Joe Streckert
Portland writer. Erstwhile podcaster. Occasional author. Horror fan and pinball enthusiast. linktr.ee/joestreckert
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- Okay, but this crushed crown looks badass. Put this on an album cover.
- If you're going to steal historical artefacts at least handle with care!! 😡 www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Joe StreckertThe president constantly lying about stolen elections, after staging a coup attempt, & now threatening to federalize & steal future elections, should be the primary news story in the country 24/7 & on every front page until he is impeached & removed next week.
- This is excellent, and Watson's done an incredible job of calling out assholes like Dawkins, Shermer, and Krauss that have despoiled the secular/atheist movement for way too long. Exposing and discrediting these guys is a necessary step if we want to live up to the values we claim to espouse.
- Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
- Once again, we should talk more about how cities are good. Being able to go for a little walk and get pad Thai, pizza, or burritos is one of the real joys in life.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertI was given occasion today to recall the immortal words of Orson Welles when he was asked about Elia Kazan: “Elia Kazan is a traitor. He is a man who sold to McCarthy all his companions at a time when he could continue to work in New York at high salary. And having sold all of his people…
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- If I was trapped in Groundhog Day I'd be like "fuck yeah, time to catch up on books."
- A lot of things are wrong with the world but at least 2026 has a perfectly rectangular February.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertReal talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
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- Reposted by Joe StreckertSo an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
- Reposted by Joe Streckertthe chief of staff at the DOJ and the US homeland security advisor publicly begging on twitter for lawyers to *DM them* about applying for AUSA jobs should tell you volumes about how staffing is going at the DOJ, even restaurant owners don’t do this
- Shocked that the guy well-known as a crank and a fraud is also a creep.
- "The two were also connected on LinkedIn — many mentions of Ariely in the Epstein files were emails prompting Epstein to accept Ariely’s invitation to connect." Y'all will never convince me to join this cursed website www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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- I read Manufacturing Consent in high school and it was revelatory at the time. I’ve been disappointed in Chomsky for a long time. My view of him has waned steadily for over a decade. But this is still devastating to learn. There was still an ember of admiration. It’s gone now.
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- The Masters of the Universe trailer looks fun. I'll definitely see the silly sword movie when it comes out. But I think everyone needs to remember something very important about the director, Travis Knight. 1/
- Finally got around to reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey. It's great! And once again I'm impressed by how ancient polytheists approached the problem of evil: The gods are capricious jerks and sometimes the just don't like you.
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- Very sad to hear about Sal Buscema passing away. I always liked his version of the Hulk and how it incorporated monstrosity with physical ideal. His Hulk was part beastly Mr. Hyde, part herculean hero. A very good balance that worked for the character.
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- Cities are good and we should celebrate them. Unironically, I think we should do stuff like put the Hollywood sign or Times Square on things like American passports. Make the iconography of urban areas part of our civic religion, as revered and beloved as amber waves of grain.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertLive footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertYears from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertWorth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertThe calls are working!!!! Keep calling. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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- I’m calling my reps today and telling them to vote no on any and all continued ICE funding. You should, too. Pick up the phone. They generally care about calls much more than emails.
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- Reposted by Joe StreckertI don’t think people understand how hard it is to find an issue that polls in the single digits. It’s close to impossible.
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- Amazing misunderstanding of what was in the speech. If a gangster says “I don’t want to hurt you,” that’s a threat.
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- The only question I want to hear asked of any member of Congress is: “Donald Trump is threatening war with our European allies. Why haven’t you removed him yet?”
- One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.
- This has never been complicated and it's maddening that anyone pretends otherwise.
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- Reposted by Joe StreckertI think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertHe was a Communist, Elmo.
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- Reposted by Joe Streckertthis is the most ridiculous thing we could make life enormously less stressful and awful by simply Not Doing Any Of This call off the ICE goons, rescind the tariffs, stop threatening Greenland just stop it! problem(s) solved!
- Reposted by Joe StreckertI think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”
- I just reached out to my representatives with the following message. I don't think this is hyperbolic in the least. An insane would-be emperor is playing at war between nuclear-armed powers because he's transfixed by the Mercator projection.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertAgain, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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- I'm not sure how I feel about Starfleet Academy yet. But I'm glad a Star Trek show is trying a new thing and Paul Giamatti seems to be having a great time as a sleazy space pirate. I think I like the design of the Athena? It's basically a giant space angel. That's kinda cool, maybe?
- Planescape is one of my favorite D&D settings, but when I replayed Torment a few years ago I was surprised. Often exasperated. It didn’t match my memories of greatness. I don’t know if I agree with everything in this essay, but it was illuminating and thoughtful, and explained much of my reaction.
- It’s perfect television. No notes.
- The world is terrible. Here is a small sliver of light: GWAR covering Pink Pony Club. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...
- Reposted by Joe StreckertThis is the truest truth of any creative career
- Reposted by Joe StreckertMembers of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertThis isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertSociety is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.
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- I think a lot of “smart” folks have been confused the past few years because they instinctively look for material and rational motivations on the right. But a lot of these folks, like Wolf, RFK, and probably Miller, really are just batshit conspiracy theorists with unhinged psychosexual issues.
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- Reposted by Joe Streckertim sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons
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- Reposted by Joe StreckertThis is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.
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- "Let's go to work."
- I believe, but obviously can't prove, that Trump is grappling with some very serious health issues and stuff like Venezuela and Greenland are last-chance bucket list items for him.
- Reposted by Joe StreckertThe first two hours this morning
- Reposted by Joe StreckertJust woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.
- It's appalling that Congress has just gradually ceded more and more power, especially regarding war and military force, to a more and more powerful executive. A democratic institution made to slowly and quietly abolish itself. Sickening.
- Dry January! Time to have fun without drugs or alcohol! However, sometimes that fun is Warhammer 40K, which might count as its own form of substance abuse.
- Reposted by Joe Streckert🎶 twin high maintenance machines 🎶
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- Reposted by Joe StreckertA List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵
- My wife (the brilliant @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social) pointed out that if she’d worn thirty dollar shoes from Payless they’d roast her for that, too.
