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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

@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_...

December 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Jason McMaster

@mcmaster.bsky.social

Oh my fucking God

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Can someone who has read Nuzzi's book let me know if this is actually a thing in it? Or is this one of those "JD Vance bangs couches" things? x.com/bryancurtis/...

Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis
X.com
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
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called WWE headquarters.
"Sorry; not possible," the receptionist said.
"Not possible?" I asked.
"Visiting would be impossible," she said.
My eyes narrowed. I looked out the window of my newsroom, in the Frank Gehry building on the Hudson River that looked like a big blod of clacier ice. I did not like to be trapped anyplace, even somewhere| considered architecturally defensible, and I had wanted to escape today.
Had been counting on this opportunity to escape. The news of the in-possibility of a visit to the Hall of Fame depressed me.
"It's...private?" I asked.
"There's no place to visit," the receptionist said.
"No place?" I asked.
"Right," she said.
"It moved?" I asked.
"No, it's, you know, an idea," she said.
"An idea, the Hall of-"
She cut in.
"No hall. There's no hall, she said.
"Then... what is it?" I asked.
"It's an idea," she said.
An idea. She had mentioned that already.
"It doesn't exist?" I asked.
"Well, it exists," she said.
"Where?" I asked.
"As an idea," she said.
It was a place only in imagination.

December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025)

@adactivity.bsky.social

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December 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM

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@dumbmike.bsky.social

-Hey man, love your new shoes.
-Oh, thanks.
-What brand are they?
-These shoes are Hey Dude Paul Nut Size M11.

January 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM

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Nicholas Grossman

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.

Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says

Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.

bit.ly

December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM

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Mike Schuster

@mcs212.bsky.social

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

December 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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Popehat of Serious Proportion

@kenwhite.bsky.social

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.

They are lawless bestial scum.

November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Mr. Joshua

@pantspants.bsky.social

November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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Coach Finstock

@coachfinstock.bsky.social

If you don't think this is just practice in their minds for what they're gonna do here to us when Trump is done building his bunker. Why do you think they're going after elected officials saying "don't follow illegal orders" They got lots more coming

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said.
A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed.
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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852dude

@852dude.bsky.social

bus meme

me when i find a cool stick staring at the wall and being happy

billionaires with only 10 yachts looking at the sunset being sad.

November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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David Bier

@davidjbier.bsky.social

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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Worthy

@worthy.bsky.social

Narcissistic narcolepsy

November 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM

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Casey Explosion

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Look at how quickly and successfully Nintendo goes after people who pirate their games, they could easily go after some loser who's getting their employees flooded with harassment and death threats, and yet. They like their industry attack dog who'll yell at reviewers for giving a game a 9/10.

November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM

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Lum

@brokentoys.social

November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM

Jason McMaster

@mcmaster.bsky.social

I just want some gyoza, dude

jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 9d

November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM

Jason McMaster

@mcmaster.bsky.social

What?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9d

What? nypost.com/2025/11/24/m...

NY Post headline: Vanity Fair to publish ‘abstract nude portrait’ of Olivia Nuzzi — as scandal-plagued journalist accused of shirking job duties: report

November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Minilla Jovovich 🍉

@minillajovovich.bsky.social

if only rogue one were as well written as it is directed! (andor is the well written version)

November 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)

November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM

Jason McMaster

@mcmaster.bsky.social

This is a weirdly miserable list

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10d

The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

variety.com/lists/best-c...