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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

i also plan to reign for 10,000 centuries just fyi

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 8h

"I'm going to start a 4-hour podcast" is the new "I'm going to open a restaurant"

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9h

a lot of what i’ve read and heard former teammates say about him is that he is indeed corny and a try hard so perhaps that was how they sold him on the idea.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

i just saw a thing and didn’t think twice and started publicly ruminating about it, as is my generation’s sacred custom.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h

i fell for it but in my defense i don’t know anything

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10h

LeBron created a whole news cycle around endorsing some liquor?

Now I love liquor so don't get me wrong here, and LeBron hyping endorsed products is literally his job, but is that really what happened? Is that what our sports media fell for?

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

DON'T BET AGAINST RFK JR
by Olivia Nuzzi

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

genuine actualol at the headline/byline combo here

a picture of a headline from The Atlantic:

DONT BET AGAINST BARI WEISS
by Caitlin Flanagan

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Elementary Penguin @elempeng.bsky.social · 16h

A four panel comic of Calvin’s Dad talking to Calvin.
Panel 1: All bands and musical acts can be classified as either Joy Division or New Order

Panel 2: Nirvana? Joy Division
The Strokes? New Order
Charli XCX? Joy Division
Taylor Swift? New Order

Panel 3: here's the thing... New Order? Joy Division, then New Order

Panel 4: Calvin lies awake in bed, looking completely confused

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15h

it’s actually a list of which player was the best kind of communist

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HauntedByWaters @elwaysdad.bsky.social · 15h

1. Kareem
2. Lebron
3. Jordan
4. Magic
5. Wilt
6. Bird
7. Russell
8. DUNCAN
9. Hakeem
10. Steph

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16h

A very old-timey antisemitic trope, dressed up in fast fashion, a filter, and the most illiterate emoji-speak ever to exist.

Sailor Haumea ♀ 🟣 🏳️‍⚧️💙💛🔆 @sailorhaumea.bsky.social · 17h

Okay so now people are making "jokes" that Israelis (and Jews outside of Israel) were "promised [thing] 3,000 years ago." There's TikToks of either guys dressed up as stereotypically Jewish people, or just AI videos, in which they steal things and say "it was promised to me 3,000 years ago."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 19h

you cant just say it! He’s listening!

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 19h

thinking you can negotiate with god about your own salvation is very prot tho

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 19h

[government mandated 10 second reply segment for targeted parties] Elias is right in some ways, here, it stinks, but whaddya gonna do

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 19h

the reformation was a terrible mistake.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 20h

A veteran CBS News journalist tells @status.news about Bari Weiss: “She has the gall to write her 10 commandments of journalism and share them with us? She is not a journalist, never has been.” www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...