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Cursed Macramé Owl

@danielsohn.bsky.social

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Coming to you live from beautiful downtown Interbay/Magnolia in Seattle! Library person, squirrel wrangler

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Nye should run for governor and then blow all his political capital on passing an income tax

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2d

Trump 2.0 has really exposed how brittle and broken the West Coast states' tax systems are. WA, OR, and CA all have a 1% property tax cap. WA has a sales tax but no income tax; OR has an income tax but no sales tax. It is not possible to effectively resist Trump without fixing these tax systems.

CalMatters @calmatters.org · 2d

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic. The state is bracing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars for permanent housing, which is the one thing experts agree on as the most effective way to solve homelessness. https://cal.news/4nBKuZI

📷 Fred Greaves

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 1m

They know people can see with their own eyes, right? As in, you can go there and look around at the completely normal city. Or are we dealing with adults who do not have object permanence?

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Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 8h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 1d

when you say "Albany" wrong once and just roll with it and then you're in too deep

kos data: 🇺🇸🇦🇱 NYC Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Albania for an official visit, one week after dropping his reelection bid.

(Via: NBC New York)

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2h

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 1h

God I was so focused on Choe that I missed her 100% fact-free spiel. Seems easy to check if she really was ever anti-Tump? Also I really don’t get this antifa mania? If they’re having this much trouble a handful of unarmed young folks just wait until they stir up real resistance from regular people

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 4h

Brandi Kruse, who was once a local FOX reporter, was at the Trump Fan Club meeting, made a cutesy remark about how attractive she, Brandi, is, and Trump drooled something back.

Then she trashed the actual reporters in the room.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-mak...

Trump, 79, Makes Creepy Remark to Fan Girl Reporter

The exchange capped off a bizarre roundtable in which Trump invited guests to air their grievances about Antifa and the mainstream media.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

open.substack.com

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 5h

Is it good that the worst people on earth get to pour unconstitutional pudding directly into the head of the President?

Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 5h

He keeps asking questions like this so I feel like I'm repeating myself but, for those asking, the fuck here is Jordan Conradson, a Gateway Pundit propagandist who got his start running cover for the Cyber Ninjas "audit" & getting bossed around by Kari Lake. He also assaulted his girlfriend in 2022.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder that while this struggle session was happening, the president could have instead been involved in at least pausing a genocide

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

Sometimes I think about how they have all of media, all of the money, and the full blessing of a bought-off legal system yet still are needy, pathetic jerks hovering around 30% approval

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populuxe 🍂 @populuxe.bsky.social · 6h

post-ww2 comics history is full of guys who got a job drawing or writing comics at 19 or so, left to fight a war, then came back 4 or 5 years later & took up where they left off — sometimes they spent the rest of their career doing that, sometimes they moved into advertising, tv, or hollywood

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 1d

You ever think about how there were dudes that probably saw loads of combat in WWII and then 20-odd years later were playing henchmen on BATMAN

Two middle-age dudes playing henchman on Batman

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 9h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

I first read the term "prematurely antifascist" in college and I didn't need a professor to tell me that was a very bad look for America's claim to greatness
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

The Confessions of a 'Premature Anti-Fascist'

I first heard the remarkable phrase "premature anti-Fascist" in 1946 when, fresh out of the U.S.

www.latimes.com

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

He of course worked for the local Sinclair TV station but got fired for being prematurely pro-fascist

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

For him to be able to appear in public not wearing a pillory that reads "I made up Pizzagate" is a failure of society

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah they’re Nazis what else is there to say

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 12h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

Except Ngo can go on TV and say complete sentences in a fake British accent

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

The one saving grace is that he’s a total void of charisma and far too stupid to do any analysis or public commentary. He’s as close to a Brownshirt as the Proud Boys he sucks up to

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 6h

The only reason he hasn’t been sued out of existence is that he has the cops on his side and Rufo Inc money behind him. The left at its most possible conceivable Soros-osity has nothing on him

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 7h

This is him trying to get people killed and should we get through this era he needs to pay a very steep price

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 7h

And of course this is McCarthyism, the straight-up attempted criminalization of political belief. Choe just signed himself up for the end of the republic

Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 7h

For the President to even know his name let alone meet with him is proof that decency is dead and there is no meritocracy

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Cursed Macramé Owl @danielsohn.bsky.social · 7h

For those of you not in Seattle, Choe is one of the dumbest, most bargain-basement fake reporters on the scene. A wet, sad idiot with truly nasty feet

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11h

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

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