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Jeff Blehar remains *BOX OFFICE POISON*
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Friendly National Review scribe
really only here for @damin.bsky.social content tbh
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Glad to see everybody's handled things completely normally around here, like normal people would.
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here on a wellness check; is everybody okay?
June 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
this sucks, I heard JD Vance had joined Bluesky and I was suddenly prepared to return to this platform for insights and conversation.

now this.
June 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Seems like an awful lot of money and organizing manpower to waste just to announce "hey guys I guess we're all returning to Twitter after all" by the back door, but I guess people need outside help to craft clever spin.
June 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
funny how I only became a writer in February of 2023.
May 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Yes, you.
May 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I have bad news for you all: www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/the-...
The Progressive Ecosystem Is Breeding Killers | National Review
Yes, it can happen here.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The rule of law is being tested. Soon it may be broken. What happens next?

I'm not here to persuade. I am here to warn. www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-...
Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power | National Review
This is no accident; it is a strategy.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Against the arrest and deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk, merely for free speech. A line in the sand.

The newest from National Review: www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/wher...
Where Do You Draw the Line? | National Review
While I concede the legality of the administration’s move against Rumeysa Öztürk, I reject its morality and prudence.
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March 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A lot of people on my side are dunking on this right now, but I don't have that reaction at all. Instead, I authentically respect the honesty of the admission. It absolutely sucks to admit you strongly believed in something you later realized was completely hollow.

Just ask me, former neocon.
I absolutely regret my role in this — it turns out that academic social science is shot through with dramatically more ideological bias than I realized 20-15 years ago and all the stuff you guys churn out should come with huge warning labels before it’s presented to laypeople.
March 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I did?
March 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I'm glad I wrote this so that I never have to write about it again. Read it if you can. www.nationalreview.com/2025/03/i-ca...
I Can Only Look Back in Anger | National Review
Five years later, the architects of the Covid Era’s lockdown insanity deserve only our contempt.
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March 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
You really should read this piece by @bendreyfuss.bsky.social about his colleague at Mother Jones from back in the day, legendary liberal blogger Kevin Drum, who passed away on Friday. His co-workers - who treated him shabbily - have no idea how good they had it. www.calmdownben.com/p/kevin-drum...
Kevin Drum was forced out of Mother Jones by people who didn't know about a secret thing he did for them.
RIP Kevin.
www.calmdownben.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Jeff Blehar remains *BOX OFFICE POISON*
RIP to a kind, decent, and very wise man.
March 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My problem is this place has zero appetite for either zaniness or my particular kind of cynicism. It's just kinda joyless.
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I often need to look for specific quotes, video clips, etc. Google has gotten TERRIBLE for this, because breaking news on a topic completely blots out older news on the same topic in their search now. Just a nightmare unless you use parameters carefully.
March 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I agree. I don't get yelled at nearly as much, but many of the people I found interesting are gone. The "influencers" now reign.
March 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I never have that problem, but I do get a ton of bot favs. And the DM spam is intolerable.
March 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Twitter is down and I'll admit as a writer who uses it for a lot of research (it's getting better than Google in some ways) it feels like The Day The World Ended.

But also I feel a small twinge of joy.
March 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
How's this place doing? Still joke-free?
February 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I hope you understand how bonkers you sound.
February 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You left. He didn't boot you - you CHOSE TO LEAVE.
February 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Might as well get this confession out of the way now: I, too, am a @jessesingal.com follower.
January 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM