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Will Knudsen

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UMich alum, Go Blue! UW Law Student From Illinois (Chicago burbs)

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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Accountability must happen, but it must happen with due process. If we get power and then just throw all of them in jail instantly, then we’re the authoritarians. Bring charges, give them their day in court before a jury, and based on the evidence they’ll be convicted if the prosecutor is competent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“We must recognize that the most terrible of human works is war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Looking at this district’s history, Wittman has never won by less than ten points. He has represented the district since 2007. A one point race is huge
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Inflation is out of control, I’m still fairly young and I got $2 when I was a kid
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Seth M. Fisher @mgoseth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
oh ffs bryce
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m from the Chicagoland so to me the Rockies, Appalachians, and Ozarks are all mountains. Hell, anything much bigger than the Cahokia mounds may as well be mountains to be
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Can’t be told your polls were wrong when there’s nothing objective to compare them to at the end
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m happy with this outcome. Showed a lot of support for Francesca Hong, but the candidate with the better polling against Tiffany wins
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m spiritually with the 61,000 people who voted for McMorrow anyway
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Oh my God. He’s so outrageously wrong. He claimed: “Testimony isn’t the same. That’s after it has been determined that a crime was committed.” He has all the legal knowledge of a person who watched Law and Order one time like five years ago
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yeah, I’m probably her core target audience. UW grad student opposed to AI data centers who lives in her assembly district. A year ago I would’ve said she’s too far left for me but in these times I think we need more people like Mamdani
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Doesn’t change my calculus, barring some sort of new concerning information I’m voting for Hong
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There used to be replies to this, but I don’t see them anymore. I wonder where they went.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Well, Maine chose. Now they’ll live with the consequences
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This isn't complicated: Don't rape women. Don't ignore issues in a ballot box that would be massive red flags in a job interview. Don't confuse performative theater for the job of a legislator. The Republicans have proven what happens if do those things. We don't need to copy them.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Of we go full Dune and destroy all thinking machines
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Well of course they’re not charging tolls. They closed the straight lol, so there aren’t ships going through to toll
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I only ever use the legal AIs as a slightly improved natural language search engine. I don’t really even read the blurbs it gives me, I just go and read the case like I would for a normal search. Side note, one time I specifically asked it for an Illinois case and it gave me a Pennsylvania one
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Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 10/06/2026
Texas Tech has a choice. No one is forcing the Red Raiders to play Brendan Sorsby. They are not backed into a corner. They can take his recovery seriously and support him by keeping him around/engaged with the program but NOT play him in games. It shouldn't be a tough call.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’d counter with the trans-Siberian railway
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Well, Maine chose. Now they’ll live with the consequences
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
One more reason to hate Trump is that he’s making me like Stephen A. Smith
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Tom Tell @thomastell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Since we're all stating our positions, here's my 2¢:
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
As a liberal from the Chicago suburbs who went to college in Ann Arbor and grad school in Madison, I can totally confirm that. Happens all the time
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2026
Me: [arrives at computer every morning, clicks to tab in which e-mail was open when I left] Microsoft Outlook:
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Mariah Carey: I Don't Know Her
Alt: GIF of Mariah Carey saying "I don't know her"
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’ll want to see a post-mortem on the GA Supreme Court race. My best guess is that the GA Dems simply failed to make it a high-profile race, and without actual mobilization national partisan headwinds aren’t going to impact a non-partisan judicial election
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The result of AI boosters getting booed at commencement will NOT be them getting a wake-up call about AI skepticism. They will just stop speaking at commencements. But that’s a small win!
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ted Kaczynski went to Harvard and got a PhD from my Alma Mater, Michigan. Being good at math doesn’t mean someone can’t go crazy
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Of all the reports for people to doubt and create conspiracy theories to dispute, it’s that a young white man would try to shoot someone at a public gathering? That happens like every other week at this point
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Yeah, the low percentage for experience does warrant further investigation, but I’d want to see a more focused poll question along the lines of “how important is a candidate’s experience to your 2028 election choice” before reaching any conclusions
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
That poll does not say that voters don’t care about values or experience. It says that they’re only 15%’s top priorities. The poll itself is pretty ridiculous since the answers aren’t mutually exclusive; most voters probably care about most of them so we don’t gain much asking which is their top
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2026
i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I’m a sucker for any type of Sauropod, always have been
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Has my vote. I’d love a Catholic VP who doesn’t oppose the Pope
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Vance is in clear schism with the Church. He should find a new religion because he is definitely not a Catholic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Leo: "The message of the church, the message of the gospel -- blessed are the peacemakers. I do not look at my role as being political. I don't want to get into a debate with him. I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Vance needs to either be loyal to the Pope, or find a new religion
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Trump isn’t beating the antichrist allegations with these attacks on the pope
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
As an American Catholic, I’m so happy. Single greatest PR the Church has gotten this Century We’re on the unambiguous good side of something!
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Slightly funny that despite claiming to be a Christian, Hannity completely ignores what Christ says on the matter of war and relies solely on ancient Old Testament histories
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Ireland
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My thoughts exactly
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Brian Cook, the mgoblog guy @mgoblog.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaqa
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Will Knudsen @willknudsen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I feel like combining all of these groups into one long super-list/acronym actually does a disservice to them. They deserve to be recognized in a meaningful way, not just reduced to one part of a rushed, overwhelming string of sounds
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