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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 3h

NOV 11, 7PM JOIN @risenc.bsky.social & I for a discussion of our new Commies NYC overlord, Joe McCarthy’s cirrhotic ghost & if the HUAC is here again!

In the new Heritage Wines Backroom space. Better red (wines) than dead (minds).

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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 15h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 12h

I love my kids, and I love my job, but man would I love to have nothing to do for a few days and just watch old Robert Redford and Diane Keaton movies

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

As a child of the 80s, I can say that I've never met a person who likes any form of TRON ever

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

I just discovered Money for Nothing by Dire Straits on Shazam www.shazam.com/track/587374...

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Listen to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. See lyrics and music videos, find Dire Straits tour dates, buy concert tickets, and more!

www.shazam.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 2d

“When I wore a younger man’s clothes” is a disturbing lyric
-Who was the younger man
-How did he get his clothes
-Was he wearing them as some kind of trophy
-Why does the piano man just shrug this off

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 3d

This may be too niche, but I'm prepping some bark and all I have running though my head is:

Now we've stabilised it with washi kozo, it's time to remove the old varnish. Sadly the last conservator didn't use reversible materials, so I have to chip away at it manually with my scalpel...

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

But that just shows how easily terms like “anti-fascism” can be hijacked and weaponized to go after political opponents, even if they have nothing to do with communism, or violent radicalism or what have you. (FWIW I cover all this at length in my book “Red Scare”).

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

For example, signing a petition, or donating funds to support anti-Franco fighters — was grounds for suspicion and an FBI investigation. Of course, there was a there there: communists were anti-fascists, and some communists did work against the interests of the US. 4/

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

One of the first moves by the newly reconstituted HUAC was to subpoena the leaders of a small group called the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, demanding their papers. When they refused, they went to jail for contempt. In the years that followed, any affiliation with 1930s anti-fascism — … 3/

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

But with the onset of the Red Scare after WW2, having been anti-fascist became a huge liability. Since communists were anti-fascist, so the thinking went, then anyone who had been anti-fascist in the 1830s (ie, before the US military itself became anti-fascist) were therefore communists. …2/

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

Attacks on “anti-fascism” have a long history in the US. In the 1930s, being “anti-fascist” was to be against Hitler and Mussolini but especially Franco; anti-fascism was also a bedrock of the Popular Front coalition that linked socialists, communists, and many New Deal Democrats…1/

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

It would rank among history’s greatest trollings for the Swedes to give the award to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner instead.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

Trump’s desire for a Nobel Peace Prize has shaken up global diplomacy, as allies try to curry favor.

It may have even helped spur this week’s Hamas-Israel deal, one former Israeli negotiator said — a bid to help Trump cinch the Nobel before tomorrow’s announcement.

From @mbirnbaum.bsky.social + me

Trump wants a Nobel Prize. He’ll learn Friday if his campaign paid off.

President Donald Trump’s long quest for a Nobel Peace Prize has sparked an unusual global scramble.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 3d

Or just The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie but it’s her, Logan Paul and KSI dousing themselves in blue water.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 3d

is this anything: The Prime Day of Miss Jean Brodie

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure that back then, the Nashville-area showing of Rocky Horror was in [check notes] downtown Franklin?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

"But they're just supposed to be from Transylvania!!!!"

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 4d

Having spent time in both, Old Piedmont vs New Piedmont is a spot-on distinction.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

This nails New Jersey. It's basically a pork roll-Taylor Ham line.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 5d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

This nails New Jersey. It's basically a pork roll-Taylor Ham line.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 5d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 4d

Think of all those kids who went to midnight showings of Rocky Horror.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Never heard this cover before, but it’s brilliant.

Also, I listened to the original in high school, while “classic rock” radio was playing hits like “Lola” and “Walk on the Wild Side”

Some people in my generation somehow missed all that and were shocked to discover trans people at middle age.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4d

I guess this obligates you to rank the solo Joan version. I like this video where she's reading her children's book telling the song as her story, and her partner John Doe is standing by in support. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNgi...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think we as a country have ever dealt with how awful and Un-American COINTELPRO was, and for that reason we risk repeating it.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4d

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 4d

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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