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Suds Terkel

@sudsterkel.bsky.social

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Baseball (Go White Sox, meh), BBQ, beer, books, Boston Terriers, bourbon. Begrudging user of the Oxford comma. Also still big on music but not as much as I once was because silence, too, is a good thing. Hailing from and still sequestered in ChiSuburbia

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 7d

Bskyers of a certain age may recall recoiling in horror when the Bush Administration took some existing chunks of government and rolled it into a new security apparatus called The Department of Homeland Security because the word "Homeland" was so Nazi-ish.

Now two decades later, here we are....

Time for the US to Dump the Word "Homeland"

In 1934, at the Nazi party’s big coming-out event, they introduced the term “homeland.”…

truthout.org

Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 11h

"Jake" rhymes with "mistake," and that's all I've gotta say about this sycophantic putz....

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

Tapper is actively angling for a CBS News job under Bari Weiss.

nypost.com/2025/10/30/m...

CNN’s Jake Tapper says Gen Z will be ‘a lot more conservative’ after schools forced lefty politics ‘down their throats’

The lefty host of “The Lead with Jake Tapper” warned that Democrats are failing to win over Americans aged about 13 to 28.

nypost.com

Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 15h

I think *25th Hour* was the last Spike Lee joint I saw at the cinema, but I'm intrigued by the ties to life-long guilty pleasure Ed McBain.

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 15h

As the saying goes, every conservaturd accusation is a confession....

Ghouly Auntie 🎃 🟦💙 @1technodiva.bsky.social · 1d

Offensive, obviously and a deep insult to the high office.

Suing him into oblivion sounds too good.

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 15h

a man in a suit and tie with the words stop it above him

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words stop it above him

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Larry Tenney ❌👑 @larrytenney.bsky.social · 1d

14 million American kids about to lose access to food:

• Trump is spending $1 billion outfitting a hand-me-down Qatari 747 he plans to take into retirement

• Kristi Noem bought two Gulfstream luxury jets for her travel to photo opps

• FBI's Kash Patel is using its Gulfstream g550 for dates

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 1d

FDT🔥

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 1d

Do Republicans have social programs besides tax cuts that drive up the debt?

Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 1d

I feel doubly seen

Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 1d

Are music snobs worse than beer snobs? They might be!

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 2d

ITS SO INSUFFERABLE 😩

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18d

“I don’t think people understand” — John Smoltz about something everyone understands

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 2d

Irony died a long time ago, but we still continue to hack at its corpse....

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The New York Post is owned by Lachlan Murdoch, solely because his daddy bought it and passed it on to him.

And it's backing Andrew Cuomo, a meathead whose whole career in politics stems from his daddy being good at it.

But *Mamdani* is the nepo baby, because his mom was a filmmaker? Sure.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Interesting cover from NY Post

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"The judge then ordered Mr. Bovino to appear at the federal courthouse at the end of every weekday to personally provide her with a report on the day’s arrests and incidents..."

!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Judge Admonishes Border Patrol Leader for Tactics in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 2d

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Unbelievable. He admits it’s unconstitutional. Then says Trump might “go around” the Constitution.

They’re not hiding it anymore. The authoritarian playbook is in motion.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 2d

It's awful. Our health insurance by itself is $2,300 a month for two 50-somethings, and we each have Rx and doctor copays on top of that....

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

the U.S. press somehow hasn't figured out in generations of journalism that you don't have to just parrot corporate defenses of their own harmful behaviors, which is odd for a profession purportedly dedicated to ferreting out the truth

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3d

What the MRI showed

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 4d

It must be so fun to play with Aaron Rodgers. If you don't make literally every catch on every ball he throws to you no matter how inaccurate he puts his hands on his hips and curses at you like an alcoholic gym teacher and then after the game you have to hear about how 5G causes IBS

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 3d

I'm really glad to see all the folks stepping up to try to resource the loss of SNAP but also billionaires could just pay taxes.

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 3d

But we need Argentina to stage our military for the invasion of Venezuela.

Or something.

Damn we're being governed by the dumbest possible motherfuckers....

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Sign of things to come? FBI not ICE but at what other time would people think masked weirdos might actually be Feds.

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Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 3d

The neighbor replied "Nope. You're gonna need someone else to sign the democratic youstink committeeperson. [My autistic son with Down's syndrome] has converted us to republicans."

Dubya tee eff? Why is MAGA so weird? Does this person not realize the GOP would like to grind her kid into fertilizer?

Suds Terkel @sudsterkel.bsky.social · 3d

Today in weird, a good friend who serves as our Democratic precinct captain was seeking signatures for her petition to reup in this role.

She texted a formerly friendly neighbor asking if she'd sign. And the response (see the first comment below) wasn't what anyone would expect....

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Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 3d

One of my relatives told me the other day immigrants commit the majority of all crimes in the U.S. When I asked them where on earth they heard that nonsense they showed me a tweet Elon had retweeted. Everyone these info streams is marinating in a soup of objectively false disinformation.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 3d

DON DRAPER, ruinously hungover at pitch meeting: You're sort of Nazis.

CLIENT: Excuse me?

DRAPER: You're LIKE Nazis.

ROGER STERLING: Don, what the hell? I apologize for my--

CLIENT: Hold on ... let him finish.

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 5d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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