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@anecdoche.com

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Bostonian. Educator. Emo kid. Red Sox fan. Probably watching baseball. Used to have a blog about a TV show, used to have a blog about a band, now I sometimes write about the music I like: www.anecdoche.com 🏳️‍🌈

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crit @anecdoche.com · Jul 17

A year without my brother. Three weeks with my daughter. Wrote about life and death and grief and art and some really great memories.

Shadows of life and death

a tribute to my brother

www.anecdoche.com

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crit @anecdoche.com · 12h

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard by @moryan.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Being in this city right now feels like living inside a David Lynch film: Underneath a veneer of normality, something profoundly disturbing lurks, ready to strike at a moment's notice. Or maybe were in a version of Andor, but replace the storm troopers with beefy cops holding long wooden billy clubs. As Alex Lawther's Karis Nemik said on the show, "The empires need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

crit @anecdoche.com · 13h

Incredible new levels of dudes rock

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 13h

this rules so much

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s 61st home run with a fan

crit @anecdoche.com · 1d

My sources indicate she has already found a new love interest.

Vincent Adultman. He’s a regular, normal, adult male. Obviously. He went to the stock market today. He did a business.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

I’m not sure America can handle “the New England Patriots are good again” right now

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crit @anecdoche.com · 1d

What a shock, ICE lied about everything. Again.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 1d

Whoa. The Format just announced their first new album in 20 years. New single:

The Format - Holy Roller

Listen to Holy Roller by The Format.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

Some of it might be distraction, but what’s most important is that all of it is destruction.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

I remember when New Yorkers put up posters in a desperate attempt to locate loved ones after 9/11.

Now they are desperately looking for loved ones disappeared by the government of this country.

Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 3d

Brooklyn. Have you seen this lady? Her family fears that she may have been picked up by ICE.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

Friday Night Lights season two was a foundational text.

crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

I’m not sure America can handle “the New England Patriots are good again” right now

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

“This is gonna be the part of the Bills Super Bowl DVD when they faced a little adversity” - my wife

crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

Okay good that really happened. I thought I was hallucinating.

Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao this fan caught a pass from Josh Allen and just ran away with it

the play by play is hilarious!

crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

A fan in the first row just caught a football and immediately ran out of the stadium. Tirico called it like he was a player. What a weird thing that was.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

Bazardo Dingler sounds like the name of a character actor who always pops up in unexpected and delightful places making people say “nice, it’s THAT guy!”

Batting: Dingler
Pitching: Bazardo

2 - 0 Mariners in the top of the seventh. Jorge Polanco has two dingers off Skubal. Great game.

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crit @anecdoche.com · 2d

This is crazy. They gotta banish him to the shadow realm.

crit @anecdoche.com · 3d

@marisakabas.bsky.social

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 3d

None of this seems good for our country

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crit @anecdoche.com · 3d

I love watching Sanchez pitch. His stuff is so good.

crit @anecdoche.com · 3d

The agents were rammed by 10 cars? Absolutely zero chance that’s true. And the woman they shot just happens to be someone they’re familiar with? Yeah right.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the shooting erupted after patrolling agents were
"rammed by 10 cars" and "boxed in." Agents then fired "defensive shots" when they discovered the woman "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon" while driving one of the cars.
The time and location of the shooting weren't immediately known. No law enforcement officials were hurt.

The woman who was shot had been identified last week in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection bulletin for allegedly publicly identifying agents and encouraging people to attack them and disrupt enforcement actions, McLaughlin said.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 4d

35 years ago today
Bikini Kill was formed in Olympia, Washington, October 4, 1990, by (L-R) Tobi Vail (drums), Kathleen Hanna (vocals), Kathi Wilcox (bass), and Billy Karren (guitar).

#punk #punks #punkrock #bikinikill #womenofpunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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crit @anecdoche.com · 4d

Their use of percussion on that show was unreal. It was practically its own character. Loved it.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 4d

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 4d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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