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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 1d

The rumors are true!!!!!!!

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 1d

I’m co-hosting Frankenstein’s Baby at Union Hall tonight with @alisonleiby.bsky.social! The lineup is so good and can’t wait!!!

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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 4d

Like REALLY good comics and, I hate to say it, the best hosts. Come out and hang!!!!!!!

Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 4d

Outrageous lineup for tonight's Sup, Bro? show at Union Hall in Brooklyn! It's Friday night! Live a little!

Sup, Bro?

Sup, Bro? - Friday, October 3 - 9:30pm Doors / 10:00pm Show

www.eventbrite.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 6d

On Friday night at 10, @alisonleiby.bsky.social and I are hosting an absolutely phenomenal lineup at Union Hall!
Amy Silverberg!
Blair Socci!
Julia Shiplett!
Brittany Carney!
Sup, bros????

Sup, Bro?

Sup, Bro? - Friday, October 3 - 9:30pm Doors / 10:00pm Show

www.eventbrite.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7d

At least everyone’s electric bills are going up for the good cause of letting a handful of creeps run an art stealing business

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7d

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It

AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

www.bloomberg.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 7d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 7d

Did you know 40% of New York City is covered in greenspace? Those trees need your help; check out City of Forest Day on Saturday to find out how nygroove.nyc/city-of-fore...

City of Forest Day shows how to be a good tree neighbor

Consider this a prime opportunity to get off the internet and touch some actual grass

nygroove.nyc

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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 10d

Well, it’s getting dark earlier, but at least I’m still also running my air conditioning.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11d

I was asked by @gqmagazine.bsky.social to write a little bit about just going bald in the age of widespread head-shaving and affordable, believable hair transplants...so I did!

Nothing Looks Cooler Than Not Caring You’re Balding

In a polarized culture that demands balding men pick a side, opting for the follicular middle ground is a refreshing act of honesty.

www.gq.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 12d

I don't know when this push toward American anti-intellectualism started, but I know Arby's making their slogan "We have the meats" was a huge part of it.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 12d

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)

Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…

lithub.com

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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 12d

This week on Comfort Read I wrote about...writing. Mostly how I get started and what I do to get in the groove. I asked some buddies their process, too. I think it's helpful! Subscribe, everything is free!!!!!! comfortread.substack.com/p/write-on

Write On

How some friends and I try to write

comfortread.substack.com

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision

It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin to Halt Abortion Services

Sources say the affiliate isn't scheduling abortion appointments after September 30 in an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid "defunding."

www.autonomynews.co

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 14d

Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 27

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · May 25

I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18d

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children

New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.

www.wsj.com

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 20d

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21d

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study

Report finds that 7% of Americans have been present at the scene of a mass shooting and 2% have been injured in one

www.theguardian.com

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 23d

“Thank you Bridget Everett. You changed my life.” Jeff Hiller wins for the #Emmy Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in “Somebody Somewhere.”

Follow along for live updates from the 2025 Emmy Awards: nymag.visitlink.me/vPi_E0.

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 23d

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"

(via @Variety)

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Alison Leiby @alisonleiby.bsky.social · 26d

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