Isi Baehr-Breen
@isibb.bsky.social
Ru’s dad, but views are my own. Congressional PR Flack.
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I need your best recipe for mashed potatoes. ASAP plz.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I need your best recipe for mashed potatoes. ASAP plz.
Whiplash is actually a movie about the failure of university administration to do its primary job of managing faculty.
JK Simmons isn’t the real villain of the movie. The real villain is whomever is the Dean of the College of Music and Arts at Shaker University.
JK Simmons isn’t the real villain of the movie. The real villain is whomever is the Dean of the College of Music and Arts at Shaker University.
I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Whiplash is actually a movie about the failure of university administration to do its primary job of managing faculty.
JK Simmons isn’t the real villain of the movie. The real villain is whomever is the Dean of the College of Music and Arts at Shaker University.
JK Simmons isn’t the real villain of the movie. The real villain is whomever is the Dean of the College of Music and Arts at Shaker University.
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I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
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The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense.
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if i were the kid in whiplash i would try to suck jk simmons off
I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
if i were the kid in whiplash i would try to suck jk simmons off
Wrong. The point of Whiplash is if a band teacher calls you a “fag” and throws a cowbell at your head, you bring your Glock to class.
💜but that misses the point of Whiplash that certain sacrifices aren't worth making even for great art, for instance you shouldn't have sacrificed your time to see the movie Whiplash
I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Wrong. The point of Whiplash is if a band teacher calls you a “fag” and throws a cowbell at your head, you bring your Glock to class.
I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.
This book whips, and is the first piece of history I’ve read that suggest the Treaty of Versailles, far from being a proximate cause of the war for being too harsh on Germany, was in fact a proximate cause of the war because it was not harsh enough.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This book whips, and is the first piece of history I’ve read that suggest the Treaty of Versailles, far from being a proximate cause of the war for being too harsh on Germany, was in fact a proximate cause of the war because it was not harsh enough.
Minneapolis for 2 weeks tomorrow. Get at me, let’s hang out
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Minneapolis for 2 weeks tomorrow. Get at me, let’s hang out
The GOP’s maneuvering around Trump and Epstein is astonishing. I’ve never seen such awful spin from top to bottom.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The GOP’s maneuvering around Trump and Epstein is astonishing. I’ve never seen such awful spin from top to bottom.
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Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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it's got to be kind of surreal, gathering in the white house SITUATION ROOM like you're in some kind of high-stakes political thriller but it's for crisis meetings on what to say about your boss paying for handjobs from underaged models in the 90s
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
it's got to be kind of surreal, gathering in the white house SITUATION ROOM like you're in some kind of high-stakes political thriller but it's for crisis meetings on what to say about your boss paying for handjobs from underaged models in the 90s
It’s funny that one of the most competent people in Nazi Germany was an architect with 0 industrial, political, civil, or military experience.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It’s funny that one of the most competent people in Nazi Germany was an architect with 0 industrial, political, civil, or military experience.
I've been watching a bunch of foreign WW2 movies to go along with what I've been reading, and its hard to decide who gets depicted worse, the Japanese in Chinese movies, or the Nazis in Polish, Ukrainian, and Soviet movies.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I've been watching a bunch of foreign WW2 movies to go along with what I've been reading, and its hard to decide who gets depicted worse, the Japanese in Chinese movies, or the Nazis in Polish, Ukrainian, and Soviet movies.
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New Epstein emails "seem to show Trump understood who Epstein was, how he and Maxwell were acting, and the kinds of crimes they were committing. He was adjacent to, if not involved in, those crimes."
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Trump Press Sec’s Epstein Spin Implodes as New Info Rattles Him Deeply
As Karoline Leavitt struggles to explain away Trump’s growing panic over new Jeffrey Epstein revelations, a sharp observer of the right explains why MAGA is cracking up over the scandal—and what to ex...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
New Epstein emails "seem to show Trump understood who Epstein was, how he and Maxwell were acting, and the kinds of crimes they were committing. He was adjacent to, if not involved in, those crimes."
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No one cared who I was until I put on the mask
Contempt can be a healthy emotion. Sometimes, it’s your conscience telling you there’s nothing worth saving.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Contempt can be a healthy emotion. Sometimes, it’s your conscience telling you there’s nothing worth saving.
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Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
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BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Watched City of Life and Death (2009), and my takeaway is we don’t hassle the Japanese anywhere near enough for what they did during World War 2. Fuckin freaks.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Watched City of Life and Death (2009), and my takeaway is we don’t hassle the Japanese anywhere near enough for what they did during World War 2. Fuckin freaks.
Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Whole family was mildly (COVID) sick last week and was basically feeling fine. 10 days later I’m sick with something that *isnt* COVID and it feels like I’m going to die. I have a 102 fever.