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And that brings us to early December. 🤦🏼

... looking for payback. Trump will watch it all unfold as local LEOs try to restore order, then he'll declare martial law. Bigger protests and more intense clashes while some judges drag their feet, etc. Then he'll try to void the entire election.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 3h

I've been pondering the same. I imagine they'll contest more than a few races. Johnson and Thune will be on air predicting court victories. We'll be out in the streets, especially if some totally lopsided result is overturned. Then the goons will appear, bitter about the ass kicking and ...

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 5h

Is there anyone in this administration who isn't working or hasn't worked for Russia – or other dictator types – at this point?

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 6h

Ah. Good to know. Thanks. I'm staying in OP, so 470 in and out, but will be downtown part of the time.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 6h

Rut roh. What's that about? I'm heading your way in a few weeks and hate the Des Moines route.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 7h

And he reportedly aired two more late last night after the judge's ruling.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 14h

#OTD in 1958, Atlanta’s oldest Jewish temple was bombed because Rabbi Jacob Rothschild spoke out for racial justice. Fifty sticks of dynamite didn’t silence him — or the movement for equality. #TheMarchContinues #StopHate

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

I also hope the whole cast and crew goes on strike when this prick eventually qualifies for his 5x fête.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

I appreciate all the *good seasons and casts Lorne Michaels has assembled over my lifetime. I do, though, loathe his occasional dips into edgelordism when booking guest hosts. At least he warns us ahead of time. Cold open and Weekend Update. Fast forward and delete the rest. #snl 1/2

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

... some policy or legal maneuver to dodge it. (TBD) "Welcome to Germany," I said on my way out. They might not have been history majors, but they knew what I meant. 😡😡😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡 /fin

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

... and ID each one. We don't even know (and don't care). I told them about my dad's experience. Again, they said this is a new CDC thing. "Jesus. They're marking us now," I said. The two techs and pharmacist agreed and expressed normal shock and disgust. Then one suggested they could use ➡️

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

I'm picking up a prescription at a different place and hear one of the pharm techs comment to another that a form for (unspecificed) shots requires the same identifier. I interjected. "Yeah, this is brand new. The CDC is making us go through the 700+ shots we've given this quarter ... ➡️

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 10h

WTF🧵: I posted a few weeks back that when doing the registration for my dad for an x-ray at a hospital at which we spend way too much time, he had to sign a new form indicating his ethnicity. The intake person, when I questioned that said, "I know, right?!" No one's busniess. Ffwd to moments ago➡️

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 11h

I jump on a Twitter alt before bed around 2 a.m. to check trending topics (much better than here). That's where I learn of wars kicking off in real time or other global events before BBC picks it up. An occasional scroll 😬 in recent years has led me to deem Twitter the Cinemax of socials.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 12h

There's a Mar-a-Lago face with no sunlight/shadow just outside the top two and bottom right circles, too. Lower left is cut off, but she's probably there as well.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14h

Elon Musk was violating his visa when he started his first business here and very likely obtained his U.S. citizenship through fraud. Where is that investigation?

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 23h

That's amazing. I gathered that your editor's note was in the past and that you'd probably smiled, in vindication, about it a few times since then.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sorry, but that made me chuckle. 😁

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey, #WriteSky. What's your weakest technical skill? I'll go. I suck at commas (now). Aced them as a kid and for professional purposes. But creative writing? Maybe it's my dgaf attitude now, but I tend to insert them where the voice in my head pauses. Lots of overlap, but ... #WritingCommunity

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MM 🦋 @adgirlmm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🚨 IMPORTANT PSA 👇

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I know many have shared this, but I want it on my own timeline for future reference. (I already have a bazillion bookmarks.) Also, this could have continued for the more accurate and encompassing 1,093 posts and I'd have read every one of them. And then tomorrow, he begins the next list.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And he expanded a command window, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all scrolled it. And he said to them, “This is my source code of the algorithm, which is poured out for many.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And as they were computing, he took a CPU, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; these are my 2 nanometer chips.”

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't know whyt you mean.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

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

And then he'll cover the whole course in the finest marble. And install a helipad next to each tee box. And pepper each green with tiny replicas of his arch which a putt must pass through. And maybe a windmill. And a clown head with a hole in its mouth. And a roaming burger cart. 🤦🏼

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Buying diesel from Russia instead of ending the war with Iran as a way to lower prices here is like taking a payday loan to pay off the credit card you used to buy a house you can’t afford … as a way of lowering your credit score.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fox News would treat this public execution like Louisville (and NBC Sports back in the day) treats the Kentucky Derby.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Think of the positive side. Without the Russians we wouldn't know how to survive a nuclear blast by hiding under our school desks. #ColdWarLifeHacks

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is one of those "waits" during which one might actually be able to hold one's breath, sadly.

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anyone else still waiting for their dividend check from that $40b taxpayer-funded Argentine dictator bail out, I mean, investment? No? No one? Just me?

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Surely, in an era rife with self-radicalized religious extremists and an enemy with slick and sophisticated p.r. capabilities, executing an extremist on livestream will neither be seen as inspiration by the former nor used as a recruiting tool by the latter. Way to go, Pete Teevee. 🤦🏼

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The question is, did you create a stick-figure sketch of the room? (Sigh. I miss those, from back when the country used to prosecute its criminals.)

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Mike B. @wrytir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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 · 08/10/2026

Truer now than it was then. 👇🏼

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

They've never really let up around the Chicago area since last year. Rockford, though, is a bit outside of their usual hunting grounds.

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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

The phrase "a handful of corporations control ... " applies to damned near everything. Consumer packaged goods, meat, telecoms, etc. I'm surprised media/entertainment took so long to muscle, bribe, and lobby its way into the club, honestly.

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

Let's hope the eel was the aggressor in the latter case. Also ... wtf, dude?

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

... was common knowledge since then if I, some guy in the Midwest, could be aware of it. I don't understand how it has become some sort of breaking news right now. Anyone? 3/fin

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