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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

Here’s the thing about the Civil Rights Movement people don’t realize, shit was messy.

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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 3d

REMINDER: THIS SUNDAY @ 6pm. EP Release Show. Note: Venue change. We'll be at the bike shop cafe inside Chophouse Row. Promo Singles here: collapseofahouseparty.bandcamp.com?fbclid=PAZXh...

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 5d

I mean, it's a little on the nose to lose to Canadians* on the same day the White House is getting wrecked for the first time since the War of 1812.

*I love Canadians** and will root for them in the next round.

**My favorite Canadian is Josh Naylor.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5d

Welp. That one’s gonna hurt for a while.

Love love love this team, though. Bring back Naylor and let’s run this shit back.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 5d

the last six weeks or so of m's baseball has been some of the most fun baseball i've seen in my life

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 6d

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 6d

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 6d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 6d

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · Mar 13

So: general strike?

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 6d

Been waiting for this. Bring it on.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 7d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists. Okay:

Velvet Underground
Curtis Mayfield
The Pretenders
Judee Sill
Lee Morgan
Steve Reich
De La Soul
England Dan & John Ford Coley

Sarah Manvel with a🪝for a 🖐️ @cairdiul.bsky.social · 9d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists

Morphine
TV on the Radio
Bruce Springsteen
They Might Be Giants
Lorde
Ministry
Big Maybelle
Soul Coughing

Forgive me for being alive in the nineties and having two ears connected to a heart

j-e-l 🎃🎄🦇 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 9d

Define your musical taste in 8 artists:

- Aespa
- Disembodied Tyrant
- Poison
- Megadeth
- Avril Lavigne
- Ano
- DragonForce
- The Carpenters

Impossible!

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8d

Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 8d

every night before I go to sleep I pray that tomorrow will the day Bill Ackman challenges Serena Williams to a tennis match

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8d

Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 9d

Let no-one tell you different: the greatest kissing scene and the most romantic is NOT Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious, it’s matchless birthday girl Jean Arthur being wooed by her lodger Joel McCrea on the front stoop of her apartment in this blissful movie. youtu.be/orE5UkmYpsw

The More the Merrier kiss scene

YouTube video by Tori Mentz

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 9d

Hahaha

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 9d

goals

From Wikipedia: Walter Leland Catlett (February 4, 1889 – November 14, 1960) was an American actor and comedian.[1] He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards.

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 9d

tbh you don’t even have to be that nice, although the wrapping is not guaranteed

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 12d

Honestly, I think you can skip the _last_ quarter of many books

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12d

you can skip like the first quarter of any book, it'll be fine. just catch up as you go

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 13d

C u there!

Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social · 14d

If there weren't a thousand other things already, this would be an absolute disqualification from office. Jeez.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 14d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 14d

Al Pacino says in his memoir that after he went bankrupt, Diane Keaton gloriously went off on his entertainment lawyer. “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”

“Arthur began to explain that I was insolvent, due to mismanagement of my assets. He didn’t play a part in it, I know that. But the words just washed right over me.
Diane, however, was furious. She got up from her seat, and she started to question him: “How could this happen?” He was hemming and hawing, well, you know, this and that.
She just exploded. She went up to Arthur and was now face-to-face with him. She backed him into a corner of his office, pointed at me, and said, “Do you know who he is?”
He said, “Well, you know.”
She was practically grabbing him by the lapels: “No, tell me who he is.” He started to speak, but Diane jumped in again: “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”
I just stood there. What could I say?
Diane went on: “He’s an ignoramus. When it comes to this, you’ve got to take care of him.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14d

this is fucking obscene

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 15d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15d

It's so rare to see families with kids just strolling the streets of urban areas in the US, it kind of jumps out at you. There are kids playing tag in the plazas! There are youngs, olds, singles, marrieds, so many different colors & styles & vibes. Man I love cities.

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