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Josh Gondelman
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Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jun 28
This is now out in the world, and it would mean a lot if you checked it out, and if you enjoy it, maybe spread the word! Thanks for your time! :)
joshgondelman.bsky.social Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jun 27
My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
Positive Reinforcement cover art!!! I’m wearing a cardigan with another cardigan draped over my shoulders. My name and the title are kind of styled like the Big Lebowski opening titles!
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Peter Dinklage Guest Star Emmy campaign starts now (or I guess four weeks ago, but I just saw the episode now)!
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I know. I’m such a scold because I think you shouldn’t rape any children at all, and if you knew about the rape of children and didn’t say anything you’re officially a bad person.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Minny Josh might get stuck in YOUR city! Go get a ticket
joshgondelman.bsky.social Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13h
Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
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Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy! 
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November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Solidarity with the Starbucks workers in their ongoing fight for a fair contract!
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 18h
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Josh Gondelman
Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy! 
theparkwaytheater.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Minneapolis: I am braving the elements and current air travel situation to do one show for you at the Parkway Theater on 11/23 (a week from Sunday)!!! Get your tickets: theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/j...
Josh Gondelman
Fresh from his new stand-up special Positive Reinforcement, Josh Gondelman returns to The Parkway for a hilarious night of stand-up comedy! 
theparkwaytheater.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I'm really blown away by the reporting that 404 Media has been doing, especially around issues of mass surveillance!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Reinstatement now!
November 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Solidarity with the Starbucks workers in their ongoing fight for a fair contract!
sbworkersunited.org Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 18h
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.

#NoContractNoCoffee
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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This is such a hack answer, but reading Infinite Jest really exploded my understanding of and empathy around the issues of depression and addiction! It legitimately made me a better person!
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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I even find Jeffrey Epstein's email address unsettling.
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
joshgondelman.bsky.social
This is such a hack answer, but reading Infinite Jest really exploded my understanding of and empathy around the issues of depression and addiction! It legitimately made me a better person!
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!

tell me about a book that changed you

for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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George Clooney is cracking his knuckles and firing up his op-ed laptop at this very moment.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d
UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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From this week’s newsletter, some words on the concept of a “heat check.” Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/157-jennifer...
Does everybody know about the concept of a "heat check?" It's a basketball term referring to a player who has hit a a few shots in a row and decides to test the strength of their momentum by launching another shot from exceptional distance, or while off-balance, or in the face of smothering defense. It's a useful framework for extra-basketball behavior as well. Damien Chazelle following up Whiplash and La La Land with the chaotic and far-ranging Babylon was a heat check. Meghan Markle launching a line of jams was a heat check. Any athlete who puts out a rap song...heat check. I bring this up because on Tuesday night I witnessed possibly the greatest heat check of my life. It was well after midnight, and an exuberant lingered crowd on the sidewalk outside of the Paramount in Brooklyn, the site of Zohran Mamdani's official post-election party. A DJ with a powerful bluetooth speaker was buoying the already effervescent mood with a wide range of songs. He caused a borderline frenzy by throwing on "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled featuring a bunch of actual artists. He followed up the 21st century's preeminent Jock Jam (unofficial) with the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" which is a song made for bar mitzvahs and movie montages of friends having a great night out that doesn't include club drugs. It was a little corny, sure, but it kept a sense of millennial optimism going. The crowd, who had previously been turning up to some Middle Eastern dance music I didn't recognize was now shouting: "Mazel tov!"
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I'm on tonight's Doug Loves Movies show at City Winery in New York City along with Kate Micucci, Seth Herzog, and Joey Bragg!
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I loved this too!!!
jonnyauping.bsky.social LeeAnn Wombat @jonnyauping.bsky.social · 2d
for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Lizzy Goodman’s oral history Meet Me In The Bathroom, a book that is easy and smart to recommend to someone who seems like they might like it (they will). i also wrote about being uncomfortable for the sake of a scene mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/meet-me-in...
My issues with glamorizing New York City in the way I just did - or the way Meet Me In The Bathroom does - is not that it's an incorrect or embellished framing. It has more to do with my frustration with a refusal to treat any other place like it has the ingredients for the same kind of magic. Those other places not only do have those ingredients, but produce that magic constantly.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I loved this!!!!
natalieweiner.bsky.social Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 5d
while i was in 21 hours of labor on tuesday (...) the posts kept coming :) got the chance to speak with the inimitable and kind James Talley for Don't Rock The Inbox about the 50th anniversary of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love' www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...
James Talley On 50 Years of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love'
The veteran singer-songwriter talks with DRTI about his timeless debut, and the half-century since.
www.dontrocktheinbox.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Dallas fans chanting "Fire Nico!" enough that it's actually happening is basically witchcraft, which I mean as a compliment.
theathletic.com The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are expected to fire Nico Harrison, sources tell The Athletic.

The former Nike executive drove the decision to trade Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers eight months after Dončić led Dallas to an NBA Finals appearance.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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My most firmly held and dumbest gambling opinion is that point spreads are for nerds. "I'm betting on Cleveland to win OR to lose by less than five." Grow up! Pick a winner! You shouldn't be happy if a team you pick keeps it close! You should feel BAD!
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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From this week’s newsletter, some words on the concept of a “heat check.” Read it all: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/157-jennifer...
Does everybody know about the concept of a "heat check?" It's a basketball term referring to a player who has hit a a few shots in a row and decides to test the strength of their momentum by launching another shot from exceptional distance, or while off-balance, or in the face of smothering defense. It's a useful framework for extra-basketball behavior as well. Damien Chazelle following up Whiplash and La La Land with the chaotic and far-ranging Babylon was a heat check. Meghan Markle launching a line of jams was a heat check. Any athlete who puts out a rap song...heat check. I bring this up because on Tuesday night I witnessed possibly the greatest heat check of my life. It was well after midnight, and an exuberant lingered crowd on the sidewalk outside of the Paramount in Brooklyn, the site of Zohran Mamdani's official post-election party. A DJ with a powerful bluetooth speaker was buoying the already effervescent mood with a wide range of songs. He caused a borderline frenzy by throwing on "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled featuring a bunch of actual artists. He followed up the 21st century's preeminent Jock Jam (unofficial) with the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" which is a song made for bar mitzvahs and movie montages of friends having a great night out that doesn't include club drugs. It was a little corny, sure, but it kept a sense of millennial optimism going. The crowd, who had previously been turning up to some Middle Eastern dance music I didn't recognize was now shouting: "Mazel tov!"
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I do think sports betting should be legal, but you should have to place bets in person with someone you are afraid will physically harm you if you don't pay up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I love this so much and cried a little at it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM