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David Cho @chodavid.bsky.social · 4h

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 4h

the densest man in media strikes again

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 5h

I think this person should not be welcome in polite society

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Matt Patches @misterpatches.bsky.social · 6h

Love browsing the Apple TV interface with my kids

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 9h

Had my first salted Vietnamese coffee yesterday and woo doogie that is an ELITE beverage

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 9h

Ed "Big Balls" Coristine is able to immiserate millions because his dad owns this popcorn company. Get it out of your pantry now!

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

they’re the most feckless and decadent people alive and very often their primary motivation is boredom-induced vanity, which is about as firm a foundation as a trampoline.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

it has a lot to do with incentives.

to rightwing plutocrats, a D admin is an intolerable threat to their wealth & power, so writing blank checks for agitprop makes sense and is in fact honorable self-defense.

to their lib counterparts such a thing would be gauche, a social capital-negative

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11h

this has been a periodic complaint for decades and I'm curious what is standing in the way of fixing it

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12h

It's basically impossible to earn a living as an independent commentator on the left.

By contrast, Fox and its imitators *constantly* elevate new voices and encourage people to get involved.

They pool their resources. They recycle their dollars and keep them in-network. They crowdfund like crazy.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h

Fairyland "recognizes that whatever situation you grew up in is the one that feels normal to you, even though it seems abnormal to others—and that there is no such thing as normal, only behavior that’s sanctioned by the dominant culture and behavior that isn’t." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fair...

Fairyland movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

An honest, real movie about people living big lives during tumultuous times.

www.rogerebert.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

www.reuters.com

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Henry Bushnell @henrybushnell.bsky.social · 15h

FIFA sold them the "Right To Buy" 2026 World Cup tickets.

Now, some fans feel "taken advantage of," "pissed," "ripped off."

Story on the uproar surrounding a first-of-its-kind World Cup scheme, RTBs, @theathletic.com:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Fans bought the ‘right to buy’ 2026 World Cup tickets. Now they feel ‘ripped off’

Fans were left disgruntled as details of the connection between FIFA collectibles and World Cup game tickets emerged

www.nytimes.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Stephen Whitty @stephenwhitty.bsky.social · 16h

How did a little festival in a Jersey suburb grow into a 10-day cinema celebration full of stars, Oscar hopefuls and refreshingly offbeat discoveries? Let the artistic director of Montclair Film explain. www.njarts.net/now-in-its-1...

Now in its 14th year, Montclair Film Festival continues to thrive

An interview with artistic director Tom Hall.

www.njarts.net

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 16h

Really enjoyed @jessedavidfox.bsky.social's chat with @jayjurden.bsky.social about the whole Riyadh Comedy Festival thing, the spot where pocket-watching meets principle, etc.: open.spotify.com/episode/2Frz...

Comedians Won't Forget Who Performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival Soon (with Jay Jurden)

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Peter Thiel is such a devoutly unhinged liar that mentally or morally normal human beings have real trouble grasping that he never, ever means a single thing he says, so it's helpful when he throws in one that's so blatant as to give the whole game away www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Thiel had kinder words about Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to the recordings, calling the entrepreneur, who has recently praised Christianity, one of the “smarter, more thoughtful people,” he knows.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16h

genuine LOL

NY Times news quiz asks:

“Les Misérables” premiered at the Barbican Theater in London 40 years ago this week. In the musical, the protagonist, Jean Valjean, has been imprisoned for what crime?

The choices are
- stealing a loaf of bread
- singing too loudly after curfew
- disrespecting King Louis XIV
- paining graffiti on a church
- swimming in the Seine

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Jack Pitt-Brooke @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social · 18h

What are the politics underpinning the Premier League? Is it part of a Thatcherite legacy?

On today's @liberopodcast.bsky.social with @brewin.bsky.social and @rorysmith.bsky.social

pod.fo/e/33ad00

Libero: Libero 060: The Premier League: Thatcher’s Greatest Triumph

Hated, adored, never ignored, Margaret Thatcher is one of the most important figures in the history of the country that is home to the world's wealthiest domestic league – this cannot be a coinci...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19h

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 1d

My sympathies to the biggest Philadelphia Phillies fans I know: Joe Biden, Samuel Alito, and Benjamin Netanyahu. I’ll see you in Valhalla.

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Steve Brewer @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 1d

Sonny making everyone around him better

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office.

Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

Andrew Cuomo * @andrewcuomo
X.com
In a democracy, the rule of law must be sacred - impartial, objective, and above politics. When the law is weaponized or manipulated to advance political agendas, it erodes public trust and weakens the very foundation of justice. Whether it comes from the right or the left, from prosecutors or politicians, the politicization of law enforcement is dangerous and corrosive.
We must restore faith in fairness, facts, and due process - because once justice becomes partisan, everyone loses.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

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