Mike Upchurch
@mikeup.bsky.social
Leftist loudmouth Tar Heel in Chicago. Headbanger, cocktail enthusiast, golf addict, Jeopardy! and The Chase champ, multivalent nerd.
One of my favorite Twins.
Joe Nathan
Pitcher
Debut: 1999 - Retired: 2016
MIN - CHC - SFG - DET - TEX
Pitcher
Debut: 1999 - Retired: 2016
MIN - CHC - SFG - DET - TEX
Joe Nathan at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Joe Nathan
baseball-reference.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One of my favorite Twins.
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my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
The Supreme Court Wants Republicans to Keep the House In 2026
A federal district court found that Texas Republicans’ redistricting proposal is an illegal racial gerrymander. The conservative justices couldn't care less.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...
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You may see people advising you to grab WB-owned titles on physical media and you may wonder if this is overreacting.
It isn't. Movie studios have always put preservation and convenient availability last, outright junking films that they no longer value.
Being a movie fan is rife with stress.
It isn't. Movie studios have always put preservation and convenient availability last, outright junking films that they no longer value.
Being a movie fan is rife with stress.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
You may see people advising you to grab WB-owned titles on physical media and you may wonder if this is overreacting.
It isn't. Movie studios have always put preservation and convenient availability last, outright junking films that they no longer value.
Being a movie fan is rife with stress.
It isn't. Movie studios have always put preservation and convenient availability last, outright junking films that they no longer value.
Being a movie fan is rife with stress.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
How many war crimes do you think Tom has gotten away with?
Dead-eyed psychopath.
Dead-eyed psychopath.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
How many war crimes do you think Tom has gotten away with?
Dead-eyed psychopath.
Dead-eyed psychopath.
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For the first time ever it has been confirmed that Egypt proposed directly to the Biden administration in January 2024 that an international peacekeeping mission led by Arab states be deployed in Gaza *and the West Bank*.
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
For the first time ever it has been confirmed that Egypt proposed directly to the Biden administration in January 2024 that an international peacekeeping mission led by Arab states be deployed in Gaza *and the West Bank*.
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An easy formula for public comment
- who are you and why are you here?
- what's your standing on the issue (how does it affect you/why should they listen to you)?
- what's the problem as you see it
- why it matters
- what you need them to do
- why they need to do it
- thank you
- who are you and why are you here?
- what's your standing on the issue (how does it affect you/why should they listen to you)?
- what's the problem as you see it
- why it matters
- what you need them to do
- why they need to do it
- thank you
THIS. Testify at city council committee meetings.
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
An easy formula for public comment
- who are you and why are you here?
- what's your standing on the issue (how does it affect you/why should they listen to you)?
- what's the problem as you see it
- why it matters
- what you need them to do
- why they need to do it
- thank you
- who are you and why are you here?
- what's your standing on the issue (how does it affect you/why should they listen to you)?
- what's the problem as you see it
- why it matters
- what you need them to do
- why they need to do it
- thank you
If we do make it to the other side of this, excoriate any politician who doesn't call for the abolition of ICE and a full tribunal. Inaction = complicity.
See the full report at: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
USA: New Findings Reveal Human Rights Violations at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome Detention Centers
Amnesty International today released a new report documenting cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment at two immigration detention centers in Florida: The Everglades Detention Facility (“Alligator Alc...
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If we do make it to the other side of this, excoriate any politician who doesn't call for the abolition of ICE and a full tribunal. Inaction = complicity.
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A new Amnesty International report on Florida's Everglades Detention Facility and Krome North Service Processing Center documents extensive human rights violations that, in some cases, amount to torture.
State-sanctioned torture of our neighbors.
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State-sanctioned torture of our neighbors.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A new Amnesty International report on Florida's Everglades Detention Facility and Krome North Service Processing Center documents extensive human rights violations that, in some cases, amount to torture.
State-sanctioned torture of our neighbors.
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State-sanctioned torture of our neighbors.
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It’s so grimly comical how she has precisely one (1) bit and her virtually the entirety of her rise to fame and success has been predicated on everyone with money, power and influence acting as though they are too stupid to figure out what the bit is and how it works. Just pathetic.
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s so grimly comical how she has precisely one (1) bit and her virtually the entirety of her rise to fame and success has been predicated on everyone with money, power and influence acting as though they are too stupid to figure out what the bit is and how it works. Just pathetic.
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What are we doing here folks
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
What are we doing here folks
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My book about recent immigration policy, immigration from Africa, and the anti-Black racism at the heart of nativism might be clarifying to read in this moment?
30% off 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social happy to zoom if you assign it, etc.
uncpress.org/978146967304...
30% off 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social happy to zoom if you assign it, etc.
uncpress.org/978146967304...
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My book about recent immigration policy, immigration from Africa, and the anti-Black racism at the heart of nativism might be clarifying to read in this moment?
30% off 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social happy to zoom if you assign it, etc.
uncpress.org/978146967304...
30% off 01UNCP30 @uncpress.bsky.social happy to zoom if you assign it, etc.
uncpress.org/978146967304...
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Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hakeem Jeffries Calls For Execution Of Central Park Five
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Remembering one of the HORROR legends on his birthday, the great, late TONY TODD. We miss you, Tony. 🖤
December 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Remembering one of the HORROR legends on his birthday, the great, late TONY TODD. We miss you, Tony. 🖤
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You can help Bolts continue to provide crucial coverage of local elections. Here's how:
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Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids
Hillary Clinton sassing off "young Jewish Americans who don't know their own history" in a way that is disgustingly antisemitic. "They say from the river to the sea...they don't even know which river and which sea!" Fuck off.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Bluesky Wrapped and it's how many times your own joke was explained to you
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Bluesky Wrapped and it's how many times your own joke was explained to you
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Same here. No misty nostalgia for Mike Jr. as he looks wistfully out of a window, sips a mug of coffee, and gently taps his foot to "Legalise Drugs and Murder" by Electric Wizard.
I have no children so sadly there will never be any "Today I'm going to listen to a record from my late father's record collection" videos where the child plops on an album by Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Feedtime, Righteous Pigs, or Venom.
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Same here. No misty nostalgia for Mike Jr. as he looks wistfully out of a window, sips a mug of coffee, and gently taps his foot to "Legalise Drugs and Murder" by Electric Wizard.
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Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...
Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? (3rd printing)
This collection of questions is an invitation to think about situations we may encounter with ICE, a poetic rant against ICE, and a provocation for ICE’s allies.
halfletterpress.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...
The GOP is just generally on board with murder, as long as it’s not an embryo or a rich white person. Everyone else can get fucked. Monsters from top to bottom.
Important to remember that the GOP is still largely on board with the overall premise of the murders
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The GOP is just generally on board with murder, as long as it’s not an embryo or a rich white person. Everyone else can get fucked. Monsters from top to bottom.
I’d lIke to return this, please. And no, I didn’t keep the receipt.
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’d lIke to return this, please. And no, I didn’t keep the receipt.
I don’t know of anyone who has so reliably made me laugh hard and loud as Séamas.
For years I've told people our family was so big, our christmas turkey had to be cooked by nuns.
In reality, the nuns replaced that turkey with one the size of a hatchback. I swear one year it came stuffed with a cooked ham.
Again, for all these stories and many, many more - hit mammybook.com
In reality, the nuns replaced that turkey with one the size of a hatchback. I swear one year it came stuffed with a cooked ham.
Again, for all these stories and many, many more - hit mammybook.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I don’t know of anyone who has so reliably made me laugh hard and loud as Séamas.