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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 9m

If this is so, and it must be since I want it to be, which we all know is how facts are supposed to work….

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 11m

The new age of world politics, where power is reduced to its adolescence. No adulting allowed.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 6h

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 4h

The lesser of two evils is a valid principle.

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DaAngryPacifist / Anti-pedophile / Anti-Nazi / Pro-Democracy @daangrypacifist.bsky.social · 5h

This is the most pathetic uncle ruckus race hating bullshit y'all will see all day. Feel free to visit their home page to see how horrible these "people" are. Fun Fact, you have to search for the contact form........

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MAV - less tractable @mavill.bsky.social · 6h

Sources tell me the entire Weiss clan now rivaling Alito's conspiracy theorist wife in Kathleen Parker "life of any cocktail party " rankings presented by Hornitos Tequila

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 5h

Chatbot pickup lines worked! She agreed to go on a date. But things got more difficult after we started to get to know each other. The bot wasn’t able to anticipate all the things she said, and she acted suspicious when I kept looking at my phone every time I needed to reply to her.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe they should have considered not raping young girls in the first place. That would have made it easier for them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 8h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 7h

The Battle of the Century (1927). Laurel & Hardy. It was considered lost for years, but the second reel was discovered ten years ago. There is still some missing footage, but for the most part it’s restored. It’s on YouTube.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 7h

This is absolutely true. Their staff also steals a lot of the more luxurious donations they receive (cars, appliances, etc.).

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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 8h

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 8h

Police are reporting nightmares about cartoon frogs—tomorrow on All Things Complicit.

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John Carpenter's AJ MacReady @ajmacready.bsky.social · 8h

psychotic, yes. but it tracks to the letter all the same.

Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 8h

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Thomas E. DeCaulp @decaulp.bsky.social · 18h

youtube.com/shorts/GqZQU...

@dropkickmurphys.com

Dropkick Murphys Say It Like It Is 🎸🔥

YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 17h

If you can talk and act as if this government is legitimate, and if you can discuss Donald Trump without expressing mockery or revulsion, the American news media has employment opportunities for you! No leftists, satirists or thinkers wanted, thank you.

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 19h

The scene is the Ormond Hotel saloon and concert room in Dublin. A smoking concert was an informal musical evening for men, who would typically smoke during the performance.

Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 19h

A New Leaf (1971)
Elaine May's tart comedy tells of an arrogant rich guy (Walter Matthau) who finds out he's broke and seeks a wealthy woman to marry. He finds a timid klutz of an heiress (May), who falls into his trap. A showcase for Matthau's comic brilliance. Very cynical. I laughed helplessly.

Henrietta (Elaine May) sitting while holding her purse and looking dumbfounded, is sitting on the left. On the right is her dishonest husband Henry (Walter Matthau).

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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 20h

He looked towards the saloon door.
—I see you have moved the piano.
—The tuner was in today, miss Douce replied, tuning it for the smoking concert and I never heard such an exquisite player.
—Is that a fact?

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