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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 16h

It's honestly SNL. Seattle and New Orleans didn't get a super fans sketch

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 16h

i know everyone in america is in love with a fictionalized and idealized version of their past but chicago especially Does Not Need To Be Doing This Shit. they won one super bowl! that's it! seattle has that! new orleans has that! no one dresses as the coach anymore!

✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 17h

Bruh

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 17h

They have played Bush's Machinehead and NIN's Head Like A Hole at this Wild game. We're nothing if not culturally relevant in MN.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 20h

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Joel Zombied 🎃🦇 @velodus.bsky.social · 1d

Milwaukee Bucks Olive Garden
🤝
when you're here, you're family

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 1d

The Milwaukee Bucks are signing Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way NBA deal, joining older brothers Giannis and Thanasis, Octagon's Alex Saratsis tells ESPN. This marks the first time in NBA history that three brothers are on active roster contracts with the same team.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 1d

Tried a good house cleaning binge today to get over depression.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! I got it in 2. But only because it's my go-to word when I completely whiff on my first.

I like to start with an e and a in the first word and an o and I in the second.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 2d

How many hands?

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 2d

Straight up tackled

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earthtonic & lockboxed @algoresmilkymams.bsky.social · 2d

thiccer the kicker.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 2d

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 2d

But the reddit guys all told me Blackstack only made haziest and were terrible at lagers. 🙄

Congrats!

Eric Hild @kingofthehild.bsky.social · 3d

Well this is neat! 😍 🍻

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 3d

A year ago I lost the best thing that ever happened to me and I haven't been right ever since.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

I think the thing that has always bugged me about Tom Emmer is that you can tell he knows he is full of shit.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

Dear every MAGA family member I have,

Your hero is an idiot. Quit living your life in fear.

You're giving the Midwest a bad name you freaking cowards.

Also, start living Christ-like, you hypocrites.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

Again, all Republicans are RINOs.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus tap dancing Christ! How does anyone with a quarter of a brain cell respect anything in this administration?!

Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

RFK Jr. admitted on Thursday that the studies he’s cited to justify his baseless and dangerous claims about Tylenol use and autism are “not proof.” “This is not dispositive, this is not proof. We are doing the studies to make the proof.”

RFK Jr. Says Trump Admin Will “Make the Proof” on Bogus Tylenol Claims

“We are doing the studies to make the proof,” the health secretary said.

truthout.org

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4d

Do you carry documents that prove your citizenship everywhere you go? Cause I sure the fuck don't, and to do it would need to carry birth certificate, previous marriage certificate, and name change order to prove the man on my ID is the baby girl on my birth certificate.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

One of the most annoying parts about celebrity podcasts is how they talk about how they struggled for 14 months and almost gave up.

14 months?! You poor thing! You only got a job paying scale?! So indigent!

Successful people are literally the worst people to ask on how to be successful

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 4d

I'll probably never not have a crush on Julie Nelson.

Tim Johnson @timjohnsonmn.bsky.social · 5d

The original made for TV It. Couldn't use the showers at the pool.

Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 5d

What horror movie, besides Bambi, really messed you up as a child?

For me,

The People Under the Stairs

a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

ALT: a young boy in a red and gray striped shirt

media.tenor.com

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