Mark Wigginton
@wigg52.bsky.social
Retired journalist. Engaged pool player, woodworker and democracy lover, belonging to Cato the wondercat.
“I can sleep anywhere. Now, don’t move.”
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
“I can sleep anywhere. Now, don’t move.”
The only real healthcare solution is Medicare for All. Full stop.
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The only real healthcare solution is Medicare for All. Full stop.
I’m literally about to scream into a pillow right now…fuck Trump, ICE, Vought and all of it.
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I’m literally about to scream into a pillow right now…fuck Trump, ICE, Vought and all of it.
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
So Trump says Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction…I guess so he can round up the terrorists, er, homeless, who possess said weapons. Insanity.
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
So Trump says Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction…I guess so he can round up the terrorists, er, homeless, who possess said weapons. Insanity.
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
Mediate leaving Chris Hayes off their list top 75 most influential people in news media feels like malpractice…
December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Mediate leaving Chris Hayes off their list top 75 most influential people in news media feels like malpractice…
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
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'level of service: A++++
quality of life and public health outcomes: F-'
quality of life and public health outcomes: F-'
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
'level of service: A++++
quality of life and public health outcomes: F-'
quality of life and public health outcomes: F-'
I’m consistently as dyspeptic and in pain about Trump and his henchman as @adamserwer.bsky.social is on Chris Hayes. I share your pain, man.
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I’m consistently as dyspeptic and in pain about Trump and his henchman as @adamserwer.bsky.social is on Chris Hayes. I share your pain, man.
I really want to get up…but that would just Release The Cato!
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I really want to get up…but that would just Release The Cato!
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Dear Climate: I have a nice little ski hill in the Pacific Northwest. How fucked am I?
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Dear Climate: I have a nice little ski hill in the Pacific Northwest. How fucked am I?
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A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennes...
communitynets.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social:
I’ll keep doing the work, until the Soros checks stop coming.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’ll keep doing the work, until the Soros checks stop coming.
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How long can they continue to prop up Grandpa Ranty in public like it’s Weekend at Bernie’s? The light is gone from Trump’s eyes and words tumble out like barely gummed oatmeal.
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How long can they continue to prop up Grandpa Ranty in public like it’s Weekend at Bernie’s? The light is gone from Trump’s eyes and words tumble out like barely gummed oatmeal.
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Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
Why does every effing classical music station on the planet turn to wall to wall Christmas music from Thanksgiving on? My ears are bleeding carols...
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why does every effing classical music station on the planet turn to wall to wall Christmas music from Thanksgiving on? My ears are bleeding carols...
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Impeach and remove. Indict and convict.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Impeach and remove. Indict and convict.
Donald Trump killed Sarah Beckstrom. Full stop.
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Donald Trump killed Sarah Beckstrom. Full stop.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.