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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1h

I want the next Democratic president drive a crane with a wrecking ball down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House in the inaugural parade.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1h

it’s hard to think of anyone who has spent more of his career trying to render mass movement politics illegitimate than brooks. maybe chait. this is rarefied chutzpah.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brandon Streussnig 📽️ @brndnstrssng.bsky.social · 1h

Guy on the other end sounds familiar…

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 2h

Four Favorites with Will Arnett, Chloe Radcliffe, Jordan Jensen, Christine Ebersole, Blake Kane and Calvin Knegten at the 63rd New York Film Festival premiere of Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? 🎤

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 9d

"He's some weirdo professor from fuckin' Canada. His thing is cryin' that a piece of ass in a magazine is why we ain't gladiators in Ancient Rome anymore or some shit. Weird dude, think his brains got scrambled when his kid fed him only T bones for like eight months straight."

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 7h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 6h

Me to me: Why would you ever ask a question on here?

Me to me: it will be different this time

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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David Cho @chodavid.bsky.social · 6h

yes, during the coda when sammie asks stack if that was the best night of his life, and stack responds “no doubt about it” and we get that flashback montage 😭😭😭😭😭

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anne t. donahue @annetdonahue.bsky.social · 6h

i got to watch SINNERS for class and i am so late to the party, but jeeeesus what a perfect movie and also did any of YOU full-on WEEP

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 6h

Gift link: bit.ly/4gV8yEs

Who Cares If ‘One Battle After Another’ Loses Some Money?

A box-office hit can reshape careers, studios, stars or even entire genres; the same is true for a flop. That’s why entertainment journalists spend Sundays crunching the data: It’s the industry’s vers...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

so what's in the news today

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

It's the 14th anniversary of the Sudden Departure. How are you going to commemorate it?

A mother reacts to her baby vanishing in the Sudden Departure in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

Nora Durst's family has just vanished in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

The Guilty Remnant holding up signs saying, "Stop Wasting Your Breath" in a scene from HBO's "The Leftovers"

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect case in point: here is the vice president, who has spiraled into overt sociopathy thanks to Twitter, repeating a six year old racist “joke” about Elizabeth Warren and getting a quarter million likes for it. This is what constitutes conservative brain now. Trolling from the literal top down.

JD Vance: “The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

Five minutes of my life I’ll never get back

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

impossibly funny that Mike Lombardi is producing sleek inspo TikTok content about using a typewriter (and promoting his book!) while the team is in shambles

Lindsay Gibbs @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social · 1d

The metaphors have become sentient www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMy3RDpW/

Why I still use my typewriters every day (If anyone’s selling their typewriter let me know!) #uncfootball #football #typewriter #lombardi #checklist

TikTok video by Michael Lombardi

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross shouting “the leads are weak? you’re weak.”

This joke only works when read, not said aloud

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

I had a really great time talking with @nicolasrapold.bsky.social on THE LAST THING I SAW about GOOD NEWS, ANEMONE, SPRINGSTEEN: DELVER ME FROM NOWHERE, and THE LOVE THAT REMAINS!

Ep. 354: Robert Daniels on Good News, Anemone, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, The Love That Remains

Play Ep. 354: Robert Daniels on Good News, Anemone, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, The Love That Remains by The Last Thing I Saw on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on ...

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David Cho @chodavid.bsky.social · 1d

RETVRN youtu.be/8SsnkXH2mQY?...

"It's Toasted" scene - Mad Men - Pilot

YouTube video by Glenn Davey

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1d

American Spirit guys are probably one of the more interesting sub-categories of nicotine guys

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