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Wisconsin native - current Chicagoan. Go Pack Go!

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Beating the shit out of a divisional rival, even with a playcalling so conservative, Waukesha County is going to ask Matt LaFleur to run for office.

23.11.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

As a member of the 9th district, I have not seen any campaign events or mailers. Are you coming to Rogers Park?

20.09.2025 00:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It feels EXTREMELY weird that Packers-Lions is on CBS.

07.09.2025 20:21 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ“£ Re. the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1st:

If @crawfordforwi.bsky.social wins, it means Democrats have a fair, reasonable shot at flipping control of the state legislature since the NON-gerrymandered districts would remain in place for 2026. 1/

22.03.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

Thank you for starting the dialogue.

14.02.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

14.02.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 12619 πŸ” 2166 πŸ’¬ 430 πŸ“Œ 190

I am glad you post here as election twitter was one of my favorite areas of twitter. I am glad Packers Twitter made it over to Bluesky so I hope more of Election twitter follows. Communities take time to build. Your insights are valued here even if you get attacked a lot.

08.02.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs

02.02.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 3889 πŸ” 632 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 17

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or β€œcontroversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

30.01.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 126819 πŸ” 24565 πŸ’¬ 2227 πŸ“Œ 783

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

24.01.2025 01:24 πŸ‘ 150542 πŸ” 19384 πŸ’¬ 4228 πŸ“Œ 1978

I appreciate you posting on Bluesky and hope you continue to post more.

22.01.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, couple notes on your post. Personally I think it's fine. Totally get it. But someone I imagined, in my head, might not like it. They haven't seen it yet but I'm just saying, if they did. They might freak out a little bit. Anyway take it down or I'm calling the cops

19.01.2025 23:48 πŸ‘ 4071 πŸ” 519 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 12
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What Did The DNC Do This Cycle? Examining yet more FEC filings

Really great write-up here on what the DNC actually spends it's money on.

cauldronllc.substack.com/p/what-did-t...

19.01.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Even when the dogs are barking they don’t answer!!

18.01.2025 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good surprises since 2020:
Old people became way more Democratic
EC bias declined
R's have nominated terrible candidates

Bad surprises:
Zoomers are really right wing now
Tech moving right
Non-white support cratered faster than I thought it would
TikTok has been really bad

12.01.2025 16:03 πŸ‘ 457 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 13

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

12.01.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 50619 πŸ” 6652 πŸ’¬ 3171 πŸ“Œ 722

I am really glad you decide to post on Bluesky.

10.01.2025 00:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am glad you are here and posting.

08.01.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The amount but more importantly the quality of the responses to this plea for help was outstanding, beyond what I’ve experienced on any social network ever.

Thank you to everyone who weighed in.

29.12.2024 14:16 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

This bit never gets old! I am glad you have a good attitude.

23.12.2024 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

21.12.2024 00:41 πŸ‘ 17270 πŸ” 5102 πŸ’¬ 372 πŸ“Œ 351

Are we Bears fan Monday night?!? Sort of makes me sick to say it 🀣🀣

17.12.2024 03:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are all Buffalo Bills fans today

15.12.2024 21:42 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

A truly important (and obvious, even banal) point that really can’t be stressed enough: sometimes majorities get things really really wrong!

12.12.2024 12:43 πŸ‘ 2762 πŸ” 465 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 35

i think it is important to clarify that this β€” the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis β€” isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.

10.12.2024 20:56 πŸ‘ 8519 πŸ” 1470 πŸ’¬ 186 πŸ“Œ 58