Bobby Silverman
@robertsilverman.bsky.social
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Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.
www.basketballfeelings.com
At @wtevs.bsky.social's BASKETBALL FEELINGS, the Zesty KAT stuff took me right back to my own dumb childhood jock dreams and the ugly homophobia that’s seeping into ever corner of the current fascist moment—even the '24-25 Knicks. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/exits-some...
Thing is, the groypers in the White House don’t read propublica or wired or any of those shops. They mainline viral Twitter clips / ragebait posted by far right influencers. So of course they’re declaring jihad on The View.
The psychology of this website is so transparent. They're not attacking progressive media (who don't give a shit) so much as they're naming access bootlickers who already often cater to the WH anyway — because they’ll actually freak out and change their coverage *even more.*
Just working the refs.
Just working the refs.
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Thing is, the groypers in the White House don’t read propublica or wired or any of those shops. They mainline viral Twitter clips / ragebait posted by far right influencers. So of course they’re declaring jihad on The View.
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"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"Life goes on. A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy?"
goddamnit. Rest in power to one of the greats
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
goddamnit. Rest in power to one of the greats
replace the ACA with Playing Basketball Against the Knicks at MSG, imo. Best health care system in the world
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
replace the ACA with Playing Basketball Against the Knicks at MSG, imo. Best health care system in the world
It's all lunacy ofc, but the right has been hammering away at this autopen conspiracy since the inauguration. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It's all lunacy ofc, but the right has been hammering away at this autopen conspiracy since the inauguration. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
The Grateful Dead
REM
The Walkmen
Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
The Grateful Dead
REM
The Walkmen
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Nirvana
Bowie & NIN
Wu
Sunny Day Real Estate
Kendrick
Nirvana
Bowie & NIN
Wu
Sunny Day Real Estate
Kendrick
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
The Grateful Dead
REM
The Walkmen
Elvis Costello
Tom Waits
The Grateful Dead
REM
The Walkmen
For thanksgiving, Shams has blessed us with the most tortured, incoherent sentences he’s ever written.
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
For thanksgiving, Shams has blessed us with the most tortured, incoherent sentences he’s ever written.
correct
The Best Album of 1989 is
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
correct
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Destroying universities by starving them of funding & turning them into jobs programs for RW cranks who want to play professor is part of a sweeping effort to remake society as broligarchs imagine it should be: with them as super-humans & us as sub-humans. More:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Destroying universities by starving them of funding & turning them into jobs programs for RW cranks who want to play professor is part of a sweeping effort to remake society as broligarchs imagine it should be: with them as super-humans & us as sub-humans. More:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to @bubbaprog.xyz for one of the greatest bangers of all time:
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to @bubbaprog.xyz for one of the greatest bangers of all time:
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Wow this speaks volumes. Tragic to see this beat absolutely gutted
“Coverage: whatever is relevant, trending to our readers/community. Forget the ‘newsroom’ concept—we are a simple and honest editorial operation.”
www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
“Coverage: whatever is relevant, trending to our readers/community. Forget the ‘newsroom’ concept—we are a simple and honest editorial operation.”
www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
The vanquishing of Military.com.
Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.
www.cjr.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Wow this speaks volumes. Tragic to see this beat absolutely gutted
“Coverage: whatever is relevant, trending to our readers/community. Forget the ‘newsroom’ concept—we are a simple and honest editorial operation.”
www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
“Coverage: whatever is relevant, trending to our readers/community. Forget the ‘newsroom’ concept—we are a simple and honest editorial operation.”
www.cjr.org/feature/mili...
"Not allowing no men to men"—as I'm always saying—will be the death knell of this country
Being a bigot and for what? So your friend can leak your texts to a whole ass white supremacist.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Not allowing no men to men"—as I'm always saying—will be the death knell of this country
Robert Caro... Knicks fan? The Power Broker/The Years of Lyndon Johnson as... the Oklahoma City Thunder's sacred texts? Wonderful stuff from @baxterholmes.bsky.social
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
www.espn.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Robert Caro... Knicks fan? The Power Broker/The Years of Lyndon Johnson as... the Oklahoma City Thunder's sacred texts? Wonderful stuff from @baxterholmes.bsky.social
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Vaccines.gov, the CDC's vaccination site search engine, got a MAHA makeover in June. Then it stopped working altogether.
New from me:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
New from me:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
CDC Quietly Turned Off Its Vaccine Search Tool. It’s Not Clear When It’s Coming Back.
“I have heard that they are planning to ‘update it’ and shudder to think what that will mean,” Demetre Daskalakis, a former member of CDC leadership, told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Vaccines.gov, the CDC's vaccination site search engine, got a MAHA makeover in June. Then it stopped working altogether.
New from me:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
New from me:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
These are the Frenchest babies in the world
These French babies arguing 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
These are the Frenchest babies in the world
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
this pandering is getting very me-focused. But goddamnit, yes. Yr making me wanna run thru a brick wall, Mr. Mayor
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
this pandering is getting very me-focused. But goddamnit, yes. Yr making me wanna run thru a brick wall, Mr. Mayor
[Sean Connery voice]
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
[Sean Connery voice]
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Update on the Blaze story defaming the Capitol officer as the J6 pipe bomber from CBS.
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Update on the Blaze story defaming the Capitol officer as the J6 pipe bomber from CBS.
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /
What's scary here is that ODNI sounds like crazy town...they drafted a memo with confidential info based on Steve Baker's nutso hallucinations that even Tulsi Gabbard is embarrassed by? And did similar re: Kirk /