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Christian rock ingenue. Newsletter: https://midwest-excellence.ghost.io/

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07.03.2026 03:00 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Midwest Excellence Midwest Excellence, a newsletter by RandBall's Stu (from the internet)

If you don’t think I’ll launch paid Midwest Excellence subscriptions on a Friday night, you don’t know how bad at capitalism I truly am. midwest-excellence.ghost.io#/portal/signup

07.03.2026 00:06 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 1

i know you know this but in case you forgot warren zevon wrote that

06.03.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screen cap of a tiktok vid that says IS PERKINS STILL GOOD showing a bunch of fried food from the restaurant Perkins

Screen cap of a tiktok vid that says IS PERKINS STILL GOOD showing a bunch of fried food from the restaurant Perkins

Asked and answered

05.03.2026 04:15 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

As for this week's Link-O-Rama 2.0, we have Dr. Liz Fiedler Mergen, Mancini's, Sturgill Simpson, and my brother holding a plate of pickled herring. Worth your time.

06.03.2026 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Friday Link-O-Rama and Subscription News You can now pay me for this. Don't all laugh at once. Subscribe! As mentioned in far too many of these newsletters, I'm a Terrible Businessman. Fortunately, Mandy is frighteningly competent, and hel...

You'll soon be able to pay me for Midwest Excellence. For those of you who will not be doing so, I hope you enjoyed some of the outstate statuary jokes.

06.03.2026 15:10 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
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Reminds me of one of my all-time favourite @ericallenhatch.bsky.social posts 💜

06.03.2026 05:49 👍 153 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0
Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel (Audio)
Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel (Audio) YouTube video by BillySwanVEVO

It changes from week to week, but currently youtu.be/BP-xffG3ksI

06.03.2026 03:50 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gobert -> Edwards -> Reid

06.03.2026 02:51 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Jason Isbell acknowledges that the concert is being streamed on The Current and there are some words he's been advised not to say, and immediately a "FUCK ICE" chant breaks out in the crowd, lmao

06.03.2026 02:53 👍 280 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 3
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Anthony Edwards dunk
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06.03.2026 02:47 👍 140 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 14
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out YouTube video by JoeJacksonVEVO

At once impeccably cool and aggressively unfashionable, Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out is four minutes of nightmare disco and nightclub jitters which paves the way from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ to the Magnetic Fields. Detours through Motown and Freud. A perfect single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...

06.03.2026 02:28 👍 239 🔁 33 💬 23 📌 8

‘markwayne.’ that is some trashy shit right there. i shouldn’t have to know about a guy named markwayne until the day im finally ready to hire a monster truck chauffeur

05.03.2026 22:33 👍 743 🔁 60 💬 26 📌 4

Damn you really are tall

06.03.2026 02:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

05.03.2026 19:56 👍 4763 🔁 766 💬 84 📌 32
A liar stays a liar, a fuckup stays a fuckup, and a bad and dishonest party will stay a bad and dishonest party. A sports fan knows a free rider in the system when they see one, because the New York Jets exist. They recognize bad faith actors because they’ve seen EPL ownership. Watch this: This year the Atlanta Falcons will be different. You’re laughing, because you already know how this ends. It’s not nice, but you’re still laughing. 

A liar stays a liar, a fuckup stays a fuckup, and a bad and dishonest party will stay a bad and dishonest party. A sports fan knows a free rider in the system when they see one, because the New York Jets exist. They recognize bad faith actors because they’ve seen EPL ownership. Watch this: This year the Atlanta Falcons will be different. You’re laughing, because you already know how this ends. It’s not nice, but you’re still laughing. 

It's not nice but that doesn't stop it from being true

05.03.2026 18:09 👍 240 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 3

my thoughts on kristi noem are that she got canned mid-speech, laugh out loud laugh out loud, get wrecked you fucking lunatic, see you on the masked singer in 2031

05.03.2026 22:41 👍 55 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 2236 🔁 528 💬 50 📌 15

If I had counted that Dustin Grage turd, Wright County would have been 109th. Which is tough to do in a state with 87 counties.

05.03.2026 20:49 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Consider our bespoke GRIT metric:

Gumption
Real Talk
Iterating the Possibilities of AI
Teamwork

It terrifies a lot of people afraid of new possibilities and bold flavors.

05.03.2026 19:48 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it's Twins-specific, we're in his Ball Guys Starter Pack for Guys Who Know Ball. I assume.

05.03.2026 19:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

it's such a nice part of the state and there are apparently just free-floating Hitler particles all over the place

05.03.2026 19:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When I say I'm a Terrible Businessman, I mean it! (Mandy's setting up the subscription platform today.)

05.03.2026 16:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The photo of Sen. Lucero is worth the subscription cost by itself.

(Note that the subscription is currently free, but the point remains)

05.03.2026 16:27 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

is this by Space Aliens? I should have mentioned Space Aliens.

05.03.2026 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Appreciate you giving me free content for next week's feedback section!

05.03.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am the only person on Bluesky who doesn't follow modern professional wrestling, it's a blind spot.

05.03.2026 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This tracks (sorry for the Walter Hudson jump scare)

05.03.2026 15:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eric Lucero (R, Twin Peaks, Washington)

Eric Lucero (R, Twin Peaks, Washington)

You keep electing guys like this, you lose valuable points. Rules are rules.

05.03.2026 15:48 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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Minnesota Counties, Ranked: Number 84, Wright County Subscribe! OVERVIEW: Now just wait a goldang minute, you might be saying. Up to this point, you've been whacking tiny, far-flung outstate counties like a pinata. No one lives out there. Nice statues...

In today's Midwest Excellence, the Jagoff Penalty knocks bucolic and thriving Wright County all the way down to number 84 in our rankings.

05.03.2026 15:40 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 12 📌 10