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  1. Joe Brockmeier @jzb

    RE: mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/117

    Getting money and religion out of politics in the U.S. would make life so much better.

    If you want to have a go at influencing people's religion, become a preacher, priest, rabbi, cult leader, or whatever, and go forth and spread whatever your gospel happens to be through persuasion and good works. If you want to be entrusted with running the government in some fashion, leave your religion at home.

    Anybody who insists on trying to push their religious beliefs on others or claims bullshit like "the U.S. is a Christian nation" should be barred from holding office and have exactly zero of their opinions taken seriously in public discourse.

  2. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    Cartoon by Michael de Adder.
    #USpol
    #MLK

    #uspol #mlk
  3. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    One of the youngsters in the editorial room here at work played this on the speaker a little while ago. I yelled from my office “Fuck YEAH! This was one of my karaoke tunes in my bar days.” One of the guys asked me if I was gonna sing. Well, of course I did. It’s FRIDAY!


    m.youtube.com/watch?v=PvdhlK8p

    #musicofmastodon #70salbumrock #bookofdreams
  4. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    It’s Friday soooo there’s a distinct possibility it probably is. 😉



    m.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZG7n7r

    #musicofmastodon #60salbumrock #ledzeppelin
  5. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Unless you’re a goober like me who has
    always kinda loved a lotta history-type stuff.

    “I think history really only becomes real to you when you get old enough to - to see the bigger picture so you can figure out where things fit in the Lite Brite of human experience.” - Heather Cox Richardson

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=W-o2X4C2

    #lettersfromanamerican #thedailyshow
  6. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    So, I go to one of the local grocery stores this morning on the way to work to grab a coupla bagels and this was on the muzack system. Now it’s kinda stuck in the noggen.



    m.youtube.com/watch?v=85zV1fpS

    #musicofmastodon #altrock #comforteagle
  7. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Definitely one of my next books.

    “NPR's Michel Martin talks to MS NOW host Rachel Maddow about her new book, ‘Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution.’" - NPR

    npr.org/2026/11/13/nx-s1-58269

    #departmentofinjustice
  8. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    Early morning arrival in Duluth of the James R. Barker to load ore at the Canadian National dock, 11 November, 2026. Photo by David Schauer.
    #ShipsOfMastodon
    #GreatLakes
    #LakeSuperior
    #DestinationDuluth

    #shipsofmastodon #greatlakes #lakesuperior #destinationduluth
  9. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Mississippi became the center of voter suppression in the United States, making it the state on which voting rights activists focused in the years after World War II, especially after the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett TIll in the state in 1955 in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision requiring the desegregation of public schools. - Heather Cox Richardson

    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  10. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    “History’s cool. What can I say?” - Heather Cox Richardson, The Daily Show.

    #lettersfromanamerican #tds
  11. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    I’d really be concerned if it was something like “Mein Kampf;” is Dave Rubin unaware of something I was made aware of in 9th grade social studies class during the 1978-79 school year? Man, he should probably get out more.

    #uspol
  12. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    RE: mastodon.social/@Livelakesuper

    One of the only ore docks left in this part of the world; ya go to places like Ashland, Wisconsin, which at one point in time was well known for its ore docks and the high school teams are the “Ore Dockers,” the ore docks are all gone.

  13. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    An election win well beyond significant.
    #USpol

    “It is a historic result in the deeply conservative southern state that last sent a Democrat to the US Senate in 1982, and had not seated a black senator since 1875.
    Colom follows Hiram Revels, who became the first black person ever to serve in the chamber when he was seated from 1870 to 1871, and Blanche Bruce, whose term ran from 1875 to 1881. Revels and Bruce were both members of the Republican Party.” - BBC News
    apple.news/ASjNdeH2bR6-FqEb-9s

    #uspol
  14. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    Kegsbreath trying to save face after the Veterans Day embarrassment at Arlington’s Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier.
    #Asshole

    #asshole
  15. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Sooooo, 11 Dems, including Nancy Pelosi, missed the Kegsbreath impeachment vote. Desi kinda gives em some shit about that.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzI21vO

    #thedailyshow
  16. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Accurate.

