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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

Deep cut, I like it.

painting of Martin Luther publicly burning the papal bull excommunicating him

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Sarah Kelly @sarahkelly.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry but the commercial where Garfield is at the vet and the vet is like “Lasagna? As in … lasagna?” That’s good advertising comedy.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6h

Hitler and Speer from Downfall admiring the plans for a remodeled Berlin

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 11h

Every day that Schumer and Jeffries don't do this speaks volumes

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

It is baffling that Democrats didn't hold a press conference within sight of this destruction. It's a perfect visual metaphor.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats gonna announce a press conference to demand the demolition process be halted

the conference will be scheduled for next wednesday

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 12h

sorry but "severe financial distress" is not possible when you're owned by one of the richest people in the world

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 1d

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The President can do anything he wants to do. And this isn't even a "the law is irrelevant" situation. If he calls a guy to wreck the White House and they let the bulldozers on the grounds then who's stopping him? No one.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As a matter of current law, could the president just…knock down the entire White House? Just raze the whole thing to the ground?

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, the guy who wrote the original version of "Dazed and Confused" that Zeppelin ripped off is the same guy who wrote "Be All That You Can Be" for the Army.

Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 1d

There used to be an entire industry of people who made songs out of whole cloth for TV ads. Not anymore. You can only use these three songs in your ads and no others, regardless of product or service, it's The Law now:

youtu.be/kY27wmTZwyg?...

youtu.be/DxQK_ARQmMY?...

youtu.be/ysmVlaw36L0?...

You Make My Dreams (Come True)

YouTube video by Daryl Hall & John Oates - Topic

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 1d

The last pocket of resistance is Big Pharma, which still uses jingles, but we all know how they consider themselves Above The Law. They will be brought to heel someday soon, with the smooth sound of Hall and Oates accompanying descriptions of the most horrific side effects you've ever heard.

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 1d

Why only those three? I don't know, I'm not a moron and I don't do coke.

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 1d

There used to be an entire industry of people who made songs out of whole cloth for TV ads. Not anymore. You can only use these three songs in your ads and no others, regardless of product or service, it's The Law now:

youtu.be/kY27wmTZwyg?...

youtu.be/DxQK_ARQmMY?...

youtu.be/ysmVlaw36L0?...

You Make My Dreams (Come True)

YouTube video by Daryl Hall & John Oates - Topic

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 2d

Plaintiff's exhibit 304A, Aimée v. Gumby (1979) - surveillance photo alleged by Gumby's third wife Anouk Aimée to be Gumby and Prickle visiting the Tahitian Den massage parlor, 405 W. 42nd St, New York, October 1977

Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 2d

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 2d

It took Lehrer being knocked out for three months by a heart attack and bypass surgery and watching the show closely each night, plus a razor thin margin vote by the PBS stations to keep the program on the network, to get them to shape the broadcast into more or less what it is now.

Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 2d

PBS News posted the first night of the hour show. MacNeil and Lehrer would tell you it simply did not work - the show had no structure to it, you had to pay attention to the whole hour. The Times rightfully called out the segment with local newspaper editors as irrelevant: youtu.be/4ekIw9k7n6Y?...

WATCH: The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour debuts in 1983

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 2d

The Nixon Foundation’s primary purpose was always to re-litigate Watergate & edify Richard Nixon. He founded the Nixon Center (now Center for the National Interest) to advance his foreign policy goals. But after 1994 (ahem) the Foundation couldn’t keep its hands off CNI - bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jennifer Jacobs @jenniferjjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

News: Trump will receive the "Architect of Peace" award today from the Nixon Foundation. Among those who will be at White House to present it are Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox, ex national security advisor Robert O'Brien, Jim Byron, the acting archivist of the US, sources tell CBS News

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 2d

This is stated quite a bit more elegantly than I put it yesterday:

S knows that LINK SHOULD BE FREE @sknowsthatp.bsky.social · 14d

@amnanawaz.bsky.social is the best broadcast journalist there is right now about following up on some nonsense that GOP leaders try to say without anyone noticing, and she DOES NOT get her just due for doing that and she absolutely should.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14d

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday said that he may support a future vote on health care subsidies in exchange for Democratic votes to reopen the federal government.

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3d

taking an actual wrecking ball to the White House is a little on the nose as far as metaphors go

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 3d

The only white house ballroom I want to hear about is LBJ ordering pants.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorites from the archive is a Very Serious discussion about a newfangled product called Pringles, including interviews with local potato chip makers frothing at the mouth with rage and Lehrer absolutely serving in long hair and aviators: share.google/h9Zhzmq4ev2v...

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 3d

The current version of the program is excellent, better than even in MacNeil and Lehrer's day. I consider @amnanawaz.bsky.social the best anchor on TV - intelligent, empathetic, but will happily (and civilly) gut an interviewee who tries to get one over on her like a freshly caught trout.

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 3d

Robin MacNeil started the program on an invite from WNET (Channel 13), New York following his success w/Jim Lehrer in covering the Senate Watergate Hearings. I found his interviews with the TV Academy last year and fell in love; he presents as a wickedly funny raconteur: share.google/JGtDUDhKpSB7...

Robert MacNeil

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Pudge Heffelfinger @pudgeyale92.bsky.social · 3d

Today marks the 50th birthday of one of the last sources on American TV for real news: the PBS NewsHour. It is also the only news broadcast with a complete, searchable archive open to the public online, a real treasure trove:

From left: Judy Woodruff, Robin MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

Honestly a more embarrassing thing for the head of a major news organization to say than “let’s do the fucking news.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, surprised senior staff at the venerable news program "60 Minutes" during a meeting on Tuesday when she asked a provocative question:
Why does the country think you're biased?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 4d

There was a moment in time when whoever makes ties for Sears lost their damn mind

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