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Y A N T S @yants.bsky.social · 1h

“Ezra Klein just wants to produce his politics-as-ASMR podcast, purring into a thousand-dollar cardioid microphone about the dangers of proceduralism.” ☠️☠️☠️

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

Ezra Klein wants it to be 1999.

A good piece from @andyelrick.bsky.social:

badfaithtimes.com/ezra-klein-i...

Ezra Klein Is Mourning The End Of The Civilacrum

Klein wants a simulation of politics without conflict. Ascendant fascism won't allow that.

badfaithtimes.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

Hanging our hopes on the Union.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

This headline is hard to beat.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

I would just like to remind the Eagles that the Giants are just coming off a loss to the Saints.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 13h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

Mailata getting outmatched on the edge this evening

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

Also Mr. Almond:

youtu.be/d3fxkhWZbx0?...

Steve Almond on Africa by Toto

YouTube video by TinHouseBooks

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

Recommend

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

(Related: have you read Steve Almond’s Candy Freak? Peanut Chews feature in it)

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 11h

Only the finest human beings for this administration.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”