Mike Bauer
@mike-bauer.bsky.social
Minnesota sports fan 🏀🏈⚾
Fight for the critters
Fight for the critters
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Here's the thing: today sucks. Yesterday sucked. Tomorrow is going to suck. They think that if they do this for another little while, everyone will calm down and get used to it. And the problem for them is, this country has no chill whatsoever. They've already lost; they just don't know yet.
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Here's the thing: today sucks. Yesterday sucked. Tomorrow is going to suck. They think that if they do this for another little while, everyone will calm down and get used to it. And the problem for them is, this country has no chill whatsoever. They've already lost; they just don't know yet.
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Rural America is in shambles. And cars have played a large role in this.
Basic shopping needs are often not met anymore, you must drive to your nearest walmart. Main street is dead.
It's hard to declare a war on something that lost everything decades ago we're here for ya when this becomes obvious
Basic shopping needs are often not met anymore, you must drive to your nearest walmart. Main street is dead.
It's hard to declare a war on something that lost everything decades ago we're here for ya when this becomes obvious
Taking away our cars can, should, and will be treated as a declaration of war upon rural America.
I find "America isn't really set up for it" to be an annoying rebuttal to any sort of proposal to reduce car dependency. Our leaders used policy to create a system of car dependency and we can sure as hell use policy to undo that. There are absolutely barriers, but do nothing is not a solution.
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Rural America is in shambles. And cars have played a large role in this.
Basic shopping needs are often not met anymore, you must drive to your nearest walmart. Main street is dead.
It's hard to declare a war on something that lost everything decades ago we're here for ya when this becomes obvious
Basic shopping needs are often not met anymore, you must drive to your nearest walmart. Main street is dead.
It's hard to declare a war on something that lost everything decades ago we're here for ya when this becomes obvious
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The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.
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TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might
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The hollowness of Hollywood’s rich people stories
TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might.
buttondown.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
TV and film of the moment aren't going to galvanize anyone. But stories closer to home just might
This week’s newsletter. Read! Subscribe! It’s free!
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Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Jaden McDaniels transition block + corner 3, great two-way sequence
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Jaden McDaniels transition block + corner 3, great two-way sequence
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For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
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The United States—right now, this very moment—is putting individuals in ICE detention, revoking and denying visas, and canceling billions in grant dollars specifically because of the viewpoints they express
Using a piece in The Atlantic to throw up a JD Vance-shaped bat signal in support of your little fasho buddy really tells you everything about reactionary centrism circa 2025
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The United States—right now, this very moment—is putting individuals in ICE detention, revoking and denying visas, and canceling billions in grant dollars specifically because of the viewpoints they express
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Why does this happen so frequently in the US and not in other industrialized countries? I guess we can never know.
UPDATE: At least 2 dead, 20 hurt in shooting at south Minneapolis church; shooter dead
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS is at the scene of a major incident in south Minneapolis.
kstp.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Why does this happen so frequently in the US and not in other industrialized countries? I guess we can never know.
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the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
July 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
![[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreidzblpxefncqr2c73v7myen325wvtk767i7rw4zcc32c3hj4gzv5a@jpeg)
July 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
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Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves Middle Class
Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves Middle Class
ST. PAUL, MN—In a comprehensive new survey of how the wealthy view their socioeconomic status, a study published this week in the Journal Of Economic Perspectives found that the majority of billionair...
theonion.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves Middle Class
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For the first time, I wrote a blog that isn't about basketball, but rather my relationship to basketball
"Why do we do this to ourselves?"
To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall):
www.patreon.com/posts/moving...
"Why do we do this to ourselves?"
To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall):
www.patreon.com/posts/moving...
Moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 | Basketball, She Wrote
Get more from Basketball, She Wrote on Patreon
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June 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
For the first time, I wrote a blog that isn't about basketball, but rather my relationship to basketball
"Why do we do this to ourselves?"
To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall):
www.patreon.com/posts/moving...
"Why do we do this to ourselves?"
To recap the season for the Pacers, my column on moving on from Game 7 without letting go of Game 7 (no paywall):
www.patreon.com/posts/moving...
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
June 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.
It's the same court and lawyers.
It's the same court and lawyers.
June 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.
It's the same court and lawyers.
It's the same court and lawyers.
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this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president
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" We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place." from the woman who literally wrote the book on food safety in the US: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
How to Not Get Poisoned in America
The minute I saw that Robert Kennedy Jr., a notorious disease-loving health crank, was going to be responsible for the nation’s health—and the health of its...
buttondown.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
" We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place." from the woman who literally wrote the book on food safety in the US: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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The FBI just arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge for failing to assist ICE to its satisfaction in their kidnapping of a human being out of court custody and into a death camp.
Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.
Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.
April 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The FBI just arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge for failing to assist ICE to its satisfaction in their kidnapping of a human being out of court custody and into a death camp.
Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.
Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.
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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.
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Trump is stealing a better future from all of us. His administration is fundamentally opposed to the very idea of human progress
you know if the industrial revolution had arrived 300 years later it would have meant shortened and immiserated lives for easily hundreds of millions of people, but they wouldn't have even realized it. wouldn't have known there was a better future they could have had. stolen progress is invisible.
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
April 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Trump is stealing a better future from all of us. His administration is fundamentally opposed to the very idea of human progress
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)
April 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)