sessileraptor.bsky.social
@sessileraptor.bsky.social
Old fart. Here for a long time not a good time. Has cats, likes tabletop RPGs and history.
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The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"

The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."
At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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"You think you’re watching a woman drive away with an ICE agent following, then shooting her four times in the face, but what you’re really watching is an ICE agent in fear of his life and acting in self-defense."
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching
“Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...
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January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
It kinda feels like people who want to attack libraries and drag queens and so on in order to “protect the children” should be all over the “Gronk is creating CSAM out of photos of real children, like right now, as we speak” thing but what do I know.
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Minnesotans: Next I need to report not on the probable harms of the Optum AI prepayment screening, but actual harms. So if your provider is closing or firing people, if you are losing your job, if you are a client who can't get services, etc.,contact me. I can protect your ID. lollardfish at gmail.
Perry: Trusted providers are being unfairly swept up in Minnesota’s fraud crackdown
As the state's new anti-fraud screening system went into effect, the Holland Center expected to receive $212,000 in payments. It instead received $22,000, David M. Perry writes. If nothing changes soo...
www.startribune.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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My 15 year old just texted me this TikTok video and told me that “this is our geopolitical situation right now.” I both love that he’s politically astute and hate that this is the world he has to grow up in.
January 4, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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"Having long claimed that he's got our nose, President Trump now appears to not have our nose, raising questions about whether our nose was his thumb pushed between two knuckles, and where our nose is."
Once a critic of overseas entanglements, President Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, raising questions about whether his “America First” doctrine is being redefined.
Trump’s Venezuela move pushes the limits of ‘America First’
Once a critic of entanglements abroad, Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, risking a backlash from his MAGA base.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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Our 2nd most-read piece of 2025 is by the forever funny @mikedrucker.bsky.social, and we have no idea what he was getting at here, but it seemed to have struck a nerve with many, many readers.
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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“Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Going to see Army of Darkness with friends right after watching both the Evil Dead movies, getting to the theater and discovering that everyone else in that showing (maybe 40 people) had done exactly the same thing.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?

Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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We come from the land of ice and snow
where we say gray duck and doncha know

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December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
80s techno thriller but with a modern Republican Party. “Sir, through a highly technical series of events involving Basque separatists, one of our own nuclear weapons has been detonated in Atlanta Georgia! Millions are dead and the damage is catastrophic! The country needs leadership!” 1/2
February 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Telling the most unhinged, resentful and above all, heavily armed portion of the US population to go F themselves is certainly a bold strategy. Let’s see how it plays out for him.
December 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
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December 23, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Arguably the second worst mistake made by the government was including the caveat “unless convicted of a crime” in the 13th amendment. The biggest mistake was of course not hanging every single southern leader, slave owner and sympathizer for treason.
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.

apnews.com/article/pris...
December 22, 2024 at 11:41 PM
And a reporter should have immediately asked “and how does Elon feel about that?”
It’s easy to get under that thin orange skin.
December 22, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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Poor character written by an author who has experienced poverty: My problem is that I'm $300 short on the rent and now my car is making a noise

Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
December 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Democrats should spend the next 4 years sponsoring bills that would help people afford to have and raise children, and name every single one like it’s a GOP birth rate obsessed fever dream. Make the GOP vote against the “Preserving American Families” act because it would provide low cost childcare.
December 22, 2024 at 6:24 PM