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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 1h

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 9h

That was one heck of a Mets ending to a game, Brewers.

a cartoon character says you raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly sir

ALT: a cartoon character says you raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly sir

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 11h

Holy Heck (baseball)

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

MORE POLITICIANS NEED TO COME OUT TO RTJ*

*more politicians need to have the swag and charisma to be able to walk out to RTJ without looking ridiculous

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

Also holy crap the Mariners are playing like a team possessed and are only going to get louder with three straight games at home.

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

"This might sound ageist, but it's so nice to support a politician who was too young to be friends with Jeffrey Epstein" - @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social at the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social rally

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

I wish The Brand was still strong and covering this election

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

Precisely.

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 12h

Fun rally aside, @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social is getting a standup set in between speakers

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

We’re live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP8...

A gorgeous packed theater shot from the stage.

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 13h

What a useless politician

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 13h

"I think our Gen Z fans are gonna love the Homestar Runner reference"

@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social and also me, talking to anyone under the age of 30

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 16h

Last season of Game Changer, we did a cool activation with LinkedIn in which they helped us give Jacob a prize of $100,000.

This season, I have a similar opportunity for the right brand willing to give us $50,000+ worth of their product.

Hit me up ASAP if you're interested!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Disney Prime Video + @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · May 30

CATS (2019)

Boomer the Pod Cat (Marc Maron) auditions for the Heaviside Layer by noodling on an electric guitar while apologizing to the other cats for his past behavior.

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for bringing this guy back for the finale @marcmaron.bsky.social

A picture of Barack Obama as president at the White House from 14 years ago. The picture is 2 years old, only 2 years younger than WTF Pod. The episode that would have aired this day was Jack Gallagher (218). I might have been listening to the Bell House one or Bryan Cranston on Amtrak instead.

Oh and it was a social media event for the arrival of the South Korean delegation on the White House lawn. Yknow. Back when South Korea liked us.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 1d

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is the final episode of the show!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 1d

Fiona and Cake panel: We can be a little looser with our language, but Lemongrab can’t say fuck.

Me: Lemongrab should be allowed to declare things FUCKING UNACCEPTABLE!

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t it be funny if the first comment on Watchmen that Alan Moore’s made in ages would be to dunk on Peter Thiel?

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 1d

The union square broadway redevelopment is nothing short of amazing

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