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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 12m

Seeing David Byrne tonight and I’m very excited.

a man is singing into a microphone while dancing on a stage

ALT: a man is singing into a microphone while dancing on a stage

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 14h

I agree with all of this.

Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 15h

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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✨️The Worst Martha✨️ @theworstmartha.bsky.social · 13h

Amazing. 😍

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid"

"It feels like we’re winning this. They’re not getting the footage they’re looking for. They look ridiculous"

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

www.wweek.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 15h

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 18h

love love love this

Louis Tiffany @louis-tiffany.bsky.social · 1d

Window https://www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-tiffany/window-1892

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 15h

@jasondiamond.bsky.social at the @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize Awards! KAPLAN’S PLOT was a finalist. And congrats to Katie Yee for winning but as they say, it’s an honor to be nominated. Buy a copy of Jason’s great novel btw.

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 18h

love love love this

Louis Tiffany @louis-tiffany.bsky.social · 1d

Window https://www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-tiffany/window-1892

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h

Illinois judge blocks ICE from using force against peaceful protesters, clergy and journalists. Also requires visible ID. An overdue victory for the First Amendment.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 22h

Oh wow!! So excited for you. Can’t wait to read this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d

It's fascinating that in the wake of two brother filmmaking breakups (the Safdies and the Coens), we're seeing in their subsequent individual films which ones needed the other the most.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Staging of One of Baseball’s Most Famous Images

The Steve Gromek/Larry Doby Photo Revisited

substack.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 1d

Cat pic worked.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 1d

Be my colleague in NYC! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cuny.edu Women and Gender Studies.

Assistant Professor with a desired focus on Black reproductive rights, maternal care and midwifery / doulas / sexuality

Applications due by November 15.

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 6d

Skylight Books is sold out of Vineland, we really got the Letterboxd crowd reading books

bare shelf with a post-it note saying “Vineland Pynchon”

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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 1d

Just thinking about how when I was in L.A. recently the server at the diner I was eating at told me “we put pickles in our tuna salad. Is that OK” and I looked at her and instinctively said “I can’t believe you have to ask that.”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh more than it probably should 😂
#funny

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Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with legend Jim "lunatics, haters, and punk trash" Downey about working with PTA twice, Tim Robinson and "Jeff Epstein? The New York financier?" www.gq.com/story/jim-do...

Jim Downey? The Movie Actor?

He retired as SNL's longest-tenured writer more than a decade ago. Now, at 73, he's having a moment, with a viral Epstein joke on Conan's podcast, a sinister supporting turn in One Battle After Anothe...

www.gq.com

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 2d

Went to this place in Sheepshead Bay last night and had some of the best calamari and baked clams of my life. Just perfect.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 2d

Why, hello. @bookshop.org has free shipping at the moment because whatever about that one site.
Wanna read what I'll be talking about at ASU on 10/22?
Wanna support my adventures while I research the next project?
👇
bookshop.org/p/books/we-l...

We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 2d

Made contact with DJ Jazzy Jeff and sent him a copy of "Moses and the Doctor." Now if only I could find some way to contact Questlove....

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