Doubting Thomas
@sweezysarmy.bsky.social
Books; film; sounds; DSA; futbol
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Doubting Thomas
@sweezysarmy.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Nothing is settled; everything can still be altered. What was done but turned out wrong, can be done again. The Golden Age, which blind superstition had placed behind [or ahead of] us, is in us.
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
Cheever’s Goodbye My Brother and The Swimmer; Joyce’s The Dead; Anderson’s Death in the Woods; various Carver; various William Trevor
What are some of your favourite short stories of all time? The ones that you keep going back to?
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Cheever’s Goodbye My Brother and The Swimmer; Joyce’s The Dead; Anderson’s Death in the Woods; various Carver; various William Trevor
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I’ve been reporting on the gun industry + lobby for a decade. Whatever we learn abt what happened at Brown, this will be the ultimate truth: The only people who benefit from the status quo on guns in America are the people who make money from guns in America. Everyone else is an acceptable casualty.
December 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I’ve been reporting on the gun industry + lobby for a decade. Whatever we learn abt what happened at Brown, this will be the ultimate truth: The only people who benefit from the status quo on guns in America are the people who make money from guns in America. Everyone else is an acceptable casualty.
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Ben Lerner
Was hoping the next Lerner would be a meaty one like Topeka School but for being so slim at 130 pages this packs a lot: time, memory, smart phones. Brilliant book, loved it.
Ben Lerner
Was hoping the next Lerner would be a meaty one like Topeka School but for being so slim at 130 pages this packs a lot: time, memory, smart phones. Brilliant book, loved it.
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Ben Lerner
Was hoping the next Lerner would be a meaty one like Topeka School but for being so slim at 130 pages this packs a lot: time, memory, smart phones. Brilliant book, loved it.
Ben Lerner
Was hoping the next Lerner would be a meaty one like Topeka School but for being so slim at 130 pages this packs a lot: time, memory, smart phones. Brilliant book, loved it.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general e...
thedigradio.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Tascha didn’t just build a volunteer team of more than 100,000 people, she built a community across our city.
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
And there’s no one better suited to tell you how she did it than her.
thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
Excellent, inspiring interview w DSA superstar Tascha Van Auken
New Dig: guest host @micahuetricht.bsky.social talks w @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social field director Tascha Van Auken. Tascha, architect of @socialists.nyc field program and entire electoral strategy, lays out 100k volunteers on 3 million doors in fascinating detail. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/thre...
Three Million Doors w/ Tascha Van Auken
Featuring Tascha Van Auken on how Zohran’s campaign mobilized an army of 100,000 volunteers to knock three million doors. Van Auken has been an architect of NYC-DSA’s field operation and its general e...
www.thedigradio.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Excellent, inspiring interview w DSA superstar Tascha Van Auken
Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick
A reread after many years. As good as remembered. Trying to describe it to friends and failing. Plot not welcome here.
Elizabeth Hardwick
A reread after many years. As good as remembered. Trying to describe it to friends and failing. Plot not welcome here.
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick
A reread after many years. As good as remembered. Trying to describe it to friends and failing. Plot not welcome here.
Elizabeth Hardwick
A reread after many years. As good as remembered. Trying to describe it to friends and failing. Plot not welcome here.
Shocked
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Shocked
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Morning Spew for Night Owls—Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study.
And other links to start your day!
And other links to start your day!
New Yorkers Are Literally Breathing Easier After Congestion Pricing
And other links to start your hump day.
hellgatenyc.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Morning Spew for Night Owls—Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study.
And other links to start your day!
And other links to start your day!
Stoner
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Story of Lucy Gault
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Story of Lucy Gault
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Stoner
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Story of Lucy Gault
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Story of Lucy Gault
Loved and Missed
Susie Boyt
Still catching up with the best of 2021. Brilliant and sad. How can you love someone who wont let themselves be loved? A emotional portrait of addiction. Boyt can write.
Susie Boyt
Still catching up with the best of 2021. Brilliant and sad. How can you love someone who wont let themselves be loved? A emotional portrait of addiction. Boyt can write.
December 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Loved and Missed
Susie Boyt
Still catching up with the best of 2021. Brilliant and sad. How can you love someone who wont let themselves be loved? A emotional portrait of addiction. Boyt can write.
Susie Boyt
Still catching up with the best of 2021. Brilliant and sad. How can you love someone who wont let themselves be loved? A emotional portrait of addiction. Boyt can write.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
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Colombo walking back into a men's sauna where six other guys had been waiting for him to leave so they can stroke their shit again saying "im sorry - just one more thing..."
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Colombo walking back into a men's sauna where six other guys had been waiting for him to leave so they can stroke their shit again saying "im sorry - just one more thing..."
If this isn’t selling in its first week it’s as good as dead. Books like this have frontloaded sales
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If this isn’t selling in its first week it’s as good as dead. Books like this have frontloaded sales
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
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I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
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This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
I am so sad about losing Paul. I spoke to him only a few days before he died. He was a huge presence on the NYC youth soccer world. He truly believed the game was for everyone no matter your level. He had an enormous personality. He screamed at me the first time I met him. I miss him. RIP
RIP, PAUL: CJSL president Kontonis passes away - frontrow.soccer/4n2sz
RIP, PAUL: CJSL president Kontonis passes away - Front Row Soccer
Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League president Paul Kontonis has passed away.
frontrow.soccer
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am so sad about losing Paul. I spoke to him only a few days before he died. He was a huge presence on the NYC youth soccer world. He truly believed the game was for everyone no matter your level. He had an enormous personality. He screamed at me the first time I met him. I miss him. RIP
The Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
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For those not deep in insane right wing bullshit, 11 is a popular number because the confederacy was founded by 11 states who seceded.
They're making fun of lincoln.
They're making fun of lincoln.
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
For those not deep in insane right wing bullshit, 11 is a popular number because the confederacy was founded by 11 states who seceded.
They're making fun of lincoln.
They're making fun of lincoln.
One of my favorite Thanksgiving(ish) poems
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One of my favorite Thanksgiving(ish) poems
I was lyin' in a burned-out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I was lyin' in a burned-out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
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It’s not a “Mamdani inflamed tensions“ story. It’s a “Mamdani refuses to bow to the views of a bunch of international lawbreakers and thieves hiding behind religion” story. 4/
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It’s not a “Mamdani inflamed tensions“ story. It’s a “Mamdani refuses to bow to the views of a bunch of international lawbreakers and thieves hiding behind religion” story. 4/
Liadan Ní Chuinn
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Liadan Ní Chuinn
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
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i loom over you. i boop your nose. stop hitting yourself. i mean for you to snarfle up my pungent harvest. i intend that you absolutely motorboat it. i mean for you to nuzzle it. here comes the airplane. soups on. im dominating you with my various fluids. my precious
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
i loom over you. i boop your nose. stop hitting yourself. i mean for you to snarfle up my pungent harvest. i intend that you absolutely motorboat it. i mean for you to nuzzle it. here comes the airplane. soups on. im dominating you with my various fluids. my precious