Capt. Jake MKE

Game 5 Sunday afternoon in MKE

@bartwinkler.bsky.social Ads went down 2-0 in a best of 5 and tied it up 2-2 tonight

@bartwinkler.bsky.social give the Admirals a shout! Tied the series 2-2 tonight on the road!

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

Donald Trump just illegally fired two independent commissioners at the FTC who fight big corporations that abuse consumers and workers.

Why? Trump's billionaire donors expect a return on their investment. He works for them, not you.

The courts must reinstate the commissioners.

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

I did have that thought and might have to do that from now on

Correct. I agree! Smells fishy!

I do too. But the one they removed was at least semi functional. Wonder if it was more malicious?

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

An empty space outside a home dept where a bike rack used to be. And a cargo bike in front.

HD removed the bike racks :(
Nice workers let me park by the service counter but also like WTF! They were just the shitty wheel benders but again WTF

My favorite philosophy about sports is that you should always do what your opponent doesn’t want you to do

Could apply to other stuff too I suppose

A Supreme Court Race May Shuffle the Rules of Wisconsin's Democracy, Again - Bolts T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved... Read More

Don't forget amid the federal attention — one of the most important elections of year is in under three weeks.

(And Elon has spent millions and millions on it.)

Why it matters in Bolts: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-20...

32% is generally cited as the MAGA hardcore that will support Trump no matter what. Those are the people who will blame Dems for literally everything, including things like Trump's tariff tax. You can ignore them. Basically EVERYONE ELSE knows this is would be a Trump shutdown.

In short, the vast majority of those who would blame Dems are Republicans already:

New Quinniac poll:

If there's a shutdown...

32% blame Dems
31% blame Republicans
22% blame Trump

That's a majority blaming Trump and/or the GOP. Hang tough, Dems.

Is it now standard practice if you email with someone at an org for them to add you to their mailing list withoutyour consent? I've had a few people do it the past month and imo it's rude and inappropriate

An illustration showing the impact of parking requirements on land use. From left to right, the image depicts a gradient of increasing parking mandates: 'No Parking Required' allows for dense, walkable development; '1 Space per 500 Square Feet' introduces some parking; '1 Space per 250 Square Feet' adds more parking lots; and '1 Space per 100 Square Feet' results in sprawling, car-centric infrastructure with large parking lots dominating the landscape. The logo 'PRN' and 'PARKING REFORM NETWORK' are visible at the bottom.

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.”

- Lewis Mumford

A cargo bike with two large speakers on it next to a wood chipper

You can put other things like huge speakers on the cargo bike though too ;)

Google map top view of a building

Huh odd address numbering on this set back corner building.

Ha why is this one from the alley?

Whitnall park there? My in laws live over there too.

VOTE CRAWFORD!!!

Almost indescribable! The colors aren't done justice by the photos

A white sand dunes with a colorful gradient sky

Shado of a man making peace signs with the sun set over a white sand dune

White sand dunes with blue sky

Sun setting over a white sand dune

Visited White Sands National Park in New Mexico.

You can understand almost all of American politics with just two numbers:

71% of Republican voters oppose Medicaid cuts.

100% of House Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid right now.

Reading the OPM/OMB memo out today (chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...) it astonishes me—no, pisses me the fuck off—that there is just this blanket assumption that firing people necessarily leads to efficiency. In particular, the memo fully expects RIFs in public-facing agencies to boost customer service.

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