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@wistlo.bsky.social
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Twitter refugee in New Orleans, husband, dad, engineer, database guy, IT guy, "it" guy (less so), retired bellhead (as in AT&T), writer (if there was a Pulitzer for Yelp! reviews...)

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely. 👇
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@jreinermd.bsky.social 🎯 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/o... Bravo NYT, who covers 47 with milquetoast language: Trump merely "being at odds with" verified lies, "Trump says" headlines with made-up numbers while burying/omitting data checks, citing "vandalism" w/o context from witness & webcam.
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Opinion | I Was Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist. I Have Questions About Trump’s Health.
The president has not been looking well. Americans should get answers to these seven questions.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Womp womp, wahhh. Goose and gander, anyone? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/t...
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American A.I. Companies Say Chinese Copycats Are Quickly Catching Up
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
No better way to cast shade on the vulgar semiquincentennial activities of Trump than TAYLOR SWIFT, MARRIAGE, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. Bring it.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A picture that's worth a thousand words—or in this case, days. More precisely, 940 as of this writing.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@bcdreyer.social Non-bsky spouse is back at her volunteer media proofreading job. I'm doing as instructed:
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
youtu.be/4qf2w2igJPU?... The 16 year old who waited every night for the Bicentennial Minute is still alive and I'm right here for these.
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Democracy!
YouTube video by Saul4Democracy
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/c... This is *so* on brand.
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Trump Ordered ‘American Flag Blue’ for the Reflecting Pool. It’s Green Again.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
As with abortion, no women involved in the conversation. Thanks, NYT, these are the two guys I was waiting to hear from on this topic: www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Men Have Viagra. What About Women?
Modern medicine helped men have better sex, but what about women? Christian Angermayer, founder of the Enhanced Games, argues we’re entering a new era of “humanmaxxing,” in which scientific breakthrou...
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@bcdreyer.social This is from the NYT. Should the term not be "whaled"?
wailed vs. whaled
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Ian Hoch Live @ianhoch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Bad Congressional maps are the big problem that makes all the little problems possible - and in the Confederate south, the problem is not just growing - it is metastasizing.
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Bad maps are breaking America
The fight over congressional maps may sound technical, but bad maps are how extremism, corruption, and broken government survive.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 20/05/2026
It’s a Cybertruck for your face.
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easypeas.bsky.social @easypeas.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I feel the staging part is that they knew an attempt would be made by this individual, but they allowed it up to a point. And then they ran the playbook where everybody calls for a ballroom. For protection. It’s freaking bizarre.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Turns out they were celebrating the *second* amendment.
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Stu @blueskiesecho.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Revolver by The Beatles, reinventing themselves, a pretty bold move, experimental, & timeless. From “Eleanor Rigby” to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” I'm not going to lie, they pretty much reshaped pop music. here.. #NowPlaying #TheBeatles 🎧
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Jeff @jeffdonahoo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you’re of a certain age, then I’m sure this view of the Artemis II launch riddled you with anxiety for a few moments.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Looking forward to getting djt signed US currency notes that will almost certainly land in my palm with helpful suggestions and directives scribbled in by my fellow citizens with their own Sharpies.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Ursuline's Dandy Lion regales the crowd during the Krewe of Carrollton
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 05/02/2026
I don't think I could better parody the state of the Washington Post opinions page than an essay from a crypto guy and the legal academy's worst amateur epidemiologist that earnestly argues that "stolen land" rhetoric is misguided because of statutes of limitations on lawsuits to recover property
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Ian Hoch Live @ianhoch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New from me: Neutrality isn’t moral clarity when one side is building power and the other is pretending not to notice.
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Twin crises at WaPo and CBS explain everything about American media
Right-wing billionaires wield media like a weapon - everyone else treats it like a liability
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
Screenshot of an X.com post by Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) reading, “Patricia and Mark McCloskey brought weapons to a protest. They were honored as keynote speakers at the 2020 RNC.” Below is a photo of a man holding a rifle and a woman aiming a handgun, standing outside near a light-colored building.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Musk didn’t start a new party. He wrote a tweet.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#colbert turns out to be the past imperfect French participle of "Smothers Brothers"
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Release the Files
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different 
- *smashes everything*
- oh no
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Voting works. A New Orleans city jail tax proposal passed by one vote. Pick any three voters and any of us could say "we three put it over the top." 🧵 1/
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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Among my regular passengers on the 44 are two young boys who ride with their grandma from California and 6th Ave all the way to Silver and Palou. The older brother is possibly a 2nd grader. Last night as they were getting off my bus, he handed me this hand made envelope.
A pink construction paper envelope with children’s handwriting that reads “To: Bus driver From: Me”
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra dialed it to 11 with Mahler tonight.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Apparently you can't spell "principal" if you have no principles.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
These two are the spirit of Mardi Gras (well, at least part of it)
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 04/03/2025
here it is: it got a police escort out of the parade
a black cybertruck in a parade with dual american flags. it is absolutely covered in beads. a small child is up next to it placing beads on it, and police are surrounding it
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
FWIW as former editor of my school paper, I'll run it.
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David Lee Simmons @dlsnola.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Happy 50th Birthday, “Saturday Night Live.” It was fun to write about you from a New Orleans perspective, 2002: www.nola.com/gambit/mardi...
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Daughter in high school asked me about "who" and "whom." I gave her two references: 1. Comden and Green, from 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗺 we get "One Hundred Easy Ways" in their show 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘯 (oof, YayText). 2. Page 87 of 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ (YT, you're not much better with serifs) @bcdreyer.social
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/02/2025
I guess we're rather a bit past "gentlemen don't wear hats indoors."
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID. They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide. What insanity and cruelty to break that.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The real op ed, truly the opposite of what the editor published.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 10/02/2021
@lisamurkowski says after seeing today's footage "I can't see how Donald Trump could be elected to the Presidency in 2024". Senator, may I introduce you to 2016?
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts... I was going to say this should get produced as an animation by Robert Smigel, but it's so perfectly written my imagination worked just fine.
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Trump Won—Get Over It, Charlie Brown!
You blockhead! We wanted something meme-able!
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... Thorough piece. It's a big part of how we got here. Now do Trump. You won't need to speak off-the-record to 50 close associates for that. Given who owns WSJ, I'm not holding my breath.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
So *this* is what it feels like when a President breaks a promise. We might have never known. Thanks, Joe.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"No posts yet." I'll fix that with a pinned post from the other site and the "good" old days: 𝗕𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁.
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
@DougJBalloon Addiction Sins of Mother, Sans Laptop, Become Campaign Asset for J.D. Vance www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/elect…
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S2 Art @wistlo.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
@DougJBalloon
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