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Bruce MacDonald

@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io
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Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK.

Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota.

Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 28, 2026

"Curling’s popularity gets a major bump every four years, when Americans are glued to their TVs during the Olympics. That boost often wanes. But people in Duluth think this time could be different, in no small part because of Thiesse and Dropkin."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/28/korey-dropkin-cory-thiesse-plan-to-go-for-olympic-curling-gold-in-4-years

#Duluth #curling

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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 27, 2026

Polling analyst: "What is really fascinating about these numbers from the Angus Reid Institute is that we don't really see that that opinion is softening the longer we get used to it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2khP7yZ2m8

#uspol #Canada #InternationalRelations

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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 22, 2026

Will Bunch: "But officials in the small town of just 5,000 also did something else that probably raised some hackles at Kristi Noem’s ultrasecretive Department of Homeland Security (DHS). They made public what few documents that DHS has so far been willing to share with Social Circle, including its blueprint for what the innards of an American gulag will look like.

"Close to two-thirds of the massive, rectangular floor plan is divided into 80 squares separated by narrow corridors, each box with dozens of strike marks. The thousands of marks presumably represent bunk beds but what they truly signify is human beings."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-detention-centers-georgia-dhs-noem-trump-20260222.html

#ICE #UncheckedAggression #ConcentrationCamps

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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 19, 2026
Kentucky, for goodness' sake. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional, affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.” The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system,” Justice Michelle M. Keller wrote in a unanimous opinion. https://apnews.com/article/charter-schools-kentucky-supreme-court-dca91480d26e4546bfc055acd063ea5a #PublicSchools #kypol #PublicEducation
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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Feb 03, 2026
At gunpoint. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested activists who were trailing their vehicles on Tuesday in Minneapolis, while education leaders described anxiety and fear in Minnesota schools from the ongoing federal sweeps. … Several cars followed officers through south Minneapolis after there were reports of them knocking at homes. Officers stopped their vehicles and ordered activists to come out of a car at gunpoint. Agents told reporters at the scene to stay back and threatened to use pepper spray. https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-arrests-29ab636ca0f7db5389418463ca8b67c7 #Minneapolis #ICE #UncheckedAggression
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Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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Bruce MacDonald
Bruce MacDonald
@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io

Retired public radio producer, newsroom and audio systems developer. UW-Madison Journalism '78. Opera fanatic. Train buff. Prairie enthusiast. Slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. KFØNOK. Avatar: a drawing from the patent for "The Game of Cootie," a dice game invented in Minnesota. Header: mural "The Deathtrap of the Ages," by Charles R. Knight, depicting La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Its use here inspired by Frederick P. Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man-Month."

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@rationaldoge@hachyderm.io · Jan 25, 2026

Thomas Zimmer: "The occupation of Minneapolis is binding a significant portion of the operative resources of the regime’s paramilitary units. What has Trump achieved with such a costly campaign so far? ICE certainly hasn’t broken the spirit of the people on the ground – it has actually galvanized the opposition. Local authorities are showing more resolve now than a month ago. Public opinion has been swinging hard against the regime. What is the path forward? The government is trying to break the will of the people in Minneapolis, hoping it will serve as a warning to rest of the nation. But if that fails, what’s next: Reduce Minneapolis to rubble? And how would that help them consolidate their rule across a country the size of Continental Europe if such violence is not coupled with a comprehensive strategy across all spheres of politics and society?"
https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/fccbc0fe-2ec6-4507-92ce-73c50964fdee

#Minneapolis #ICE #UncheckedAggression

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