Josh Berkstresser
@theberk.bsky.social
Earned a Masters in History but decided to make money in cooperate learning/learning design. Opinions are my own.
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Louvre worthy
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Louvre worthy
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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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A huge part of being a human being is surrendering to an experience.
January 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
A huge part of being a human being is surrendering to an experience.
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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".
"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE
January 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE
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Historian here 2026 and we are back there.
January 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Historian here 2026 and we are back there.
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Our Founders would have had it well before now, gang.
They rioted over tea for crying out loud.
We are well past tea.
They rioted over tea for crying out loud.
We are well past tea.
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Our Founders would have had it well before now, gang.
They rioted over tea for crying out loud.
We are well past tea.
They rioted over tea for crying out loud.
We are well past tea.
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Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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I'm not going to quote tweet, but I promise you that people do not "need" to see the video. I don't want to tell people what to post now that I know we have the tools for disabling videos. However, you don't need to see someone dehumanized to care for them if you already believe in their humanity.
January 7, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I'm not going to quote tweet, but I promise you that people do not "need" to see the video. I don't want to tell people what to post now that I know we have the tools for disabling videos. However, you don't need to see someone dehumanized to care for them if you already believe in their humanity.
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Good day to remember you can turn auto playing videos off.
Watching violence is not good or healthy. You aren’t bearing witness in a way that materially impacts events. You are cooking your brain in trauma.
You can be aware and invested in changing the world without giving yourself PTSD.
Watching violence is not good or healthy. You aren’t bearing witness in a way that materially impacts events. You are cooking your brain in trauma.
You can be aware and invested in changing the world without giving yourself PTSD.
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Good day to remember you can turn auto playing videos off.
Watching violence is not good or healthy. You aren’t bearing witness in a way that materially impacts events. You are cooking your brain in trauma.
You can be aware and invested in changing the world without giving yourself PTSD.
Watching violence is not good or healthy. You aren’t bearing witness in a way that materially impacts events. You are cooking your brain in trauma.
You can be aware and invested in changing the world without giving yourself PTSD.
"How Hitler aura farmed Europe, please don't forget to like and subscribe".
"Trump is at the top of his game right now," says our Capitol bureau chief and senior Washington columnist Rachael Bade.
Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
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Watch Bade break down his four biggest wins of the past two weeks and read her column about how he dominated Congress here 👇
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January 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
"How Hitler aura farmed Europe, please don't forget to like and subscribe".
One of the best SNL Holiday skits of all time makes this exact argument. It is pure gold.
Holiday Hot Take Number 16:
Commercials that have a person gifting a car to their spouse are fucking insane. Making a financial decision that large unilaterally and expecting your spouse to be grateful is at most a special kind of 1950s-70s nostalgic hell and at least grounds for divorce.
Commercials that have a person gifting a car to their spouse are fucking insane. Making a financial decision that large unilaterally and expecting your spouse to be grateful is at most a special kind of 1950s-70s nostalgic hell and at least grounds for divorce.
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
One of the best SNL Holiday skits of all time makes this exact argument. It is pure gold.
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Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.
No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.
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If we're using "decade" to mean the last 10 years, Jason Statham in Spy
This is a fun question—best “serious” actor in a comedic role of the last decade?
It’s so much easier for comic actors to do drama than vice versa. Look at Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine or Truman Show, and then look at De Niro’s comedies, they’re terrible
December 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If we're using "decade" to mean the last 10 years, Jason Statham in Spy
Her entire saga is so inside baseball, who ever green lit this book is detached from reality.
OOP.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Her entire saga is so inside baseball, who ever green lit this book is detached from reality.
I loved this thread.
I think my hottest take of the year remains that Sinners is kind of thematically confused and accidentally reactionary
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I loved this thread.
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abolish ICE and CBP
primary anyone who disagrees
primary anyone who disagrees
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
abolish ICE and CBP
primary anyone who disagrees
primary anyone who disagrees
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Ten season Wheel of Time series, easy
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ten season Wheel of Time series, easy
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Hey, Clay...
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Hey, Clay...
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So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
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Why isn’t Pennywise at GamemasterAnthony’s Birthday? The answer is more complicated than you think.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Why isn’t Pennywise at GamemasterAnthony’s Birthday? The answer is more complicated than you think.