Nick Kohout
@81a.bsky.social
Line-breaking passes, phenidone, and frame pumps.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Our thoughts are with the people in Minnesota and across the country who are bravely standing up for their neighbors despite violence committed by ICE. If you are looking for a way to support the people of Minnesota, we want to highlight the work being done by the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Our thoughts are with the people in Minnesota and across the country who are bravely standing up for their neighbors despite violence committed by ICE. If you are looking for a way to support the people of Minnesota, we want to highlight the work being done by the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.
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You can call me a naive idiot if you want but I continue to hope that each subsequent horrible crime committed by ICE is The One that convinces the people with some power that the entire agency can no longer be tolerated.
I refuse to be a doomer. Someday we'll live in a better world than this one.
I refuse to be a doomer. Someday we'll live in a better world than this one.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
You can call me a naive idiot if you want but I continue to hope that each subsequent horrible crime committed by ICE is The One that convinces the people with some power that the entire agency can no longer be tolerated.
I refuse to be a doomer. Someday we'll live in a better world than this one.
I refuse to be a doomer. Someday we'll live in a better world than this one.
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
The Kona Dew comes with a kickstand!
I have just learned that adult bikes don't come with a kickstand and I want to know where I register my complaint @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Kona Dew comes with a kickstand!
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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"So if I get this ring, I'm in charge?" "Absolutely not, you have to run and hide" "Will using the ring help me hide" "Yes! Except not from the people who will kill you to get the ring, to them it reveals your precise location" honestly it's like the AI version of an artifact. It's magic Claude
October 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"So if I get this ring, I'm in charge?" "Absolutely not, you have to run and hide" "Will using the ring help me hide" "Yes! Except not from the people who will kill you to get the ring, to them it reveals your precise location" honestly it's like the AI version of an artifact. It's magic Claude
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This stat certainly sounds horrifying, but you only need one game to go off-script every year. So, what the hell, this thread is going to take us back in time, one Bears season at a time, to see what went wrong. Spoiler: Rex Grossman was so damn close.
I don't know if this stat should make me laugh or cry.
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This stat certainly sounds horrifying, but you only need one game to go off-script every year. So, what the hell, this thread is going to take us back in time, one Bears season at a time, to see what went wrong. Spoiler: Rex Grossman was so damn close.
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How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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clearly a bad idea to go after Cali then DC then Chicago because their flags are the easiest to Aura Farm with.
September 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
clearly a bad idea to go after Cali then DC then Chicago because their flags are the easiest to Aura Farm with.
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The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb.
(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)
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(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)
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'We are watching and taking names': Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker responds to Trump's threats to Chicago
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker holds press conference in response to recent threats made by President Donald Trump to send the national guard to Chicago, in a similar manner that he has done so in Los ...
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August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb.
(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
(Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.)
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
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Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
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We've been seeing a lot of assholes attack bike lanes and micromobility lately, and I just want to remind some people how deranged that actually is.
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We've been seeing a lot of assholes attack bike lanes and micromobility lately, and I just want to remind some people how deranged that actually is.
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
June 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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To bring back my favorite Umberto Eco quote, "Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy"
they do not anticipate mass resistance because they cannot conceptualize the kind of person who would resist. they literally believe we are all NPCs. i think this is their fundamental weakness!
June 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
To bring back my favorite Umberto Eco quote, "Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy"
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To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
June 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history?
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.
There's a simple answer.
The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.