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Mike Miliard
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mmiliard.bsky.social
Just listen.
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Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone
YouTube video by bellaunioninc
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December 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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mikemadden.bsky.social
Inside the federal government as Trump and DOGE pushed it past its breaking point in 2025, as told by some of the more than 1,200 federal workers @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and @merylkornfield.bsky.social have spoken to this year
The year Trump broke the federal government
How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?

Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
mmiliard.bsky.social
Beautiful tribute, @stephenking.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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chriscjackson.bsky.social
This entire weekend
in the pit
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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shadowtodd.bsky.social
Why is this tiny gesture so funny
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
mmiliard.bsky.social
"Nothing is more enervating, demoralizing or hopeless than being the upholders of the proprieties of a vanquished order. Simple rule-following or, even worse, norms-following is simply too thin a reed for any political movement or political party."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/towar...
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Our Age of Monsters and Predators
I got a fascinating array of responses to my Tuesday post about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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stereogum.com
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard took their massive catalog off of Spotify only to be replaced by an AI King Gizz impersonator.

"[I'm] trying to see the irony in this situation," frontman Stu Mackenzie responds. "But seriously wtf we are truly doomed.”
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Respond To AI Spotify Impersonator
Not long after they released their latest album Phantom Island back in June, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced they were taking their massive catalog off of Spotify — one of many such cases t...
stereogum.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
… and he SERVED ✨
Bugs Bunny in drag
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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pressherald.com
Charles Shay, Penobscot tribal elder who fought on D-Day, dies at 101
Charles Shay, Penobscot tribal elder who fought on D-Day, dies at 101
Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He spent his final years in France.
www.pressherald.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
mmiliard.bsky.social
More local news you can use. 🏛️⚡
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Newly discovered Bad Brains recording to be released | NBC4 Washington
YouTube video by NBC4 Washington
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
I am asking you, once again, to stop giving Mike Dukakis your Turkey carcasses
headline: Dukakis collects turkey carcasses for soup headline: readers leave turkey carcasses at Dukakis home headline: Mike dukakis is no longer accepting turkey carcasses
November 30, 2024 at 5:18 PM
mmiliard.bsky.social
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Thanksgiving 2025 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ tour stop in Bangor
WABI TV 5 News at 6
www.wabi.tv
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
mmiliard.bsky.social
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
mmiliard.bsky.social
Thank you, Mani.
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The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Official Video)
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November 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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blanksslate.bsky.social
Imagine naming your round-up-hardworking-brown-people operation after a story written by the same man who wrote this.

Some pig, indeed.
text from EB White's "On a Florida Key" (1941) : "There are two moving picture theaters in the town to which my key is attached by a bridge. In one of then colored people are allowed in the balcony. In the other, colored people are not allowed at all. I saw a patriotic newsreel there the other day which ended with a picture of the American flag blowing in the breeze, and the words: one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Everyone clapped, but I decided I could not clap for liberty and justice (for all) when I was in a theater from which Negroes had been barred. And I felt there were too many people in the world who thin liberty and justice for all means liberty and justice for themselves and their friends. I sat there wondering what would happen to me if I were to jump up and say in a loud voice: "If you folks like liberty and justice so much, why do you keep Negroes form this theater?" I am sure it would have surprised everybody very much and it is the kind of thing I dream about doing but never do. If I had done it I suppose the management would have taken me by the arm and marched me out of the theater, on the grounds that it is disturbing the peace to speak up for liberty just as the feature is coming on. When a man is in the South he must do as the Southerners do; but although I am willing to call my wife "sugar" I am not willing to call a colored person a nigger." Some pig, indeed.
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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kvetch.gay
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
msemilyedwards.bsky.social Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · Nov 17
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
a screen grab of a tweet about ocean spray cranberry jelly: **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards…. 1d i should take a moment to remind you that Ocean Spray is actually a cranberry growers collective and by supporting the superlative "goo in a can" name-brand cranberry sauce, you're supporting workers and small farmers oatmeal influencer **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards .. 1d: so many reasons to love Superlative Canned Goo this holiday season Lindsey Becker @lcatebecker • 1d Replying to @MsEmilyEdwards Plus, their manufacturing plants are
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Stop me if you've heard this before:

If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF???

They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???
datadrivenmd.social Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · Nov 12
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
aridrennen.bsky.social Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Nov 12
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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kschultz.bsky.social
I’m not a highly paid political consultant, but it seems to me that “Republicans showed that they’d rather starve children and risk planes falling from the sky than lower health care costs” is a better message than this.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 10
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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brianbeutler.bsky.social
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
www.offmessage.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM