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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 12h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Just one largeish note!"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 13h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 22h

I can't believe this is real

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2d

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

The first person to stand up to Trump this term was a priest!

Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social · 2d

I want everyone out there who looks down on faith in general to take a very close look at all of the faith leaders who are working tirelessly and putting themselves on the line to make the world better. Not all christians are evangelical, many actually take the new testament to heart.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2d

Death penalty

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Jon! All credit to the muse (Wordle Bot)

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Here you can read the beginning for free

“Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.” Sometimes you encounter a sentence so perfect, so obviously right and true, it makes your bone marrow vibrate. Jimmy Fallon … wants to turn Wordle … into a TV show. Just reading the words is like tuning in to the resonant frequency of the universe. Yes. Yes, he does. I think I was born knowing it. I think plants know it. In 1730, peasants in Holland were troubled by a strange, unspeakable thought that flickered at the edges of their consciousness. This was their knowledge that all times are as one, and Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

Princess Leia looks up. Her eyes are sad but full of dignity. Around her, the nighttime chirps and trills of the forest moon of Endor echo through the Ewok village. “I know,” she says to Luke Skywalker. “Somehow, I’ve always known.” Luke has just told her that Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the defining cultural product of our era: Jimmy Fallon's Wordle TV show

Jimmy Fallon’s Wordle Show Just Makes Sense

But why is it a game show? There are so many better options.

www.theringer.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 2d

Here you can read the beginning for free

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the defining cultural product of our era: Jimmy Fallon's Wordle TV show

Jimmy Fallon’s Wordle Show Just Makes Sense

But why is it a game show? There are so many better options.

www.theringer.com

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 3d

(to the scrape of a mournful fiddle) My dear Theodora, If indeed my fate holds that I may not return to you and the twins, listen for my voice in each breath of the wind. Ribbit, it sighs...ribbit...ribbit...

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

channel-6.ghost.io

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

oklahoma AG just filed an amicus brief on behalf of the state of oklahoma supporting the deployment

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 3d

Great news everyone, I finally found the post that will get people to leave Substack. Man this is grim

www.linkedin.com/posts/dbusta...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 4d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 5d

For The Nation, I wrote about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's time on an advisory board for an Israeli crypto company and the cash payout he might be eligible for this week.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Pete Hegseth’s Crypto History

Does the defense secretary have unclaimed earnings from a firm he formerly advised?

www.thenation.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Finally, some good news!!

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 6d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6d

Poll department about to get locked out of Slack.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

New CBS polling shows that voters have soured on Trump's handling of economic issues.

60% of voters now disapprove of his overall handling of the economy.

On inflation it's even worse for Trump, with 65% disapproving.

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 9d

I am absolutely certain I’ve lost more sleep over Russell Westbrook than Russell Westbrook has lost over himself

Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 9d

someone investigate: does an athlete ever really "lose sleep" over a major mistake they make in a game? is that a real thing?

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 9d

Great stuff, congrats!

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Aubrey Nagle @aubsn.bsky.social · 9d

Sadly, the reigning epistemology of journalism only acknowledges "true" or "real" (and thus speakable) motive when it is explicitly stated by the speaker. It can in no way, shape, or form be attributed via logic, history, or pattern. This bans news from naming anything one would like to hide.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9d

It's almost as though all he did last year was brazenly lie, and it should have always been covered as brazen lying. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

apnews.com

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