PWakkinen
@pwakk.bsky.social
Retired..Former IT data center & data networks project manager.
Golfer, walker, snowbird in Phoenix during Minnesota winters.
Moms Demand & free speech TV supporter. Increasingly worried about our kids and grandkids futures.
Golfer, walker, snowbird in Phoenix during Minnesota winters.
Moms Demand & free speech TV supporter. Increasingly worried about our kids and grandkids futures.
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By the way, did anyone else notice that ICE officer almost shot his fellow officer as well? Untrained, dangerous thug.
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
By the way, did anyone else notice that ICE officer almost shot his fellow officer as well? Untrained, dangerous thug.
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October 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
The WLFI token traded far above its previous value, confirming—at least on paper—a huge windfall for the president and his sons.
www.wsj.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This level of corruption is not normal or acceptable. Even if we are exhausted by each report of it going further and further, we can never grow numb to it.
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RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS:
If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.
But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.
But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
August 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS:
If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.
But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.
But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
August 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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“I won on groceries — very simple word: groceries. Now we’re going to lose the midterms. I have another simple word: cheating. We’re going to cheat like hell.”
August 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“I won on groceries — very simple word: groceries. Now we’re going to lose the midterms. I have another simple word: cheating. We’re going to cheat like hell.”
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Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
August 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.
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Appreciation post for this incredible American showing up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own district to say HELL NO to the chaos, cruelty, and coverups. When grandmas are grabbing neon signs and oxygen tanks to speak truth you know the tide is turning.
August 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Appreciation post for this incredible American showing up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own district to say HELL NO to the chaos, cruelty, and coverups. When grandmas are grabbing neon signs and oxygen tanks to speak truth you know the tide is turning.
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This is moving.
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
August 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is moving.
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through.
What could have been…
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"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
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Coffee prices rise as Trump imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil for prosecuting a criminal who violated their laws
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Coffee prices rise as U.S. imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
LONDON >> World coffee prices rose today, but gains were muted overall as traders continued to hold out hope that the United States could exempt coffee from its 50% trade tariff on most Brazilian good...
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August 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Coffee prices rise as Trump imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil for prosecuting a criminal who violated their laws
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That certainly takes balls to cut 17 million people off health care and then announce you're spending $200 million to build a new ballroom. Let them eat cake.
August 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
That certainly takes balls to cut 17 million people off health care and then announce you're spending $200 million to build a new ballroom. Let them eat cake.
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Releasing the grand jury testimony is not the same as releasing the Epstein list. It’s not the same as releasing the flight logs. It’s a distraction. Whatever they’re planning to put out is not going to be the whole story. It’s still a fucking cover-up.
July 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Releasing the grand jury testimony is not the same as releasing the Epstein list. It’s not the same as releasing the flight logs. It’s a distraction. Whatever they’re planning to put out is not going to be the whole story. It’s still a fucking cover-up.
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If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
open.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
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Per the @nytimes.com:
“Vance Boelter will face federal charges. The charges will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. local time, officials said in a news release, and he will then make an initial appearance in federal court in St. Paul at 1:30 p.m.”
“Vance Boelter will face federal charges. The charges will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. local time, officials said in a news release, and he will then make an initial appearance in federal court in St. Paul at 1:30 p.m.”
June 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Per the @nytimes.com:
“Vance Boelter will face federal charges. The charges will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. local time, officials said in a news release, and he will then make an initial appearance in federal court in St. Paul at 1:30 p.m.”
“Vance Boelter will face federal charges. The charges will be announced at a news conference at 11 a.m. local time, officials said in a news release, and he will then make an initial appearance in federal court in St. Paul at 1:30 p.m.”
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June 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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PLEASE REPOST THIS CALL TO MARCH.
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What’s up with blueskys algorithm when I can’t break 300 reposts or likes?
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76 MILLION VOTED AGAINST HIM. LETS GET AT LEAST 35 MILLION!
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has halted research activities at NIH's Integrated Research Facility, one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has halted research activities at NIH's Integrated Research Facility, one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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Institutions are learning the hard way, but they might be learning.
Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Institutions are learning the hard way, but they might be learning.