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Erik Gunn
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Deputy Editor at Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com | Likes & RTs ≠ endorsements | opinions = mine | Tips: [email protected] | DM for Signal | https://wisconsinexaminer.com/author/Erik-Gunn/ | Fun: 🚂🚃🚃🚃
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From my story for Milwaukee Magazine in 2010 on Milwaukee as a model railroad mecca...
www.milwaukeemag.com/ChooChooCrazy
Model railroading offers a tasting menu of virtually every other craft or interest: There’s construction and woodwork. Craftsmanship and design. Art and sculpture. Engineering and electronics. History and creative writing. Hobbyists can construct an entire world. Yet they can also delve into highly specialized crafts and the most idiosyncratic specialties.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God said, "No" Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but
The next time you see me comin', you better run"
Well, Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?"
God said, "Out on Highway 61"
Pope Leo at a microphone looking like he might be singing...
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Wow! Exclusive!
I have no idea how I get on some of these mailing lists....
A screenshot of an email message headlined "Exclusive: T20 overload to blame for India - South Africa batting collapse says Petersen" The rest of the message that is visible begins.... "Hi Erik, "Former Proteas opener Alviro Petersen warned that and overload of T20 cricket is eroding test - match technique after India and South Africa's low scoring duel in Kolkata. "He argues most batters struggle to adapt to tough ...." The remainder of the message is not visible in the screenshot.
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Letters, we get letters ..
Health care will go up for people on free Obama care after Republicans end Obama care white people who pay for insurance their rates will go down when people like me don't pay for welfare recipients to get free health care
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Sound on
October 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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And I've arrived in Kenosha where crowdsline both sides of the main downtown street. This picture doesn't actually do justice. I'll be getting better ones.
A crowd in downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin for #Nokings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Now going to head out to Kenosha, Wisconsin. Like Janesville, once a big auto manufacturing town.
Selfie of the author of this post. Plaid shirt, glasses and a bucket hat.
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Members of the organizing team for the Janesville #NoKings rally estimated that the crowd numbers more than 1,000 people. This is just a small segment who were crowded at a street corner at one end of the park where the rally is being held.
A crowd of people on a street corner in Janesville, Wisconsin, for the #nokings rally.
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Speaker at the Janesville #nokings stage said all the various words that have been used to describe the current president, including dictator, autocrat, etc, add up to "bullies".
A sign with a picture of a large orange colored fruit with a crown on its head and an open mouth looking very much like that of the president, and above the image, "No Kings!"
October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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First stop, Janesville, Wisconsin.
A street corner in Janesville Wisconsin, where participants in the #nokings demonstrations today hold signs for passing drivers to see.
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Driving across southern Wisconsin today documenting the #nokings protests in a few different places for @wisconsinexaminer.com and @statesnewsroom.com .
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Best public washroom notice ever.
September 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Outside the condo underground garage this morning
July 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I wouldn't tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs
Image of singer Rod Stewart's huge model railroad layout.
July 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Started reading the piece and I will finish it, but this ad in the middle...
In the midst of a New York Times article about the dangers of ChatGPT an ad inviting the reader to install ChatGPT on their Android phone...
June 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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You've been kidnapped. Characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
(And he's riding a Scottish luxury train!)
Alan Cummings on his Scottish railway journey via Public Television.
June 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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On vacay this week in Minneapolis. This parking lot was made to prevent people from simply pulling through from one space to the next one where they could be facing forward. why?
June 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Profile picture. Old, bald man with goatee and brown wire frame glasses.
May 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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The search terms were "ned ryan who shall rule bob lafollette"
I got this, my first real live AI hallucination.... (2/2)
An AI overview from a search on Google: "The phrase 'Ned Ryan who shall rule Bob La follette' refers to a historical political rivalry between Ned Ryan and Robert La Follette, a prominent figure in Wisconsin politics.... "
May 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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(The economist is Andrea Sorensen of US Bank.)
Yet an additional unknown is how the escalating trade conflicts with the rest of the world will affect services — where the U.S. has a trade surplus. “President Trump has never mentioned that, because he probably doesn’t want us to know that, right? It makes trade look a little more fair, but that’s not the story he wants,” Sorensen said. So far, other countries haven’t targeted U.S. services in retaliation for the tariffs it has imposed. Nevertheless, “if countries really want to get us economically, they would go after services,” Sorensen said.
May 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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I feel a little sad for the person who left their leftovers package from Johnny Delmonico's in the parking garage last night that was still there this morning
A picture of a restaurant leftovers box sitting on a heating unit in the vestibule of an elevator for a parking garage. A close-up of the leftovers box showing where it came from: a steakhouse off the Capitol square in Madison Wisconsin
April 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Covee image from Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen's third album. On the right, Bruce Springsteen in a leather jacket and a Fender Telecaster guitar slung around his neck. He's smiling and leaning on Clarence Clemons, a Black man playing a saxophone, a longtime member of his band.
April 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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They are taking credit for things that were actually done in the last administration, the one that they claim had such a terrible economy.

wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/03/r...
In a statement, White House spokesperson Kush Desai said, “Trillions in historic investment commitments from industry leaders ranging from Apple to Hyundai to TSMC are indicative of how this administration is working with the private sector while implementing President Trump’s pro-growth, pro-worker America First agenda of tariffs, deregulation, tax cuts, and the unleashing of American energy. TSMC, a Taiwanese mega semiconductor producer, received $6.6 billion in direct funding from the U.S., plus $5 billion in cheap loans, under Biden’s administration after he signed the CHIPS and Science Act, according to an analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations. The country announced an additional $100 billion investment in early March. Trump announced a 32% tariff on the island nation.
April 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Post a picture of your self from about 10 years ago. (I'm not the guy in Army fatigues)...
A picture of this account holder (Erik Gunn) in a leather jacket, standing with, on the left, Judi (a similarly aged woman with glasses), and on the right, Matt, our son, at his graduation from Army boot camp.
March 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM