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Resident of Milwaukee County. Living my most mediocre life of late. I have two great dogs. And a wife. She likes the dogs, too. If you DM me without knowing me personally, you will be blocked.

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 6h

#ICEBarbie stares down reporters and a guy in a chicken suit.

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Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit (The Independent)

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem appeared in Portland, Oregon, Tuesday, in a display of government power responding to an “army of Antifa.” Picture...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 8h

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 9h

This is not a good thing.

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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 16h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

"Part of what frustrates me is how much people just didn't listen to the things that he said he was going to do." "He was telling us he would do these things....he's a sick man."

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20h

Canada vs. America

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @www.thefinancenewsletter.com · 9h

IRS to furlough 46% of its staff and shut down most operations as part of the government shutdown.

Scammers pose as IRS agents during shutdowns because you can’t call to verify. They’ll threaten arrest and demand gift cards. The real IRS never calls you first or accepts gifts cards as payment.

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa is evil."
Trump has round table .eating.

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Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got ri...

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

And he is a 'leader' of the American people

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

'The calm in the storm': Chicago Cubs again turn to Jameson Taillon to stave off elimination in NLDS Game 3
#MagicBrew
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‘The calm in the storm’: Chicago Cubs again turn to Jameson Taillon to stave off elimination in NLDS Game 3

The Chicago Cubs feel good knowing they have Jameson Taillon on the mound facing elimination in Game 3 of the National League Division Series.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

Lying sack of shit in a Cava bag

bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

Ask about her bribe from Trump

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

A CBS correspondent told The Independent, “The fact that we don’t have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons’ true goal here is. And it’s not journalism.”

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 2d

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski hits 104.3 mph while throwing 3 innings of shutout relief

#magicbrew
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Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski hits 104.3 mph while throwing 3 innings of shutout relief

Jacob Misiorowski rediscovered the form that earned the flamethrowing rookie so much acclaim in the first few weeks after the Milwaukee Brewers called him up from the minors.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think he serves a full term. He is visibly deteriorating, the Epstein shit isn’t going away, the economy is in the shitter *before* the AI bubble bursts, he’s surrounded by schemers and incompetents, and the best card he’s got is “ain’t it weird the starfish owns a few modest skirts?“

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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bgwitt311.bsky.social @bgwitt311.bsky.social · 1d

Cornpone John Kennedy is now off Trump's Christmas card lust

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