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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6h

This is one of the lines I kind of like actually!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

It's one of my favorite albums! Just has some hella goofy lyrics

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

I need to post about pop music way more on here

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h

he looks like he's talking into a trash can

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 10h

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 12h

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"I only want to be your one-life stand" is so much worse than anything Taylor has ever written

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Paris had just 28 murders, that's fewer than Seattle

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes when will someone comment on the artistic output of men

Exhausted by this narrative. I'll change my mind when male musicians are dragged for their lyrics, looks, and lifestyle with the same venom and intensity.
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t mention her looks or lifestyle? And men who make art also receive commentary on their art!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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viv @hiviv.bsky.social · 1d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkwnauo/

Tbh the only thing that makes them bearable #taylorswift #lifeofashowgirl #MFDOOM #impression #fyp

TikTok video by voiceturtle

www.tiktok.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

having opinions on the artistic output of the most famous woman alive, why would anyone stoop to this

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Yes why would I, an elderly podcaster, punch down on a vulnerable girl simply trying to embark on a music career

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY

A conservative professor on how to fix campus culture

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

dick-matized

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to read any further
www.the-berliner.com/english-news...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Probably doesn’t need saying, but no law was broken. Israel broke international law by abducting people in international waters, people who were seeking to break Israel’s illegal siege, itself part of the genocide

Puns N' Roses @gthanku.bsky.social · 1d

as the global hegemon & Israel's chief enabler, America gets more dedicated humiliation treatments, from Netanyahu bragging abt unconstitutional US laws & censorship to some Israeli who harasses US students with impunity mocking the mother of an American reporter who made a Twitter account for this

My son was in the flotilla. He is now in Israeli prison being mistreated. 22 Americans in all. Calls/messages to US Gov't officials are ignored. Many activists from other countries are already released. Needs national media attention.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny."

Journalism that fits this description has not existed in the US for decades now and is effectively impossible within the informal social & economic constraints in which US journalism works.

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett did a big sit-down interview with Baseball Crank over at the National Review, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but she actually has my sympathies for having to force a laugh after Crank opened their conversation with this

A Conversation with Justice Barrett
By DAN MCLAUGHLIN
October 3, 2025 6:30 AM

What follows, edited slightly for print, is the first half of my conversation with her. (The second half can be found here.)
NR: So I have to say, as a child of the '70s, it's a little weird to me to be interviewing a Supreme Court justice who's younger than I
am.
JUSTICE BARRETT: [Laughs]

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Something fundamental has broken in the brains of elites. No matter how many op-eds they read, write and publish denouncing identity politics, they still think it's a heterodox viewpoint you can't find anywhere.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 1d

Mother Jones reported have 3x Free Press’s subscriber count but I haven’t noticed an oligarch paying $600m and giving Clara Jeffrey control of one of the 3 broadcast networks. revealnews.org/press/merger....

Merger of Mother Jones, The Center for Investigative Reporting Is Official - Reveal

The multiplatform nonprofit news outlet reaches millions of people across social media, websites, video, radio, podcast and print.

revealnews.org

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