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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 10h

Jesus Christ.

Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 11h

What exactly is Scrapple? Find out! open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

In Search of Scrapple

This Thrifty Meat Loaf is a Madeleine Moment for So Many.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 12h

Snapple is serious business!

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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 12h

Important stuff from Mary Kate Murray and @robertsimonson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

In Search of Scrapple

This Thrifty Meat Loaf is a Madeleine Moment for So Many.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 18h

Mainstream Media.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 18h

Coffee has gotten so expensive. How do the powers that be hope to fend off revolution if people can’t afford such an existential necessity?

Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 1d

As of today, I am cancelling all my subscriptions to MSM publications as they don’t support me as a citizen or writer. I will be giving my money to independent newsletters and similar voices.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 2d

This CNN post is still live at about 1pm central time. They clearly dgaf.

Screen shot of CNN post quoting Trump about Portland’s insurrection, using a 1993 photo from LA during the post-Rodney King beating uprising.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 1d

The AI users who drive me the most crazy are not the ones who use it openly and without guilt. It’s the otherwise intelligent people who use it out of “curiosity” or “to see what it can do.” You’re feeding the monster.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder who the corporate tool was who first came up with the phrase “We’ve chosen to go in a different direction.” Whoever it is, tar and feathers are too good for them.

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David Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 2d

Truly very fine. I'm also very partial to this one, by the great Leo Cullum, from November, 1994:

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 2d

IMHO. open.substack.com/pub/robertsi...

Martinis Helped a Little

The Greatest Cartoon Ever About Martinis Was Published 50 Years Ago.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 3d

F all the comedians playing Saudi Arabia forever. No different than the musicians playing Sun City in South Africa in the ‘80s.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 3d

There are two cocktail books inspired by Taylor Swift in Amazon’s top ten best-selling cocktail book list right now.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing kills a great bar more effectively or quickly than a television set.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 4d

And that's if you even believe anything they say.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 6d

I just want to be able to go into some New York business with a $20 bill and walk out with change.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 8d

Had dinner tonight with a friend who goes every day with a bunch of other septuagenarians to be “observers” at the immigration courts. ICE thugs routinely throw them out out of public courtrooms, and then public hallways, and then public waiting rooms as they grab immigrants who did nothing wrong.

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Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social · 8d

He was always going to be the Vichy talk show host.