500 already on site daily in Minnesota

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Family-sustaining Midwest jobs between facilities"

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When able, please ask why Mesabi Metallic's website was suddenly updated and what happened to the supposed benefit they were going to bring Minnesota. Here was their website on July 24th of this year:

Screen Cap from Mesabi Metallic's website stating:
">$2.1B

One of the largest private sector investments in Minnesota, with over $2.1B already invested in the project.

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Mesabi Metallics will be the first new mine and pellet plant in Minnesota in almost 50 years.

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Approximately 700 union construction workers are on site every day.

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Once operational, Mesabi Metallics will provide over 350 family-sustaining jobs on the Iron Range."

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's the way that playing sports was obviously important to him that makes it such an enraging and difficult-to-forgive position.

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RadioBradshaw @radiobradshaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you weren't promising to kick some Iowans off the team I'd be excited to vote for you. bsky.app/profile/vote...

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And while their website appear not to be loading at the moment, Google search has archived what (until very recently) their plans were. Why should this new plan be considered more likely?

Google Search results showing Mesabi Metallics' website (https://mesabimetallics.com) and a preview of what was recently on their site. The Preview reads, "Mesabi Metallics will be the first new mine and pellet plant in Minnesota in almost 50 years. 1,500 Approximately 1,500 union construction workers on site ..."

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why wouldn't the hypothetical steel factory be built in the Mesabi range which borders Lake Superior and already has ocean access? Between unmet power needs and political favoritism, sure feels like anyone treating this as something which will actually happen is revealing themselves to be a mark

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why they say shut up and dribble (or tackle in this case). This is absolutely a scandal and deserves to be covered as such

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Yeah, Ferentz definitely swallows" is a thought I've now had because of you. I hope you're proud of yourself (laudatory)

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He's also the exceedingly rare Republican who appears to act in good faith

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many other countries do not have militarized police departments like we have. Well-resourced detectives help make communities whole. Your average cop does not

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But politically reducing their power after educating the white population on how little they do and how much they steal from the public

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This same, aggressive defense with Parsons has a chance to be a serious problem

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Things I’m watching for tonight… 🏈 Jordan Love had a 2.3 TTT last week. Do they trust the line more vs the ATL rush? Does he? 🏈 Penix’s ability to lean into his strength (attacking the perimeter) vs GB’s corners, as opposed to their strength up the spine 🏈 Can LVN keep balling?

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