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Doug Mack

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Snacks, Americana, and other curiosities. 📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (Norton, 2017). 🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · Oct 5

Anyway, if you want to learn about the U.S. territories, read my book!

I traveled more than 30,000 miles to report it. Deep-dive history. Legal analysis. Tons of interviews. Funny travel stories.

Smithsonian said it was one of the 10 best travel books of the year!

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The Not-Quite States of America

'To truly understand the United States, one must understand the 'not-quite states of America.' —Mark Stein, best-selling author of <em>How the States Got Their Shapes</em>, The Not-Quite States ...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 7h

local angle: minneapolis is basically like the average of seattle and toronto, if you think about it

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 2d

congrats to one of the better MLB cities to our south

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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 19h

i have this deeply absurd desire to see the national mall covered in portland frogs on no kings day. cities streets covered in dancing portland frogs across the nation. small town squares populated with portland frogs. a biblical quantity of portland frogs.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8h

Baseball is the best

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 8h

OMG perfect

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Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 10h

Free story idea: Call up commercial plywood suppliers around Oregon and ask if orders have increased over the past year.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

So many inflatable costume options

www.favounicorn.com/adult-inflat...

Sales page for inflatable costumes

Pictured options include:
Adult Inflatable Dinosaur
Purple Alien Octopus Thing Inflatable
Inflatable Clown Costume
Blow Up Dinosaur
Inflatable Kangaroo
Inflatable Easter Bunny

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 10d

"We’re traveling nearly 2,000 miles on I-95 from Miami to Maine, and pausing at virtually every rest stop. Our project is simple and vast at once: to ask fellow travelers where they’re headed, and where they think America is going too."

New from @atavist.com.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

I’ve Gone to Look for America - The Atavist Magazine

Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 11h

So I swear I didn’t know about this when I posted this morning, but I heard on All Things Considered this afternoon that there is a Nobel Prize for cheesemongering

www.krps.org/2025-10-10/p...

Philadelphia pro is world champion of cheese

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with with Emilia D'Albero, the first American to win the title of "Best Cheesemonger in the World."

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Kae Lani Palmisano @kaelanisays.bsky.social · 11h

Had a really Philly day at the Reading Terminal Market where artists put their carving skills to the test at the Scrapple Sculpting Contest! www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2025...

Philly Artists Turn Scrapple Into Sculpted Masterpieces

Pennsylvania's iconic mystery meat pâté got gallery-worthy treatment at the Reading Terminal Market today.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14h

Facts. Absolutely gorgeous.

K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a very nice day to ride bikes in Minneapolis

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 18h

Cheetos 🤭 #art #oilpainting

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Adam Roy @adnroy.bsky.social · 19h

Hiking the CDT: very hard! Hiking the CDT followed, immediately, by the Great Divide Trail: almost unprecedentedly hard. Jessica "Stitches" Guo became the first known woman to do it last month, and spent four full weeks without seeing a single other human being.

She Became the First Woman to Complete This 3,600-Mile Thru-Hike—and Brought Thousands Along for the Journey

This September, Jessica "Stitches" Guo thru-hiked the Continental Divide and Great Divide Trails in one five-month push, a deep-backcountry journey that saw her spend weeks without seeing a single oth...

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Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social · 18h

There is so much great advice from this episode's guest about how to manage when your boss hits you with that bullshit performance improvement plan. TLDL, don't sign a damn thing in the moment. Ever. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

S2 E10: The Dreaded PIP | Home

Janice Brathwaite — the president and founder of Workplace Transformations — talks about her work with corporate culture. She’s got a few things to say about the dreaded Performance Improvement Plan (...

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 18h

Took a break from the Supreme Court's ongoing horrorshow to focus on what really matters: how funny it is for a federal judge to decide, as a matter of law, that Drake lost the Kendrick Lamar beef

Federal Judge Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” Too Awesome to Be Defamatory

Apparently, Drake decided that losing in the court of public opinion was not humiliating enough.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 20h

You can wear this one and hold a sign that says we're all trying to find antifa

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22h

Short podcast on the man who convinced the world that transit maps would be better and easier to use if they didn't try to represent geography accurately. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Bernadette Vielhaber @bvielhaber.bsky.social · 22h

ICE attacks on innocent people has risen 1000% since June.

NPR @npr.org · 22h

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 22h

You simply have to read this @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social joint and not just because there's way more levitation in it than you would think possible. The Archangel Michael is also somehow involved www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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NPR @npr.org · 22h

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 23h

I’m 52. I remember the initial national marketing campaigns touting the inventions of Diet Coke, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chicken McNuggets, soft & chewy store bought cookies, Hot Pockets and microwave popcorn.

Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

also, if you were born before 1987, you are older than honey roasted peanuts

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

You ever think about how you’re basically as old as Ciabatta in the grand scheme of breads?

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

nobel prize categories that should exist:

* music
* linguistics
* agriculture
* design
* short-order cooking
* acrobatics
* origami
* posting through it
* ice cream innovation
* awkward sarcasm
* cryptozoology

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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