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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 03/10/2026

This next woman is identified in a different Tiffany campaign spot as “Chris M from Kenosha”

She’s identified in a different tom Tiffany spot as “Chris M from Kenosha”

Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 03/10/2026

There are at least two more variations on Lori T. In the Tom Tiffany campaign commercials. It’s like someone put in a prompt that read “photorealistic Rough & bitter chainsmokers that also own tanning salons” into an image generator.

Proud of Lori T. Didn’t have a single coughing jag in the one line she had in this commercial

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 01/10/2026

When he mentioned the compliment that he got from the barista, I was instantly reminded of that "30 Rock" where Liz Lemon has a cowboy hat she's been keeping ever since that Spring Break where a Hot 97 DJ called it a 'sweet lid'.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 28/09/2026

Did I share my conspiracy theory about the WWE's Danhausen being a psyop on our children so that all of Peter Thiel's creepy mannerisms will read as "madcap"? Why, yes I did. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

peter theirl says evil can be kind of good

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 03/09/2026

Trying to incorporate one of those banana "wet floor" signs as brutalist architecture so we can underscore that it is a comedy podcast about our descent into Autocracy. Not sure it lands. Might be a bit phallic.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 03/09/2026

I did copy the design brief into MidJourney and got something pretty close to this one -- which I think is the leader in the clubhouse with a few days to go. At least some artist in a country where $350 is good money is getting paid. I get credit for that, right?

leader in the clubhouse for the hatchwise Autocratic Despair contest

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 25/07/2026

Alex Pretti’s Mom put this out today, in case you’ve not seen it. Credit to r/wethepeopleatwhipple Keep fighting, everyone. Keep supporting other who are fighting in their own way, too.

Alex Pretti’s mom put this post out. Today marks 6 months since the murder of her son. His killers remain at large.

From WeThePeopleAtWhipple community on Reddit
Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No-
one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone
call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the
Mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of
trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another
mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how
to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live
knowing that I have no power to change what has
happened?
And yet the out-reach not only from minnesota, but from
around the world has been nothing less than spectacular.
Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read,
touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all
shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what
he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember
the things that made you, you. It will never take your
memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.
For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never
give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your
community and don't forget to spend time with those
love...

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 16/07/2026

This week's "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" has the estimable Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social sitting in for Dr. Craig @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social who was on assignment* this week. *Turkish Hairline Surgery 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Autocratic Despair: The Podcast Episode 12 promo. Jared Yates Sexton is the guest.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 12/07/2026

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was a longtime subscriber to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Senator Lindsey Graham was a longtime WON subscriber.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 08/07/2026

Only one way scientifically proven to remove a song from your head, but you’re not going to like it

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 28/05/2026

Pinning stickers on Kwik Trip bulletin boards is paying dividends for my “Resist Autocratic Despair” initiative. Respect to whoever placed it.

Resist Autocratic Despair sticker in the wild.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 25/05/2026

Titletown Field end zone is being changed out to reflect the new sponsor, which I think is Emplify Health.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 14/05/2026

On Autocratic Despair: The Podcast - @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social & I decided that America has a Talarico-shaped hole that can only be filled by @jamestalarico.bsky.social ascending to the presidency in 2028 Delusional? Maybe. We see it as a forceful rejection of cynicism & you should, too.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 12/05/2026

The only way to read that line is in the voice of Buford T Justice

Jackie Gleason and Buford T Justice in Canonball Run

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 04/05/2026

Probably why his line of gummy candy didn’t take off.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 19/04/2026

Great stuff happening with my BlueSky algo right now. Hot Damn!

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 15/04/2026

My 8-year attempted to forge my wife’s signature to sign himself out of school earlier today. Might have pulled it off but for a critical error. See if you can spot the error.

My son attempted to forge my wife’s signature to sign himself out of school earlier today. Made a critical mistake, though.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 15/04/2026

If you’re in Green Bay on 4/20, we’re having another edition of the Autocratic Despair Dialogues. I’ve been informed my Volcano is not allowed at the library, so if you plan to be high, come having had.

Autocratic Despair Dialogues event poster for April 20m 2026 in Green Bay, WI.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 02/04/2026

Record-growth in downloads today. Will be tough to top this.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 02/04/2026

My entire Fantasy Football group chat is full of dudes that both fit this description and have never seen this tweet outside of the 9 times per year I post it for no particular reason.

The Grink, as it turned out, was not there.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 25/03/2026

I've recruited a PhD on Global Fascism named @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social to do a podcast with me about Autocratic Despair. We're having fun developing it on his Patreon. Apple Podcasts feed will be up soon w/ trailers. Join the advisory committee today at www.patreon.com/FifteenMinut...

Dr. Craig Johnson from the "15 Minutes of Fascism" and a comedian/buffoon named Nick Mortensen developing a podcast called "The Autocratic Despair Podcast" having a ball while the captions read "Gleeful Giggling".

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 18/03/2026

Monday March 23rd at 6pm at the library in downtown Green Bay, WI - we will be having another edition of the "Autocratic Despair Dialogues". Stare into the abyss with others, in person. Hope to see you there.

Poster for the Monday March 23rd edition of the "Autocratic Despair Dialogues" at 6pm at the library in downtown Green Bay, WI - we will be having another edition of the "Autocratic Despair Dialogues".

Stare into the abyss with others, in person.

Hope to see you there.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 23/02/2026

If you're struggling with the madness and near Green Bay, stop out at the Library in Downtown Green Bay at 6pm for the Autocratic Despair Dialogues - my monthly moderated discussion group for people that are struggling with the USA's further descent into Authoritarianism. Hope to see you.

Flyer for a Moderated Group Discussion event at the Brown County Library in downtown Green Bay called the Autocratic Despair Dialogues - scheduled for Monday, Feb 23 at 6pm.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 24/01/2026

If you are in Green Bay, come on out to this month’s “Autocratic Despair Dialogues”. It’s a group discussion I moderate where we talk about how to navigate under Authoritarianism. If you aren’t, re-skeet anyway. Might be good for people to know such a thing exists & maybe create their own.

January 2026 poster for the Autocratic Despair Dialogues in Green Bay on Jan 26, at 6pm, at the Central Library.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 21/01/2026

No easy task to not surrender to the cynicism & dissociate. Did you ever read this book? www.amazon.com/Rape-Mind-Ps...

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 16/01/2026

Would you pass this along to your friends in Minneapolis? Better to know it & not need it than to need it & not know it.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 16/01/2026

I would like all my friends in Minneapolis to familiarize themselves with the Survivability Onion. Better to know it & not need it than to need it & not know it.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 14/01/2026

GUYS, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE: How many of those ICE guys are out there right now doing their jobs with a butt plug inserted? Most, if not all of them, get off on dominance and submission, so it can't possibly be zero.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 10/01/2026

I find posting this graphic sometimes hits people right when they need a reminder & I urge you to do the same. I’ve placed stickers of it up in my hometown & find it to be genuinely helpful in certain moments where it starts to feel a bit overwhelming.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 08/01/2026

If you live in Green Bay, WI - the next installment of the "Autocratic Despair Dialogues" will be at the Central Library on Monday January 26th at 6 pm. Hope to see you there. Please repost for visibility if you have followers in Northeastern WI that might be interested in talking it out a bit.

Autocratic Despair Dialogues poster for the January 26th session at the Central Library in Green Bay, WI at 6pm.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 08/01/2026

I had about 500 of these printed up as stickers and I leave 2 or 3 of them on Kwik Trip bulletin boards around Green Bay in the hope that someone will place it around town and I'll run into it just as I need a reminder. Should probably mass market these in 2026. We're all going to need a reminder.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 07/01/2026

Hope I did the right thing when I pointed out that one of the Green Bay Police Department's new recruits had a visible III% militia tattoo in his swearing in photo. GBPD response was "it's fine" and that they'd not be addressing it further. #GreenBay fox11online.com/news/local/g...

