Eric Z.
@ericzieg.bsky.social
Stage, songs, walks, and stuff.
Album ‘Second Husband’: https://ericziegenhagen.bandcamp.com/album/second-husband
Album ‘Second Husband’: https://ericziegenhagen.bandcamp.com/album/second-husband
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Roz Chast
The Last Thanksgiving
November 22, 2010
The Last Thanksgiving
November 22, 2010
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Roz Chast
The Last Thanksgiving
November 22, 2010
The Last Thanksgiving
November 22, 2010
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I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother
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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 🧵
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Deploying counterterrorism tools against domestic political opponents.
Last night, the FBI's Counterterrorism Division appeared to open an inquiry into me in response to a video President Trump did not like.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Deploying counterterrorism tools against domestic political opponents.
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Two housewives chatting through the window in 1655. One is about to lose her salmon steaks to a very fortunate dog! By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Two housewives chatting through the window in 1655. One is about to lose her salmon steaks to a very fortunate dog! By Nicolaes Maes, whose day is today.
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Hey I'll be on the internet typing tonite about my band Mint Mile's new LP andwhichstray. Everyone will listen to the rec together and type back at me with probing q's. This record was the next-to-last thing our beloved Steve Albini recorded (hi FACS), and I like it very much xo tm
Mint Mile "andwhichstray" Listening Party! from Mint Mile
Listening Party from Mint Mile.
mintmile.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hey I'll be on the internet typing tonite about my band Mint Mile's new LP andwhichstray. Everyone will listen to the rec together and type back at me with probing q's. This record was the next-to-last thing our beloved Steve Albini recorded (hi FACS), and I like it very much xo tm
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November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
So many perfect moments in there, in the dialogue and acting especially, but really across the board:
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So many perfect moments in there, in the dialogue and acting especially, but really across the board:
“participatory journalism”
just read a piece calling Nuzzi a "modern day political version of Hunter S. Thompson" and I think I need to log off
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“participatory journalism”
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There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
Party black sheep recognize party black sheep:
Reporter: Would you feel comfortable living in New York City under a Mamdani administration?
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
Pres. Trump: Yeah, I would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Party black sheep recognize party black sheep:
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Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches
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my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
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Zelensky calling up Mamdani right now: "Dude, what's your secret? How do you do it?"
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Zelensky calling up Mamdani right now: "Dude, what's your secret? How do you do it?"
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And now I hear that the Siebel Institute is leaving Chicago, its home of over 150 years, for Montréal. Oof, a sad day for beer news.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
And now I hear that the Siebel Institute is leaving Chicago, its home of over 150 years, for Montréal. Oof, a sad day for beer news.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
Siebel embodies much of the US beer industry's historical growth. Even if it's not ending, this departure feels symbolic and dreadful.
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Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.
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The reporting, the precision, the displays of data, the comparisons to Chicago PD’s comparatively rare use of chemical force, the explanation of policies on using gas & pepper bullets, the descriptions of the effects of tear gas…all outstanding. This level of work wins Pulitzers. Outstanding /2
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The reporting, the precision, the displays of data, the comparisons to Chicago PD’s comparatively rare use of chemical force, the explanation of policies on using gas & pepper bullets, the descriptions of the effects of tear gas…all outstanding. This level of work wins Pulitzers. Outstanding /2
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Looks like the hot new remote job scam is getting you to pay for credit checks so the company sending you the link gets a referral fee. Do not do this.
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Looks like the hot new remote job scam is getting you to pay for credit checks so the company sending you the link gets a referral fee. Do not do this.
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Was searching for the 'How Should A Person Be?' ballcap I saw Zadie Smith wearing in an interview and accidentally stumbled instead onto a typically wise Wallace Shawn essay: lithub.com/wallace-shaw...
Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?
Most of those who have dreamed of a more just world, who have perhaps spent their lives trying to prepare for one, have confronted the cold intransigence of the world’s entrenched elites, the dug-i…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Was searching for the 'How Should A Person Be?' ballcap I saw Zadie Smith wearing in an interview and accidentally stumbled instead onto a typically wise Wallace Shawn essay: lithub.com/wallace-shaw...
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love watching a tv show and seeing Dylan Baker in the opening credits, because you know someone's about to do the most depraved shit imaginable.
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
love watching a tv show and seeing Dylan Baker in the opening credits, because you know someone's about to do the most depraved shit imaginable.
Good one:
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Good one: