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NBCTeacher, songwriter, whiner. Milwaukee partisan. Tea drinker. Butterscotch pudding was better when it came in metal cans. Classroom wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/369RDIC5KTN60?ref_=wl_share https://linktr.ee/folkbum

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Phoebe Petrovic @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social · 15h

a long feature in the NYT about the Christian counselor challenging conversion therapy at SCOTUS without a single reference to the Christian nationalist firm, Alliance Defending Freedom, behind this case and so many other anti-LGBTQ cases in the last decade www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

A Debate Over ‘Conversion Therapy,’ Once Widely Condemned, Is Back

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 20h

I know the “Imagine if a Democrat did this” game is dumb but seriously FOXNews would be nonstop “Obama throws your special needs child under the bus” or “Biden doesn’t care about your rights as a parent”

This is not getting a ripple

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my sad duty to report that it is once again decorative butt plug season at Target

A retail shelf featuring plastic Christmas trees in various sizes and colors that as per usual look suspiciously like butt plugs.

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 2d

As you can see, it’s a total war zone

Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-12 09:36:28 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 54.80 F | 12.67 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: ESE at 4.608 mph | 7.41 kph // Humidity: 83%

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 3d

honestly this is no different from when josh lyman invented a secret plan to fight inflation

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

Man, a meager deputy chief of staff yields enormous power, who knew.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 3d

stop threatening me with a good time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, so you win the prize by making things MORE democratic 🤔

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado won the prestigious prize for promoting democratic rights in her country, and for her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy
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Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 5d

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 5d

homer simpson is talking into a megaphone on a boat .

ALT: homer simpson is talking into a megaphone on a boat .

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 5d

Ned’s. Classic Slice. Transfer. I am in a blessed delivery zone.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 5d

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 6d

Milwaukee’s Lark Park, famously design by Frederark Lark Olmstark, who also design New Yark’s Central Pake.

Urban Milwaukee @urbanmilwaukee.com · 6d

Bartolotta’s Celebrates 30 Years of Lark Park Bistro

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 7d

😂😂😂

ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 8d

It’s never too early to start teenagers on the path to radical centrism! Who knows? One of my students might be the next Thomas Chatterton Williams, blaming the left for the ascendance and overreach of the right.

LuciSkyDyme @luciskydyme.bsky.social · 8d

Make sure your high schools are getting The Atlantic...

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 8d

i know there is significant inhumanity here but also mind-blowing inefficiency

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 8d

imagine if your local police were pulling over one car obeying the speed limit for every speeder they stop

“defund the police” would be the baseline position, not the radical one

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 8d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 8d

they died so young

A pair of photographs the Russo Brothers posted from sets of their Marvel movies. The caption from some spam facebook page reads, “The Russo Brothers (2018-2025).”

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 9d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 10d

Doing my part to support antifa.

A photograph of a fat white man’s arm with a blood donation, needle, and tube sticking out of it

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 11d

One of the most infuriating things about the Google ecosystem. You have to download the folder to a device and the re-upload in the new location. (The other infuriating thing is not recognizing HEIC images to add to docs and slides.)

ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 13d

Ruling party rallies military leaders to send forces into opposition party strongholds to wage “war within”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14d

The Coates-Klein debate (and meta-debate) just reinforces my belief that we elevated the wrong MLK passage.

Not the optimistic “content of their character” I Have A Dream speech.

But the “white moderate … [who] advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season’” Letter From Birmingham Jail.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14d

Teach good practice. Encourage folks to double check sources and recognize manipulated media. Acknowledge mistakes, correct them, and move on. Warn others about deceptive content, accounts, and sites. Gently correct well meaning folks making sincere errors.

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 14d

They’re called “mondegreens”! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegr...

Mondegreen - Wikipedia

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ChatJayPT @folkbum.bsky.social · 14d

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