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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 13m

Genuinely convinced these guys are trying to get people killed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1h

I honestly think they do this shit on purpose. It is government by trolling and shockingly, it isn't very effective.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 16h

Starting to feel like I'm living in a country where the people in charge of every single thing are 80 years old with severe lead poisoning.

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 16h

Starting to feel like I'm living in a country where the people in charge of every single thing are 80 years old with severe lead poisoning.

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 22h

Hey I think you might have a gas leak at your house

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 23h

Went to a hardcore show for the first time in years recently and I realized some hardcore is just really really angry Beastie Boys.

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

In a world full of embarrassing shit, this is the most embarrassing thing I've seen.

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 3d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

Hey! I got a big show coming up in a few weeks at Caveat on the East Village! We are filming it and live streaming it so it would mean the world if you bought a ticket now. If you're not in NYC there are live stream tickets too! I genuinely think you'll love the show! www.caveat.nyc/events/forev...

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

Ulysses is both a work of staggering literary genius and also should never be read by anyone under any circumstances.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

Also if you were going to shows at the Ranch Bowl in Omaha Nebraska between 1998 and 2005, I'm sorry for what this flyer just did to you.

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

Hey! I got a big show coming up in a few weeks at Caveat on the East Village! We are filming it and live streaming it so it would mean the world if you bought a ticket now. If you're not in NYC there are live stream tickets too! I genuinely think you'll love the show! www.caveat.nyc/events/forev...

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 1d

Insanely funny to me that the headcoach and a multimillion dollar sports franchise can just not know the rules. Feels like this ONLY happens in football.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

The 2025 season had been especially rough for Callahan, who was off to a 1-5 start.

◽️ Didn't challenge a crucial catch vs. DEN because he didn't understand the rules
◽️ Shut out by HOU
◽️ Managed only 225 yards of offense vs. LV

Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

Titans fire coach Brian Callahan six games into second season

Callahan's Titans started his second season with four straight losses and went just 4-19 in his tenure.

www.nytimes.com

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 2d

Sounds like the billionaires who actually run the country made a few phone calls over the weekend.

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 2d

Very reassuring sir!

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 2d

It's 2025. You can't do the GirlBoss shit anymore. We're done with that, partly because of people like Bari Weiss proving that, just like men, women can be shitty dipshit bosses.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 2d

I also ran into this but thought it was just my shitty super market.

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 3d

A billionaire and supposed genius writing college sophomore level tripe about super heroes as Christlike figures. Diminishing the humanities has doomed us all.

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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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 3d

I love it when Big Red goes. #gbr

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 4d

The vascular issue is of course that he has congestive heart failure.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Candyman Jackson said Trump’s visit today to Walter Reed was a follow up for his vascular issues and also to get updated travel vaccinations.

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 4d

Untoasted everything, scallion cream cheese. Anything more fancy than that is putting on airs.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

It is cool that I can watch my retirement fund lose thousands of dollars in real time because an old man with dementia got mad on his phone.

Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

"Only rich people take the bus," is something that would get cut from a sketch because it doesn't sound like something even the the world's worst politician would say

Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 5d

great post sir, keep saying shit like this

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

It's Cam Skattebo time.

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

This test, which he said was NOT THE EASIEST, is literally them asking you to point to a picture of a Giraffe and know where you are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

RFK Jr met some anti-circumcision activists and was like, "these dudes are autistic as hell!"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Boo Gurnett @bobgurnett.com · 5d

The guys negotiating the future of Gaza in good faith are for sure the guys using Palestinian as a hilarious insult.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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