A Gilson
@adamgilson.bsky.social
Ohio, bicycling, anti-MAGA stuff, closer to fifty than forty
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
One day in fall '16, I ditched a shift canvassing for Hillary Clinton to watch Hal Holbrook present his "Mark Twain Tonight!" show at a theater in Zanesville. I felt a little bit of guilt ditching a shift, but I thought, will I ever get the chance to see Hal's show again?
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
One day in fall '16, I ditched a shift canvassing for Hillary Clinton to watch Hal Holbrook present his "Mark Twain Tonight!" show at a theater in Zanesville. I felt a little bit of guilt ditching a shift, but I thought, will I ever get the chance to see Hal's show again?
Scrappy, intrepid free speech journalist Bari Weiss should investigate this egregious violation of ... Oh wait a minute
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Scrappy, intrepid free speech journalist Bari Weiss should investigate this egregious violation of ... Oh wait a minute
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We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pundits never are called to account for their grand pronouncements. The impending thrashing of Winsome Sears in Virginia tomorrow makes me think of all the hot air about Glenn Youngkin four years ago, and how that win was deeply meaningful, and he was going to be going somewhere. And now: Glenn who?
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Pundits never are called to account for their grand pronouncements. The impending thrashing of Winsome Sears in Virginia tomorrow makes me think of all the hot air about Glenn Youngkin four years ago, and how that win was deeply meaningful, and he was going to be going somewhere. And now: Glenn who?
I work on a bucolic college campus with a grounds crew that seems to think a single leaf on the ground is an affront to all things decent. I also spent the weekend raking my own lawn. Funny how peaceful of an activity leaf removal is with a rake, and how aggressive it is with leaf blowers.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I work on a bucolic college campus with a grounds crew that seems to think a single leaf on the ground is an affront to all things decent. I also spent the weekend raking my own lawn. Funny how peaceful of an activity leaf removal is with a rake, and how aggressive it is with leaf blowers.
Say what you will about lack of administrative experience or whatever, but it's amazing, the effort to make this guy look scary or subversive. He's pleasant! Approachable! Talks about people without getting divisive! Of all the people to demonize ...
Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Say what you will about lack of administrative experience or whatever, but it's amazing, the effort to make this guy look scary or subversive. He's pleasant! Approachable! Talks about people without getting divisive! Of all the people to demonize ...
Repubs: "Operate government like a business!"
Also Repubs: "Being competitive and poaching talent from other places is bad!"
Also Repubs: "Being competitive and poaching talent from other places is bad!"
I can't get into the psyche of people who would cut off the world's best researchers from teaching their students because they happened to be born farther away from you than you are comfortable with. www.chronicle.com/article/flor...
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Repubs: "Operate government like a business!"
Also Repubs: "Being competitive and poaching talent from other places is bad!"
Also Repubs: "Being competitive and poaching talent from other places is bad!"
I've hated the term "kitchen table issues" since before it was cool. Any time I hear some Dem say something like, "When the American people are sitting around the kitchen table, trying to balance the family budget" … I just can't. People don't talk or act like this. But consultants think they do.
(5) Stop with the fucking “kitchen table issues!” Yes, people respond well to that line experimentally. But if they actually acted on it then Donald fucking Trump wouldn’t be president right now.
Try to have the faintest clue of what sort of apparatus his party network has actually built!
Try to have the faintest clue of what sort of apparatus his party network has actually built!
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I've hated the term "kitchen table issues" since before it was cool. Any time I hear some Dem say something like, "When the American people are sitting around the kitchen table, trying to balance the family budget" … I just can't. People don't talk or act like this. But consultants think they do.
Holy shit, Paul Igrassia is only 30. Being evil really ages these guys prematurely.
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Holy shit, Paul Igrassia is only 30. Being evil really ages these guys prematurely.
Platner is an excellent example of the ability for a scripted and produced video to manipulate our minds and give us a foundational perception that's hard to shake no matter what new information we receive. We all allow ourselves to be manipulated to some extent. Just … be aware of it.
October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Platner is an excellent example of the ability for a scripted and produced video to manipulate our minds and give us a foundational perception that's hard to shake no matter what new information we receive. We all allow ourselves to be manipulated to some extent. Just … be aware of it.
Amazon needs to be broken up
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Amazon needs to be broken up
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Q: Was Hitler bad?
ELISE STEFANIK: Of course <glances at JD Vance for approval> not!
ELISE STEFANIK: Of course <glances at JD Vance for approval> not!
Profiles in Cowardice. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Q: Was Hitler bad?
ELISE STEFANIK: Of course <glances at JD Vance for approval> not!
ELISE STEFANIK: Of course <glances at JD Vance for approval> not!
So Zach Bryan includes an anti-ICE lyric in a song, and MAGA world can't just let it go. Can't shrug it off. Can't refrain from commenting. Nope. They just have to piss and moan about it and be thin-skinned assholes.
October 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
So Zach Bryan includes an anti-ICE lyric in a song, and MAGA world can't just let it go. Can't shrug it off. Can't refrain from commenting. Nope. They just have to piss and moan about it and be thin-skinned assholes.
My god, Russell Vought is 49. Evil ages a man.
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My god, Russell Vought is 49. Evil ages a man.
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thank you to Democrat Bill Demora especially who sponsored Ohio's age verification bill www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/... @adamgilson.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
thank you to Democrat Bill Demora especially who sponsored Ohio's age verification bill www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/... @adamgilson.bsky.social
Fuck you, Ohio, for this stupid, infantilizing law.
September 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fuck you, Ohio, for this stupid, infantilizing law.
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So is he still stuck there and are cold burgers and Diet Cokes being brought to him by drone while teams of make-up artists mountaineer their way up to his position?
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So is he still stuck there and are cold burgers and Diet Cokes being brought to him by drone while teams of make-up artists mountaineer their way up to his position?
Absent any other information, it's just as likely that an anti-immigrant, anti-left nutcase could wrote "anti-ICE" on shell casings, murder some detainees, and then kill himself, as it is that an anti-ICE person would do the same. Shooters don't tend to be rational.
September 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Absent any other information, it's just as likely that an anti-immigrant, anti-left nutcase could wrote "anti-ICE" on shell casings, murder some detainees, and then kill himself, as it is that an anti-ICE person would do the same. Shooters don't tend to be rational.
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David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
September 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
David Letterman to Jeffrey Goldberg on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian—a criminal—administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.” #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p
I know that Bill Maher has been in "these right-wing assholes are my friends, but" mode lately, but I'm hoping the guy who was canceled in a time of post-9/11 fervor will speak out in no uncertain terms about this right-wing attack on free speech.
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I know that Bill Maher has been in "these right-wing assholes are my friends, but" mode lately, but I'm hoping the guy who was canceled in a time of post-9/11 fervor will speak out in no uncertain terms about this right-wing attack on free speech.
Ok, apologies to Will Stancil; the "the texts are AI/fake/a plant by prosecutors" discourse I've seen over on Threads (not here, yet) is bonkers.
September 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Ok, apologies to Will Stancil; the "the texts are AI/fake/a plant by prosecutors" discourse I've seen over on Threads (not here, yet) is bonkers.