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Mark Hatlestad

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Musician, violist, educator, social democrat, cat enthusiast

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damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

06.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1571 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 16
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Any republican that tries to make this into something should be required to describe what God’s cock looks like

06.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 1297 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 27
A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, β€œKristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

05.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 16478 πŸ” 3349 πŸ’¬ 257 πŸ“Œ 173

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well.

How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

05.03.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 3655 πŸ” 371 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 25

When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

04.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 9927 πŸ” 968 πŸ’¬ 329 πŸ“Œ 56

For all its dire implications for the people of the Americas, it’s starting to seem like the worst impact of the Venezuela raid is how it convinced a handful of very powerful, very stupid men that they could dump the β€œrisks” section of the analysis into the trash

04.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

03.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 4361 πŸ” 837 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 17
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

01.03.2026 15:06 πŸ‘ 19424 πŸ” 6076 πŸ’¬ 1668 πŸ“Œ 478
A conversation between Calvin and his mother from "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin's mother says, "Life could be worse, Calvin," to which Calvin responds with an exasperated expression, "Life could be a LOT BETTER, too!"

A conversation between Calvin and his mother from "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin's mother says, "Life could be worse, Calvin," to which Calvin responds with an exasperated expression, "Life could be a LOT BETTER, too!"

mood

30.03.2024 12:27 πŸ‘ 1981 πŸ” 571 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 29

Khamenei’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

01.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 1823 πŸ” 235 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 6

wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative

01.03.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 6522 πŸ” 729 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 16

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.

27.02.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 15529 πŸ” 3126 πŸ’¬ 587 πŸ“Œ 158

The last few days have been a reminder that Republican party government is mostly aimed toward a return to unstable, arbitrary, personalist rule

28.02.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 1408 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 6

Unfortunately shareholders care more about guaranteed massive payouts than potential long term growth.

26.02.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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30 years.

This video should be on every network.

26.02.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 15920 πŸ” 8459 πŸ’¬ 1010 πŸ“Œ 915

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

26.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 13028 πŸ” 3248 πŸ’¬ 425 πŸ“Œ 244

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.

Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

25.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 3481 πŸ” 356 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 25
Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

25.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 9077 πŸ” 1760 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 62

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes β€œI love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

22.02.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 13945 πŸ” 2515 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 134
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SAM ALTMAN: β€œPeople talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

21.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 1253 πŸ” 268 πŸ’¬ 1291 πŸ“Œ 3797

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

13.02.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 20080 πŸ” 3855 πŸ’¬ 295 πŸ“Œ 134

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

19.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 15154 πŸ” 5676 πŸ’¬ 207 πŸ“Œ 272
19.02.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 19926 πŸ” 3865 πŸ’¬ 143 πŸ“Œ 85
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

18.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 40989 πŸ” 10910 πŸ’¬ 312 πŸ“Œ 339

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

18.02.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 10987 πŸ” 2798 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 95
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 21767 πŸ” 7745 πŸ’¬ 299 πŸ“Œ 637

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

09.02.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 1718 πŸ” 480 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10

It’s built on stolen property, in a country founded on, if nothing else since equality was clearly a lie, the importance and sanctity of honoring property rights. So until all those property owners are compensated for having their property stolen, I don’t think it matters whether it’s good or not.

11.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 264 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

HOOOOOO boy.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"

Lyons: "Yes ma'am."

McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

10.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 3473 πŸ” 648 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 150