MidwestExCentrist
@midwestcentrist.bsky.social
Culture and politics, some science, some music, some humor. And whatever. Photos are generally mine and unmodified.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈ally #science
🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈ally #science
Pinned
Ok I give up on ‘Centrist’. I have my own definition but people see it as defending the status quo and compromising towards the right. Progressive policies focused on workers have the best chance of expanding our anti-oligarch and antifascist coalition.
Yup. A reminder here that physical therapists just lost their ‘professional’ status so no student loans and fewer therapists for our future.
My doctor: "congrats on your broken foot bone healing so well! You still must be careful with it! Here is a referral to physical therapy to help you with that!"
Physical therapy: sounds great! earliest we got is 48 days from now!
Great system we got here, the greatest, none better.
Physical therapy: sounds great! earliest we got is 48 days from now!
Great system we got here, the greatest, none better.
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yup. A reminder here that physical therapists just lost their ‘professional’ status so no student loans and fewer therapists for our future.
tank i need a pilot program
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
tank i need a pilot program
Re: the #abundance dialogue; the more I learn about AI the more I think a 'post-fulltime-employment' economy in the US is inevitable and potentially wonderful. The 'potentially' part involves distributing the benefits to all citizens rather than oligarchs. A full progressive takeover is needed.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Re: the #abundance dialogue; the more I learn about AI the more I think a 'post-fulltime-employment' economy in the US is inevitable and potentially wonderful. The 'potentially' part involves distributing the benefits to all citizens rather than oligarchs. A full progressive takeover is needed.
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Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
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May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
PseudoPod 995: Data Ghost
When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous. Deni batted at their ear and muttered, “No, no, quit it.” In the second cockpit seat, Winnie threw them a look. “What?”…
pseudopod.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here's my award eligibility post(s) for 2025:
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
May: "Data Ghost" in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Editors Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney
It's also online at Pseudopod #995, Narrator Rae Lundberg
pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...
1/?
Fact check! There is no mercury in any current vaccines. There is plenty of mercury exposure, plus arsenic and dioxin, caused by smelters (deregulated by trump) and burning coal. Oh, and spraying forever pfas on our food is totally fine. Dirty donors doing us dirt cheap.
#rfkjr #vaccines
#rfkjr #vaccines
November 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Someday Loomer will get Loomered
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Someday Loomer will get Loomered
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Tariffs, trade war and woes for Wisconsin's soybean farmers
“It’s not just impacting us,” Rebout said. “You know, it’s impacting our local communities, because like I said. ..."
pbswisconsin.org/news-item/ta...
“It’s not just impacting us,” Rebout said. “You know, it’s impacting our local communities, because like I said. ..."
pbswisconsin.org/news-item/ta...
Tariffs, trade war and woes for Wisconsin's soybean farmers
Combines are rolling all across Wisconsin, bringing in what looks to be a good soybean harvest. 'I think it's going to be a real good year for us on our ...
pbswisconsin.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tariffs, trade war and woes for Wisconsin's soybean farmers
“It’s not just impacting us,” Rebout said. “You know, it’s impacting our local communities, because like I said. ..."
pbswisconsin.org/news-item/ta...
“It’s not just impacting us,” Rebout said. “You know, it’s impacting our local communities, because like I said. ..."
pbswisconsin.org/news-item/ta...
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So the same “illegal aliens” getting SNAP benefits are buying houses? Next: Illegal aliens wrote Epstein emails.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "I want to get to the root: over 12 million illegal aliens came into our country, which has put a great strain on our housing supply and affordability."
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So the same “illegal aliens” getting SNAP benefits are buying houses? Next: Illegal aliens wrote Epstein emails.
Greenland won
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Greenland won
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Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2/11/16
YouTube video by Scott Dybiec
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
For no reason I was just remembering that time JD snuck out to visit Murdoch just before WSJ dropped the Epstein birthday book. If trump goes down for ‘health reasons’ this could be a frenzy of backstabbing, with Rupert picking the next Prez like in Succession.
apnews.com/article/jd-v...
apnews.com/article/jd-v...
Vance made a brief trip to Montana to speak to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, AP sources say
Vice President JD Vance has made a brief trip to Montana to meet with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and a group of other Fox News executives.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For no reason I was just remembering that time JD snuck out to visit Murdoch just before WSJ dropped the Epstein birthday book. If trump goes down for ‘health reasons’ this could be a frenzy of backstabbing, with Rupert picking the next Prez like in Succession.
apnews.com/article/jd-v...
apnews.com/article/jd-v...
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Air traffic controllers should have remembered they have the power to end the shutdown. They wasted a few weeks.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Air traffic controllers should have remembered they have the power to end the shutdown. They wasted a few weeks.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
We need widespread jury nullification so protestors can be fearless. Humiliating for the fascists.
Seems like the guy who threw the sandwich at the federal agent is holding his own in the trial today.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We need widespread jury nullification so protestors can be fearless. Humiliating for the fascists.
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Usha vs Erika would be a great catfight. The winner is the real loser though.
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Usha vs Erika would be a great catfight. The winner is the real loser though.
November 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM