Patrick A. Reed
@djpatrickareed.bsky.social
Pop culture historian and journalist, DJ, Hip-Hop And Comics guy. Curator of Jack Kirby: Heroes And Humanity, Spider-Man: Beyond Amazing, Marvel: Universe Of Super Heroes/Earth's Mightiest Exhibition, Eight Decades Of Archie, and other projects.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
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Did the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade try to get the cast of the legendary HILL STREET BLUES to do a musical number with the cast of
SHIRT TALES?
No.
They didn’t try.
THEY *DID*.
SHIRT TALES?
No.
They didn’t try.
THEY *DID*.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Did the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade try to get the cast of the legendary HILL STREET BLUES to do a musical number with the cast of
SHIRT TALES?
No.
They didn’t try.
THEY *DID*.
SHIRT TALES?
No.
They didn’t try.
THEY *DID*.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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as much as I wish to mock Bari at all times I do not think I can top this as a self-burn, fair play to her
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
as much as I wish to mock Bari at all times I do not think I can top this as a self-burn, fair play to her
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Share a '90s movie that deserves more love...? Okay, got it.
It's a total joy. A classic screwball shipboard comedy with a, frankly, unbelievable cast; the film that a true cinema nerd makes when he comes off a surprise hit, suddenly has the means, and realizes he may never get another chance.
It's a total joy. A classic screwball shipboard comedy with a, frankly, unbelievable cast; the film that a true cinema nerd makes when he comes off a surprise hit, suddenly has the means, and realizes he may never get another chance.
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Share a '90s movie that deserves more love...? Okay, got it.
It's a total joy. A classic screwball shipboard comedy with a, frankly, unbelievable cast; the film that a true cinema nerd makes when he comes off a surprise hit, suddenly has the means, and realizes he may never get another chance.
It's a total joy. A classic screwball shipboard comedy with a, frankly, unbelievable cast; the film that a true cinema nerd makes when he comes off a surprise hit, suddenly has the means, and realizes he may never get another chance.
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
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Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Here's wishing them all coal in their stockings and a well funded primary opponent
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Went back & finished reading this, my b for sharing w/o completing - he is wrong on a lot! We should *not* throw marginalized people under the bus! I maintain he should shut the fuck up! But "be mad at the status quo & fight for affordable housing + childcare" is better than "roll over & play dead"
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Went back & finished reading this, my b for sharing w/o completing - he is wrong on a lot! We should *not* throw marginalized people under the bus! I maintain he should shut the fuck up! But "be mad at the status quo & fight for affordable housing + childcare" is better than "roll over & play dead"
Let me (again) put this in the simplest possible terms:
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let me (again) put this in the simplest possible terms:
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
If I subscribe or share a link to your substack, I'm supporting you, but I'm also complicit in funding Nazis.
I'd like to read your takes on music/animation/film/comics/culture/art/politics, but that's a hard line for me. Wish it was for you.
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Elon screaming at his engineers to make the roasts more epic and vulgar every time Joyce Carol Oates drags his ass yet again
Anyone who enters "do an epic vulgar roast" into Grok should immediately be referred to a counseling setting to get the help they need.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Elon screaming at his engineers to make the roasts more epic and vulgar every time Joyce Carol Oates drags his ass yet again
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I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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"If we keep saying nonsense, people will believe us over their lying eyes."
BARTIROMO: Do you want to see the president cut tariffs on certain things, like coffee from Brazil?
TOM EMMER: Groceries are down. Gas is at a 5 year low that you put in your car. Look, they destroyed this economy under Joe Biden.
TOM EMMER: Groceries are down. Gas is at a 5 year low that you put in your car. Look, they destroyed this economy under Joe Biden.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"If we keep saying nonsense, people will believe us over their lying eyes."
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Check this out, fellow Thimble Theatre aficionados!
Some beautiful pencil drawings by E.C. Segar from some sort of instruction booklet--presumably to an assistant?
@rperrydamsen.bsky.social and I picked these up recently at auction. Surprisingly little bidding on them. Their loss/our gain, I say!
@rperrydamsen.bsky.social and I picked these up recently at auction. Surprisingly little bidding on them. Their loss/our gain, I say!
December 17, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Check this out, fellow Thimble Theatre aficionados!
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A classic sign
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A classic sign
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This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The University of Virginia and Cornell deals with Trump set a dangerous precedent | Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor
The bespoke agreements are full of peril for the universities, allowing the federal government to quietly exert control
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
This is spot-on.
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity.
A betrayal of our values.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.