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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

A truly perverse religiosity performed by an administration where everyone is cheating on their spouses and clergy are assaulted with glee

If Republicans want to stop the “attack on Christianity,” they should stop attacking.

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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 20h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16h

Grant's new mailbag on how you study the history of punk will be a great fit in undergrad classrooms. The footnotes alone are an absolute goldmine.

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 18h

A brand new mailbag—yes, you CAN study that, but how?

You Can Study That?

What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 19h

Thing has decided to go into business.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 20h

there it is

The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the
property's receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center's construction in the
neighboring Jackson Park.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 22h

It amazes me how much of the next 30 years is crammed into this late 90s action movie. The ending is so ridiculous it could only have been made in the 1990s.

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A ★★★½ review of The Siege (1998)

I don't think anyone involved in this movie could have realized how much it would portend about the next 30 years. Not saying it was particularly prescient or cutting. But it has a sort of laundry lis...

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

I love that he'll give a brief alias to a character and the name is Thrapston Cheesely III.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

It's a crime that Jesse Martin's Marvin Gaye biopic was never released.

If ever there was an artist deserving of one and an actor to play him...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

Third paragraph is weird, beautiful, allusive, funny. Pynchon heads we are so fucking back.

Loitering in the alleyway in back of Pasquale's Bella Palermo, Hicks can hear sounds of noodle-flexing sociabil-ity, smell spaghetti sauce and garlic frying and sfinciuni bagherese baking over an olive-branch fire, and it's making him hungry, though this close to payday his lunch menu is a thermos of coffee and a buttermilk cruller stashed in a pocket someplace.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk and saying it 's so ... it 's so beautiful .

ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a desk and saying it 's so ... it 's so beautiful .

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Browsing NBA pre-season news: "oh the Raptors must've won....oh...oh wow."

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

The question is do I go back and read Mason & Dixon? Or save it for last? And will i be 50 by the time I finish reading them all lol

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I'm considering reading them in chronological order:

AtD (1880s-1910s)
Shadow Ticket (1920-30s)
GR (1940s)
V.
CoL49
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm about halfway through AtD anf headed out tomorrow to grab Shadow Ticket.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice.”

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it

"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm outside of Burbank Airport rn where for an hour+ there have been helicopters holding steady over the South and North edges of the airport.

I'm assuming that this is because there are no air traffic controllers.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Every culture must have its traditions. This is and porting arguments from Twitter are 🦋

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the thing about the “official antifa” citation is that it is just definitive evidence that she’s a stone cold dumbass

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate the correction

Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

I went to the store this AM. I had a list. I check all items off said list. I have food to prepare.

I just got home. I have. No. Flour.

a woman in a red shirt and white apron is standing in a kitchen with a clock on the wall that says trendiest

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

In case you’re wondering how grassroots Republican activists in Oregon are metabolizing what’s happening in the state. This person is a coordinator for two long running conservative organizations in the state: The Gathering of the Eagles and the Abigail Adams project.

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Trump is preparing to go after Antifa, waiting for them to make a move. Antifa is preparing for riots in major cities. Since Portland is their headquarters, it seems essential that the National Guard would be in Oregon.
Governor Kotek is in panic mode releasing news every day on her opposition. Portland Police are working with Antifa to criminalize federal agents. "Out in Oregon, the Governor, the mayor and police are all part of Antifa." Shan Davis explains, "Once you understand that Portland police is Antifa, everything else it does and refuses to do suddenly makes sense." If they are part of Antifa, they are part of the insurrection.
Antifa has been hired to create a civil war. Kotek has been telling people to stay calm, all the while she is still promoting Antifa to start a civil war.
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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Now would be a good time to subscribe to (more) organizations that actually have quality critical op-eds and investigative journalism.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press