Jeff Ash
@jeffash26.bsky.social
Many interests. News (38 years in the news biz in Wisconsin). Progressive politics. Pop culture. Vintage soul/R&B/rock LPs. Old sports cards. Baseball. Ballparks. Back roads. Dive bars with good food. Old muscle cars. Local + Packers historian (4 books).
Brewers radio announcers going with the party line and cheerleading for the slumping and declining Christian Yelich.
The people have the power The power to dream, to rule to wrestle the world from fools it's decreed the people rule it's decreed we have the power
Patti Smith & Fred "Sonic" Smith - People Have the Power [Live 3-16-90]
YouTube video by What's for afters?
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Update on the flying bribe that Qatar gave to Trump.
Trump Said Qatari Jet Was Destined for His Library. That May Change. (Gift Article)
A White House official says no final decision has been made about which plane will go on display at the Trump presidential library. That leaves the fate of the Qatari jet unclear.
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Last night, 41-year-old Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan. What he overcame is not just politically significant. It is historic. And we must understand why so we can duplicate it nationwide. My latest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-e...
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's Win Isn't Just Historic—It Proved Something Many Thought Impossible
The primary was tough. The general will be vicious with Trump's MAGA pick Mike Rogers already running a shameless culture war campaign — here's how we win again
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Today is the 65th anniversary of the Black Nite Brawl, which has been dubbed the first LGBTQ uprising in Wisconsin history. Last month, the historical marker at the site was vandalized:
Black Nite Brawl historical marker was vandalized in July
Today, Aug. 5, is the 65th anniversary of the Black Nite Brawl, which has been dubbed the first LGBTQ uprising in Wisconsin history, and it happened in 1961, eight years before New York's Stonewall. L...
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Preferable to what we have now, which is pedophilia for everybody.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoTrump on the Biden years: "We had transgender for everybody"
I wonder what my son, who earned a master's degree in history from Miami University of Ohio seven years ago, thinks about this.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6h agoMiami University: All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028 "If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework" miamioh.edu/news/2026/08...
I think Democratic Socialists are winning primaries for the same reason Trump won in 2024. Namely, neither party has dealt with the massive problem of runaway wealth inequality. And the DS's are running on it. With Trump, I think fed-up voters just said, "Fuck it, let's burn this house down."
Why did Trump really win? It's simple, actually.
When the economy thrives while half of America struggles, something has got to give.
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Michigan Democrats didn’t just turn out, they showed up like there was free weed and a chance to annoy Trump.
The Trump regime is publicly thanking a creepy anonymous snitch for trying to get someone arrested and deported over erroneous immigration suspicions. The regime wants you to keep informing on your neighbors to please Big Brother.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h agoNothing to worry about, just a US attorney investigating people for deportation when suggested by rando X accounts
Cops in Brown County -- that's the Green Bay area -- use Flock for bullshit like this and are in cahoots with ICE. Yeah, we sure could use some policing reform.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11h agoNew: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
50 years ago today, on Aug. 5, 1976, Kentucky Colonels center Artis Gilmore was the top pick in the ABA dispersal draft, going to the Chicago Bulls. Twelve former Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis players were drafted by NBA teams. The other eight players became free agents. (1/2)
Ron Johnson and Aaron Rodgers deserve each other.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRon Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."
Judge Judy Points: Time Is Wasting
Alt: Judge Judy slaps her desk and points at her watch, suggesting that time Is wasting.
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Brown County Dems@brownwidems.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Brown County District Attorney has until approximately August 18 to decide whether to file criminal charges against Elon Musk following the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s referral over alleged election law violations. WPR share.google/90DFsImdvqPh...
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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I can see why Republicans are defending Max Miller, because if the party got rid of all the politicians accused of abusing women, there would be a lot of vacancies in key government positions.
To commemorate today’s official book release of “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn” I wrote the following column for @thenation.com “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again” thenation.com/article/soci...
Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again
Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power.
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here's today's post: "how many scaramuccis until Jeanine Boxwine gets shitcanned?" — let the Pirro Bites It countdown clock commence. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
how many scaramuccis until Jeanine Boxwine gets shitcanned?
let the Pirro Bites It countdown clock commence
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As Republicans try desperately to make the public think democracy defenders are "communists," I thought I'd re-up this thread of mine from last year.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 12mo agoHow Trumpism is like Stalinism. A thread. 🧵🧵🧵 Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.
Millions of reasons to stop buying stuff from Uline.
A Better Wisconsin Together@abetterwis.bsky.social · yesterdayNew campaign finance reports show that over 99% of individual donations to the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Assembly Republicans came from two MAGA billionaires. Wisconsinites pay the price when politicians work for mega-donors instead of the people.
Ron Johnson coming hard for Tommy Tuberville’s “Stupidest Senator” title.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRon Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."
50 years ago tonight -- Aug. 4, 1976 -- Heart played two sold-out shows at the Grand Theater in Wausau, Wisconsin. I vividly remember the radio ads: "Heart is coming to central Wisconsin!" I didn't go. Always wished I had.
Good evening from the ballpark on this beautiful night for Brewers baseball. Roof and panels are open for tonight's opener against the Pirates.
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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