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Myles Ethan Lascity

@elascity.bsky.social

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Quasi-jock w/semi-literary aspirations and a hint of nihilism. Fashion media prof. Summertime traveler. Author of "The Abercrombie Age": https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680910/the-abercrombie-age/

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · Oct 17

Oh! My book “The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture” on teen pop culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s just dropped earlier this week!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

Books of “The Abercrombie Age: Millennial Aspiration and the Promise of Consumer Culture” that shows two muscular white men in ripped jeans.

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 46m

This is the legacy of quantitative bias. Anything with numbers is thought to be good, objective and informative.

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 51m

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 3h

Gotta go dye my hair blue for the protest in *checks notes* Dallas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 3d

My dude is cutting quite the figure.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 3d

Not only is this explanation great, I also know 5,271,009 people whose lives would be changed for the better by taking it on board.

Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 13d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 4d

Remember the woman who claimed this about the cartoon girl and her dog in a boat during the North Carolina floods?

Well, it turns out she’s not alone.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 4d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 4d

Being in DC for a few days and it’s so hard to keep moving forward like everything is normal.

It’s so much aside to ignore everything when you’re 1500 miles away from the center.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 4d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 4d

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Chron.com @chron.com · 4d

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4d

Argentina gets $20 billion, Qatar gets an airbase in Iowa, while our soldiers are being fed by food banks. Orgs like Army Emergency Relief are stepping in amidst Trump’s shutdown, and you can make a donation at any of the links in this thread:

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 4d

That sounds like a $150-million idea.

Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 4d

Listen, I’m just an average Joe college media professor, but if you’re going to get four secretaries of state to discuss a big issue like this, don’t you need more lead time and promotion than like 24 hours?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 5d

Is it illegal to to use the justice department to harass people? In four years, can we charge Lindsey Halligan with something?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 6d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 7d

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 7d

Can a journalist please ask him what the alternative is? Just letting since immigrants die on the front steps of the hospital?

Legal status aside, that’s morally repugnant and someone should make him own it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 7d

Hey! I grew up in a coal mining town, so I know how this story ends. And I don’t think people are gonna like it!

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7d

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 7d

But, was that message poll tested?

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8d

MYTH: “The President stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot [somebody].”

FACT: It was East 57th Street, the President was on the sidewalk, and there were multiple targets.

GOP Talking Points for President Trump’s Fifth Avenue Massacre

Press reports have given currency to flat-out falsehoods about the Executive Action. MYTH: The President “brandished” an assault rifle. FACT: Semi...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 8d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 8d

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 8d

(taps mic) Bari Weiss is practicing politics the right way

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social · 8d

Texas voters need to start contacting our electeds.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 9d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12d

Linked to this yesterday, but I am re-upping today because this is the best piece of practical research I have seen lately. It deals with what's gone wrong in political coverage.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13d

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice."

YES.

Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...

Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.

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