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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 19h

The Daily is terrible and a perfect example of how some journalism outlets are deeply failing us.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21h

“Clashed with”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

Over the past week, ICE and border patrol agents have clashed with Chicago residents, and federal guard troops arriving in the city might inflame tensions further. Our reporters describe the situation on the ground.

Listen to "The Daily."

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 2d

Sporkful of Shit should be the name of something

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 5d

I hear you. Some of us were a bit too comfortable, though. But, we all eventually run into someone smarter, funnier, etc. and have to grow up.

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 5d

That is a fair assessment. Finally know at least a little something.

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 5d

I hope I was better than I was then!

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 7d

Can they launch an uncluttered drop-down menu? How many options do we need for every single thing. Insanely annoying.

The Verge @theverge.com · 9d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 7d

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 9d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 9d

Some of you have fantasies of bravely going out into uncomfortable zones to have conversations, and I can tell you wouldn't survive the discomfort of living even an hour in an ordinary Black person's body in America.

Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 10d

“I would like to see people on our side go to evangelical churches” and debate like CK did.

this man has worms for brains.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

In the countless times I've watched this video, I never noticed this lawl

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Kate @notthewhiskey.bsky.social · 10d

If you pause in exactly the right moment you’ll see a bottle of Astroglide on the shelf in the background. That’s when Eric Adams became Lube Cop to my circle.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10d

Bumping this now that Ezra Klein is back in the news

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29d

Both guys with extremely in-character views on what growing up in Irvine was like:

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 10d

Beyond how dumb of an ask this is, Rs are never asked to compromise, reach voters, persuade people, etc.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10d

This Ezra Klein motherfucker just cannot stop doubling down on being terrible, can he

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Eleanor from outside @theboatfromjaws.bsky.social · 11d

Last night in Portland I went to an event where a guy read poems from his second story window at sundown. Last week a crowd gathered to watch birds nest in a chimney. Today there's a big family-friendly picnic and a river cleanup event. By all means, send in the troops to this war torn hellhole

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 13d

Check out my appearance on History Mixtapes hosted by @katejewell.bsky.social. Great idea for a podcast and well executed - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

History Mixtapes

History Podcast · History Mixtapes explores how music and history intertwine. We will explore how the past can come alive by using music as a primary source, but also think about how listening to musi...

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 13d

Fairly sure I saw Tombstone, 3 Musketeers, and Wayne's World 2. Benefit of having an older brother and my Dad was into any vaguely action movie.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 14d

GREEN - I´M NOT AT HOME [USA, Power Pop] (1987)
https://redd.it/7ed7gf
https://youtu.be/DKhOlPux6FE

GREEN - I´M NOT AT HOME [USA, Power Pop] (1987)

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 15d

I knew when we didn't go all the way last year that this year would be cursed.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 15d

The Eighties - No Cruising In An Era Of Limits [Los Angeles, CA, USA ; New Wave / Power Pop] (1980) Produced by Geza X.
https://redd.it/19c6lus
https://youtu.be/K4MZBfu-pEU

The Eighties - No Cruising In An Era Of Limits [Los Angeles, CA, USA ; New Wave / Power Pop] (1980) Produced by Geza X.

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Nelson Carvajal @nelsoncarvajal.com · 16d

“Inherent Vice the novel is an elegy for an era that has permanently changed […] But the film is a profoundly mournful, profoundly funny study of men and women stunted in the thrall of time’s passage, and by the loss it creates as those they love disappear within it.” - @aheartofgould.bsky.social

Does It Ever End? | Inherent Vice (2014) - Bright Wall/Dark Room

Inherent Vice tricks us into settling in for a noir about a man solving a mystery, and instead presents us with a man confronting a melancholy truth: everything—lives, eras, and loves—comes to an end.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 17d

Generators - Temporarily Out Of Control [United States/Cleveland, Power Pop/Punk] (1981)
https://redd.it/14rw2j6
https://youtu.be/h1FexLS2XL0

Generators - Temporarily Out Of Control [United States/Cleveland, Power Pop/Punk] (1981)

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 17d

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️

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Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC (1947) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Walt Disney Testifies at HUAC

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18d

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 19d

And for anyone who is interested, I made a YouTube playlist when the book came out of clips and music related to the book youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Neighborhood of Fear - YouTube

These are clips, newscasts, documentaries, movie trailers, and other videos cited or inspired by my book Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in America...

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 19d

This was super fun! Highly recommend listening and guesting.

Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 19d

Next week, Season 2 of HISTORY MIXTAPES drops. I recorded this great conversation with @kyleriismandel.bsky.social and have been sitting on it to use as S2 opener.

If you have a history mixtape you'd like to share, let me know!

Check out Kyle's musical mentions here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

History Mixtapes - Season. 2 - Kyle Riismandel - YouTube

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