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Matthew Rothenberg
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NY Post cover: On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mandani wins race for mayor THE RED APPLE
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Oh, ffs. 🙄🙄🙄
NY Times headline and deck: For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some longtime critics.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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She posted this, if anybody wants to go yuck HER yum! 🤗
“I-Michelle @i-michelle.bsky.social • 3h #coppernote pRESCOTT this is called the copper bowl, quinoa cannellini beans, broccoli squash, tomatoes in a tomato sauce space comes with pita bread delicious recommend”
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Remember when @lizzobeeating.bsky.social played James Madison’s Crystal flute and Republicans lost their minds? What happened to all that historical agita? 🤔
Destruction of WH East Wing
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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RE No Kings demonstrations: To paraphrase Chris Rock, I haven't seen white people this mad since they cancelled M*A*S*H!

So far, all the photos I’m finding from places like Atlanta and Baltimore are super-Caucasian … Is it a question of coverage or a real thing?
Many white people say “No Kings!” at a demonstration in Grand Rapids.
October 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Willard Scott was one weatherman who knew which way the wind blew!
Willard Scott in a knit hat and scarf.
September 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Stop making mistakes: Done and dusted! 🇬🇧🤨
GUARDIAN HEADLINE Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes
September 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Edgar the Bug from “Men in Black.”
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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He’s looking more like this every week! 😳
Baron Harkonnen, “Dune,” 1984
August 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Baron Harkonnen, “Dune,” 1984.
August 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Don’t. Mention. The. War. 🫢
Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com • 23h Guys we need communism 221 834 6K .•• Love for All @stoporangefasci... • 2h My grandfather fought against the Soviets in WW2. No. Full stop. 272 217 47 • •• -mOX @moxiest.art so... sorry, just one quick follow-up... April 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM 15 reposts 4 quotes 1.2K likes Follow Back
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I don’t like to work blue, but fuck those guys. 🚫🎯
BLACK ENTERPRISE: BOYCOTT HITS HARD: TARGET LOSES $12B IN VALUE AS BLACK SHOPPERS WITHDRAW SUPPORT
August 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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New GOP sandwich dropped …
Swastika-shaped “waygu sando” on A-frame sign for the Hungry Panda restaurant.
August 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Has he really? This seems like … wishful thinking!? … by NYT.
NYT headline: ANALYSIS How Trump Deflected His Base's Wrath Over Jeffrey Epstein, at Least for Now By tapping into other grievances, President Trump turned a fractious moment for his base into a unifying one. 5 MIN READ
July 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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So often apropos …
Clippy: “Hi! It looks like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should probably take a goddamned seat. Would you like some help with that? Yes No”
June 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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I’m seeing a resurgence of MAGA trolls here. What’s up w/that?
May 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Wild photo, guys. Doin’ the pigeon.
Left: Jony and Sam. Right: Ernie and Bert.
May 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Dates!
May 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Tell me again about Brexit …
From the Sunday Times: Macron to make UK state visit months before Trump The French president will see his friend King Charles in May, prompting questions about Britain's trade priorities • NEW Roya Nikkhah, Royal Editor | Harry Yorke, Deputy Political Editor Saturday April 19 2025, 10.00pm BST, The Sunday Times President Macron will be granted a state visit to Britain several months before President Trump, as the UK charms the French president as part of an attempt to negotiate closer trade ties with Europe.
April 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This was the pitch in a political email I received this morning.

I should donate so Democrats can convince “moderate” Republicans? The last time I believed moderate Republicans existed was when I thought they’d quietly back Clinton in 2016.
“As you read this, Republicans are preparing to pass massive, permanent tax cuts for the richest people of this country — paid for by huge cuts to programs the rest of us rely on like Medicaid, Medicare, Head Start and more. The Democratic Party needs your help to stop them. If everyone reading those donated even just $5 to the Democratic National Committee they'd have the resources they needed to organize in districts we can convince moderate Republicans to vote no. We only need a few of them. But not everyone gives; that's why we need people who understand the importance of this moment to chip-in today.”
April 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Participants celebrate at Oràm Mór after the Jerome Rothenberg-themed ”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC. Participants celebrate at Oràm Mór after the Jerome Rothenberg-themed ”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC. Participants celebrate at Oràm Mór after the Jerome Rothenberg-themed ”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC. Participants celebrate at Oràm Mór after the Jerome Rothenberg-themed ”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC.
March 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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@glasgowwestend.bsky.social @poetry-in-glasgow.bsky.social You have an amazing city full of wonderful people! “Anthology as Manifesto,” the two-day symposium at @uofglasgow.bsky.social exploring Jerome Rothenberg’s lasting influence on poems and poetics, was a tremendous success … Tapadh leat! 🙏🏼
Tobin Rothenbergs standing at entrance to University of Glasgow. Poet Tom Pickard reads at the”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC. Attendees at the”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC. Participants celebrate at Oràm Mór after the Jerome Rothenberg-themed ”Poetry as Manifesto” symposium at University of Glasgow ARC.
March 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I’ve always been haunted by Patrick Swayze’s choice of shirt to attend “The King and I,” and the fact that he’s literally caught dead in those floofy sleeves! 💀
Patrick Swayze in floofy sleeves.
March 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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@poetry-in-glasgow.bsky.social @glasgowwestend.bsky.social Hoping the Glasgow poetry community can attend this FREE two-day symposium at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC (including a Friday evening poetry reading you’re welcome to attend separately!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jerome-rot...
Photo of poet Jerome Rothenberg on torn paper: “ Jerome Rothenberg: Anthology as Manifesto The Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Book on Eventbrite 21/3-22/3
March 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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From an ad on Quora. Do you wash it to … Completion? 😳
Picture of a corn cob inserted into a machine on a windowsill: “BERBIGET Wash the corn while the neighbors watch. Fully automatic retractable decompression cup, no need to hold it by hand”
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM