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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful and cruel thing about New Orleans is that no matter where you eat, you should have eaten at the next place

Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 9d

I haven't been to Florida since 2010, and I deplaned today to a Ron Desantis press conference. How is this state even real?

People standing with luggage look at a speaker

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 10d

if the Trump Hegseth address had been an email www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

To: Entire Military Leadership of the United States, Stationed All Over the World, Who Would Have to Be Flown In Very Disruptively and Expensively If This Weren't an Email but for Some Reason Were an Urgent In-Person Address
From: Pete Hegseth
CC: Donald J. Trump
Subject: WARFIGHTER ETHOS
PLEASE DROP EVERYTHING YOU ARE DOING TO READ THIS EMAIL AT ATTENTION. THIS IS NOT SPAM AND I AM EXTREMELY SOBER! YOU ARE TOO FAT TO FIGHT WARS!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

www.thehandbasket.co

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 12d

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 14d

Wake up, babe. New checks-and-balances-don't-exist just dropped

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money

apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 16d

This has been such a wild year, most of us barely remember half of what's happened.

Like it was just a few months ago the script for an unmade fourth Nolan Batman movie leaked called The Dark Knight Fucks.

And nobody even talks about it now.

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be in #Gainesville and #Atlanta next week reading from my late wife and favorite human ever @saaramyrene.bsky.social's Juniper Prize-winning #poetry book "Chamber After Chamber" from @umasspress.bsky.social. Come say hi at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social or Tall Tales Book Shop

An image of a heart with listings for two poetry readings: Thursday, Oct. 2, 7:30-8:30 pm at The Lynx Books in Gainesville, FL, with Sarah Carey and Friday, Oct. 3, 5:30-6:30 pm at Tall Tales Book Shop in Atlanta.

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 22d

A little "Challengers" action from the Mets broadcast on SNY.

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for all your work! And for being a badass

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 23d

If you're looking for somewhere to put the money you used to give Hulu/Disney+/etc., may I recommend The Handbasket?

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23d

shit is scary right now, but i have no intention of shutting up or shutting down.

support independent media. subscribe to the handbasket.

The Handbasket

100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

www.thehandbasket.co

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23d

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 23d

I'm doing my part

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 23d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23d

Earlier today, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” about Disney/ABC “taking action on Kimmel.”

Hours later, ABC pulled Kimmel off the air.

It’s a blatant crackdown on free speech by an authoritarian administration. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments

The network confirmed it is "indefinitely" pulling the show.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards."

www.wired.com/story/uncann...

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 24d

I don't know what anyone who didn't like this movie expected. It is exactly what it promised to be

A screen shot of the A-Team movie's 48% Rotten Tomatoes score

Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 24d

The semester has started, so I just have 4 right now: Scene on Radio (come back soon, plzkthx), The Slowdown, 99% Invisible, and Working It Out.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24d

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24d

BREAKING: Democrat Xp Lee wins the Minnesota House special election to fill the seat of Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

Democrat XP Lee wins Minnesota House special election to replace assassinated leader

Democrat Xp Lee has won a special election to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated. Rep.

bit.ly

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 24d

I admire your restraint

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 24d

I did not know Black Rifle Coffee had their own podcast (but of course they do) and wish I still didn't. However, I do want there to be a Black Ruffle Coffee podcast. I'm imagining discussions of Renaissance mourning practices paired with espresso drink reviews

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · 24d

I laughed so hard at this article that I scared my cat out of a deep sleep

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 25d

theonion.com/report-you-t...

The Onion:

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

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Thierry Ennui @heisenbergkamp.bsky.social · 28d

When the killer is a straight white man

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Sep 10

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”

In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

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Eric Doise @edoise.bsky.social · Sep 4

Last night was so great! I'm looking forward to Ekko Astral headlining at the Palace next time

Two people with guitars and a drummer play on stage

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