David_j_roth
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The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
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If the news has you needing to disassociate for a little bit, please enjoy the @mobute.bsky.social & @davidjroth.bsky.social It's Christmastown podcast I guested on, along with @andylevy.net and @ugarles.bsky.social -- where we dissect a Hallmark movie's attempt at latkes and Hanukah
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
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141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
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November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If the news has you needing to disassociate for a little bit, please enjoy the @mobute.bsky.social & @davidjroth.bsky.social It's Christmastown podcast I guested on, along with @andylevy.net and @ugarles.bsky.social -- where we dissect a Hallmark movie's attempt at latkes and Hanukah
A fine day to remember Jim Harbaugh's unique relationship with "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and the remarkable interpretive work that his and other football brains have done on this important text. (This is a gift link; I believe this news must be shared widely.) defector.com/the-edmund-f...
The Edmund Fitzgerald Is Inspiring Jim Harbaugh And Michigan Football To Achieve "Lake Mindset" | Defector
The popular culture of the 1970s is almost impossible to parse in retrospect. The people making the movies and music and television of the era were horny and ambitious and earnest, they were ingesting...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A fine day to remember Jim Harbaugh's unique relationship with "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and the remarkable interpretive work that his and other football brains have done on this important text. (This is a gift link; I believe this news must be shared widely.) defector.com/the-edmund-f...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
One of the first stories I ever wrote for money was for a trade magazine called Dermatology Business Management. It was a feature on FSA/HSA back when they were new. Every public health person I talked to was like "bad idea, also badly designed." That was like 20 years ago.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
One of the first stories I ever wrote for money was for a trade magazine called Dermatology Business Management. It was a feature on FSA/HSA back when they were new. Every public health person I talked to was like "bad idea, also badly designed." That was like 20 years ago.
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I wonder if Kyler Murray ever thinks about how he could be in the prime of his arbitration years right now, making $5.4 million to play 81 games a year in Sacramento while batting in front of Jacob Wilson and Nick Kurtz
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wonder if Kyler Murray ever thinks about how he could be in the prime of his arbitration years right now, making $5.4 million to play 81 games a year in Sacramento while batting in front of Jacob Wilson and Nick Kurtz
Back, and to the left.
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Back, and to the left.
Tragic. We are failing these men.
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Tragic. We are failing these men.
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wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Inside 'Patriot,' the Cult-Favorite Spy Caper You Should Be Watching
'Patriot' creator Steven Conrad and stars Kurtwood Smith and Terry O'Quinn reflect on the short-lived Amazon spy series, which debuted 10 years ago.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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In the abstract it's good that NYC still has some 1985-style rich guys, where it's just some potato-shaped blowhard dunce who owns a bunch of parking garages or some shitty family business everyone hates. That scene shouldn't all be hedge fund "poker guys" or whatever. But the 1985 guys suck, too.
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In the abstract it's good that NYC still has some 1985-style rich guys, where it's just some potato-shaped blowhard dunce who owns a bunch of parking garages or some shitty family business everyone hates. That scene shouldn't all be hedge fund "poker guys" or whatever. But the 1985 guys suck, too.
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Pod Yourself: Mad Yourself A Man continues with @davidjroth.bsky.social joining @mattlieb.bsky.social and I for “The Gypsy and the Hobo” www.patreon.com/frotcast
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November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Pod Yourself: Mad Yourself A Man continues with @davidjroth.bsky.social joining @mattlieb.bsky.social and I for “The Gypsy and the Hobo” www.patreon.com/frotcast
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
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Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Some distraction from dystopia with a brand-new episode of Beginnings...
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
Great talk with writer & journalist @davidjroth.bsky.social! Negative motivation, suburban existentialism, how your moral instincts develop, building solidarity from exploitation + MORE!
🎧 tinyurl.com/BeginningsDJR
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there's something sort of perversely satisfying that even these yale investment banker freaks get their marching orders from a brain dead bubble boy who thinks there's some kind of "walmart report" and have to go out there and ape him by saying the most feeble childlike lies
Bessent shamelessly lies: "Inflation came down in April for the first time in four years under President Trump...Walmart came out yesterday and said the Thanksgiving meal is 25% less." (Inflation fell steadily in the last two years of the Biden administration and Walmart is making the meals smaller)
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
there's something sort of perversely satisfying that even these yale investment banker freaks get their marching orders from a brain dead bubble boy who thinks there's some kind of "walmart report" and have to go out there and ape him by saying the most feeble childlike lies
A troubled recording, a long production odyssey guided by the belief that it was worth the effort, a star-studded cast—if there is such a thing as the Megalopolis Of Hallmark Podcast Episodes, this is it. (The movie is fine, the episode is quite good.)
A magical matchmaker who looks like Lady Moff Tarkin brings together coastal deli dynasties with the help of Lisa Loeb and a doorman so two cloned Bubbes can fight over potatoes in an almost anthropologically Jewish Hallmark movie.
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
Amazon: bit.ly/480oiTH
Apple: bit.ly/43kg7ix
Spotify: bit.ly/498NkkM
141 - The Great Yiddish Bake Off
YouTube video by It's Christmastown
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A troubled recording, a long production odyssey guided by the belief that it was worth the effort, a star-studded cast—if there is such a thing as the Megalopolis Of Hallmark Podcast Episodes, this is it. (The movie is fine, the episode is quite good.)
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane
again find it bizarre that national dem leaders avoid the topic of ICE even on here but have time to congratulate an unpopular former speaker on their retirement from insider trading at 85
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane
This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
At the Fox Patriot Awards tonight, Hegseth tells a story about how Trump makes Truth Social posts after bombings.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 AM
This is so cool. Putting on formal dress and standing around on a Thursday night talking about how dope the president is. Laughing in unison at stuff that isn't quite a joke. It's on TV so everyone can watch and think about how fun it'd be to be there, doing that, too. Cash bar. No food of any kind.
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Having been in a Gristedes I can confirm that this is 100% true nypost.com/2025/11/05/b...
NYC billionaire John Catsimatidis rages over Zohran Mamdani win: ‘I don’t give a s–t about grocery stores!’
“The burden is on the Governor’s office right now and [Hochul] needs to keep her thumb,” on the city, John Catsimatidis said.
nypost.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Having been in a Gristedes I can confirm that this is 100% true nypost.com/2025/11/05/b...
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