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Ian Karmel

@iankarmel.bsky.social

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Standup. Writer. Trail Blazers fan. https://linktr.ee/iankarmel

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · Jul 31

A year since T-Shirt Swim Club came out and I keep getting messages about how it helped folks feel less alone as a fat person and let them laugh at some of the ~horrors~

Check out the book Roxane Gay called:
“As charming and funny as it is poignant and thoughtful."

bookshop.org/p/books/t-sh...

T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 7d

Hahahaha, a perfect Portland day!

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 7d

GO DUCKS! (thank you, buddy!)

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 8d

They closed The Roxy, folks. It died like a dog. People come to me, so many people, they say "Where do I get disco fries at 3am?" And I say, no more. It's gone. Pancakes. Some people say pancakes, some say flapjacks, but they're gone. Cocaine in the bathroom, but not here, and it's gone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 8d

He's so good. Just finished Stormy Weather. Taking a break with some Elmore Leonard and Sam Lipsyte so I don't just tear through his entire body of work in a few months!

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 8d

INCORRECT

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 9d

MIGHTY OREGON

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · May 4

Putting a cape on a penguin won’t make it fly. We know that now.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 14d

I love Oregon... but brother... I hate running.

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you!

Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 18d

I don't worry about Trump's inflatable army infesting Portland the same way I don't worry about an ant crawling over a tree trunk. We've been here, we'll be here.

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Bill Trinen @trintran.bsky.social · 19d

Incredible pic
#GoDucks

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 19d

No thoughts. Just vibes.

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sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come @meatballhoagie.bsky.social · 19d

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19d

Incredible ending.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

FUCK YES OREGON

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

QUACK!!!!!!!!!

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

LETS FUCKING GO DUCKS

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

Ron Snodgrass?!

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

The first five minutes of my last special is a correspondence from the war zone that is Portland, Oregon. Please send help.

youtu.be/1L9lgLJrNJk?...

Ian Karmel | Comfort Beyond God's Foresight (Full Comedy Special)

YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 19d

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level.

It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah.

web.archive.org/web/20160918...

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Michael Fearnow @bogeymanweather.bsky.social · 19d

RIP Kaleb Horton.
Among other things, he wrote hands down one of the best pieces of true crime reporting.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...

The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town. Forty-five years later, we revisit the story.

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 19d

RIP Kaleb Horton. Goddamn.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 19d

RIP Kaleb Horton, one of the most dazzling, funny, kind, & truly original writers to ever grace this endangered medium.

I was lucky enough to edit him for the most popular piece we ever did theLAnd. A strange poultry odyssey of true brilliance. thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...

The Rise and Fall of Pioneer Chicken, the Last Great L.A. Chicken Shack

There are two Pioneer Chickens left in Los Angeles: One in Boyle Heights and one in Bell Gardens. I made it my mission to see both.

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