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George Grella

@gtra1n.bsky.social

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Write/edit about music & stuff all over the place, amazing taste, hard core values. Prolly only person to play CBGB and write about opera for the FT. Edit Brooklyn Rail music section, kickass newsletter: killyridols.substack.com venmo.com/George-Grella

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · Sep 2

Coming out April 2, 2026: preorder now! Links and more at the link! open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 17m

Someone introduce the NY Times political writer to the concept of the "unreliable narrator" it will really help them get to a competent level of arts criticism

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 12h

Hitting balls in house with 5 iron

Knitting

Making pasta

Registering voters

Kenny Mayne @kennymayne.bsky.social · 12h

Switching rooms
New TV

Holden @rlljr13.bsky.social · 12h

Oh captain, my captain…

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 13h

This shit was never entertaining

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

What on earth??

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Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 13h

Seems like a NatSec issue for the President to be full of nanobots and magnetized

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 14h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 17h

I know what he means about dying a thousand deaths.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 21h

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 22h

The thing the "Haha Mayor Adams we'll miss him what a quotable character" postmortems get wrong is that he's a jerk

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22h

Hizzoner delivers a pretty remarkable broadside against the press, claiming it was responsible for killing his reelection after a subway crime press conference, singling out reporters. We chased him out of the station.
Me: “Would you take the upgrades again?”
Adams: “I’m so glad your back”

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 22h

Flatterers up the *ss of the rich man. Some things never change! Here in 1592 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, whose day is today.

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 23h

Actually a clever subterfuge to trick an addled old man who has lost touch with reality

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough people on this app read military history or watch Peacemaker and even people with politics you like who don’t get enough culture can have problems thinking and don’t know always have useful takes

I’m not even getting into deep and abstract culture, just pop beyond Taylor Swift

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 1d

What other accomplishment did Obama achieve? It was the one that drove people insane, what was it again? Thinking, thinking…

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

One of the only things Trump has ever been right about: Obama had no business winning the Nobel Peace Prize for what amounted to the accomplishment of being a US president who was not George W Bush. (Remember, he had been in office for eight months at the time.)

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 1d

He needs friends in his life because what legit embarrassing dumb shit that is to say out loud

Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d

"Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity" wapo.st/4q5wR6S

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.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

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jeromeharrisny.bsky.social @jeromeharrisny.bsky.social · 1d

A musician who worked with Jack Kerouac honors him!

David Amram: piano & etc.
Adira Amram: narrator
Jerome Harris: guitar
Rene Hart: dbl bass
Kevin Twigg: drums

Classical Amram: Yoshiko Kline (piano); Ken Radnofsky (sax)

Sat, Oct. 11, 7:30 PM; $20

Middlesex Comm. Coll.
240 Central St., Lowell MA

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The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 1d

J.T. Realmuto is pointing to first base. Just a brutal, brutal way for your season to end

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Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 1d

You’re free now, Mitch Williams.

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Chad Moriyama @chadmoriyama.bsky.social · 1d

ROKI FUCKING SASAKI

That's all, that's the tweet.

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump was serious about adding a 51st state it would be Argentina smdh he's just too frivolous and flighty

Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 1d

Party like it's 1984! & 1985, 1987, 1989, & 1995!

(If you don't get the joke: these are previous years when the US used the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout Argentina)

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 1d

“Our projections show that by the year 2025, not only America but the entire planet will be under the protection and the dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial, both for ourselves and for you, the human power elite.”

ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 1d

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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 2d

Weird dream last night where I interviewed Captain Beefheart

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 2d

"Our projections show that by the year 2025, not only America but the entire planet will be under the protection and the dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial, both for ourselves and for you, the human power elite."

George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 2d

Baseball is one of the best things in life and my favorite team is still playing, but I'd much rather keep watching all John Carpenter's movies for the nth time

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations, you played yourself

Charlie Kirk memorial at the Yankees jumbotron

Trump shaking hands with the Yankee players in their locker room

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2d

wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus—an very large and extremely real segment of the population

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