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Misha Chicackalacky

@spoketension.bsky.social

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Cyclist, hiker, former bicycle mechanic, married dad, punk and indie fan, public defender, pancake flipper. Southern secular Jew with Chicago roots. Reposts not endorsements, etc.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6m

Middle aged violent Homophobic maga guy in fetal position photoshopped into photo of a twerking workshop.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 19m

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 6h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2h

Image of middle aged homophobic Maga warrior who ate pavement on new Kings Day superimposed over a Twerking class studio. The maga warrior is in a semi-fetal position on the floor.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 22h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes you just have to speak truth to power
#nokings #protest

A protester at the No Kings protest holding a sign that reads “the only king we recognize is Shoheo Ohtani.”

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

He only says “I don’t know who he/she is” when he knows exactly who the person is.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 1d

Is the Washington Post trying to build up Republican support for Platner’s senate run?

Washington Post online headline from October 17, 2025 that reads “in deleted posts, Senate hopeful downplayed worries over sex assaults in military.“ the article is about Graham Platner.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, that’s pretty much it.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2d

It is immoral and unethical to back into a marked parking space. It is downright psychotic to back into a diagonal marked parking space in a parking deck with one-way lanes.

A parking lot with marked parking spaces seen from above, showing most of the spots occupied by cars some pulled in forward and some backed in

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2d

This is sales strategy by Big Bag to make you buy aftermarket bigger bags.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2d

New Buddy Cop movie plot just dropped

SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 2d

Sliwa to Cuomo: You’re gonna stand up to Trump? You Andrew Cuomo? You lost your own primary and you’re still here because you don’t know the meaning of the word “no”

Mamdani: I agree with Curtis.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if he will follow the honored tradition of military leaders under Trump who refused to say a single fucking word about all the illegality they witnessed until years later when it’s too late to make any difference.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 3d

“Top Democrats” plan to oust Fetterman, who is now nearly universally despised by democrats, and somehow this will “tear the party apart.”

Axios @axios.com · 3d

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

Since our space program is in shambles, I assume you don’t mean moonwalking.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

An essential part of journalism around Tom Homan’s acceptance of a $50,000 cash bribe in a recorded transaction with undercover FBI agents is: did he pay taxes on that $50,000?

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 4d

Messing with cooking oil trade is the slipperiest of slopes

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 5d

This line from Mamdani's father just really struck me. Great profile:

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 5d

I guess Ryan doesn’t understand that in American ideomatic discourse, when people say “FUCK ICE,” which everyone is saying, the “abolish” is implied.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

Don Lemon might have run a corny show on CNN but right now he is doing some really great on the street interview work in Chicagoland.

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

Gotta be in peak physical condition in order to stand around on a street corner like a camo-clad mannequin.

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Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA think Trump’s brinksmanship is laser-focused and causes world leaders to buckle under his threats. But what self-respecting leader of a major world power would back down from a cognitively compromised liar who can’t be trusted to honor his end of a deal? Why demean yourself and your nation?

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 7d

“I talked with detectives”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 7d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7d

"The chancellor approved it"

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 8d

“We expected that it would have the integrity of the President of the United States.”

Misha Chicackalacky @spoketension.bsky.social · 8d

If you pass away you qualify for the Nobel Peace Out Prize