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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23h

Somewhere, the hair on Ben Wyatt’s neck just stood up

🫧 Kay Hanley 🫧 @kayhanley.bsky.social · 23h

Working on a full length Letters To Cleo album for the first time in almost 20 years and I'm glad it took this long. I love and appreciate this part of the job so much more now ♡

come see us w/ the cavedogs
11.19 Bowery Ballroom NYC
11.21-22Paradise Rock Club Boston

tix --> www.letterstocleo.net

concert poster with a green and yellow flowered hand grenade
letters to cleo w/ special guests The Cavedogs Nov 19 Bowery Ballroom NYC Nov 21 The Paradise Rock Club Nov 22 The Paradise Rock Club Boston

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 1d

It's come to my attention that the original What's Alan Watching? site debuted 20 years ago today. Why not celebrate that anniversary by subscribing to its current iteration, aka the place where I'm writing all my reviews and recaps right now?

What's Alan Watching?

Television reviews, recaps, and more from Rolling Stone chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall

alansepinwall.ghost.io

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Especially when he pulled it back on the first pitch and the wheel was in motion defensively. The Dodgers knew it was coming! How do you not switch things up? Swing away and keep them honest! There were no outs!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Ok now that I’ve calmed down what the hell was Rob Thomson doing there bunting with a runner on second and 2 out omg

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

One of their defining qualities is that they think if they cozy up to the truly violent and venal members of the tribe, they'll be spared. They won't. It'll come for all of them, after it's come for the rest of us.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

There is no way a four run lead is big enough for this dodgers bullpen to not make barfy immediately

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Treinen had a 1.838 WHIP in 26.2 innings. -0.6 WAR. 19 walks in those 26.2 innings. He is one of the worst pitchers in all of baseball. He should not be in the roster. Absolute malpractice.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 1d

Why, why, why is Blake Treinen in this game. He has been unpitchable for the entire year. I know they're short-armed out there but even so this was an insane choice by Roberts.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 3d

It’s unthinkable that anyone can make contact

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Stats ⚾️ @mlbstatistics.bsky.social · 3d

Shohei got 6 whiffs on 7 swings at his curveball and 4 whiffs on 5 swings at his splitter.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 3d

This Dodgers-Phillies game has featured like 30 of the most disgusting breaking pitches I have ever seen. And you’re about to see more.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 4d

Literally could not be more excited for this

Shea Serrano @sheaserrano.bsky.social · 4d

352 pages
60 illustrations
200+ footnotes

the coolest, weirdest, best book i’ve ever written

in stores october 28

preorder today www.amazon.com/Expensive-Ba...

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 4d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7d

59 pitches from 3 different relievers to get 3 outs lmao

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 7d

Dodger bullpen is amazing. That team is like a custom made electric Ferrari that gets 1200 miles on a charge, goes 0-60 in 1.8 seconds, has a 30-speaker stereo that makes it sound like you're at a live concert, and also there's no floor and your feet just drag on the pavement as you drive.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 8d

Giving this exact same speech to an assembly of comedy writers and showrunners later, doing 3-4 push-ups and 8 jumping jacks to demonstrate my Alpha status, I'll let you know how it goes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

I think this is right

Craig Stambaugh @craigstambaugh.bsky.social · 9d

The Yankees are more fun to hate and the Mets are more fun to laugh at.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

The two teams with the best run differentials in the AL are both wild cards and will play each other in the first round.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

What's more embarrassing -- the Mets missing the postseason with a $338 million payroll, or the Yankees only getting a Wild Card slot with a $298 million payroll? I actually think it's the Yankees, because I hate them more.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

The MedBed thing is of course hilarious on its own, but the headline I first read said "Trump Retweets Weird AI Video About Magic Beds" or whatever and I thought this had something to do with Trump posting a Weird Al Yankovic video and for those 25 seconds I was very excited

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 10d

We should definitely defer to the Founding Fathers on race. Whatever Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and Madison thought about race should be exactly what we think about race now, here, today. Great idea. Let's not look into it too closely and just assume they were 100% rock solid on race.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 11d

Ask Matt Walsh what the Founders and the first oh 200 years of America thought about Catholics. Total bigoted dumbass. Shame that Dearborn Michigan sided with him in protest.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12d

We are not authoritarian fascists. And if you say you are, we will come after you and charge you with crimes.

Tweet from Stephen Miller saying that Governor Gavin Newsom's language "incites violence and terrorism" after Newsom says that ICE arresting people is "authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government"

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12d

This is psychotic.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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