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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 14h

“Defense team presses Lairmore” is a panini just waiting to happen…

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 14h

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

Exclusive | Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense after controversial Nick Fuentes interview: ‘Footsie with literal Nazis’

“I’m disgusted by this,” said one Heritage staffer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 3d

I knew Sen. Thomas Eagleton. Sen. Thomas Eagleton was a friend of mine. And this “definition” of the War Powers Resolution is not the one Eagleton helped write into law.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

Trump admin's apparent theory that if US forces aren't in harm's way then there are no "hostilities" for WPR purposes creates a huge hole in the law given the nature of how US uses military force.

And a further power grab by the executive w/r/t Congress's control over the use of military force. 4/n

Asked for comment, a senior administration official said that the War Powers Resolution did not pertain to the current situation, because, “even at its broadest … [it] has been understood to apply to placing U.S. service-members in harm’s way.”

Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 3d

But by the same token, maybe Wikipedia should make it easier for subjects of articles to update their own photos?

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 3d

Curious… did he get official press pass from NYFF? Looks like it from the angles. Cool! Every film fest should give credentials to Wikipedia (yo, Sundance??) In Wikipedia fight against AI, festivals and actors are natural allies.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 4d

…but odd that they didn’t get a van with a ramp (for wheelchair access). Most commercial vans come with ramps anyway.

Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 4d

Nice piece, Robert!

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 4d

Trump builds “gender-neutral” bathroom for himself!??! No urinal!!! What’s he hiding?? Glad to see he knows there will be a lady President next!

Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 5d

Full disclosure- Jeanne Kirkpatrick- once a prominent Heritage Foundation voice - almost ran me over in a DuPont Circle alley. She just glared at this casual pedestrian who dared cross her path. No remorse. I wasn’t a fan before and definitely not after.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

1. A watershed moment.

The President of the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, Kevin Roberts , has announced that the organization is standing by Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of Tucker’s interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

This isn’t Kevin bending his knee to Trump…this is something new

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty sure if you mention “globalist class” and “antisemitism” in the same sentence, that’s not a very deeply coded message.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! I wonder if anyone in film trades writing obituaries on Baker & Taylor - which used to be massive distributor of VHS & DVDs?

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 5d

several people have emailed us to say that the sudden shut down of a giant book distributor is making public libraries scramble for books www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down

Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

www.404media.co

Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 5d

Nice! But I wonder if searches for “The Last Republican” take folks to our Martin Eisenstadt book… www.amazon.com/Martin-Eisen...

Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 8d

My ‘stack today: We don’t just make “films” - we make decades-long community-based performance art projects. open.substack.com/pub/danmirvi...

Why I don’t make "films" anymore…and neither should you.

We make multiyear, community-based performance art projects. And that's OK!

open.substack.com

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 9d

Today in 1969, President Nixon’s secret global nuclear alert escalated when the Strategic Air Command initiated GIANT LANCE, a nuclear show of force that involved flying 18 nuclear-armed B-52s from March AFB, California, and Fairchild AFB, Washington State, to Eielson AFB, Alaska, and from there …

A black and white ground-level photograph of a B-52 bomber crew racing toward their aircraft during a drill.

An overhead black and white photograph of a six-man crew running toward their B-52 bomber during a drill.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for these links!!!

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 9d

It would also appear that most of these men are named Ryan. Or at least they all look like A Ryan to me.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 9d

The hair parts on the right 58% of the pictures - statistically anomalous to real life American men which is only 20%. Who had a right part? Hitler. Just sayin.’ (And no, that’s not the only statistical anomaly I can spot.)

Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 9d

There seems to be a certain pattern forming…

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 10d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10d

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage.

That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech.

You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11d

Well, THIS sucks. I have tickets for One Battle After Another for tomorrow and now I don't know if I should go!

Yes, the writer Mark Harris, known for his biography Mike Nichols: A Life, passed away in 2017.
Mark Harris died in 2017 at the age of 84 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
He was a writer whose work included novels and biographies.
He wrote the biography Mike Nichols: A Life, which was published after his death.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 11d

Deepest condolences to your friends and family. I hope they at least invite you to the shiva.

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 12d

You had me at John Magaro!

Breakfast All Day @bfastallday.bsky.social · 12d

Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social are casing the joint with The Mastermind #filmsky 📽

THE MASTERMIND Movie Review | Kelly Reichardt | Josh O'Connor | Alana Haim

YouTube video by Breakfast All Day movie reviews

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Dan Mirvish @danmirvish.bsky.social · 13d

In response to Trump’s renovation of the White House, Aaron Sorkin reportedly upset that all future syndication of his hit show “The West Wing” will be renamed simply “The Wing.”

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 13d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 13d

the image is a tweet of trump saying, "I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent....." at 3:46 AM · Jun 23, 2020

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