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senior writer at The Ringer. no you hang up!
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lopatto.bsky.social
find someone who loves you like larry summers hates women
bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12h
"Summers declined to comment on Wednesday beyond referring to previous remarks in which he acknowledged 'regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.' (...Summers is a contributing writer for The New York Times Opinion section.)"

They don't mention the IQ email

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
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November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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stevenhyden.bsky.social
For @the-ringer.bsky.social, I wrote a big thing about Robbie Robertson's new memoir, which focuses on his friendship with Martin Scorsese in the late 70s, a topic I've long been obsessed with. Also went deeper on their overall collaboration in Hollywood and beyond. www.theringer.com/2025/11/12/p...
The Enduring, Hedonistic Bromance of Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese
A new posthumous memoir by Robertson, ‘Insomnia,’ details his relationship with the director from the late 1970s until their final collaboration on ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
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November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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ONLY A FEW HOURS LEFT!

Don’t miss your chance to bid to win a band-signed poster from the @phish.com summer tour, like this sweet foil by Lewy Jones from the North Charleston shows.
A band-signed poster
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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benlindbergh.bsky.social
Made a new Ringer show called Plot Hole or Not Hole, in which I ask TV/moviemakers about perceived plot holes in their work. First guest: Vince Gilligan on a possible plot hole in Breaking Bad. If people watch, I'll get to make more of these, so, you know, please do!
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The TRUTH Behind the Most Famous Plot Hole in 'Breaking Bad' (With Vince Gilligan)
YouTube video by Ringer TV
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November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
i lived an entire lifetime in this reality and it was beautiful, my grandkids were at my side at the end, then i blinked and it was gone, but i have no regrets
normcharlatan.bsky.social Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 11d
trying to imagine if you’d lost a World Series because your center fielder trucked the left fielder and the ball dropped in the outfield
November 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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zanerzas.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
kept thinking this was a game/series for ants until I finally looked up the home plate ump and he’s 6’7”
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
RABBIT RABBIT
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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stevenhyden.bsky.social
My weekly newsletter is now live. I wrote about Grantland and Beach Slang, two of my biggest mid-2010s mainstays.

Please consider subscribing for direct links to my writing/pods. It's free! Thank you!

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The End Of Grantland, 10 Years On
Plus: Thoughts On The Springsteen Biopic and My Favorite Music Of October 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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putting a bowl of grateful dead tapes out for the kids
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"Fundamentally, would Fried and Bankman-Fried have been okay with any other payment processor they contracted with using customer deposits as working capital for a hedge fund?"
protos.com Protos @protos.com · 12d
The Context: 💭 Barbara Fried misrepresents SBF's crimes

Barbara Fried has apparently stepped in to defend her son, Sam Bankman-Fried, and has continued the family history of deceit.

Latest from @bft.wtf

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October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
Check out this obscure band's weird song
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TomPettyVEVO
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
was annoyed/concerned bc my son was searching something on the computer when he wasn’t supposed to but then when I looked at the history it was “cool hats for guys”
October 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Fox broadcast: we aren’t going to show you this awful injury
Red Zone: hey kid, wanna see a dead body?
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
weeping for my crayon eating son and also might hurl #newyorkgiantsfootball
October 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
They have your ex on an informational graphic here
Picture of a weakfish
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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girinathan.bsky.social
kind of on edge watching wemby.. first jumpscare superstar
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
in honor of the return of the NBA i would like to share this image of the “basketball court” on the 4th floor terrace of my West LA office building
like a quarter basketball court on a roof with about a two-foot wall on the side of the building overlooking the street
October 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
In case you missed it I chatted with TASK creator Brad Ingelsby about the former-priest in his life and the influence of Richard Rohr on TASK and MARE OF EASTTOWN (and used it as an excuse to share the catechism I received)

www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/t...
Like Ingelsby, I was raised in a religious family and, for a time, attended Catholic school. (A core 1995 memory is our seventh-grade religion teacher, Sister Butler, telling us: “Persecution is Jesus. Prosecution is Marcia Clark.”) My dad, one of eight kids, grew up in a neighborhood in Yonkers where the Irish were so Catholic they practically turned into Italians, exclaiming “Madone!” in the manner of a Soprano to invoke the Virgin Mary. My great-aunt Gigi, on the other side of the family, was a nun in Wisconsin; when I got into college, she sent me a letter saying she had prayed for my admission. (I’ve always wondered how much more oomph her requests had with the man upstairs than, say, my mother’s did.) “I asked him: Why did you become a priest? What was that moment? What was the feeling?” he recalls. “And he mentioned that quote to me, like: ‘It wasn’t some bolt of lightning hitting me at some moment. There wasn’t some, you know, some image or epiphany. It was just this constant voice, this very, very quiet but constant voice inside me that was pushing me in that direction. And I wanted to get closer to the source.’ “And what I always imagined,” Ingelsby continues, “was that Tom heard the voice, but over time, it’s diminished. It’s diminished and diminished, and it’s almost inaudible now.” Indeed, in the midseason episode “All Roads,” Grasso asks Tom why he became a priest, and Tom answers: “Um, it was a feeling, I guess. That there was something beyond me, and I wanted to get closer to the source of it. But the longer I stayed, the further away I felt.”
October 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I spent some time with Jim Downey, the guy who has some of the best lines in Billy Madison, One Battle After Another, and The Chair Company. Oh, and he was the longest-tenured writer in SNL history. www.theringer.com/2025/10/21/t...
Looking Back With Jim Downey, the King of Comedy Writers
After decades of influencing the style of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the most influential comedy institution in America, Downey is finally ready allow himself some retrospection
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Super Mario 64 (1996)
chrisvannini.com Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 22d
Having Windhorst on First Take via picture frame is so funny to me
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
had a long TASK night of the soul

www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/t...
In ‘Task,’ Faith Is Defined by Doubts—and Doubters
Just like ‘Mare of Easttown’ before it, HBO’s ‘Task’ is a story about asking questions and listening for answers. We spoke with showrunner Brad Ingelsby about leaps of faith, Christian mystics, and th...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this is bothering me again
 katiebakes @katiebakes.bsky.social · Mar 31
I love the Fleet Foxes Live on Boston Harbor record sooOoOooOOooo much but the giddy Masshole crowd is truly unbearable—it's like owning a Bruins parade on vinyl
October 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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espiers.bsky.social
The 10 year old designed / drew the pumpkin face and it’s got a grizzled tabloid reporter from the 70s vibe where I imagine it starting every sentence with “listen, kid…” and I feel like it needs a cigar in its mouth.
Carved pumpkin with a satisfied smirk / grin that makes it look like a world weary cynical tabloid reporter
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I know I’m overtired because in some sick way I enjoyed today’s Giants game
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM