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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 12h

"As the Black-Eyed Peas once said..."
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A ★★★★½ review of The Naked Gun (2025)

"As the Black-Eyed Peas once said..." Sometimes it's nice just to have a jam-packed comedy

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 14h

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A ★★★★½ review of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

The truest depiction of talent's curse

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h

Not paying people remains one of the biggest through-lines of Trump's career.

That plus corruption, racism, and sexual assault.

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White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

One of the big reasons so many liberal orgs suck is that they’re more about “how close are you to the Clintons/Obamas” w personnel than about “do you have any idea how to be effective?”

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

The very well funded Center for American Progress has been in operation since 2004. The Democrats do not have “nothing” they’re just not trying.

LouFromBoston @loufromboston.bsky.social · 19h

The Republicans have a very well organized think-tank (Heritage Foundation) for strategizing and coordination of messaging. They control what we are seeing day to day.

The Democrats have nothing. No sense of leadership, no direction, no messaging. We need a think-tank asap!!

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 19h

Identical 18 point margin for Josh Shapiro against Stacy Garrity and Doug Mastriano, the Quinnipiac Poll was within the margin of error too. Garrity would probably be better if only because she's not afraid of appearing on TV, but another Shapiro landslide is in the mix

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

Our society is being run into the ground by criminal idiots, but if you want to go anywhere in this industry I've chosen you have to pretend divisiveness is the root of all of the nation's ills. Just a perpetually frustrating reality

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Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 23h

A couple thoughts on Tron: Ares here. (I dunno, you’d think if there were a target audience it would be the guy who owns a Tron arcade game, but I guess not.) boxd.it/bhPBXd

A ★★ review of TRON: Ares (2025)

I’m not sure I’d classify even the original Tron as “a good movie,” though I do admire it and find it very pretty. (I even own a Tron arcade game so I’d call myself “a fan.”) And there’s a reason that...

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

A+ work from Whitehouse's staff, D+ on Whitehouse's execution

Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

Our society is being run into the ground by criminal idiots, but if you want to go anywhere in this industry I've chosen you have to pretend divisiveness is the root of all of the nation's ills. Just a perpetually frustrating reality

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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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss once wrote an NYT column under the headline "We're All Fascists Now."
She said Dave Rubin was called an "anti-Fascist lieutenant" by lefties.
She linked to a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" (left).
The most amazing correction followed. (right)

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Looks like the Fascist Lieutenant @RubinReport is speaking at an Alt-Right event today. You know what to do, comrades. #Antifa #NoPlatform

Editors’ Note: March 7, 2018

An earlier version of this essay cited criticism of the commentator Dave Rubin as an example of left-leaning attacks on liberals in the public sphere, and linked to tweets that described him as a fascist. Those tweets came from an account that has been reported to be fake. Therefore the example and the links have been removed.

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KWilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 1d

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social in "They Knew", with a 1985 example of how corrupt our media has been, & complicit with crime rings, for possibly forever.

The same media that allowed for the rise of Trump is harangued and vilified by him now.

Page 53 of They Knew, book by Sarah Kendzior.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

2002 Netanyahu:

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Inside CBS News, there is a mood of wary resignation as the long-awaited Bari Weiss era begins. “Trepidation,” in the words of one staffer.

Meanwhile, David Ellison's news philosophy is showing major cracks under scrutiny.

My full report in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

Weiss and Shine

The Bari Weiss era has begun at CBS News, and David Ellison’s push to reshape the storied network has staffers holding their breath about the future of the outlet—especially as the mogul's talking poi...

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 1d

"These NL playoff games are great but I just wish the pitchers were still hitting"
-No one ever

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

"It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club" - George Carlin

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

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Avi Wolfman-Arent @avi-wa.bsky.social · 1d

"Analytics" is bad and never works.

"Old school" can never fail since the baseball pundit class ignores every single instance of it backfiring

Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

All the old-school guys on the Phillies postgame show are pretending that the bunt didn't lose the game

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

All the old-school guys on the Phillies postgame show are pretending that the bunt didn't lose the game

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

"No Bunts"
"Bunts An Out"
"No Bunting Whatsoever"

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

VIBE SHIFT #Phillies

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

Just saw a Kalshi TV ad during the Phillies where the concept is giving odds for historical events. They show the Wright Brothers flying a plane and filmed it in a very grassy field, despite the flight very famously happening on a beach

Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 1d

If you want of a picture of the Phillies in October, imagine nine-figure sluggers swinging and missing at outside-the-zone breaking balls, forever....

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

The U.S. Treasury shared a proposal to mint $1 Trump coins to mark America’s 250th anniversary.

But U.S. code says only deceased individuals may appear on U.S. currency, a tradition dating back to efforts to break from monarchical rule. https://wapo.st/4pWsyL3

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News poll shows the Democratic Party's favorable rating at 34%, with 66% disapproving. Again, part of the reason is weak approval with their own base — 1 in 5 Democrats view it unfavorably. That's twice the share of Republicans with an unfavorable view of their party.

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