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If every furniture store in the country doesn't display a 4-color cutout of a pirate in its showroom this month, I don't even know what we're doing here.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 9h

Truer now than it was then. 👇🏼

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are lots of good, sane people in Kansas. Even some old school Republicans among them. I know. I worked with many over ~20 years. Don't write them off in this Senate race. (There are lots of the other kind, too, of course. 😞)

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What is happening? I'm glad NYT et al. recently covered the warnings Bibi received prior to Oct. 7 as his next election looms. But why is this news? I was awake in the States when that attack happened and was first hitting the airwaves. For months after, I consumed volumes of news 1/3

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His buddy who just closed the mega studio deal might be a bit perplexed to learn of this. Also, notice that he didn't mention the Bay Area where many of his other buddies have their HQs.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These are really great points. (And don't get me started on that anthology.)

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. Embarrassing, even for Natalie.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it would be nice if this was accurate but it is not. nothing that even vaguely resembles modern generative AI is possible without mass copyright violation.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love how she tucks farmers in, with a qualifier, after, um golfers and tennis players. The people who grow the things we need to survive are "perhaps" more important than adult rich kids who hit little balls for a living.

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In case it is not obvious -

Chart from post below annotated with presidential administrations, showing how job growth has stalled under Trump.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Too much Dance Dance Revolution in his 50s?

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching this WH presser after the AI huddle. Another case for term limits in government electeds is that these bastards won't exist long enough to live through/with the true consequences of their dangerous policies.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll say super intelligence the same way I say Willis Tower or Rate Park which is, never.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ugh. There's no one in the regime I'd rather listen to regarding matters of, well, anything offical, less than the new "Senator" Graham. <ffwd>

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And this is why I DVR all these important hearings on whichever CSPAN airs them.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Putin: "We didn't influence your election." Felon: "Trememdous!" Xi: "We didn't give Iran your coordinates." Felon: "Fantastic." Techlords (tomorrow): "We won't wipe out humanity." Felon: "Maybe just the poor ones? Brown ones? Dumocrats? Women over 18?" Techlords <keyboards clacking>: "On it!"

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Reflecting Bocce Ball Court. 🤦🏼

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump had armed fighters in the skies over Chicago yesterday so his Pampers ass could sit and watch a golf tournament ... for four hours. Never mind the hot war he started, the global trade war, and causing prices on everything to spike. To *watch* golf for f o u r hours.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eleven days before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Egypt's intelligence chief made a secret mission to Israel to warn officials of a possible assault. He was on the ground just 67 minutes, so intent he had to come in person. Vivian Salama has the receipts. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Egypt’s Warning to Israel

Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.

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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heartbreaking difficulties. Help save our natural history -

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Trump appointed judge orders the White House to immediately restore press credentials.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The vicious ICE beating and abandonment of a U.S. citizen in Evanston, IL yesterday was fourth on the 10 p.m. local news last night. Top story was about how our quarterback's Sunday hamstring injury turned out to be not a big deal. Fucked up priorities. ABC 7 News dropped the ball big time.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm beat. Spent all weekend installing a bird feeder/fountain on the end of my driveway. Don't know how I'm getting my car to and from the garage, but the top of the bird feeder seats, like, six drones. And I hired weirdos down the street to guard it and point their pew pews at any passersby.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ever notice how nothing Trump calls a national security risk (media, green energy/"windmills", voter fraud, etc.) Is a risk at all, while he enables actual risks like climate change, unfettered AI development, and selling sensitive chips or weapons to enemies and unreliable allies? 🤔

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Statue of Liberty was restored in the 80s, the Washington Monument needed repairs in 2011 after an earthquake, again in 2019 for elevators and security, and the Lincoln Memorial restoration began in 2016 Not a single location was renamed for the administration overseeing it.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Donald J. Trump Top Secret Arch of Amurica will be the first stain to be Berlin Walled when he's gone.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump (in Trump language): "CNN, MSNOW, Politico, y'er OUT! You, Tilly Norwood, get in here, you little dollface interface. <whispers> Are you wealthy? Are you, like, a bitcoin? In any case, let's make some magic."

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The sitcom as an institution might be on life support, and romcoms ... a thing of the past(?), but what never fails to bust my gut is a news report about the latest sleep study's recommendations. Like, they're kidding, right? Where are these unicorns who can adhere to such proscriptions?

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just checked my dad in for an x-ray. Registration now requires a digital signature asserting the patient's race. When the fuck did that start being a requirement?! 😡 Why does it matter? Been here 100x with him before today. Was there some private equity takeover I missed in the news?

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Donna Hopkins Ⓥ @vegandreamer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AG Todd Blanche: "I flew in from Washington DC this morning for one reason -- the American people were robbed. And they deserve to know...There has never been a President in American history more serious about stopping fraud Trump has pardoned the following people charged with fraud:

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Trump's desperate promise to resolve our shortage will be to run inconceivably long hoses from the underground storage tanks of every gas station in Venezuela up under the Carribean Sea and directly to key Senate battleground states.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2026

New: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park. One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:

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Growing Where He Died: Silverio Villegas González, One Year Later

One year on from the killing of Silverio Villegas González, a community of Franklin Park women continue the fight to keep his memory alive–through art, flowers, and “a culture of celebrating life.”

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12/09/2026

Illinois enacted the strongest artificial intelligence safety and accountability bill in the nation. We need to take the threat that AI poses seriously, not just state by state, but on a federal level. The stakes are too high to sit around and do nothing — it’s time to act now.

NBC Chicago Headline: ‘Time to sound the alarm': Gov. Pritzker warns of threat AI ‘poses to humanity'

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