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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 25m

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 1h

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3h

Yiiiiiiiiikes 😬

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, ok. I guess it's The Producers if The Producers was called Springtime For Hitler.

Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 4h

Only another 16 hours of this to go.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 6h

Me, learning from my mistakes:

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 19h

sherman, for the love of god!

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 6h

Absolute scandal that The Traitors isn't on tonight.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 6h

You didn't spot it. You broadcast the egregious claim and it was defamatory.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 7h

Time to pivot entirely to bassoons.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 8h

Even this is not "deeply uncool" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTP9...

Johnny Cash - The Chicken in Black (Official Video)

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 8h

There was not a single minute of his life, including many career low points and The Chicken In Black, where Johnny Cash has been "deeply uncool."

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 23h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8h

Lolled at Reform's vision of the future, as rendered by the peerless Viz

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Ian King @twoht.bsky.social · 14h

I know this marks me out as a certain type to the point of being a cliché, but I really do recommend Libero as probably the best football podcast out there at the moment.

Libero @liberopodcast.bsky.social · 14h

New Libero

Is the Premier League Margaret Thatcher’s greatest legacy?

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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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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 10h

At this point, why not

Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 10h

Just Like Bread Of Heaven

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 10h

Charlotte Church Sometimes

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 10h

Friday I'm In Pubs

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, my most N London story is when son went to new friend's house for primary school playdate he said there was a Nobel Peace Prize for the mum framed in the bathroom and I said "haha that's because she has four kids and they're making a joke" but it turned out she'd won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21h

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23h

I am pro-NATO because I am anti-imperialist.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

Just learned that Gillian Tindall died last week, aged 87. The Fields Beneath one of the great works of local, maybe any, history. www.travelbooks.co.uk/shop-online-...

Eland Books

London, that city of villages, has never been so vividly, so honestly revealed as in this particular study of Kentish Town. Gillian Tindall takes us along the banks of London’s long buried Fleet River...

www.travelbooks.co.uk

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

You couldn't make the last ten years up, thanks. To Jon Sopel: you don't have to.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

By about 500%