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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · 3d

Will his acceptance speech be just one long sentence?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 11

Weird to see people describe this place like it's the Comintern when in reality it's 80% people passively aggressively debating whether you have to mask at PTA meetings or whatever.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Constantly lying about bsky on twt defo reeks of a unilateral obsession with just resist libs. Twt is way way way more edgier about this whole thing, while bsky is more somber.
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Like ffs, bsky doesn't tolerate comedic edginess, it's very much polite passive aggressiveness and dooming.
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If you internalize left wing and right wing criticisms of people on bsky, you get with believing bsky people are both passive incrementalists but also violent anarchist revolutionaries. They are too meek, but also violent and vulgar etc.
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The only consistent criticism between all of these is that they're annoying millennial resist libs, which is probably closest to being accurate.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

Extremely bad, very bleak.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

I think Fallout Boy did write another version of that song and it was terrible. It was just a bunch of references to, like, Tiger King and Minecraft and stuff.

Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

Stagflation, anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, new Star Wars franchise, President doing crimes, national guard deployed to American cities. If the Steelers can put together a solid defense we're back in business.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

Get in loser, we're reviving procedural due process.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

We're doing New Property again. Every day the 1970s is more back.

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · Sep 10

Judge Cobb prevents the removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, holding that removal for cause only covers in-office conduct. She also holds that Cook has a constitutionally protected property interest in her position and therefore a right to a hearing.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · Sep 10

Judge Cobb prevents the removal of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, holding that removal for cause only covers in-office conduct. She also holds that Cook has a constitutionally protected property interest in her position and therefore a right to a hearing.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 10

Firing up my Charles Reich laser eyes meme in case SCOTUS recognizes a protected property interest in a position on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Extremely cool that these people run CBS News now.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Intellectual Dark Web dares to ask forbidden questions like, "Who is Robert Dahl?" and "What are his books about?"

Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wait is Robert Dahl woke now? Can’t imagine a funnier book to have a moral panic about.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 9

One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:

lol wat

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Genuinely confused. Did she think this was a different book?

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

Wait is Robert Dahl woke now? Can’t imagine a funnier book to have a moral panic about.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 9

One of Bari Weiss’s reporters over at the Free Press was shocked to discover what Columbia students are reading in class:

lol wat

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 9

It was a boomcession

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hearing a 7-year-old scream "I hate music. It's BORING" as I try to listen to Townes Van Zandt.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

I don't care for it, but I guess they're still a few years away from getting into outlaw country.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Literally the only music my kids will listen to.

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · Sep 8

I have a seven year old and among elementary schoolers I would say that the fictional songs from the K-pop Demon Hunters bands are currently bigger than anything by real bands.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fourth Circuit holds that states lack standing to sue to enjoin the removal of thousands of federal employees.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Another win for legal realism. [Insert Louis Brandeis with laser eyes here]

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is key. The diminishment of SCOTUS will become a sociological fact before it becomes codified in law. That process is now very well underway.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, but they might want to hedge their bets in the event that that attempt fails. (As it stands, they seem to be YOLOing)

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's very easy to push the message that if you are a Democrat, or a member of a Democratic constituency, the Court does not meaningfully protect your life, liberty, or property anymore.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

A politically savvy Supreme Court might think a little bit about why the Democrats would want to protect it at all when they get back into power.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

I really think that by 2028, middle-aged, normie, small-c conservative Democrats will be totally, enthusiatically receptive to dramatic court reform. Which is something that has never been true before.

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Nicholas Handler @nicholashandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

What I find most interesting is that every single demographic ranked "having fame and influence" dead last, which is not the impression you get from, like, TikTok discourse.

Amanda Terkel @aterkel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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