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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃

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Senior Editor at @thehometownholler.bsky.social Subscribe: thehometownholler.substack.com NC Piedmont. Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects. The lamest poaster in all of GenX, but does read, like & RT.

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 21d

After a day spent upgrading some tech in the Hometown Holler studio, I was more than compensated by sticking around for the taping of an upcoming @thehometownholler.bsky.social podcast with the astonishing** @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

**If I say more, I’ll gush, and don’t nobody need to see that

Tressie McMillan Cottom with Quinn Ray and Daniel Ayers of The Hometown Holler podcast. Look out for the release of the episode in October.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

The "follow" dichotomy I always struggle with is "I want to see every single thing you post" vs. "I want you to know that I like and respect you." My Following feed is so overstuffed as it is, but I hate the idea that people I don't follow back might think that I don't appreciate them!

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 17h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 11h

Uhhh…that might’ve been the one thing able to make me look back in on the AC franchise.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

It is always a true pleasure to chop it up with @thehometownholler.bsky.social this is a far-ranging conversation but still skillfully on target. Thanks for having me back. (With a special shout out to Milo ❤️)

The Hometown Holler @thehometownholler.bsky.social · 20h

New Hometown Holler drop: We sit down with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social - scholar, writer, truth-teller. From North Carolina roots to national influence, Dr. Cottom talks about home, politics, and the power of paying attention. Don’t miss this one.

#home #community #politics #whiskey

Tressie McMillan Cottom on Nostalgia, Belonging, and Why Calling Trump an “Idiot” Misses the Point

YouTube video by The Hometown Holler

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 11h

Feeling down about …all the things?

A little low in these dark times?

Well, I got just the thing for that!

Get @tressiemcphd.bsky.social to send you a “special shout out” w/ heart emoji.

It’ll ease ennui, put a spring in your step & even improve your complexion.

Like Plexaderm for the soul.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12h

the president refers to killing as “actually an act of kindness” and it’s genuinely not news because baby we are frogs and we are coookin’

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 12h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 11h

‘Mebane’

An exurb/bedroom community in the NC Piedmont that will soon have NC’s first Buc-ee’s, it seems?

(Pronounced ‘mehb-ihn’, quickly, and without accented syllables.)

Zero nav app voices get it remotely close and their versions are… soul-scarring variations on the theme of:

MEE-bayn(uh)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 12h

Had to look in over at twitter/X to quote a tweet…

…and yeah, it’s so much worse than I expected.

But WOWZERS!

The flood of “Charlie Kirk turned on Israel” stuff among the “conservatives” over there is digital late-stage syphilitic madness.

An Autumn-Fest corn-maze of conspiratorial non-sanity.

An AI pic of Bibi with a pig face. Text reads: ISRAEL KILLED CHARLIE KIRK. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU ZIONIST PIG

Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 1d

The Beths.

On US tour this month!

I’ll be at the Asheville NC show on 10/30.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

We need, in a word, virtue signaling -- we need to be signaling to one another, and to ordinary Americans, that this *is* fucked up and everyone *should* fight back. People need something to rally around & they're getting nothing.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 1d

Good lyrics and I hope it irritates the heck outta those who need it…

…that said, I’d actually pay $5 if he’d let me TUNE THAT GUITAR.

I suspect it’s supposed to give the flavor of authenticity, but I just hear out-of-tune-ness, grating & abrasive, like a set of terrible windchimes that hate you.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 1d

Ummm… this whole paragraph from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is a wildfire of awesome.

A perfectly balanced rhetorical lever built upon the pinpoint fulcrum underneath “…and remember the epistolaries.”

Goosepimples.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Debate is a luxury of norms and institutional safety, two things that Trump's second administration has systematically destroyed. So many Americans love the idea that debate solves tough political problems because we love the idea of American exceptionalism. Forget the bloody wars of independence, secession and expansion and remember the epistolaries. We flatter ourselves. There was never a time when rank-and-file Americans perfected the ideas of the Republic without violence or oppression.
Debates among founding fathers were games among similarly classed white male property owners. Women, enslaved people, Indigenous nations, disabled people, poor people, some immigrants — they were all excluded from the civic sphere we valorize now as the height of American civility.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot see that image of them zip tying that child anymore without just melting into despair

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d

With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency

www.nytimes.com

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"As we can see all around us today—from crypto scams, to fake or counterfeit goods being sold online, to abusive microtransaction-laden mobile games, to gambling apps—cheating and lying require much, much less toil than building a quality product or service." prospect.org/economy/2025...

The Socialist Case for Antitrust

Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.

prospect.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

A huge chunk of Americans "on the right" in the 1960s and 70s were not principled believers in "small government." They were what historian Jefferson Cowie calls "believers in racialized anti-statism." They opposed "big government" only when it threatened white supremacy. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Mar 22

To be more precise, the people behind this pamphlet decrying this "federal tyranny" on behalf of civil rights were also involved with the "sovereignty commissions" set up by Southern states to spy on and collect information about civil rights activists. da.mdah.ms.gov/sovcom/scage...

Sovereignty Commission Online
Agency History
Access Chronology
Commission Members
Commission Personnel
Notes
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The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (Commission) was created by an act of the Mississippi legislature on March 29, 1956. The agency was established in the wake of the May 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Like other states below the Mason-Dixon Line, Mississippi responded to Brown with legislation to shore up the walls of racial separation. The act creating the Commission provided the agency with broad powers. The Commission's objective was to "do and perform any and all acts deemed necessary and proper to protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states.." from perceived "encroachment thereon by the Federal Government or any branch, department or agency thereof." To exercise this loosely defined objective, the Commission was granted extensive investigative powers. The governor was
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appointed ex-officio chairman of the Commission. Other ex-officio members were the president of the Senate, who was vice-chairman of the Commission; the attorney general; and the speaker of the House of Representatives. In addition, the Commission comprised the
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following members: two members from the Senate, appointed by the president of the Senate; and three members from the House of
Representatives, appointed by the speaker. The governor, attorney general and legislators served on the Commission during their tenures in office. The three members appointed by the governor served for the duration of his term.' The agency itself was small, consisting of a director, public relations director, clerical staff and a handful of investigators.
The Commission's activities were shaped by the preference of the governor and skills of its staff. J.P.…

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Milo BOO!aynes 👻 🎃 @milobaynes.bsky.social · 1d

This thread?

It is worth your time.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 2d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.