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Fusion Power, Drought, and a Ponzi Scheme

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What the Flock?

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Barnes Drops Out

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Climate Change Intensifies

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Storms and Politics

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The Beer Goes Flat at the End of the World

7

The Rise of InfOnion

8

Stormstravaganza 2026

9

The Tale of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's Daughter

10

Boo Brad Schimel

11

The Spectrum of Fraud

12

The Rise of the Data Center

13

Welcome to 2026

14

The News Makes Kent Irritated

15

Gubernatorial Candidates Galore

16

The Copper Culture and Eurocentric Mythmaking

17

Badger State Crossroads: Justice, Choice and The Data-Shadow

18

Let's Get Spooky

19

Data Centers and the Dissolution of Democracy

20

Freedom and the Future

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Faking Your Death is a Bad Idea

22

Show Me a Warrant

23

Dystopia News

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The Threats to Our Democracy

25

News Update: July Fourth Edition

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Welcome to the Dystopia

27

Harry Houdini Part VI: The Demise of a Legend

28

Harry Houdini V. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Hannah Dugan and Civil Disobedience

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Harry Houdini Part IV: Houdini and Spiritualism

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Harry Houdini Part Three

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Harry Houdini Part Two

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Harry Houdini Part One

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GOAT and Mothman

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Surrealism in Wisconsin: Art as Subversion

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Surrealists of Wisconsin Part Two: Lorine Niedecker

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Surrealism in Wisconsin Part One

38

Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Perspective on New Thought

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A Surreal Update

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The Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox Part II: Perspectives on New Thought

42

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Part One

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Election Results and Two Stories About Mothman

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Halloween and the Horror of the Coming Election

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What Makes a Reliable Source?

46

The Badger State: Electoral Battleground

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The Assault on Our Democracy

48

The Worst Midwife

49

Sidney Gottlieb: UW graduate & Poisoner in Chief

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Let's Get Spooky: Wisconsin Ghost Stories Part Ten or Something

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The Consolidation of Capital and the Labor Movement in Wisconsin

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Jazzed as Hell

53

A Hopeful Moment in Wisconsin Politics

54

Coconut-Pilled

55

The RNC

56

The Hermit & Hauntings of Holy Hill

57

Ho-Chunk Code Talkers and News of the Week

58

Current Events in Wisconsin: Top News for the Week of 6/17/24

59

Indigenous Removal and the United States' Citizens Response

60

The White Settler Colonial Mindset in Their Own Words

61

News From Wisconsin History

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Brutal Wisconsin On Tap #12

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A Brief History of Wisconsin Part II: the Voyageurs

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A Brief History of Wisconsin Part I

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USS Wisconsin: One of the Last Battleships

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Brutal Wisconsin On Tap #11 (Free Patreon Sampler)

67

Wisconsin News Update 3/13/24

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Back to the News

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Sticking to the News

70

Wisconsin and the Confluence of Colonialism and Capitalism

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Breitbart is Racist Propaganda

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New Year, New Election Maps

73

Spiritualism in Wisconsin Part Three: Religion and Spiritualism

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Spiritualism in Wisconsin Part Two: Spiritualism and Science

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Spiritualism in Wisconsin Part One: Warren Chase

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Doveland, Wisconsin Part Two: Kernels of Truth

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Blood Tribe = Nazi Trash

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The Mystery of Doveland Wisconsin Part One: Project Sanguine

79

Weird Wisconsin News of the Past

80

Cracking and Packing

81

The Cult of the Black Snake

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Ben Shapiro and Other Lovecraftian Monsters

83

Kent Went to Taliesin

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Flamingos in Lake Michigan

85

Frank Lloyd Wright Part X: The Imperial Hotel

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The Beast of Bray Road Revisited

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RoJo: Lord of the Man-Faced Pigs

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Rebecca Bradley Can't Stop Updating Her Own Wikipedia

89

A Shifting of the Balance

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Mothman in the Wildfire Smoke

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Evers, the Line Item Veto, and 400 Years of School Funding

92

The GOP and the Bungled Budget

93

Anti-Trans Legislation Amid the Wildfire Smoke

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Frank Lloyd Wright Part VIII: In the Wake of the Massacre

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Frank Lloyd Wright Part VII: The Murders Revisited

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The GOP and the Self-licking Ice Cream Cone

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The GOP and Early Stage Fascism

98

Frank Lloyd Wright Part VI: the Taliesin Massacre

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Frank Lloyd Wright Part V: Taliesin ("Tell Me About the Murders Spencer.")

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Brutal Wisconsin News Round-up 4/25/23