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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · Jun 2

This week in @newyorker.com: All you need to know is that the name of the show is Blank Check.

I walked around the Museum of the Moving Image's new Mission: Impossible exhibit with the top minds behind @blankcheck.bsky.social to talk Tom, "Sinners," and Videology trivia.

Is the “Mission: Impossible” Series Tom Cruise’s “Blank Check”?

The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or “Speed Racer,” anyone?) celebrates its tenth birthday with a trip to a “Mission...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 9h

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

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2h

give me my tunnel back you gangly bitch

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2h

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 3h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 11h

apparently the 'de' is lc and there's a space in between it and 'Blasio' my apologies to a fellow half-Italianx king

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 11h

one of Bill DeBlasio's most confounding achievements was being a proud Red Sox fan for all eight years he was in office

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 13h

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 16h

great time to be in media lmao. thanks David!

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 16h

I'm gonna be so real rn, I was planning on running down my subscription—I love this website but times are hard and that makes one take a harder look at where their money is going—but this is the kind of good-hearted, pro-consumer move that convinces people to stay subscribed. It worked for me!

David Pierce @davidpierce.xyz · 16h

SO many people have asked @reckless.bsky.social and me when we were going to launch ad-free podcasts. The answer is today! Right now! We just launched them! Ad-free podcasts are here! www.theverge.com/bulletin/795...

Verge subscribers, here’s how to set up ad-free podcasts

Ad-free Decoder, Version History, and The Vergecast! Here’s how to get them.

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 17h

What happened next?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 17h

BESSENT: THERE IS A VERY GOOD CHANCE HERE THAT CURRENT ERA FOR U.S. GROWTH IS LIKE THE LATE 1800S OR THE 1990S

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 1d

perhaps a sign of my declining mental state and expectations for society that my immediate reaction was "ah well, you can't expect Chan trolls to act differently" rather than anything constructive about how gross and evil these fucks behave

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 1d

“armchair Infrastructure Guy” is actually one of the top kind of guys you can be, this piece rules.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 1d

"Something about this version feels more welcoming, one of the rare third spaces in the city where leisure costs nothing and the pluralism on which we pride ourselves bears out." — @jawnita.bsky.social

After All That, the New East River Park Is...Fucking Awesome

We'll have to see whether the new resiliency infrastructure will withstand another superstorm, but we're happy to report that the park itself is, so far, a smashing success.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

One of my quotes:

"I know it's worth it because someday some young kid who's had everything about trans people censored all their life will happen across something I wrote and know they aren't alone. If I had it to do over, I'd do it all again and more."

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 2d

man just walked out to “Legend Has It” by Run The Jewels, we have never been so back

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

We’re live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP8...

A gorgeous packed theater shot from the stage.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

[solemnly] let’s fucking go

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 4d

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 3d

Luffy’s hat isn’t even red, this man is dumb as hell

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 4d

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

Good time to take four hours and watch this if you never have before youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

The History of the Seattle Mariners: Supercut Edition

YouTube video by Secret Base

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

Fifteen innings

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The Mighty Rio Grande by This Will Destroy You on Apple Music

Song · 2007 · Duration 11:16

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

I think I now understand why test cricket takes five days, this shit rocks

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

love when the Fox Sports robot demands I download the app with the same posture as the Uber Eats delivery guy at the McDonald’s counter

luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 5d

can a perpetual stew also be a baseball game

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 5d

i find it so soothing when everybody starts doing this. go baseball

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 5d

people are making vage incredulous posts all at once. my sports senses are tingling

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 5d

That press conference shows the tragedy of Eric Adams. He had some real successes: City of Yes, trash containerization, crime reductions, etc. but couldn't stop tripping over all the bags of money he and his aides kept taking from people and now thinks it's the media's fault for reporting on it.

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · 6d

his mind

Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 6d

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin