Michael Stahlke
@michaelstahlke.bsky.social
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.
If you ever want to experience creeping horror, be a 16yo kid trying to cut from 190 or so during football to 160 for wrestling at thanksgiving.
And having to visit not fewer than four thanksgiving dinners because your parents keep getting divorced.
And having to visit not fewer than four thanksgiving dinners because your parents keep getting divorced.
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
If you ever want to experience creeping horror, be a 16yo kid trying to cut from 190 or so during football to 160 for wrestling at thanksgiving.
And having to visit not fewer than four thanksgiving dinners because your parents keep getting divorced.
And having to visit not fewer than four thanksgiving dinners because your parents keep getting divorced.
I once had an aversion to deviled eggs because my dad’s second wife made me eat some when I was six and I threw it all up on my grandmother’s formal dining table.
But I overcame that through sheer force of Will when I was 28.
But I overcame that through sheer force of Will when I was 28.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I once had an aversion to deviled eggs because my dad’s second wife made me eat some when I was six and I threw it all up on my grandmother’s formal dining table.
But I overcame that through sheer force of Will when I was 28.
But I overcame that through sheer force of Will when I was 28.
Pete don’t have that dawg in him
We all believe in improving efficiency, and a team genuinely focused on that could do a world of good.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
But the DOGE we could have had is a far cry from the DOGE we actually got.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pete don’t have that dawg in him
Prayers up for the travelers today
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Prayers up for the travelers today
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jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
Chicks rock
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Chicks rock
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Charlie Brown did in fact have hoes, the “no” meme means “yes gimme some hooch”.
The old world dies, the new world struggles to be born.
The old world dies, the new world struggles to be born.
I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Charlie Brown did in fact have hoes, the “no” meme means “yes gimme some hooch”.
The old world dies, the new world struggles to be born.
The old world dies, the new world struggles to be born.
When I was a Troop commander, the November family readiness group meeting was a squadron wide potluck that was open for all troopers. I made a twenty pound turkey and convinced Kim to make a bourbon chocolate pecan pie.
I don’t really get pecan pie as a concept, but it’s very good at drawing the safeties away from the targets I really wanna hit at dessert
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
When I was a Troop commander, the November family readiness group meeting was a squadron wide potluck that was open for all troopers. I made a twenty pound turkey and convinced Kim to make a bourbon chocolate pecan pie.
You all knew this was coming
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
You all knew this was coming
Please, my Profession Of Arms……she’s very sick
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Please, my Profession Of Arms……she’s very sick
A month or so ago one of my neighbors asked if I would want my kids to join the military and I said “this military? I’d rather they be a bum on they street”
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A month or so ago one of my neighbors asked if I would want my kids to join the military and I said “this military? I’d rather they be a bum on they street”
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Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero
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Her: you’d better not be perfectly parallel to the ground after adjusting to a slightly under thrown ball to make a huge catch on the road in a rivalry game when I get there
Me:
Me:
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Her: you’d better not be perfectly parallel to the ground after adjusting to a slightly under thrown ball to make a huge catch on the road in a rivalry game when I get there
Me:
Me:
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Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
WASHINGTON—Calling the national crisis “a complete justification” for additional airstrikes on boats purportedly trafficking narcotics, the Pentagon issued a statement Tuesday blaming Venezuela for th...
theonion.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
They gotta give him the helmet and vest again.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
They gotta give him the helmet and vest again.
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
Ibid. Your Honah.
"The United States isn’t a nation like other nations, and it never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state, and there was no such distinctive ethnicity even in 1776, when the U.S. was created."--Gordon Wood www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.
www.wsj.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Ibid. Your Honah.
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I have not done one of these in a while....
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I have not done one of these in a while....
We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight
And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community
Who have chosen to join us here in
The Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time
And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community
Who have chosen to join us here in
The Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
let the bodies hit the floor
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight
And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community
Who have chosen to join us here in
The Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time
And we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community
Who have chosen to join us here in
The Palace Hotel Ballroom at this time
These ole boys are absolutely crushing beers on the job.
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
These ole boys are absolutely crushing beers on the job.
The Wyoming Rule is one of my niche political fixations and would do a lot to form a more perfect union and doesn’t require any constitutional amendment.
No one expected that CA would be 40 million and VT would be 500,000. (In the early 20th c, MA had more electors than CA.) You can fix that- by expanding the House, adding "at large" electors, maybe, and adding at least two new states (DC and PR), but be careful about attacking federalism. /4
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Wyoming Rule is one of my niche political fixations and would do a lot to form a more perfect union and doesn’t require any constitutional amendment.
My favorite bit on the Yale Harvard rivalry
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My favorite bit on the Yale Harvard rivalry
Republicans can often sense that I’m a very special boy. That I’m not like the others.
Republicans can often sense I have actual values and beliefs while we both realize that Corporate Democrats are following checks and doing whatever their handlers tell them to do.
We can have an actual disagreement based on something tangible rather than just gamesmanship.
We can have an actual disagreement based on something tangible rather than just gamesmanship.
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Republicans can often sense that I’m a very special boy. That I’m not like the others.