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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

The ”vibes” tweet, and those boosted it, will live in my head forever. including by a self-aggrandizing former prominent columnist

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Now THIS is a spy movie

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 23h

This one was pretty good though.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Most_...

A Most Wanted Man (film) - Wikipedia

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah I think that was my issue. Just comically unrealistic

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Look upon my pun and despair

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

The thing that brought me over the edge was when Redford had Pitt’s girlfriend rendered and throw in a Chinese gulag then decided to risk his life freedom and all his money to bust his former asset out of said prison

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

I appreciate how when I post a trolling take about an espionage movie this is the response I get, truly

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Ok that’s a great line I admit

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Hahahaha

Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Spy Game? More like Soy Game

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

No! Though also looking for mindless intel movie entertainment

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Wrong. Cinematography garbage, flashbacks hackneyed, Redford smug, his antagonists at CIA comically fumbling.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 23h

Watched Redford’s “Spy Game” recently for the first time. It is, I must say, a bad movie. Though it is an interesting artifact of post-cold war, pre-9/11 America.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

If you told me this was a Raekwon bar I’d believe you. hard as hell Sinatra

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=wC10...

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Though the greatest lyricist of the twentieth century was Leonard Cohen.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Is this even a question? One octogenarian reigns above them all.

You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy/You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

A great editor is worth her or his weight in gold. Reporters are loyal to them forever.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 2d

Zach, @activemeasures.bsky.social, and I will be doing Lonely Island karaoke during the lunch break!

Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to present my @cyberwarcon.bsky.social talk this year, “On the Meta-Hermeneutics of GRU Phishing Campaigns, Or: What We Talk About When We Talk About John Podesta’s Risotto Recipe”

Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever wanted to see two terminally online nerds really (and I mean *really*) get into the SVR deep lore while continuing the eternal goal of making 2016 last forever?

Gosh does @cyberwarcon.bsky.social have a talk for you!

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

I want to be clear that I’m joking, but there are lots of amazing-sounding real talks!

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to present my @cyberwarcon.bsky.social talk this year, “On the Meta-Hermeneutics of GRU Phishing Campaigns, Or: What We Talk About When We Talk About John Podesta’s Risotto Recipe”

Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 2d

Have you ever wanted to see two terminally online nerds really (and I mean *really*) get into the SVR deep lore while continuing the eternal goal of making 2016 last forever?

Gosh does @cyberwarcon.bsky.social have a talk for you!

Oil Into The Fire — CYBERWARCON

www.cyberwarcon.com

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like I need to rewatch!

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d

one of the most challenging aspects of nonfiction narrative, I think, is the strategic withholding and introduction of information at the right time to propel a story. To soon or too late, you risk confusion, hijacking the narrative, or leading the reader to a cul-de-sac. a constant tangle!

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