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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 22m

Blissfully unaware of anything about the Tigers - Mariners series.

Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 23m

Ive watched significant amounts of the Blue Jays - Yankees, Phillies - Dodgers, and of course the Brewers - Cubs.

And I was sitting here, like, "this doesn't add up." There's got to be another series.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

The New Berlin Public Library in Wisconsin just went viral for their hilarious marketing video 😂

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 47m

He was central player in the trump social media warroom. I found this video about him and his famous X alias interesting, in particular the part where his anon account grew to 10s of thousands of followers with no original content production (clearly foreign supported).

youtu.be/8zZeZFs5KLQ?...

Who is End Wokeness?

YouTube video by Ryan McBeth

youtu.be

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 50m

Jack Poso aka End Wokeness.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 54m

The real risk is that you get an actual reichstag fire during the shutdown, the GOP spikes the filibuster, and they pass the enabling acts full cloth.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 12h

This red white & jersey song sounds suspiciously like if you asked AI to create a bon jovi song.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 12h

It's interesting how it's presented as "shutdown talks" when it's dems on the outside and "debt ceiling talks" when it's GOP.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 12h

USAID also used to buy a significant amount of soy beans to prop up domestic farmers and dump them on the rest of the world.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 14h

Yep. This guy had 2 new cars, 3 kids, a 1.3 million dollar house before the big checks started hitting.

I ate rice and beans and lived in series of dump apartments while grinding 60 hour weeks plus unoptimizeable commutes to clients in traffic blackhole cities. Wrong career choice. Lol.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 15h

The other thing is learned from him is that there's an entire alternative finance industry for doctors that allows MASSIVE income smoothing. That's the source of the most of the loans. They take full loans for school, then can buy houses, cars, and lifestyle balloon notes while residents/interns.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 23h

A friend's husband became a skin cancer surgeon and was like, "there's nothing to it. You use a laser gun and a TV screen and it's like duck hunt, except you're shooting cancer moles."

Then I googled what they get paid. Lol.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure I could zap skin cancers off people with a laser for a lot less than 800K.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

We should track down whoever did this and see if they have had any other vivid premonitions.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, proof that the Romans settled Louisiana.

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

It's a frustrating feature of the human body that getting to and staying at a health/longevity maximizing weight involves a fair amount of daily hunger and discomfort.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

I'm trying to drop 10 pounds by the holidays and it's legitimately crazy how much my body disagrees with that idea.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

A key to having low taxes in Wisconsin is not just existing as a city before about 1970, then disallowing or saying no thank you to anything that was granted tax exemptions over the previous 60 years or so.

About 20% of milwaukee property is tax exempt. A big percentage!

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

There's a large office building in downtown Milwaukee that used to hold the old wisconsin bell HQ, now AT&T, that still pays no property taxes at all.

At&t pays a tax directly to the state covering all their building and infrastructure. Local gov totally cut out.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

This happened about 100 years ago with telephone companies and the basic answer is that states preempted local governments.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1d

The data center angst feels like a leading indicator of a broader economic development question about if the public will ever support high-value industrial activity that:
-uses a lot of power
-doesn’t create many jobs

Because that seems like the future of manufacturing.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

Other things are pretty random. There's basically no correlation between sex trafficking/prostitution cases and the volume of the crime. The amount of couple dozen prostitution arrests per year is just a function of how much effort the PD wants to put into it.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

Homicide data is rock solid. You can cross-check PD/FBI versus medical examiner/CDC and they run in tight concert. You also have good data on % of homicide cases closed, which gives you a pretty good look at PD performance.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. And .22s are much less fatal than .45s and 9mms, too. The fatality/non-fatality rate has increased significantly in the last 30 years as all guns have gotten more powerful.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of these crimes end up being pretty frustrating for everyone. A small group of people breaking into cars can cause an enormous amount of property damage & inconvenience, and even if caught, it can end up being a relatively light vandalism misdemeanor if they are found with no stolen property.

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