Erik Gullberg
@erikgullberg.bsky.social
actor. playwright. new yorker.
bartender @ some nice places.
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bartender @ some nice places.
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This is not complicated. They blew up a boat that posed no imminent threat and then killed the survivors. There's no legal regime on Earth worth a damn that wouldn't see that as murder, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, depending on the specific code in play.
December 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This is not complicated. They blew up a boat that posed no imminent threat and then killed the survivors. There's no legal regime on Earth worth a damn that wouldn't see that as murder, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, depending on the specific code in play.
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One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.
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Most offensive headline yet in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/d...
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Quit Caffeine
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December 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Most offensive headline yet in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/d...
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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
*SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW TRUMP’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ROLLBACK
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign
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the funniest thing about Trump is that if he doesn’t have someone actively poisoning him a few times a week he reliably comes out with “I just had the best idea—what if you didn’t have to PAY to go to the DOCTOR” or similar
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the funniest thing about Trump is that if he doesn’t have someone actively poisoning him a few times a week he reliably comes out with “I just had the best idea—what if you didn’t have to PAY to go to the DOCTOR” or similar
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Last point for now: What's killing theatrical distribution is not Netflix. It's the easy, fast, relatively inexpensive availability of all theatrical releases (not to mention tons of other viewing options) at home, and every studio that depends on theatrical business has colluded in that.
December 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Last point for now: What's killing theatrical distribution is not Netflix. It's the easy, fast, relatively inexpensive availability of all theatrical releases (not to mention tons of other viewing options) at home, and every studio that depends on theatrical business has colluded in that.
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ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ah but you see sam, if the kids get liver cancer that just means they were meant to get it and Nature is doing its job
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
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The more nakedly partisan the court majority acts, the more I think they'll strike down the tariffs because I think it would be a net benefit to Republican electoral prospects.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The more nakedly partisan the court majority acts, the more I think they'll strike down the tariffs because I think it would be a net benefit to Republican electoral prospects.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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There was no good outcome to the WB sale but there was a worst outcome and I believe that was David Ellison winning.
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
There was no good outcome to the WB sale but there was a worst outcome and I believe that was David Ellison winning.
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Will Netflix keep WB as a separate studio and freestanding theatrical operation? I hope so. The acquisition makes more sense that way. But I don't know. The point is, it's a chance worth taking if the alternative is the end of the studio.
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Will Netflix keep WB as a separate studio and freestanding theatrical operation? I hope so. The acquisition makes more sense that way. But I don't know. The point is, it's a chance worth taking if the alternative is the end of the studio.
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Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.
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blood thirsty maniac
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
blood thirsty maniac
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He’s saying fhe civil rights act and 14th amendment shouldn’t exist bsky.app/profile/samt...
I am sorry for bringing this imbecile's ravings to your attention but I just think this is perfect. Rufo has no idea that private companies take their goods to market on roads and waterways and airports maintained by taxes. it has never occurred to him that the united states prints money
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
He’s saying fhe civil rights act and 14th amendment shouldn’t exist bsky.app/profile/samt...
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
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December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...
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Whoops bsky.app/profile/carl...
Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”
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December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Whoops bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Issues like anti-trans panic are not organic red state issues. They are engineered like viruses in a lab of bad faith politics, and the way to deal with bullies using them is to tell them to fuck off.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
Culture Wars Are For Cowards
And most people don't like bullies.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Issues like anti-trans panic are not organic red state issues. They are engineered like viruses in a lab of bad faith politics, and the way to deal with bullies using them is to tell them to fuck off.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/culture-wa...
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PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN: He’ll probably be out cold for a while; this last episode of diarrhea was quite painful for him.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN: He’ll probably be out cold for a while; this last episode of diarrhea was quite painful for him.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.
STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm?
PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.
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easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
Bring back residential-use lead paint, you cowards.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
easy to imagine benny johnson huffing asbestos on camera to own the libs
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this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
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This letter is a clear attempt to get Trump angry enough to intervene, and is thus a pretty clear signal to the entertainment community of what kind of company Paramount plans to run. I know people dread a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros.; this would be worse. deadline.com/2025/12/para...
Paramount Calls WBD Sale Process “Tilted And Unfair” In Letter To CEO David Zaslav
Paramount is calling foul on Warner Bros. Discovery sale process, accusing the company of running an unfair process that it thinks favors Netflix.
deadline.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This letter is a clear attempt to get Trump angry enough to intervene, and is thus a pretty clear signal to the entertainment community of what kind of company Paramount plans to run. I know people dread a Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros.; this would be worse. deadline.com/2025/12/para...