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Eric Chandler

@shmof16.bsky.social

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Husband/Father/XC Skier/Writer/Pilot/Veteran. Temporarily immortal. Author of Kekekabic: http://bit.ly/33jIP7r and Hugging This Rock: http://goo.gl/h7CfYh. Angry Shmo Substack: https://ericchandler.substack.com/p/angry-shmo

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 19d

I tried to pay tribute to my dog. ericchandler.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/p...

Pattern of Life

Leo. Somewhere along the Superior Hiking Trail. 2014. It’s empty where you were. Just a big gaping hole. -from “Bloodshot Eyes” by Trampled by Turtles The vet depressed the plunger on one syringe, …

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 10h

The tariff money comes from the people tho

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 16h

“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 18h

Someone not bound by the UCMJ might say that this congressman from my state is an asshole who hates the first amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 21h

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 1d

Is he saying his bone spurs were woke?

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 1d

Extinction burst. When I’m optimistic, I view this paroxysm of violence and hatred as an extinction burst.

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the infinite quantum multiverses, why did I have to live in the stupidest?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 2d

Counterpoint: He also says we don’t have to have an opinion on everything. So which is it, Marcus?

Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

My latest byline www.thenordly.com/nordly/ice-d...

ICE Debuts Pumpkin Spice Pepper Spray for Fall - The Nordly

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

I guess my headline in The Nordly is timely. www.thenordly.com/nordly/ice-d...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

“CONTACT LEFT!”

JTAC: “We’re taking effective rubber chicken fire from the tree line. Call ready for area brief and 9-line.”

Me: SEND IT

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 3d

In actual combat — not this fake ass Stephen Miller wet dream — I would have destroyed any of my soldiers doing this to non-combatants. There is no gray area or fine line.

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

a black and white photo of a man in military uniform

Alt: a black and white photo of a man in military uniform

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 3d

After law school, only one thing is gonna keep me from prosecuting murders in my home town, and that is prosecuting the shameful federal ‘law enforcement’ officers who are so proudly violating the law. Save your signing bonuses for defense lawyers. You’ll need them.

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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 3d

We need some food. We need some clothes. We need fresh water, which here in Northern Minnesota, we can just dip our cup in the lake and drink it.
We need companionship. We need a sense of purpose. Like that's what we need, and that's what makes us feel alive.
You know, houses and cars and closets full of clothes and you know, all that stuff is is just extra. And sometimes it gets in the way and makes it harder for us to see sort of this beautiful simplicity that's that's out there. — Dave Freeman