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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 48m

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2h

It feels very weird to have such an absolute lad as Pontiff. Like a Pope you know has gone to town on a big thing of wings.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 4h

Nicole Kidman's face as she watches the opera while spiraling is some of the best acting she's ever done, and that kid is just unreal.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"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...

defector.com

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 4h

This is such a premature autopsy. OBAA has already made $150 mil, it's sure to get some kind of Oscar bump and then licensing deals in perpetuity, and more to the point, it's the rare movie that was made simply because the right money people thought it needed to exist.

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 4h

The solution is simple: make more movies starring AI-generated actresses like Tilly Norwood

variety.com/2025/film/bo...

‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets

Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.

variety.com

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 5h

If you can believe it, the second thing in this guy's X bio is "Banned from Disney World."

Dion Cini
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The best way to counter a No Kings Protest, is with a Trump For King Rally! http://TrumpForKing.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 6h

Big year for saying the clunkiest cornball shit ever on live TV with mic drop confidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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merritt @merrittk.com · 22h

the microplastics and heavy metals in my body squaring up to decide who gets to give me cancer

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Hating candy corn feels performative, although loving it is also suspect. Quietly enjoying half a handful once a year is the move.

Daniel M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 1d

give me your most hinged, apologetic, milquetoast, agreeable, universal opinion.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 1d

the era of Hot, Smart, and Nice politics has begun

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 1d

Please do not put in the paper that I am not an expert in sex robots.

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re not subscribing to @retractionwatch.com, you miss things like this headline

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Image of a robot looking…happy? Horrified? With a headline: “A review claimed a research was an expert in deco robots. He’s not.”

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

They're trying to paint protesters in the most sinister tones and, thanks to the viral absurdity in Portland and Chicago rn, they're failing miserably. I wrote about how all this fits into a historical context.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

*struggling to remember Charlie Kirk's name* I think it was...

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Christian Bully
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Charlie Christian Bully (1910-1998) - Find a Grave...

Obituary found here: https://peninsulagenealogy.wordpress.com/charlie-bully/

www.findagrave.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 1d

reading coverage of the ceasefire deal, it's not always clear where Israel got all those people from

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Al Jazeera: A total of 250 Palestinian political prisoners who are either serving life sentences or long sentences are being released from Israeli jails.

According to data obtained by Al Jazeera, all but nine of these prisoners are from the West Bank, and 157 of them are members of Fatah, the party that controls the Palestinian Authority governing parts of the West Bank.

Sixty-five are from Hamas, and the rest are from smaller political factions.

In addition, Israel will free 1,718 Palestinians who were, according to the United Nations, forcefully disappeared by Israel over the last two years of its genocidal war on Gaza.

Five of them are children under the age of 18, and two are women, according to the prisoner list obtained by Al Jazeera.

Most of the disappeared from Gaza were held in military camps, where dehumanisation and torture were rampant, according to international and Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups.

Palestinians were reportedly subjected to severe beatings, medical neglect, starvation and even rape.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like if the book and 7 movies never happened we might've ended up organically doing a Jurassic Park and I wouldn't rule out us still doing it anyway.

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Fossilized Resin Reveals a Wet Forest Full of Insects and Spiders 112 Million Years Ago www.discovermagazine.com/fossilized-r...

Fossilized Resin Reveals a Wet Forest Full of Insects and Spiders 112 Million Years Ago

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.

www.discovermagazine.com

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11d

I made an extremely belated return to @flaminghydra.com with this bit about my long winter of depressing '70s cinema and the righteous and unreasonable defiance of One Battle After Another. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/