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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 6h

Incredible how many people simply use Christianity for their own selfish ends and never consider: "What did Jesus say about empire?"

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NPR @npr.org · 13h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 7h

Still thinking hypocrisy is part of the point. We can do it to "them" but "they" better not do it to us.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8h

On a side note I have so much respect that there were producers on 60 Minutes who made the decision “I’m willing to get fired” and then Scott Pelley came on the air and said “today we said goodbye to our producer _____ because they felt like they couldn’t report the news truthfully to you anymore”

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 17h

Brewers completed possibly the wildest double play in MLB playoffs history, but it wasn't enough.

Mariners gonna sell a ton of Huckle-Nut Cannoli when they get back to their super-happy fans.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 18h

Used to be, you'd cross the county line and notice how the fire hydrants were different or something, and that's how you'd feel like you were in a slightly different world. Now, you can watch people proudly cook their own brains in real time.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 19h

I think he was playing the force all the way. No attempt to swipe tag!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 21h

"what the fuck just happened"

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

Dodgers runners variously didn't know the rules (3b runner) and that it wasn't a catch (1b and 2b runners).

David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

Contreras and the umpires knew what was happening. No one else.

David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

Contreras and the umpires knew what was happening. No one else.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

Contreras was the only one who seemed to know what was happening!

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

That was... WILD

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 21h

Jurassic Park
Parable of the Sower
Riding the Rap
The Bees
My Ántonia

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

The first episodes of the Kids Popcorn Podcast are dropping soon! Conversations with interesting adults about the movies they watched as kids and the kids movies they find interesting today. Subscribe now so you don't miss any. popcorn.29sunset.com

Kids Popcorn Podcast

Conversations with interesting people about the kids' movies that matter to them

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

By FAR, Stephen King's best work is On Writing, his non-fiction semi-memoir about being a writer, and his top fiction is mid at best.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

Wait wait wait... Mike Shildt is only 57 years old?!

Padres' Shildt retires, cites 'severe toll' of job

Mike Shildt is retiring as Padres manager with two years remaining on his contract, citing a "severe toll" the job has taken on him "mentally and physically."

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

The first episodes of the Kids Popcorn Podcast are dropping soon! Conversations with interesting adults about the movies they watched as kids and the kids movies they find interesting today. Subscribe now so you don't miss any. popcorn.29sunset.com

Kids Popcorn Podcast

Conversations with interesting people about the kids' movies that matter to them

popcorn.29sunset.com

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

The best editors I've ever had made my writing as close to bulletproof as they could. They approached editing with the idea of making my thinking and writing stronger, and in turn the stuff I subsequently brought them was much better. That drive is not evident in Weiss's published body of work.

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

Flanagan (and, I suspect, Jenkins) seems to think that Weiss is a talented person who, though once shackled, now speaks hard truths that others don't acknowledge. This ignores that her primary complaint of the NYT was that she/conservatives were held to journalistic standards and intellectual rigor.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Still dying at Flanagan accidentally writing one true sentence in her blog through her own illiteracy

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

Now that he's grown, he eats five dozen eggs...

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 1d

Maybe it's doesn't really matter, but if Springer isn't going to be in the outfield with Santander the DH, when Clement, Schneider, Barger and Santander are all in, why wouldn't the Blue Jays put Barger and his strong arm in RF to keep Santander in LF? Feels like putting Schneider in LF is odd.

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 1d

Everyone is talking about butt plug shirt guy, but don’t sleep on the super jacked dude behind him

A goomba from the Super Mario Brothers movie

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David 29 Sunset @29sunset.com · 2d

You know right away it's a bad piece because "publishing a blistering letter of resignation enumerating the ways that the paper had abandoned the core principles that had made it great" is a fundamentally dishonest reading of Weiss's resignation.

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