Sam Walker

A song of the season from 3 of me to all of you.

I would like to see Wolf Blitzer secure his legacy, eponymously foreordained, by storming the gates of the White House in rolled up shirtsleeves, wearing his tie as a headband, armed with a chest-mounted GoPro and a pocket Constitution.

I hope he's not the third, not because I think the idea is macabre or justified, it’s that I wouldn't want memories of the other two forever entwined in a trio with that abomination.

I didn't know that I would cry when I heard the news that Dolly Parton died. My grandparents took me to countless country and western concerts at county and state fairs in the '70s. I got to see just about every big name on the circuit, including Dolly (a couple times.) Condolences and gratitude.

Corrupt, Tr*mp-pardoned, former NYC mayor Eric Adams attempted to gaslight the overflowing crowd at our rural Wisconsin public library today as a hired mouthpiece for a proposed mega data center project. Was heartening to see that we weren’t the naive rubes and marks he was expecting. Nor partisan.

Unfortunately, 6 months later, it has only gotten worse. @kenmartin.bsky.social needs to resign now.

Happy Bastille Day to those who celebrate

Anika Nilles getting cheers as Donald Tr*mp gets jeers gives me happy tears

Heartbreaking interview with Scott Pelley on his firing from 60 Minutes

I met my first baculum enthusiast in Austin in 1993. He was a contractor with a Prince Valiant haircut who wore one from a raccoon as a pendant necklace.

Added my vote for fair representation in the gerrymandered state of Wisconsin. Forward.

George Bailey is dead. Clarence never came. We're in Pottersville.

Paddy Chayefsky was the true soothsayer as @cbsnews.com goes all in If you haven't seen the Academy Award winning 1976 film Network, do it now

Thank you for helping to show us the way, Minneapolis

Took it out of storage to frame and put up in my place of business

The Party: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. MAGA: Bullies are victims.

Decency (external) and integrity (internal) are acts of resistance toward the cruel and unethical force of despotism.

Timeline cleanse Miss Evelyn

They've taken and gotten away with almost everything they want, yet to a person they're a miserable lot. Dour, scowling faces, all. They will never be satiated. Their greed, dishonesty and hatred has no bounds. What a profoundly shitty way to go through life.

He thinks he can grab the world by the p with impunity. Not any more complicated than that.

If there's any justice left in the world (and in the unlikely event he doesn't expire before then) his sentence should include being launched headfirst into a windmill by a trebuchet while wearing a bird costume. We could sell tickets.

What a Norman Rockwell image might look like in USA 2026

That the DNC voted against @benwikler.bsky.social while keeping @schumer.senate.gov as SDC leader tells me everything I need to know about how fecklessly they counter the seriousness of this moment. We the People are on our own in the defense of what's left of our democracy. Good luck, America.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

RBG's 11th hour hubris erased her legacy by giving us Dobbs. Biden's 11th hour hubris erased his legacy by giving us Tr*mp 2.0. @schumer.senate.gov 's 11th hour hubris will erase democracy in America. A critical aspect of effective leadership is knowing when it's time to let someone else lead.

I know there's a lot going on but it seems like this should be more of a story.

Old enough to remember when the GOP paid vociferous lip service to "states rights."

21st Century Schizoid Man

My newsletter is BACK! New article on Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and the dream of justice: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...

Hey guys, I’ve been doing a thing if you’re interested. It’d be really cool if you could share this for me. I hope you’re having a fantastic summer otherwise. www.nbc26.com/fox-cities/f...

Today marks the one year anniversary of accidentally severing the tip of my left index finger with a cleaver and having it reattached.

A noble effort by Jeffries but there is no ethical core left in the GOP to appeal to. MAGA is like that picture in Laura Palmer’s room. The better angels are gone.

The left needs to learn that it’s not enough to be right; one must win to be effective.

Senator Murkowski is an opportunistic equivocator who was always trying to get to yes. May we dispense with, once and for all, any description or aspiration of her as moderate.

What was the total cost for 11 million paid protesters? That deep state must have some deep pockets.

Who booked the Waymos—all to the same block—where they were sabotaged in a sustained series while cameras rolled? Waymo is currently claiming that they weren’t sent by protestors. Who did?

Wrote about David Lynch and his demand that we change our hearts. badfaithtimes.com/david-lynch-...

Too much focus on the ethical and financial impropriety. How is this gifted plane not a national security concern and how is that not the headline?

How soon before a deputized, plainclothes’d kidnap crew meets the castle doctrine?

I wish people would stop impugning the good name of Kool-Aid Man. The oft metaphorically-referenced cocktail was made with Flavor Aid. Kool-Aid Man is only guilty of breaking down walls, which folks used to celebrate.

Billionaires share half their $ with a divorce partner and don’t melt into a puddle. Seems reasonable that they could share at least an equitable percentage of what the average taxpayer pays to the IRS with a similar outcome, while benefiting the society that benefits them.

“If everyone has just a little bit of courage then no one has to be a hero.” -father of US Rep Sarah McBride

One thing Tr*mp got right is his made up moniker for Marco. That is one diminutive dude.

I hate it when our protest payments process on a holiday weekend and most of the shops are closed. What are y’all planning to spend yours on?

If there’s another civil war in the US, it won’t be left vs right or Democrats vs Republicans, it will be between those who live in a fact-based reality vs those who live in belief-based realities.