Fred LeBaron

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@LegInsurrection Very hard to fathom, terribly tragic.

What is happening? A Marine vet and father to a sick child — now 5 are dead, and a church is burned to the ground. Why? legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/marine…

@LifeIsStrange The Tempest

Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Episode 1 turns 8 years old today! The start of a new standalone adventure set three years before the first game, you play as sixteen-year old Chloe Price who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber, a beautiful and popular girl destined for success. What is your fondest memory of the Episode and game?

@UM_English This looks great, but sadly the “Details here” link doesn’t work. Would be helpful for calendaring, remembering, thanks! Appreciate you including alums and public in announcing this!

Please join us on Thursday, September 4 for a Zell Visiting Writers Series reading and Q & A featuring acclaimed author Carl Phillips! Details here: lsa.umich.edu/.../all-events… Virtual login here (no pre-registration needed): tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25

@Rightanglenews I’m guessing we’re not hearing the whole story.

BREAKING - Americans are calling for a boycott of the retailer Meijer after bodycam footage revealed the $15 billion corporation had a 16-year-old disabled deli worker named James arrested for taking just $110 in food over three months to get through his shifts. Thoughts?

@libsoftiktok Detroit is gone.

Ameera Hashwi becomes the first woman to win Miss Wayne County 2025 while wearing a hijab. Thoughts?

@karlykingsley Your side corrupted all these institutions, and now you’re freaking out over fairly modest efforts to reset them to legitimacy. Cry harder.

We’re suspending the jobs report so you don’t see how bad the numbers are, auditing the Smithsonian to match Trump’s politics, fighting over gerrymandering the map, and deploying the military into cities. This isn’t governance anymore. It’s authoritarianism in plain sight.

@jefftimmer Worked out pretty well for Jack, I recall

I can say with 💯 confidence that Putin will manipulate and play Trump like the fool he is. Putin understands power and negotiations. Trump only blathers about his mystical ability, yet walks away from every “deal” waving goodbye to the milk cow and pocketing three magic beans.

I think it’s because people are tired of busybodies micromanaging harmless activities with exaggerated examples, and turning everyday life into a minefield of no-no’s. By your standard cultivating a field would constitute a catastrophe, paving a road prove problematic, harvesting timber a holocaust. Children have been doing this since the dawn of time-it’s even in the Bible, for goodness sake (look up Ebenezer). Life will find a way.

Why do people act like they’re being brutally assaulted when they’re made aware of the environmental impact of stacking rocks? We’ll never save the planet at this rate. Everyone is genuinely so fucking selfish and useless

@briantylercohen @jamestalarico Shame on you, sir.

.@jamestalarico: "As a state representative, I get paid about $600 a month, before taxes. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind. We are sacrificing the income that we need to make ends meet. I also have colleagues who are leaving behind young children. I have some colleagues who are leaving behind aging parents. So this decision was not made lightly. It's a cost to all of us - a financial, a professional, a political, a personal cost to do something like this. But we all feel so strongly that this power grab is so brazen, so egregious, so dangerous for the future of our republic that we had no other choice but to make this stand."

@Scottymcmahon22 @BridgetPhetasy Fred here. Wish I had thought of it, but sadly, nope. Endorsing tho!

@BridgetPhetasy Are we sure this isn’t an undercover operation to get women to show their boobs from some dude named Fred

I can't believe this sentence is real. I've trained my whole life for this moment.

@RandomTheGuy_ @basilthegreat Panelists: “We can definitely get behind that position!”

🚨BREAKING: EMMA WATSON BANNED FROM DRIVING I was shocked she didn't try to blame it on J.K Rowling

@TheImmortal007 @GarbageHuman24 This is a great story, but how long would that take? If it spent a minute with each person, even in a crowd of 5,000 that would be almost an hour and a half. Japanese culture is awesome, I agree, but I’m skeptical.

@GarbageHuman24 Only in Japan this could be

There’s like only about 7 blacks in all of Japan and look what they did

@RepCasten @SeanCasten “Those controversial Medicaid cuts come from two basic categories: cutting off able-bodied men who refuse to work, and not using Medicaid to provide health care for illegals.” hotair.com/david-strom/20…

Why would any elected official vote for legislation that saddles the country with massive amounts of additional borrowing while simultaneously making most Americans sicker, hungrier, and poorer? Anyone who voted for this bill should be ashamed of themselves.

@ladygreenkirtle Coffee beans, good balsamic vinegar (not from supermarket), a nice pen, sweater from @JPRESS_1902, quality bandanna or Irish linen handkerchief. Birkenstock shoes, a cap from Quaker Marine, a new belt (braided for easy fit).

If you were a man who owned so many books you couldn’t read them all in a lifetime and you always drank out of the same mug and wore your clothes until they fell apart or your wife threw them away, what would you want for your 64th birthday? Asking for a dad

@GCROCK6 Emmeline’s Guard - rof, handling, talent

Which weapon do you think is the most underrated in #TheDivision2? I’ll go first: The Chatterbox!

@jimgeraghty What is with you lately? You used to be thoughtful and interesting, now you’re some kind of provocateur?

Let’s stop pretending ‘no tax on tips’ is anything but a political ploy wapo.st/4kpg6QF

@MissinRoyko The people who vote for this don’t pay taxes, they just receive benefits.

Illinois has raised taxes 70 times in 15 years with 2/3rds of them coming under Pritzker. The Democrats just gave us one more Feeling good Illinois about those Democrats you keep electing?

@dystopiangf How did humanity even survive before your generation showed up, thank goodness you’re here to enlighten us benighted old fools.

Every single time I’ve tried to get a Boomer to perform systems thinking, they short circuit. Their eyes glaze over. After a few seconds of mental TV static, they go back to repeating more individualist platitudes. It’s an actual cognitive impairment

@NothinButSkillz This would be so great if it worked!

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