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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 08/08/2026

Read every word of this post. Wisconsin Democrats, DO NOT VOTE FOR FRANCESCA HONG. You are walking headlong into a trap set by Republicans to elect MAGA Tom Tiffany as your next Governor. The evidence is both abundant and clear. Stop their scheme in its tracks and vote for David Crowley.

So I discovered something interesting today.

I keep hearing Francesca Hong is running some innovative campaign where she isn’t spending money on TV and it’s working like a charm. This confused me because I have family in Wisconsin and I know for a fact there are tons of Francesca Hong ads on TV - there actually seem to be more ads for her than any of her opponents. So I thought "gee, if Hong isn’t spending money on TV and the Democratic Establishment hates her, who is paying for all this ad time?”

A lot of Hong’s direct TV advertising came from a super pac called Middle Class Priorities. Middle Class Priorities only has one donor, Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc. And what is Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc? A fake GOP slush fund run by Republican operatives that’s spent millions of dollars getting leftists nominated in swing districts. Most leftists who have won swing district primaries are being funded by the GOP btw, that’s why so many of them claim they won despite being outspent. William Lawrence had massive Super PAC support from an organization called Michigan Sunrise that came out of nowhere and conveniently timed its inception so it did not have to disclose its donors until after the election

On top of that, another Republican Super PAC spent 2.2 million dollars “attacking” Francesca Hong starting in early July. That’s weird - why would you waste money attacking a candidate who was barely leading in the polls at the time in a crowded primary? Because their “attack ads” only ran in extremely Democratic areas like Dane County and they were all about how you shouldn’t vote for Francesca Hong because she opposes Trump’s immigration agenda.

They were fake attack ads meant to improve her standing with Democratic Primary voters. Francesca Hong’s spike in support happened in mid-July, at the exact same time a GOP Super PAC launched an ad campaign meant to make Democratic Primary voters think the Republicans are scared Francesca Hong will stop their immigration priorities

The Republicans have spent more money on TV advertising for Francesca Hong than every Democratic candidate has spent combined. Literally her entire TV footprint is Republican Super PACs. She currently has zero dollars of her own television ad buys lined up, has spent zero dollars on TV ads the entire campaign, has no support from outside money that isn’t a Republican psyop, has one-tenth of Tom Tiffany’s cash on hand, and can’t receive support from the DNC because the party is broke

People are underestimating what a blood bath this is going to be. She’s already behind in the polls and the second the primary is over every penny of Francesca Hong’s TV advertising disappears and the GOP will spend tens of millions of dollars on ads about how she’s a radical police abolitionist who hates Valentine’s Day, is grotesquely obsessed with her son’s ethnic heritage, and pals around with a guy who said America deserves 9/11. There will be no response to these ads because Hong doesn’t have any money for ad buys and all of her Super PAC support came from Peter Thiel

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I know #Suspiria is being shown for Joan Bennett’s day on #SUTS, but it’s making me want to rewatch Jessica Harper’s film debut in Brian De Palma’s delightfully weird “Phantom of the Paradise.” #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Along with the original #CatPeople, #Suspiria has one of the creepier swimming pool sequences in horror film history. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Watching #Suspiria again for the first time in awhile, and reminded of what an effective role sound plays in it, has me wanting to rewatch “Berberian Sound Studio,” the wonderful 2012 Toby Jones-led psychological horror film/tribute to film sound engineers/homage to ‘70s giallo flicks. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Watching #Them on creature feature shows as a kid is where I think I first noticed the sound effect that I would later learn was referred to as the “Wilhelm Scream.” I believe it’s used at least a couple of times in this film. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Interesting that the O.G. “big bug” giant atomic monster movie #Them is airing on the anniversary of the Trinity test in the New Mexico desert (July 16, 1945). #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Along with the creepy trilling of the ants, the sound of the howling wind from the sandstorm really lends an eeriness to the opening of #Them. #TCMParty

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Looks like the screen you see after losing at Missile Command

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Happy anniversary to #RaidersOfTheLostArk! Kind of crazy to realize that we are now as far removed in time (45 years) from the film’s June 12, 1981, release as the film was from the year in which it was set (1936).

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I like how the alien also looks up at the humans with some sort of wonder and curiosity. #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

John Williams definitely would have won the Best Original Score Oscar for #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind if he hadn’t been up against … himself (he won for Star Wars). #TCMParty

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#2001ASpaceOdyssey is still the film that, for me (and not that I’d know for sure, but still) captures the vastness, quietness, eeriness and strangeness of space. Especially in that “stargate” sequence. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Lately, trying to get my job resumes past A.I. “keyword gatekeepers” and into the hands of the humans doing the hiring has made me feel like Dave trying to convince HAL to let him back on the ship in #2001ASpaceOdyssey #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Somehow, the year 2001 still sounds kinda futuristic to me. #2001ASpaceOdyssey #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

That moment in #2001ASpaceOdyssey when one of our prehistoric ancestors gets the initial spark of inspiration/imagination allowing it to think that something could be used to do another thing actually makes me tear up a bit. This film is not as cold/emotionless as some might think. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

if you’re seeing this it was meant to find you today

a screenshot from Ricki Lake with the chyron “wants to tell his valentine crush she has “bodacious bazongas”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/02/2026

abolishing ICE is not enough its members need to be prosecuted

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Scoutprime @scoutprime.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Is Cecil Turtle the only character ever to have gotten the best of Bugs Bunny? #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

#TopSecret can be hit or miss, but more hits, I think, including some of my favorite film gags: Nick dreaming he’s back in school then awakening in relief that he’s just being tortured; Chocolate Mousse firing wildly and hitting only the enemy; the German jeep driving into the Pinto. #TCMParty

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Patti Daniels @pattidan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Both taken this weekend:

Donald Trump falling asleep at a table in his stupid red "America is Back, 45-47" hat and Joe Biden looking slim and fit in a leather jacket, black hat and gloves.

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Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

McConnell doesn't get as much hate now that he's just waiting to die, but man, he and Roberts are up there with the absolute worst men the Republic has ever suffered.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13/11/2025

The make-believe bullshit of Trumpism and Trump’s cabinet are not an aberration but rather exactly what would happen if you ran a government like a business; and America’s authoritarian turn (and the counter-knowledge that entails) was already widely distributed in its c-suites and board rooms.

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“Temple of Doom” got more flak for its violence, leading to the PG-13 rating, but #RaidersOfTheLostArk has its share of violence and scares for a PG movie. Just like some other intense ‘70s/early ‘80s films that also got away with just a PG rating, like Jaws and Poltergeist. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’m kind of embarrassed, kind of not, to admit that as a kid, I watched/fast-forwarded/rewound a Beta tape of #RaidersOfTheLostArk so much that it broke. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In this movie, it’s even satisfying when that little Nazi agent monkey gets its comeuppance. #RaidersOfTheLostArk. #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Man, as a kid I was so bummed when Chariots of Fire beat out #RaidersOfTheLostArk for Best Picture. Still am! #TCMParty

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I have to think the incessant whining, self-pitying portrayal of themselves as being persecuted and refusal of any self-accountability that so many conservative men engage in must be a big turn-off to all kinds of women in all kinds of places. Nothing “masculine” about that.

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Jeff @stegron.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Nah, the biggest thing missing from this conversation is that most beltway reporters are clearly not only too stupid to understand policy (and much of the rest of their supposed “beat,” frankly) but also too lazy and incurious to learn.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

See this thread from Mar-a-Lago. This isn't tonedeafness. This is fuckyouness.

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Every state should have a message this direct on their website.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I do not think "America always sucked so who cares if the elected President is destroying civic property to replace it with shoddily built palatial compounds, that's not important compared to ICE seizures" is a winning message. 1: it's all the same phenomenon! 2: Americans care about America.

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TheHerm @herminator12.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild #NoKings #Minnesota

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/10/2025

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

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