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Jeff Esterholm
@jesterholm.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point, 2023)
Tollund Man: Stories (Cornerstone Press) is scheduled for October, 2026.
Pinned
Sure, it took me a few years. But I got it done. (This previously appeared on some other social cotillion dance floor, but now it’s here. 👏🏻 )
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WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN: In this gritty collection of crime stories, Derringer Award-winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social mourns an America lost to the shadows, exploring a broken economic system that has given rise to rampant inequality, violence, and darkness. Available now: bit.ly/4runwWU
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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DOJ took Leslie Nielsen pretty seriously.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Avoiding the felon-in-chief’s bs last night, we discovered A Ghost Story for Christmas, BBC dramatizations of M.R. James horror stories. Pretty damn good.
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This Kennedy Center shit is unacceptable, and whichever Democrats running for president swear to undo it (presuming it goes through, and I presume it will), plus immediately tear down the ballroom, go to the top of my list.

(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another reason Tom Tiffany should not be Wisconsin’s next governor.

www.wpr.org/news/us-hous...
US House passes bill to remove federal protections for wolves
U.S. House Rep. Tom Tiffany cosponsored the bill this year with Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and 30 other lawmakers.
www.wpr.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Touchy, worm-addled RFK, Jr.
Doing his bit for the felon-in-chief.
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A new George Harrison video for a classic song, a favorite of mine, and just the positivity we need in these troublsome times.
#GeorgeHarrison

youtu.be/P0d_P11B6Tg
George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Video]
YouTube video by George Harrison
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December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Special committee created to investigate Wisconsin DOJ for no particular reason

www.news8000.com/new... #wipolitics
Special committee created to investigate Wisconsin DOJ
MADISON, Wis. -- A special committee will investigate the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu announced Monday.
www.news8000.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“I said this is Stephen Graham Jones' masterpiece because the prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex, engaging, and multilayered, but we have seen these elements from him before. Maybe I should say this is the novel in which Jones does all the things he does but even better than before.”
🔥 Yes 🔥
December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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"How innocently life ate the days" — John Updike, "Couples"
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s Thomas McGuane’s birthday. In celebration, epigraphs from some of his books
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I was asked yesterday if I thought that English might benefit from a governing academy, like French, and noted that a language that, to date, supports dreamed and dreamt, dove and dived, and pleaded and pled, is not a language you can govern.

(And I wouldn't want to.)
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Holiday movies in the house. And Rondo Hatton as The Creeper?
Oh, yes.
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“These stories trawl the meaning of life, of death and birth, asking who we were and what we are. They’re about justice and superstition and sorrow, about crawling back from – and towards – the abyss.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The latest BS from the BS Administration.
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Harry S. Truman was right.
And someone should let the current Oval Office occupant know that the buck stops with him too.
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Great reading news for 2026. 👏🏻👏🏻
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
‘Fluorescent light through Today’s Special, a vivid green centerpiece the size and shape of a human brain, molded in lime Jell-O, versions of which have actually been observed to glow.’
Thomas Pynchon,
SHADOW TICKET
#SundaySentence 1
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The birthday girl needed a project. This one didn’t take too long.
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM