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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 11h

Or just The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie but it’s her, Logan Paul and KSI dousing themselves in blue water.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 11h

is this anything: The Prime Day of Miss Jean Brodie

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 16h

Pretty sure that back then, the Nashville-area showing of Rocky Horror was in [check notes] downtown Franklin?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

"But they're just supposed to be from Transylvania!!!!"

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 17h

Having spent time in both, Old Piedmont vs New Piedmont is a spot-on distinction.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17h

This nails New Jersey. It's basically a pork roll-Taylor Ham line.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17h

This nails New Jersey. It's basically a pork roll-Taylor Ham line.

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 17h

Think of all those kids who went to midnight showings of Rocky Horror.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Never heard this cover before, but it’s brilliant.

Also, I listened to the original in high school, while “classic rock” radio was playing hits like “Lola” and “Walk on the Wild Side”

Some people in my generation somehow missed all that and were shocked to discover trans people at middle age.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 18h

I guess this obligates you to rank the solo Joan version. I like this video where she's reading her children's book telling the song as her story, and her partner John Doe is standing by in support. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNgi...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

highland cattle have it figured out

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we as a country have ever dealt with how awful and Un-American COINTELPRO was, and for that reason we risk repeating it.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Hey guys. It's your boy J Edgar here. I have something new that I'm really excited to share with you—it's called COINTELPRO and I really think you're gonna love it

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.

"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

My photo doesn’t do it justice but Court Street in Brooklyn is going to be nice when it’s done.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

“Was he ever a good coach at all” is a legit question now www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

Vintage lucite lint brush from my collection, ca. 1970s.

Photo of a white woman’s hand holding up what looks like a small statue of a white cat curled up in a light blue basket bed.

Photo of a white woman’s hand holding up the same statue as the previous photo but this was the bottom side of it showing a lot of basket details.

Photo of a white woman’s hand holding the lint brush side of the white cat statue towards the camera. It is stiff light blue velvet with lines on it like corduroy.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 1d

Ned Ryerson!

Moose Gossage @ctosterhout.bsky.social · 1d

This is the voice that popped in my head just now

a man wearing a hat and glasses is talking to another man on a city street .

Alt: Ned Ryerson smacks Phil Connors on the shoulder and loudly exclaims, "BING!"

media.tenor.com

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! zing yep. This is why I don’t post.

🇨🇦🇸🇪 🧡 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @promich.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile the rest of planet earth assumed the NYT esprit de corps was based on being racist, ethno-supremacist pro-genocide zionists. Opps. Our bad. Tee-hee. Any hoo, sorry that other racist zionist grifted too close to the sun or whatever.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Post food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down after 25 years — and is finally showing his face.

In his final column, Tom shares some tricks of the trade after decades of reviewing restaurants anonymously. https://wapo.st/4pWgp8K

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

"Oftentimes, censorship and repression that originates with the government doesn't actually have to be executed by the government," says @risenc.bsky.social

What the Red Scare can teach us today

Many of the things that happened during the Red Scare mirror what's happening today.

madness.ghost.io

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

FBI Director Kash Patel * ®
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
& Barb McQuade @ @BarbMcQuade • 15h
DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

Comey should get a white T shirt that says RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES in big black letters and wear it continually to protect himself from this. They’d never parade him for cameras in that.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4d

This is really nuts.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 5d

At least HUAC’s members were elected.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 5d

HUAC for the 21st century www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Kelly² @anarchakelly.bsky.social · 6d

Didn’t realize the Riyadh Comedy Festival overlapped with the anniversary of the murder of Kamal Khashoggi!

I hope Bill Burr and Dave Chappelle and Tom Segura and company are having a blast!

Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 6d

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi

I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 6d

When Trump says he’s going after “Democrat agencies” in the federal government, I’m reminded of the Fiorello La Guardia quote: “There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.”

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6d

This was not a dumb question. It's not as if he'd ever been taught this in school. He knew vaguely what Stonewall was and even though he had put things together incorrectly, he was at least trying to put things together and asking good questions. Anyway, now I know who I'm writing the book for. >

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 6d

It’s been a minute since the last time Albania stunted on us this hard 🇦🇱🇦🇱

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6d

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

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