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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 4h

Dorothy Parker wrote extra dialogue and Music Man himself Meredith Willson wrote the music?!?

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 4h

Lost my balance and stabbed myself on a yucca plant, so I got time on my hands and you know what, I've been meaning to catch up with The Little Foxes for a long time, so tonight's the night.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 4h

Slings and Arrows is an all time legendary show. The Shakespearean theatre company it is loosely based on is the Stratford Festival, a very real theatre company that you should support if you find Slings and Arrows even remotely engaging (and you will)

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 5h

since this thread is getting traction again, let me rec you the Canadian comedy miniseries Slings & Arrows, which centers on a shakespearean theatre company exploring the makings of putting on a show. 3 seasons, 6 eps each.

scene that sold me to watch it ages ago:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2tH...

Slings & Arrows Ophelia

YouTube video by Cornelius Woodrow (Last player on the server)

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 8h

this is table stakes for anyone who enjoys seeing themselves as a leader of a political party or movement

you do not want to be running in a Democratic primary as the guy who was like "sure Trump has his flaws but let's not go overboard with our criticism." Not next year, not in 2028, not ever.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 8h

"Who is spinning the story. And why are they doing it?" ‼️

"There is zero reporting about whether the merger is a good idea for either consumers or investors." ‼️

When I was doing financial news, one of the things I quickly learned was that if someone at a company called to provide you “context” on background, they weren’t doing it to help you out. They weren’t even concerned about making things clearer for the investor. They were trying to spin you and the public narrative about the company. So when they reached out to me, I realized that what they said was less important than trying to figure out why they were saying it. If I could figure out the reason they were spinning me, I’d be closer to the truth of what was really going on at the company.

That is an important thing to keep in mind as you work your way through these stories about the “overwhelming likelihood” of a merger between Paramount Skydance and WBD. Who is spinning the story. And why are they doing it?

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

second part:

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

I hope the Israelis are serious about this. They have a bad habit breaking ceasefires when the world’s attention drifts in this conflict

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h

⚠️ GAZA CEASEFIRE IN EFFECT

The Israeli cabinet approved the deal, and Hamas has received assurances that the bombardment of Gaza by Israel will not be resumed.

Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM
The government has just now approved the framework for the release of all of the hostages - the living and the deceased.
5:30 PM • 10/9/25 • 19K Views

Hamdah Salhut @hamdahsalhut
PRESS
A ceasefire in Gaza goes into effect.
Hamas says they've received guarantees that Israel will not resume the bombardment.
6:04 PM • 10/9/25 • 236 Views

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

I think one of the worst aspects of Last of Us actually is forcing us to play through several characters making some extremely horrific moral choices

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

Mass Effect is not as responsive to your tactical choices as Deus Ex was, but you could make actual durable choices across three games because of your choices in character interaction, often in quite unpredictable ways (unlike the combat, which was often VERY tedious)

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

Deus Ex hit at my gaming prime and my gosh, it was so good at this. The only game world that even comes close is Mass Effect (and it comes pretty close)

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about it, the original Deus Ex may be the king of choice in a game with a story, because your choices are significant, linked to gameplay and unforced. From the very start, for instance, whether you use or avoid lethal force against the “terrorists” determines something about you.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

I saw the most vivid rainbow ever today outside of Joshua Tree. I was driving, so I couldn’t take a picutre, but I could so CLEARLY see the difference between indigo and violet that it was actually startling. Here’s pic of the rain system racing in:

Gray thunder clouds loom above the northern range of mountains in Joshua Tree National Park. The foreground is flat dirt of the trampled BLM dispersed camping nearby. The clouds mostly block the sun, but there is a strip of mountains that are starkly lit beneath that cloudy sky.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

Here it is for those who haven’t been paying attention. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing in international waters. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Donald Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 16h

It’s a weird bait and switch that provides no actual information about trafficking, it’s just a vague, menacing “stay scared” vibe read oddly cheerfully

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 16h

I keep getting these scaremongering Blue Campaign ad reads from Mario Lopez, it’s like a mini object lesson in how awful many of these anti-trafficking orgs: starts off with an avuncular “It’s back to school time!” and is followed up with “So keep your eyes peeled for human trafficking”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17h

ACA open enrollment starts Nov. 1. Rates should have been published in August. Mike Johnson hopes you don’t know that. But my mom is an independent insurance agent. Has been for 20+ years. So she does know that.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the
Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to
create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1
Indeed, in the past few days, the President has
repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize
National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day,
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President
has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and
dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office
that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful
troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself
posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed.
These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s
National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new
deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration
of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention.

The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we
have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops
and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against
defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S.
military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18h

It's the classic authoritarian playbook: smear your opponents with baseless lies so that you can try to shut down peaceful, organized dissent.

We won't be intimidated. We won't be cowed. We won't bow down.

No Kings.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 1d

This is true. And I'm joining others here to say the court is indeed illegitimate.
We have crossed that threshold in Trump v. United States.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 1d

ALL OF YOU completely wrecked me, brilliant film about the messy ways love finds us at wildly inconvenient times

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago. Pretty cool town

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful via @joshtpm.bsky.social

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful

It’s always a complicated matter to say who is “winning” a shutdown...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 1d

Is she a 90 year old German woman?! Cuz that’s the only way this makes a lick of sense*

*Obviously, it doesn’t make a lick of sense, it’s just authoritarian theater, but still, it bugs me how fact free these fuckers live

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"