Jeff
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Jeff
@stegron.bsky.social
Milwaukee, WI
#TopSecret can be hit or miss, but more hits, I think, including some of my favorite film gags: Nick dreaming he’s back in school then awakening in relief that he’s just being tortured; Chocolate Mousse firing wildly and hitting only the enemy; the German jeep driving into the Pinto. #TCMParty
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Both taken this weekend:
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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McConnell doesn't get as much hate now that he's just waiting to die, but man, he and Roberts are up there with the absolute worst men the Republic has ever suffered.
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953)
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The make-believe bullshit of Trumpism and Trump’s cabinet are not an aberration but rather exactly what would happen if you ran a government like a business; and America’s authoritarian turn (and the counter-knowledge that entails) was already widely distributed in its c-suites and board rooms.
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Not only was the Times obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails while ignoring emails about Donald Trump sent to its own reporter, but since then it has constantly attacked anyone who dared look into questions of Trump's character. All with sanctimony.

Now we know it was all a big lie.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Temple of Doom” got more flak for its violence, leading to the PG-13 rating, but #RaidersOfTheLostArk has its share of violence and scares for a PG movie. Just like some other intense ‘70s/early ‘80s films that also got away with just a PG rating, like Jaws and Poltergeist. #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I’m kind of embarrassed, kind of not, to admit that as a kid, I watched/fast-forwarded/rewound a Beta tape of #RaidersOfTheLostArk so much that it broke. #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In this movie, it’s even satisfying when that little Nazi agent monkey gets its comeuppance. #RaidersOfTheLostArk. #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Man, as a kid I was so bummed when Chariots of Fire beat out #RaidersOfTheLostArk for Best Picture. Still am! #TCMParty
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I have to think the incessant whining, self-pitying portrayal of themselves as being persecuted and refusal of any self-accountability that so many conservative men engage in must be a big turn-off to all kinds of women in all kinds of places. Nothing “masculine” about that.
This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Nah, the biggest thing missing from this conversation is that most beltway reporters are clearly not only too stupid to understand policy (and much of the rest of their supposed “beat,” frankly) but also too lazy and incurious to learn.
Missing from every conversation like this about this IRA is that absolutely nobody knew what was in it because the President was incapable of selling policy to the public. It's really not the job of the press to do this.
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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"That's so evil I don't believe you're telling me the truth" is such a specific problem with our electorate.
Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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See this thread from Mar-a-Lago. This isn't tonedeafness. This is fuckyouness.
Spotted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Halloween bash:

Giant ice sculpture with built-in luge. Pour booze in the top funnel and it chills and shoots out the bottom.

This monster? Likely $5K+ for one-time use.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Every state should have a message this direct on their website.
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I do not think "America always sucked so who cares if the elected President is destroying civic property to replace it with shoddily built palatial compounds, that's not important compared to ICE seizures" is a winning message.

1: it's all the same phenomenon!
2: Americans care about America.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild
#NoKings #Minnesota
October 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid

anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House”

this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Dear Die Hard, You rock!
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM