Manitou Ryan

@manitouryan.ryanfonkert.com

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IT guy, living in Colorado. Former Minneapolitan. Passionate about the #outdoors, #hiking, #cycling, #photography, better non-car transportation options, #music, #beer, #politics (liberal), and #scifi movies/TV. 

MN --> CO --> MN --> CO

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They don’t teach you this in school.

Amazon Prime Day is actually just a harvest festival reworked to make Christianity more palatable to the pagans

The Republican platform for women.

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i know grindr has to be going CRAZY in Milwaukee right now

God only cares about the lying, cheating, adulterous, rapist, racist thief.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the convention God intervened to save Trump from an assassin. I guess God just didn't care for that guy who was killed.

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Profile these people, New York fucking Times

Pleasantly surprised that my mom, a life-long republican in a red state, now refers to the GOP as insurrectionists. My parents no longer watch Fox. They care how expensive their prescription drugs have become. They think the candidate is a lying criminal. This seems positive.

Better late than never, I guess.

This story's making the rounds, but just in case you don't have a #WaPo account, here's a #GiftLink. wapo.st/4bGC9gI

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswapo.st The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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style guide tip for journalists: when you want to use the term "populist," stop and consider whether you actually mean "stoker of white resentment" (you probably do)

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Weird, bearded baby says cartoonishly evil shit, part XXXVII:

In Private Speech, JD Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” & Praised Alex Jones as Truth-Teller Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The VP nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business & culture. Full video here:

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...

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shouts to People magazine (seriously), which did this simple breakdown of Project 2025 that you can share out and your friends and family will likely read it bc it comes from such a benign source

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

Glad to see justice find this corrupt motherf***er...

Sen. Menendez convicted of bribery, other charges in corruption trialwww.washingtonpost.com The Democrat from New Jersey faced 16 counts, including bribery, extortion, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. He vowed to appeal.

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All of America:

RNC platform writer Ed Martin confirms on a radio show that invoking the 14th Amendment is a proxy for nationwide ban: “There’s not as many words describing it, but there’s protection under the Constitution, that life is protected" via @motherjones.bsky.social

RNC official: Nothing in our platform says we won't ban abortion nationwidewww.motherjones.com “Don’t let anybody tell you there’s not protections for pro-life,” top Republican Ed Martin said on his radio show last week.

Seriously, if you’d told me this is where we’d be when I was a teenager…

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Silicon Valley has a serious racism problem

What a fucking asshole. We knew it was coming but what a voluminous douche canoe

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Missouri is going full steam ahead to murder an innocent person

Please sign the petition demanding his execution be revoked. The DNA evidence exonerated Marcellus Williams but the Missouri Supreme Court does not care. go.pardot.com/webmail/9101...

BREAKING update in Marcellus Williams casego.pardot.com

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Anti-abortion groups understood the RNC platform a lot better than mainstream and legacy journalists did ... which is exactly what the RNC was betting on

Watch the RNC for lots of gentle, unifying rhetoric.

You can’t make this up

Trump/Vance 2024

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trump hasn't contacted the family of the man killed at his rally. biden did, but they declined to speak with him because they support trump

This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

I have little faith in American institutions.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Vance was Heritage's pick so don't forget about Project 2025, which proceeds apace

Hope has left me. (gift link)

Trump’s classified-documents case dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannonwapo.st In a remarkable win for Donald Trump, Judge Aileen M. Cannon dismissed the case on grounds that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed.

Know when NOT to go out. This is incredibly sad. 23 is way too young to go out like this.

Dad, daughter die after running out of water on 100-degree hike, Utah rangers sayapple.news A father and daughter died after running out of water hiking at Canyonlands National Park in 100-degree heat: Utah rangers. They got lost.

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The Supreme Court made up presidential immunity out of whole cloth and in direct contravention of the text of the Constitution and history. Who has faith in institutions?

For those who wanted to make out with Jar-Jar.

Jar-Jar Binks Lollipop (1999-1999): A promotional item for "Star Wars: Episode I", this candy featured the plastic likeness of character Jar-Jar Binks, whose mouth opened to reveal a retractable strawberry-flavored sucker, shaped and textured like his tongue. Delightful.

Chillin’ with a cool Sweet Child O’ Vine definitely takes the edge off after a long day trekking across SD, IA, NE and CO…

Seriously, why are Republicans so stupid?

This is really worrying. There's a bill in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, that has a good chance of passing due to GOP majority, that would fine people $1,000 for wearing a mask.

Long Island bill could mean jail time, $1,000 fines for face masks that hide identitywww.nbcnewyork.com A county on Long Island could become one of the first legislative bodies in the tri-state to ban face masks that conceal the wearer’s identity — with violators facing potential fines and even jail tim...

Such a profile in courage.

Haley, the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary election, just released her delegates and encouraged them to back Trump. Now, she'll be at the convention to nominate him.

After saying she wouldn't be there, Nikki Haley will now speak at Republican conventionwww.npr.org Haley, the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary election, just released her delegates and encouraged them to back Trump. Now, she'll be at the convention to nominate him.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric