Thomas V. Bona
@tvbona.bsky.social
Bronx boy, NY sports fan, Electric Mennonite researching/writing about progressive politics, infrastructure, religion, music. Now with ADHD/anxiety expansion pack!
No, Pope, we prayed for JAMES Dolan to resign.
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
No, Pope, we prayed for JAMES Dolan to resign.
This seems important to boost.
I’m bugged by DSCC picking candidates but I’m also bugged that these white guys are allowed significant faults & we‘re told we must forgive them. women are not given the same benefit of the doubt. Ex. Kirsten Gillibrand. after Al Franken she was treated like a pariah for holding a man accountable.
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This seems important to boost.
I hate this even more.
OK, Kent may have been the best player on the 1995 Mets.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I hate this even more.
I would list the four second basemen who deserve the HOF before Jeff Kent, but it makes me too mad.
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I would list the four second basemen who deserve the HOF before Jeff Kent, but it makes me too mad.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions”
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions”
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
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"isn't too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows at the Beacon" ya that's where the editor needs to pay the kill fee and concede this isn't going to work
“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions”
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"isn't too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows at the Beacon" ya that's where the editor needs to pay the kill fee and concede this isn't going to work
I shoulda stayed only on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social’s feed today.
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I shoulda stayed only on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social’s feed today.
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What the fuck is a canceled performer? Someone who took shit online for being a sexual predator but faced no material consequences?
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What the fuck is a canceled performer? Someone who took shit online for being a sexual predator but faced no material consequences?
Did sexual assault write this???
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Did sexual assault write this???
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This is exactly why I don’t let go of the “cancel culture memo”
This man trapped folks in rooms to make them watch him masturbate and they are trying to ask if the show is good enough to make that’s measurable trade
This man trapped folks in rooms to make them watch him masturbate and they are trying to ask if the show is good enough to make that’s measurable trade
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is exactly why I don’t let go of the “cancel culture memo”
This man trapped folks in rooms to make them watch him masturbate and they are trying to ask if the show is good enough to make that’s measurable trade
This man trapped folks in rooms to make them watch him masturbate and they are trying to ask if the show is good enough to make that’s measurable trade
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On @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social, we coined the term "Cancel Culture Grift Economy" to describe how this works.
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
On @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social, we coined the term "Cancel Culture Grift Economy" to describe how this works.
Saying “Congress” and not “Republicans” or “the majority party” at this point is political messaging malpractice.
It feeds the “they all stink” attitude that in part got us here.
Stop.
It feeds the “they all stink” attitude that in part got us here.
Stop.
Periodic reminder that Congress could stop this administration TODAY if they wanted to, and yet they don’t.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Saying “Congress” and not “Republicans” or “the majority party” at this point is political messaging malpractice.
It feeds the “they all stink” attitude that in part got us here.
Stop.
It feeds the “they all stink” attitude that in part got us here.
Stop.
Mis blancos y blancas: Don’t be like this.
I hear your truth, because Black women stood with Kamala - as did many white women, like me. But less Black men voted for Kamala in 2024 than had voted for Biden in 2020, so ...
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mis blancos y blancas: Don’t be like this.
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75% of Black men voted for her. Good grief ...
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
75% of Black men voted for her. Good grief ...
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📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right.
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
WHITE COWER
Like it or not, Donald Trump's vulgar presidency is very much a black-and-white issue ...
dearlstephens.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right.
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."
I basically only log in here for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, whose feed gives me the encouragement to deal with how horrible his feed makes me feel.
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I basically only log in here for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, whose feed gives me the encouragement to deal with how horrible his feed makes me feel.
This kind of “journalism” is where the NY Times is ACTUALLY “ugly, both inside and out.”
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This kind of “journalism” is where the NY Times is ACTUALLY “ugly, both inside and out.”
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
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If you're shopping on Small Business Saturday, you can find Lost Treasures of Indiana and my other local history books at Miles Books, Green Door Books, the Press, Tom Lounges Record Bin, the South Shore Arts Gift Shop, the Chesterton Art Center Gift Shop and other small businesses.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If you're shopping on Small Business Saturday, you can find Lost Treasures of Indiana and my other local history books at Miles Books, Green Door Books, the Press, Tom Lounges Record Bin, the South Shore Arts Gift Shop, the Chesterton Art Center Gift Shop and other small businesses.
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Imagine going through life like this
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Imagine going through life like this
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The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.
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Eric Adams has a mid-20s approval rating and it’s pretty consistent across demographics. Where’s he going exactly?
Mr. Adams said in an interview on Thursday that he would campaign with Mr. Cuomo in neighborhoods where the mayor is most popular, and push people to vote for the former governor.
Eric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Eric Adams has a mid-20s approval rating and it’s pretty consistent across demographics. Where’s he going exactly?
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If you put me courtside at a Knicks game with Cuomo and Adams I would wonder which circle of Hell I was in and whether I’d be spending eternity with those assclowns
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If you put me courtside at a Knicks game with Cuomo and Adams I would wonder which circle of Hell I was in and whether I’d be spending eternity with those assclowns