Mike Upchurch

@mikeup.bsky.social

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Leftist loudmouth Tar Heel in Chicago. Headbanger, cocktail enthusiast, golf addict, Jeopardy! and The Chase champ, multivalent nerd.

An image taken from a 1930s propaganda-style poster advertising a brand of paper towels to business owners that implies dirty bathrooms at work breed unhappy workers, who become troublemaking Bolsheviks.
A meme titled "Luke Wilson always look like you just told him your favorite musician is Dave Matthews" accompanied by four photos of the actor Luke Wilson looking angry, disappointed, irritated, and confused.
A screen grab from the Dreamcast video game Toy Commander.
An still from the movie Silence of the Lambs depicting the serial killer character Buffalo Bill as seen from the bottom of well where he kept his victims.
A screen grab of a statistic in an article by the rural political affairs journal Barn Raising showing that Wyoming has fewer than 300,000 voters.
An animated gif of the notorious dance scene from the Jean Claude van Damme action movie, Kickboxer.
A promotional poster for a 1980s cult body horror movie called Society.
A screenshot of a pull-quote from the linked Politico article in which Sam Markstein, chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition, makes clear his organization would rather sit on the sidelines in a House race in which the GOP nominee is a known neo-Nazi than actively support his Democratic but presumably non-Nazi opponent.
An infographic shows a moebius strip with text labels that reflect the tendency of mainstream Democrats to accuse anyone who wants the party to move to the left of being a vote-splitter or not a real Democrat. It's the "no true Scotsman" fallacy portrayed as an inescapable and bad-faith rhetorical loop.
A bar graph from a St Louis Federal Reserve study on the effect of Trump's tariffs on prices for various categories of consumer goods.
A screenshot of an excerpt of Dr. Renfrew Christie's obituary. Highlighted is the following text: Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
An image of actor Mario Todisco as his character Clarence "Drop" Johnson from the film Miller's Crossing.
A photo from The Guardian news website showing the first-ever white Iberian lynx in Spain. The big cat is mostly white with sparse, faint gray spots and large ears. It sits on a hillside, looking almost directly at the camera with large, gray-green eyes.
An animated gif of the eyeball monster from the movie Big Trouble in Little China
Photo of the bog mummy known as Red Franz
Screenshot of a tweet from an account called dieworkwear that says "if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools"