Erik Gregersen
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
Formerly Charles Tomlinson Griffes. Mostly reposts, but good ones.
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Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right | CNN Politics
In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines an...
www.cnn.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Guys, I found a poll from 1998 in the @ropercenter.bsky.social archives about their predictions for the year 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
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poster for the 1919 German Expressionist silent film Nerven (Nerves), directed by Robert Reinert
December 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
poster for the 1919 German Expressionist silent film Nerven (Nerves), directed by Robert Reinert
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2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
2025: Hegemonic Suicide and Other Innovations
Every generation, on reaching middle age, begins to see the world around them in decline in order to habituate themselves to their own decay.
hegemon.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
2025 in review: hegemonic suicide, medieval peasant brain, and other highlights from a very long year
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
hegemon.substack.com/p/2025-hegem...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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Field “also reminds the intellectuals of the New Right of something they all too easily forget: They can indulge in fantasies of an authoritarian regime because of the freedom and security afforded by the liberal democracy they loathe.”
A terrific review of @lkatfield.bsky.social ’s “Furious Minds.”
A terrific review of @lkatfield.bsky.social ’s “Furious Minds.”
The Intellectuals Fueling the MAGA Movement
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Field “also reminds the intellectuals of the New Right of something they all too easily forget: They can indulge in fantasies of an authoritarian regime because of the freedom and security afforded by the liberal democracy they loathe.”
A terrific review of @lkatfield.bsky.social ’s “Furious Minds.”
A terrific review of @lkatfield.bsky.social ’s “Furious Minds.”
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Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!
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Niagara Falls, 1833
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Niagara Falls, 1833
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The guests arrive to my "contrarian christmas party" and discover that it's 4th of july themed. The dominant topic of conversation, against my wishes, has been how sick of my shit they are
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The guests arrive to my "contrarian christmas party" and discover that it's 4th of july themed. The dominant topic of conversation, against my wishes, has been how sick of my shit they are
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Joseph Cornell longed for Paris, but ultimately never visited. A new devotional exhibition curated by Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp recreates the late artist’s workspace at Gagosian gallery’s storefront in the city of love.
Wes Anderson Brings Joseph Cornell’s Studio to Life
The whimsical filmmaker recreated the Queens artist's home studio at Gagosian Gallery in Paris, the city Cornell longed for but never visited.
hyperallergic.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Joseph Cornell longed for Paris, but ultimately never visited. A new devotional exhibition curated by Wes Anderson and Jasper Sharp recreates the late artist’s workspace at Gagosian gallery’s storefront in the city of love.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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For the French release of Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946) by Pierre Segogne.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For the French release of Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946) by Pierre Segogne.
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A common thread in most of the stories I loved as a child was a villain yelling, "Seize him!"
December 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A common thread in most of the stories I loved as a child was a villain yelling, "Seize him!"
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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The only think you need to do to be a "heritage American" is to show respect to the Mother of Exiles:
Fuck any un-American motherfucker who cannot say with pride “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The only think you need to do to be a "heritage American" is to show respect to the Mother of Exiles:
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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
December 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express
This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris
Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
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NIST reassures the world that despite atomic clock power outage time is not broken. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
Power outage in Boulder area affects atomic clock, "Time is not broken" NIST says
Due to the power outage, time (very) briefly stood still at the NIST Internet Time Service facility in Boulder.
www.cbsnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
NIST reassures the world that despite atomic clock power outage time is not broken. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
One of the ways you can tell America is stronger than ever is that it’s almost Christmas and all anyone is talking about is a heavily redacted set of documents about sex monsters
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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First-person history from the CIA effort to raise the Soviet submarine K-129 from the deep Pacific. usni.org/magazines/n...
Inside Project Azorian | Naval History - December 2025, Volume 39, Number 6
The last surviving participant serves up a firsthand account of the CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s.
www.usni.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
First-person history from the CIA effort to raise the Soviet submarine K-129 from the deep Pacific. usni.org/magazines/n...
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I'm only halfway through what I think is my first viewing of this version since 1984, but I'd like to go on the record as saying that George C. Scott is so good as Scrooge that it boggles the freaking mind.
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm only halfway through what I think is my first viewing of this version since 1984, but I'd like to go on the record as saying that George C. Scott is so good as Scrooge that it boggles the freaking mind.
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Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:
Taking America Private
The political-economic consequences of Mr. Trump
musgrave.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:
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Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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more and more accurate the older you get
September 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
more and more accurate the older you get