Rob Ware
@robware.bsky.social
A learner rather.
Cycling, books, games, cinema
Salt Lake City, UT
Cycling, books, games, cinema
Salt Lake City, UT
Never solved a weekend edition puzzle submission faster than I did this morning 😋😎
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November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Never solved a weekend edition puzzle submission faster than I did this morning 😋😎
Casino
No cash
Casino
No cash
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
Even though we’re not doing anything, still gotta dress for the day
November 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Even though we’re not doing anything, still gotta dress for the day
Photographic evidence that Žižek is just Bloom’s ratchet account
Pictured below: Jacques Derrida and Harold Bloom in the woods of Weehawken, New Jersey, agreeing to terms before their pistol duel.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Photographic evidence that Žižek is just Bloom’s ratchet account
GF is sick now (caught it from me — sorry babe!), so this is the Thanksgiving dinner plan
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
GF is sick now (caught it from me — sorry babe!), so this is the Thanksgiving dinner plan
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This feels like a timely prompt to announce that I have a new book out, The Women of 1922 (ed. w/ Sascha Morrell). These really superb essays each consider the stakes of women’s writing in 1922, #modernism 's miracle year, across different global contexts link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #modwrite
The Utah state legislature rushed to ban fluoridated drinking water based on no evidence, but they continue to do nothing about the arsenic and other poisons that’ll kill the Wasatch front when the great salt lake dries
With many unknowns lingering about what the lake’s dust contains, environmental groups are calling for action instead of waiting for more data.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/11/26/great-salt-lake-dust-full-toxins
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/11/26/great-salt-lake-dust-full-toxins
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Utah state legislature rushed to ban fluoridated drinking water based on no evidence, but they continue to do nothing about the arsenic and other poisons that’ll kill the Wasatch front when the great salt lake dries
Looks like I’ll be watching Spacek and Duvall in 3 Women after thanksgiving dinner
Looking for something to watch this week? Don't miss these films leaving the Criterion Channel! Head to the links below to see everything leaving at the end of the month.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Looks like I’ll be watching Spacek and Duvall in 3 Women after thanksgiving dinner
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$300M for golf trips, a fancy $250M ballroom, a $1B flying palace, gold trinkets from everyone, making money hand over fist with advanced knowledge of tariffs and the stock market. I can see why he thinks things are doing so damn great. It's never been better for him. For us? Not so much.
NEW -- Trump's golf tab tops $70 million since returning to office and is on pace to exceed $300 million by the end of his term.
Three hundred million.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Three hundred million.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million
The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.
www.huffpost.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
$300M for golf trips, a fancy $250M ballroom, a $1B flying palace, gold trinkets from everyone, making money hand over fist with advanced knowledge of tariffs and the stock market. I can see why he thinks things are doing so damn great. It's never been better for him. For us? Not so much.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Seeing Kidman (and that little guy she was married to) in this on December 5 at Broadway cinema courtesy of @saltlakefilmsoc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Seeing Kidman (and that little guy she was married to) in this on December 5 at Broadway cinema courtesy of @saltlakefilmsoc.bsky.social
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
GOP, incinerating public education resources: the states will have less requirements…
Me, a progressive: you mean “fewer”
Me, a progressive: you mean “fewer”
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
GOP, incinerating public education resources: the states will have less requirements…
Me, a progressive: you mean “fewer”
Me, a progressive: you mean “fewer”
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Have you ever seen a Commie drink water, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Have you ever seen a Commie drink water, Charlie Brown?
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“I may, I might, I must” by Marianne Moore
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“I may, I might, I must” by Marianne Moore
@thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dem candidates lose because, no matter their actual positions, republicans invent lies about them based on random social users to campaign against
Also @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dems need to moderate their positions to GOP-lite, despite the above
Also @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dems need to moderate their positions to GOP-lite, despite the above
.@thirdwaymattb.bsky.social (from @thirdway.bsky.social) and Brooke debate whether running moderate candidates in swing districts is the key to Democrats winning back voters. Plus, why he thinks Zohran Mamdani poses a ‘serious political problem’ for the Dems: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dem candidates lose because, no matter their actual positions, republicans invent lies about them based on random social users to campaign against
Also @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dems need to moderate their positions to GOP-lite, despite the above
Also @thirdwaymattb.bsky.social: dems need to moderate their positions to GOP-lite, despite the above
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decades of watching incredible women reporters be accused of this kind of bullshit while they struggle to get recognition for amazing work meanwhile this hack was actually doing it and being called a generational writing talent for it
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
decades of watching incredible women reporters be accused of this kind of bullshit while they struggle to get recognition for amazing work meanwhile this hack was actually doing it and being called a generational writing talent for it
The word itself makes some millennials uncomfortable. Mayonnaise. They don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say, whereas without batting an eye, they will refer to their fry sauce or their garlic aioli or their creamy chipotle dip.
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The word itself makes some millennials uncomfortable. Mayonnaise. They don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say, whereas without batting an eye, they will refer to their fry sauce or their garlic aioli or their creamy chipotle dip.
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I think all of them should be required by law to say "and I worked for DOGE" every time they give their name.
Barista: What name should I put on the cup?
Luke: Luke. And I worked for DOGE
Barista: You want me to throw the drink at you or just pour it down the sink?
Luke: *sigh* Sink is fine
Barista: What name should I put on the cup?
Luke: Luke. And I worked for DOGE
Barista: You want me to throw the drink at you or just pour it down the sink?
Luke: *sigh* Sink is fine
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I think all of them should be required by law to say "and I worked for DOGE" every time they give their name.
Barista: What name should I put on the cup?
Luke: Luke. And I worked for DOGE
Barista: You want me to throw the drink at you or just pour it down the sink?
Luke: *sigh* Sink is fine
Barista: What name should I put on the cup?
Luke: Luke. And I worked for DOGE
Barista: You want me to throw the drink at you or just pour it down the sink?
Luke: *sigh* Sink is fine