Robert Garnsey
@rgastoria.bsky.social
Voice-over artist, Steelers, Rangers and Yankee fan, and political junkie
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🧵One of the small acts of defiance I've engaged in (nearly) every day since the election is...well, flossing.
I was, uh, sporadic? before & just thought "they're gonna fuck up healthcare, I better take up spite-flossing." For teeth & gum health, obvi, but also HEART & apparently BRAIN! (see next!)
I was, uh, sporadic? before & just thought "they're gonna fuck up healthcare, I better take up spite-flossing." For teeth & gum health, obvi, but also HEART & apparently BRAIN! (see next!)
People really really downplay dental health. Cavities are not the worse case scenario here. Poor oral health can kill you
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
🧵One of the small acts of defiance I've engaged in (nearly) every day since the election is...well, flossing.
I was, uh, sporadic? before & just thought "they're gonna fuck up healthcare, I better take up spite-flossing." For teeth & gum health, obvi, but also HEART & apparently BRAIN! (see next!)
I was, uh, sporadic? before & just thought "they're gonna fuck up healthcare, I better take up spite-flossing." For teeth & gum health, obvi, but also HEART & apparently BRAIN! (see next!)
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This is so satisfying it’s borderline erotic.
Lmfao 😂 Jake Lang is experiencing the finding out phase in Minneapolis.
January 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
This is so satisfying it’s borderline erotic.
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Andor was a textbook
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Andor was a textbook
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@adamstemple.bsky.social in b-minor?
Irish protest song Come Out Ye Black and Tan update for Minnesota 2026
CC @lollardfish.bsky.social @whstancil.bsky.social @atrupar.com
CC @lollardfish.bsky.social @whstancil.bsky.social @atrupar.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
@adamstemple.bsky.social in b-minor?
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Th NYT got its hands on Grand Jury testimony from GA in which top Republicans mock and express disgust at Trump’s stolen election claims. 🎁 gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Th NYT got its hands on Grand Jury testimony from GA in which top Republicans mock and express disgust at Trump’s stolen election claims. 🎁 gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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"The craziest thing I’ve heard":
Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony show just how alarmed and exasperated a number of senior Republicans felt about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. @richardfausset.bsky.social @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony show just how alarmed and exasperated a number of senior Republicans felt about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. @richardfausset.bsky.social @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 AM
"The craziest thing I’ve heard":
Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony show just how alarmed and exasperated a number of senior Republicans felt about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. @richardfausset.bsky.social @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony show just how alarmed and exasperated a number of senior Republicans felt about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. @richardfausset.bsky.social @dannyhakim.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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"Indescribably delicious." The commenters have spoken, and they strongly recommend this recipe for rosemary white beans with frizzled onions and tomato. nyti.ms/3Nfgp4Z
January 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
"Indescribably delicious." The commenters have spoken, and they strongly recommend this recipe for rosemary white beans with frizzled onions and tomato. nyti.ms/3Nfgp4Z
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i may be late to the party, but i cannot recommend strongly enough jad abumrad's phenomenal podcast about fela kuti. rich & complex portrait, fabulous interviews, amazing music. best podcast i listened to in 2025 by far.
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti
Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.
www.newyorker.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
i may be late to the party, but i cannot recommend strongly enough jad abumrad's phenomenal podcast about fela kuti. rich & complex portrait, fabulous interviews, amazing music. best podcast i listened to in 2025 by far.
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
new yorker wrote it up here 👇
100%
my brother got me a fancy 4K steelbook set of the nolan batman movies so i’m rewatching BATMAN BEGINS for the 20th time and i still think this one is the best batman story of the bunch
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 AM
100%
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Ancient wisdom and modern research are not wrong,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “If you want to lead a fulfilling life, fill it with loving attachments.”
“Ancient wisdom and modern research are not wrong,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “If you want to lead a fulfilling life, fill it with loving attachments.”
Opinion | The Importance of Love and Marriage for an Increasingly Loveless America
America is becoming more loveless: less dating, less marriage, less friendship, less patriotism. But love outside of self is what makes life meaningful.
nyti.ms
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Ancient wisdom and modern research are not wrong,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “If you want to lead a fulfilling life, fill it with loving attachments.”
“Ancient wisdom and modern research are not wrong,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “If you want to lead a fulfilling life, fill it with loving attachments.”
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In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 AM
In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.
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Happy New Year everyone!!! 🎆
Posting a poem by James Merrill, from his book, “The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.”
Posting a poem by James Merrill, from his book, “The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.”
January 1, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Happy New Year everyone!!! 🎆
Posting a poem by James Merrill, from his book, “The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.”
Posting a poem by James Merrill, from his book, “The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.”
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Re-upping for the daylight crowd. I'd be curious to hear from Americans about whether they'd ever heard this setting of "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight. How many Americans who grew up outside the Episcopalian/Anglican tradition know this version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem" typically heard in the U.K., with its lovely descant (counterpoint) in the last verse? (I only learned of it in my thirties.) See you around.
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
YouTube video by St. Paul's Cathedral Choir - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Re-upping for the daylight crowd. I'd be curious to hear from Americans about whether they'd ever heard this setting of "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
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as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
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I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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Here's @sonnybunch.bsky.social's obituary for Rob Reiner, published late last night:
www.thebulwark.com/p/rob-reiner...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rob-reiner...
Rob Reiner, 1947–2025
One of the best and most versatile directors of his era.
www.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Here's @sonnybunch.bsky.social's obituary for Rob Reiner, published late last night:
www.thebulwark.com/p/rob-reiner...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rob-reiner...
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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The Death of Stalin is *chef's kiss* perfect
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The Death of Stalin is *chef's kiss* perfect
Love this
December 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Love this
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One of my favorite parts of the Christian story is how historically-embedded it is. God breaks into history in time and space: Subject to a vassal king of a brutal empire. That matters
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of my favorite parts of the Christian story is how historically-embedded it is. God breaks into history in time and space: Subject to a vassal king of a brutal empire. That matters
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From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
“A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, according to federal charges made public Tuesday.”
Border Patrol agent charged with robbing, raping women in Chicago suburbs in 2022
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
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The answer to this question is obv subjective, it just depends on how you define “ok”! Is it “ok” to drive without a seat belt? Is it “ok” to drink raw milk? I mean, you can always play the odds!
But if you’re asking the question, it suggests PLANNING on drinking 4-5 drinks in a night.
But if you’re asking the question, it suggests PLANNING on drinking 4-5 drinks in a night.
My personal experience as a former functional alcoholic who became non-functioning one and with 15 years around other recovering drunks that is not a question most normal drinkers would think to ask.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Is It OK to Binge Drink Occasionally?
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The answer to this question is obv subjective, it just depends on how you define “ok”! Is it “ok” to drive without a seat belt? Is it “ok” to drink raw milk? I mean, you can always play the odds!
But if you’re asking the question, it suggests PLANNING on drinking 4-5 drinks in a night.
But if you’re asking the question, it suggests PLANNING on drinking 4-5 drinks in a night.
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This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
August 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.