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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 13h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

NYT headline

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize.
Will He Get It?
President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

Ms. Graeger also noted that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy aims run counter to the prize's criteria - such as peaceful disarmament and international cooperation - given the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program, its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and its cuts to international humanitarian aid programs like U.S.A.I.D. She added that Mr. Trump's domestic policy agenda points to an
"infringement of the basic democratic rights."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

Your jokes about Trump are extremely insensitive to those of us who are also bereft that we didn’t get the Nobel peace prize

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

This is super pretty but it makes me miss Mark Linkous :-(

Little Boy

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 9h

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

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becca | they/them @beccaisoutside.bsky.social · 15h

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h

The boards tell you which ones are the Disney Trains

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9h

I have not gone to the Louvre yet but I have gone to Euro Disney

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I love it when academics publish papers that are like, "I checked and I'm still right"
www.jstor.org/stable/24393...

In this paper I review research since 2000 and conclude
that it has vindicated this view

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

There are not 1.5 million people in Seattle living in RVs

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

same energy

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 1d

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle's mayor sucks so much lol

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad you like it!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

because I am a millennial

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the lines I kind of like actually!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

It's one of my favorite albums! Just has some hella goofy lyrics

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I need to post about pop music way more on here

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