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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

Someone needs to do a roundup article on "Charlie Kirk censorship" because there's so much repression of free speech for anyone who had anything irreverent to say about him. From Jimmy Kimmel to these immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

U.S. Says It Revoked Visas of Some People Who Criticized Charlie Kirk

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 7h

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social is definitely Antifa, which is fucking confusing.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 13h

Chuck Jones has a lot to answer for.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 13h

The word "objective" does not mean what you think it means.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics on WNYC during a newspaper strike.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Books should be written to be read, not taught.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Just saw a CBS news item about the Qatari air base that's essentially a DoD press release.

Having grown up watching Walter Cronkite, I'm getting 1933 vibes.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News now presses baseless hysteria from Bari Weiss Free Press as if it were news. It isn’t. It’s baseless hysteria.

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

What are you doing?

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

I can sort of sound out words in Greek, Hebrew, and Yiddish. But Chinese logographs simply defeat me.

Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Some people I follow seem to go randomly from English to their local language and back, often in mid-sentence. A challenge, even with the help of Google Translate.

Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Yes, in the early 20th century, Palestine was about 20% Jewish. That totally justifies turning it into a Jewish supremacist state!

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

Mostly true, but I did once work with a Desi guy who had a degree in anthropology. Of course, he was in tech support, not development.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 2d

I think Columbus Day is not so much about celebrating the "discovery of America" as it is about making Italian-Americans feel less marginalized.

Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 3d

Mandatory link to Jerome Weidman's story about how Einstein taught him to love music.

www.rd.com/article/the-...

The Night I Met Einstein

This Reader's Digest Classic of "My Most Unforgettable Character" offers a lesson in life—and music—from the most brilliant mind in the world.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d

Listen sometimes the situation simply requires a Catholic

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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i'd call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 3d

What a lovely surprise to find this gorgeous dragon lizard on my front deck this morning.

A large dragon lizard sitting between two pots on a deck.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 3d

It's a poor basis for a media franchise because computers are no longer the novelty they were 40 years ago. That's all.

Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 3d

Tron came out just when I started working in Silicon Valley. I didn't care for it, but I was in the minority. The PC revolution was ongoing, which made people fascinated with all things tech, giving Tron good box office numbers. So I have to dispute @charliejane.bsky.social's "failed project."

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 3d

These are just slang terms for very ordinary occupations. "Knight of the thimble," for example, is a tailor.

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 4d

Now that you mention it, I used to stand and watch them too. But it's been many years since I was in a place that had its rotisserie where you could see it.

Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 4d

Yes, but nobody ever made Cornelius Vanderbilt II use political politically correct pronouns!

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 4d

If I wrote it today I would have much more about all the internal Goldwater campaign discussions about what to do with all the terrifying fascists and lunatics flocking to him. I feel like I only photocopied like every 5th anguished memo on it, back in the day.

www.amazon.com/Before-Storm...

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus [Perlstein, Rick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

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Isaac Rabinovitch @isaac32767.picknit.com · 4d

For obvious reasons, I don't rely on chatbots to analyze things like bias. But this once, I had to ask it: