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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 2d

Here’s the other side of Snoopy’s sign at today’s protest.

An inflatable Snoopy at the No Kings rally in Duluth, Minnesota. Snoopy’s sign is a cartoonish word balloon and it says “Good Grief”

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 3d

Duluth, Minnesota City Hall / No Kings / October 18, 2025

Thousands of people fill in the plaza in front of Duluth, Minnesota City Hall on October 18, 2025 for the No Kings rally.

Inflatable Snoopy at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally.

Creepy Trump mask and assorted signs at the Duluth, Minnesota No Kings rally.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 3d

A pre-protest protest in tiny Cloquet, Minnesota had 50 sign-wavers tonight. They’re expecting 400 tomorrow! #NoKings

A brown chihuahua regards the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

A protester holds a sign of the inflatable frog over her own face at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

2 inflatable penguins at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

Two inflatable dinosaurs at the the No Kings pre-protest protest in Cloquet, Minnesota.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 6d

Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.

But today’s also good.

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 6d

Does this decaying dipshit have any idea how many inflatable costumes we have in blue cities? I’ve got three just in my house.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 11d

I can clear my calendar for today.

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 16d

Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.

But today’s also good.

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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 15d

One Battle After Another editor Andy Jurgensen talks with @jpraup.bsky.social about test screening cuts, keeping the momentum, and much more.

One Battle After Another Editor Andy Jurgensen on Cutting Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action-Comedy Epic

How do you make a 2.5-hour movie that feels like it flies by in a third of the time? Meet editor Andy Jurgensen, a long-time collaborator of Paul Thomas Anderson, who has followed up Licorice Pizza wi...

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 16d

Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.

But today’s also good.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 17d

Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.

But today’s also good.

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 20d

Yesterday would’ve been a great day to impeach Donald Trump.

Today’s also good.

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 20d

After today, if you’re not actively working to impeach Trump and Hegseth, you are doing it wrong.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 21d

Behold North America! In this episode of Minnesota Historia, we tackle our state's divides.

What Do You DO With a Continental Divide?! (Minnesota's Laurentian) | Minnesota Historia

YouTube video by PBS North

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 23d

The #Svengoolie gang keeps telling me Amityville 3-D is terrible. But I think it’s got a lot of potential. A real fixer-upper of a film.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 24d

Happy 30th birthday to David Bowie's atemporal cyberpunk neonoir murder mystery concept album— an amazingly deft exegesis of the early dream & burgeoning pre-millennial zeitgeist nightmare of the mid-late 90s internet; an album which also somehow proves more prescient by the day.

Here's 1.Outside:

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 28d

In Chile, Pinochet disappeared 1500 people.

This is more.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 28d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · 29d

One of my favorite Minnesota Historias ever is now on YouTube. We interviewed an eyewitness to the arrival of the Leif Erikson Viking ship in Duluth in 1927. You read that right. Lilly Haldorsen was there 98 years ago, at the age of 10!

Witnessing History: Lilly Haldorson & the Leif Erikson Viking Ship in 1927 | Minnesota Historia

YouTube video by PBS North

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 18

When Donald Trump was seven, his older brother Fred dumped mashed potatoes on his head to stop him from being such a bratty little turd.

I think about this every day.

An illustration of Donald Trump, crying, with an overturned bowl of mashed potatoes on his head. This illustration is designed by bag0fish.

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Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social · Sep 18

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 17

When Terence Stamp died, I wondered whatever happened to my Richard Donner cut of Superman 2. I need a better system for tracking DVD loans.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 16

TikTok misusing our personal data is bad.

Selling TikTok to a Trump-aligned billionaire family and one of his biggest political donors is even worse.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 15

This week, Minnesota Historia visits the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, where we account for every single second Judy Garland ever spent in the state of her birth.

Judy Garland's Minnesota | Minnesota Historia

YouTube video by PBS North

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 11

The prompt was “melissa hortman assassination”

The results of my Google search:
melissa hortman assassination

Al Overview

Melissa Hortman was not assassinated in the real world; she is a figure in a fictional, future-set event from 2025, according to news reports about a planned series of political assassinations described in the
"Assassin" series of novels by Ted Mathys. In this fictional storyline, Hortman, a Minnesota state representative, is targeted and killed by a gunman posing as a police officer. a
Key details about the fictional event:
• Date of Event: June 14, 2025 @
• Victims: State Representative Melissa
Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman. &
• Perpetrator: Vance Boelter, a suspect who had planned a spree of "targeted political assassinations". ®
• Context: The fictional events are described as a night of terror and politically motivated violence against elected officials and their families.
Important Note: The incident described in the search results is not a real event but a olot element from me Assassm" series of

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 11

Fair enough. It’s available now.

Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 11

You were wrong.

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Mike Scholtz @mikescholtz.com · Sep 11

I searched for “melissa hortman assassination.” But thanks for calling me a liar.

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