3% militia tattoo on a Green Bay Police Department's inner right bicep exposed as he is being sworn in.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 04/01/2026

Placed this sign in my front yard as a reminder.

Sign that says “Resist Autocratic Despair”

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 18/11/2025

If your takeaway from all the recent news about this person is not that you want her nowhere near your life, I don't know what to tell you. These people have a goddamn blast zone. You need to review the Survivability Onion.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 13/11/2025

This along with narrative that "those girls knew the score/ were well-compensated" is the last stop before he has to pull the "Born-Again Christian" card. I think the combination of all three will probably be needed allow MAGA Enthusiasts to stay on the train.

Prediction about the word ephebophilia being injected into the conversation about trump and epstein in order to mitigate something that makes it obvious how guilty Trump is.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 13/11/2025

Wake up Bae. Megyn Kelley is soft launching injecting the word "ephebophile" into the discourse! He wasn't a kiddie diddler, see. He's just a guy who is still 16 years-old in many ways (including his sexual attraction to girls that have started recently menstruating).

passage of a transcript where Megyn Kelley soft launches the concept of ephebophile into the national conversation in order to get people to remember that Trump is less of a "kiddie-diddler" and more of a 16 year-old boy at heart.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 11/11/2025

If you are in Green Bay on November 17th, please join us for the holiday edition of our monthly moderated discussion group: Autocratic Despair Dialogues. We'll be talking about what's happened in the last month and how authoritarianism is going to wreck the holidays this year. Please do repost.

Poster for the November 17th 2025 edition of the Autocratic Despair Dialogues in Green Bay, WI

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 28/10/2025

I had 500 stickers of this and have been posting them at bulletin boards throughout Green Bay. At least a couple of friends have reported seeing them in the wild. A beacon of hope, I think.

I had 500 of these printed up as stickers and have been posting them at tackboards throughout Green Bay in the hope that they'll be found in the wild by people having a moment of Autocratic Despair.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 27/10/2025

Driving a real hard bargain here, I see. Suppose he really ramps up his crabman bona fides & adopts the custom of wearing a rolled up beanie for public events, Jeff - Would that hold your interest at all?

Smiling guy that's obviously in the merchant marines because of his hat signaling so.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 18/10/2025

I have been distributing these around Green Bay. It’s a little pick-me-up whenever I see any of them in the wild.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 14/10/2025

Next week on Monday at 6pm in Green Bay, I'll be moderating a group discussion open to people that are nervous about the rise of Authoritarianism. Join us at the Brown County Library? (please pass this along to any locals you know)

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 11/10/2025

I pasted these all over Green Bay because it makes me feel a little bit better when I’m reminded. It’s getting a bit heavy.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 29/09/2025

If you want to win an argument with a MAGA Enthusiast, just point out that the top 20 Equity Precious Metals mutual funds are returning > 100% year-to-date. They won't know how it is relevant, but that's kind of the fun of it -- they don't understand any of the reasons they are wrong about him.

At the risk of seeming like a "buy Gold" bot account - I should point out that the top 20 mutual funds in the Equity Precious Metals space are returning at at rate greater than 100% since Jan 1, 2025

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 26/09/2025

I’m final drafting a book about this and I have been leaving stickers with logo all over town. Hope you’ll have me on your show when it is released.

Resist Autocratic Despair is a reminder that Autocracy is trying to demoralize you.

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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 24/09/2025

Neighbors I have watched become more radicalized since joining an Evangelical church in 2019 - put up a sign in their yard that says "We are all Charlie Kirk NOW". The verbiage doesn't make sense, but definitely underscores the in-group dynamics of their movement.

Example of a bit of in-group dynamics sleight-of-hand from neighbors who insist that anyone that isn't of their same political persuasion is "brainwashed", but definitely don't recognize they've outsourced their critical thinking to a pernicious entity.

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