David Martin
@bydavidmartin.bsky.social
Investigator. The occasional byline.
Crazy that Tapestry and Blue were recorded at the same building at the same time
Listening to playback of Carole King's Tapestry:
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
James Taylor, engineer Hank Cicalo, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, producer Lou Adler
📷 Jim McCrary, 1971
The album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-...
December 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Crazy that Tapestry and Blue were recorded at the same building at the same time
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“Post-liberalism” means two things:
1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth.
2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.
1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth.
2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.
December 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“Post-liberalism” means two things:
1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth.
2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.
1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth.
2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.
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this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP. apnews.com/article/raul...
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
Malo was battling colon cancer and later leptomeningeal disease, a rare complication when cancer spreads to membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP. apnews.com/article/raul...
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The Bic corporation was started by one man who needed to shave, write something down, and set something on fire at the same time
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Bic corporation was started by one man who needed to shave, write something down, and set something on fire at the same time
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In this segment, Senator Schmitt insists he knows nothing about a major scandal, goes on an extended rant filled with lies and smears, insults Stephanopolous and his show directly, and is generally a preening asshole.
Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.
Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president?
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances
S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news
SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In this segment, Senator Schmitt insists he knows nothing about a major scandal, goes on an extended rant filled with lies and smears, insults Stephanopolous and his show directly, and is generally a preening asshole.
Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.
Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.
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This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
nymag.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Your classmates were right, my guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Your classmates were right, my guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Listened to a 90s playlist today. I thought my car might take flight when this came on.
Morphine - Honey White (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Listened to a 90s playlist today. I thought my car might take flight when this came on.
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Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.
December 8, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.
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when you're rich, you get treated like a savant for getting sub-index fund returns on your gambling addiction
One of Polymarket’s biggest bettors has wagered more than $400 million so far. He says he made nearly $3 million last year on the platform. cbsn.ws/48OkWCL
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
when you're rich, you get treated like a savant for getting sub-index fund returns on your gambling addiction
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Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.
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TPUSA brands itself as “guiding citizens through development of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation so they can meaningfully engage in their communities to restore traditional American values like patriotism” but what it really does is it finds the biggest crybabies and snitches in your area
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TPUSA brands itself as “guiding citizens through development of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation so they can meaningfully engage in their communities to restore traditional American values like patriotism” but what it really does is it finds the biggest crybabies and snitches in your area
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everything about this is obscene but here's the real tell:
"Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."
"Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."
Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
everything about this is obscene but here's the real tell:
"Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."
"Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
America Is Becoming Dallas
Part One: The Lord of Plano.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition?
Question answers itself, brother.
Question answers itself, brother.
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition?
Question answers itself, brother.
Question answers itself, brother.
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He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt
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My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high
Most of his tweets sound like he’s drunk while he’s writing them so no surprises here.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high
Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Blending, like he's making a frappe
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Blending, like he's making a frappe