happy anniversary to all who celebrate

There's still a lot of debris on the streets in MIlwaukee after all the wind and rain this week, so folks, be sure to clear those storm drain grates before the rain gets here today.

NEW: The documentary "Your Attention Please" screens tomorrow at the Milwaukee Film Festival. I talked with filmmakers Sara Robin and Jack LeMay about this terrific film on the attention economy, digital detox, fighting back against Big Tech, and more. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/podcast-th...

The Milwaukee Film Festival starts TODAY! The Recombobulation Area is proud to be a Community Partner for three documentary films at this year’s festival: - “Your Attention Please” - “The Dads” - “Seized” Check out these and the many other great films from April 16-30.

The well-oiled liberal-candidate-for-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court machine rolls on...

NEW: Lyndsey Brunette is running for Wisconsin Supreme Court in the 2027 Spring Election. She's been a Clark County Circuit Court judge since 2018. Before that, she was the "first elected as a Democrat to serve as Clark County district attorney in 2012."

LAST CALL on our Milwaukee Day sale, folks. www.therecombobulationarea.news/MKEDAY2026

Rebecca Cooke raised more in Q1 than some competitive U.S. Senate candidates: www.notus.org/money/rebecc...

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After some discombobulating Milwaukee Day severe weather, we're recombobulating today. 1) We're extending our Milwaukee Day sale (41.4% off!) for another day, until midnight tonight. 2) We're rescheduling our live podcast event at Anodyne for May 7. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/milwaukee-...

Bluesky, you stepped up! Good going!

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Stay safe out there, Milwaukee.

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Hey Bluesky, the people over at Twitter are beating you in new subscribers. You gonna take that??

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🚨ATTENTION: Due to severe weather, The Recombobulation Area's live podcast event at Anodyne Coffee will be RESCHEDULED for a later date.

Republican State Sen. Jesse James made a big deal about running in the 31st Senate District in an Oct. 2025 announcement. He announced today he will not be running again. Interesting! What happened, do you think?

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Driving back from the Milwaukee Day celebration at City Hall, I stopped to let someone who had started into traffic walk the rest of the way across the street. It was David Gruber. This city is not real lol.

Happy Milwaukee Day, folks.

MILWAUKEE DAY, folks. What a city.

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HAPPY MILWAUKEE DAY! We love Milwaukee Day here at The Recombobulation Area, and that's why we offer our BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR every year on April 14 with 41.4% OFF all subscriptions to celebrate the 4-1-4! Subscribe here: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/happy-milw...

HAPPY MILWAUKEE DAY! I LOVE THIS WEIRD, WONDERFUL CITY!

Folks, we are ONE DAY AWAY from our LIVE PODCAST at Anodyne Walker's Point, featuring @angelalang8.bsky.social, @bymattwild.bsky.social and more special guests, as we celebrate MILWAUKEE DAY. Free to attend. 5:30 p.m. Let's recombobulate! www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/coming-soo...

happy Jack White tour presale day, fellow aging millennials

Of the five counties in this district (along with part of Dane), Chris Taylor just won all of them by double-digit margins. Lafayette County shifted 31 points from the 2024 presidential election to the 2026 Spring Election. This is a VERY swingy region of the state.

State Sen. Howard Marklein, Republican co-chair of the powerful Joint Committee on Finance, announced he is running for re-election. This will be a key race for control of the state Senate. This is a Harris+1/Baldwin+5 seat that has not yet been up under new maps.

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

I joined @davidnir.com and Joe Sudbay (filling in for @atrupar.com) to talk about the big state Supreme Court win in Tuesday's Spring Election in Wisconsin. Watch/listen here: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/the-progre...

Joining @the-downballot.com today live on Substack. Tune in!

The Bucks should play Giannis Antetokounmpo, Thanasis Antetokounmpo and Alex Antetokounmpo in the team's final home game of the season tonight. For everything these last twelve years have meant for Milwaukee, for Bucks fans, for Giannis and his family.

MILWAUKEE DAY is just a few days away, and we are hosting a LIVE PODCAST to celebrate. Featuring me, @angelalang8.bsky.social, @bymattwild.bsky.social and more special guests. 5:30 p.m. at Anodyne Walker's Point. SEE YOU THERE: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/event-anno...

How Rebecca Dallet's double-digit victory in 2018 set the template for the liberal winning streak to come on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. With Sachin Chheda, who helped run her race:

NEW PODCAST: I talked with Sachin Chheda, who helped lead campaigns for Rebecca Dallet, Jill Karofsky and Janet Protasiewicz, about last night's landslide results and the liberal winning streak in Wisconsin Supreme Court races. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/podcast-th...

the real ceasefire is the insider trades we made along the way

Give Chris Taylor some credit for running a terrific campaign, too. www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/in-chris-t...

"Trump started this, and the Democrats are finishing it."

During the campaign, I asked now Mayor-elect Alicia Halvensleben what it would mean if a Democrat won in Waukesha. She said: "I think that would be a huge message to the GOP. This is no longer your county, (and) you don’t have a stronghold here anymore like you thought you did."

As he always does, @danshafer.bsky.social nails the analysis of yesterday’s #Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

By next year, all three of the right-wing justices who sided with Trump in his effort to overturn the 2020 election will be gone from the state’s highest court — and right-wing candidates for state Supreme Court haven't won a single race since that case.

It's realignment, certainly. It's turnout, no doubt. It's fundraising, unquestionably. But perhaps it's also that the check Wisconsin voters want on Trump, who won twice here, is one coming from the courts: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/in-chris-t...

From late last night...

NEW: Liberal candidates have won 5 of the last 6 state Supreme Court races in the Trump Era, with Chris Taylor's emphatic 20-point landslide victory serving as the exclamation point on this monumental winning streak. Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.news/p/in-chris-t...

Last year, Susan Crawford won 10 counties won by Donald Trump in 2024. Chris Taylor is on track to win at least 24 (!) of those Trump-won counties.

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