    #catsofmastodon
  17. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    It’s not a real TIME cover but it’s certainly on target; you’d think Kegsbreath would know better about the decorum there at the Tomb but seeing as how his boss, the FOTUS, smiled and a thumbs up for cameras at the graves of Marines in Arlington’s Section 60 in August, 2024, during the presidential campaign, pretty much nothing surprises me about the regime anymore. Well, done tomb sentinel.

    #arlington
  18. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    The late John Lodge wrote one of the best tunes these guys ever recorded.


    My world is spinning around
    Everything is lost that I found
    People run, come ride with me
    Let's find another place that's free
    Ride
    Ride My See-Saw
    Take this place
    On this trip
    Just for me.
    Ride
    Take a free ride,
    Take my place
    Have my seat
    It's for free

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqvK56G

    #musicofmastodon #60sprogressiverock #insearchofthelostchord
  19. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Woulda been interesting in the rock world had he not died when he did; he influenced many as it is, including The Beatles.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=zem3F153

    #musicofmastodon #50spop
  20. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    That moment Kegsbreath and his gaggle fuck get yelled at by a U.S. Army tomb sentinel at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier. I’ve been there; this sentinel is not wrong. I’m sure Kegsbreath will have him transferred. Fucker.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=YclkM3zL

    #whiskeypetefuckface
  21. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    I’m feelin Creedency on deck. Don’t think that’s a word but this is one of their best (they have a few in the repertoire).


    m.youtube.com/watch?v=4TqtJdQL

    #musicofmastodon #70salbumrock #mardigras
  22. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Another one of those Romantics tunes that shoulda been a single off this album but they went with “Talking In Your Sleep” instead. Sure, it was a hit but it didn’t rock. At the moment, I’d like to rock out here on deck before another town board meeting (I’m about meeting’d out).



    m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuudbKir

    #musicofmastodon #80salbumrock #inheat #townboardmeetingshouldbeanemail
  23. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    On this Veterans Day, let’s keep in mind re-integration into civilian society, which can be, and at times has been, a daunting task for your average combat veteran (average meaning me!).

    #veteransday #11november
  24. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    All these years later I find the song “Good Times,” which INXS and Jimmy Barnes did for “The Lost Boys” from 1987 (and is the latest ear worm for this goober who’s been up since 0400 hours and has another town board meeting to cover for the newspaper tonight) has an AC/DC connection (of sorts); George Young of The Easybeats is Angus and Malcom Young’s older brother. There’s your latest dose of useless rock trivia. You’re welcome.


    m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_CHkoyB

    #musicofmastodon #60spop #vigil
  25. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    When I call you “Fucker,” you wear it like a badge of honor. 😁 The knife hand sure is handy and I do like bacon. And whiskey.

    #veteransday #11november
  26. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    True story. 😉

    #veteransday #11november
  27. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    Jeff’s being too kind here.
    #GymJordan
    #USpol

    “What even is a Jim Jordan? We’ve all seen him strutting around like some fucked-up barnyard banty rooster, shouty, half-dressed, pointing his finger while he excitedly squawks about who the fuck even knows or cares.
    Shirt-Sleeve Jimmy has no interest in governing. He has no interest in reaching across the aisle, and getting shit done. He’s just a weapon. He’s a blunt instrument. He’s a heat-seeking moron.”- Jeff Tiedrich
    jefftiedrich.com/p/house-repub

    #gymjordan #uspol
  28. Brian Jopek @brianjopek

    Yanno, when I took the oath of enlistment in March of 1990, it wasn’t an oath to President George H.W. Bush’s Department of Defense. Also wasn’t subsequently to the DoD of presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Kegsbreath STILL doesn’t understand how it’s s’posed to work. Not that I’m surprised or anything.

    m.youtube.com/shorts/GgNz9hhZD

    #veteranagainsttrump #whiskeypete
  29. Brian Jopek @[email protected]

    Back from my town board meeting coverage for the paper; was a time, it would be Jagger waiting for me. He’d be watching me from the kitchen window, though, and not ON the table. 😄
    #CatsOfMastodon
    #CaturdayEveryday
    #Gizmo

    #catsofmastodon #caturdayeveryday #gizmo
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