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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16d

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Lula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 16d

Estou do lado do povo brasileiro. As manifestações de hoje demonstram que a população não quer a impunidade, nem a anistia. O Congresso Nacional deve se concentrar em medidas que tragam benefícios para o povo brasileiro.

Montagem com fotos de manifestações pelo Brasil

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 25d

Contemporary modernism

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26d

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

www.nbcboston.com

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 25d

The anxiety of influence—an “astral disease“ as Harold Bloom called it

Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 26d

America, online: www.todayintabs.com/p/groyper-wa...

So in summary: it appears that this was a shooting where the victim, an influencer, was answering a question from another influencer when he was shot by a third influencer, after which a fourth influencer documented the ensuing chaos and a host of other influencers registered their takes, before the director of the FBI (an influencer) and the deputy director of the FBI (another influencer) announced the alleged shooter’s apprehension with a quote from Mad Max.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 26d

Fantastic thread

matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 26d

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

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matthew ellis @matthiasellis.com · 26d

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 1

totally, people have a really hard time grasping the notion of fiction don’t they. The Hollywood reporter guy was like “this is so five years ago”—it’s set in 2019!

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fabulous review! I consulted on the script briefly and am bummmmmed by these dimwitted overliteral reviews—yours is so much truer to the script. Can’t wait to see the actual flick.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Forget the partial deals. Go in with full force and finish this,” the premier [Netanyahu] reportedly said Trump told him."

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

PM told cabinet a partial hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas ‘not on the table’ – reports

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www.timesofisrael.com

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · Aug 30

"After you've done that, can you dig a hole 6ft deep?"

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 22

51st state’s official music

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 16

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 14

Miss this guy much

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Aug 13

Michael Brooks would have turned 42 today. Here he is flawlessly explaining why the Israel Palestine situation is not complicated. Why it's not even asymmetrical warfare, but an occupation.

Rest in peace Michael. You were the best of us.

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ah good idea, thanks Dean!

Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

Danke!

Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 12

As things go, a low priority but: good weather apps? With good radar features? It feels impossible to find one that doesn't require a huge yearly fee! Recs?

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/m...

Anas Al-Sharif became the face of the war in Gaza for millions. Then Israel killed him | CNN

As a ceasefire in Gaza took hold in January, Anas Al-Sharif began removing his protective gear live on television, piece by piece, while a jubilant crowd cheered, hoping the day marked the end of the ...

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s true!

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 10

counterpoint

criticism is the art of animating crap.

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · Aug 4

I sometimes read these very well-educated critics writing their hearts out on crap, and I'm depressed because they're wasting so much first-rate intellect on such low-grade material. (2001)

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 7

And day making for ME that you two pearls come across each other here. What a deelite!

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · Aug 3

128 members of the Royal Ballet and Opera sign an open letter in solidarity with Danni Perry displaying the 🇵🇸 flag at a curtain call, and ask the Royal Ballet and Opera to acknowledge and act against Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

via Make Freedom Ring
www.instagram.com/p/DM3Uib-gGH...

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

That’s funny that was exactly what I was going to suggest, egg on face!

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

I wonder if Mike Beckerman might have an idea?

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thanks so much dude now this driving me mad

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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · Aug 3

Those tables were how she kept her house hot!

A NY Post headline, “F in ethics: Zehra’s Mamdani laughed off stealing a table in college” and article about it reading:

NYC socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and a pal stole a table while an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Maine - only admitting to the heist in the campus newspaper after security had him dead to rights.
"I would occasionally use the table in my room. You know, for that game with the red Solo cups and a few ping-pong balls," the future defund-the-police Queens assemblyman recalled in a Sept. 16, 2011 column for The Bowdoin Orient, titled "Idiots Steal Table.

Patti Harrison in the ITYSL “Tables” sketch, saying “these are my livelihood” as she looks into the back of her van

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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · Aug 3

Yay @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social is on the bsky! With this banger on Verdi and the neutering of opera. “The last thing that Verdi … cared about in that moment was music: ‘There is and should be only one kind of music pleasing to the ears of the Italians of 1848 – the music of the guns!’”

Olivia Giovetti @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social · Aug 1

Anyway, hi Bluesky. Here's something I wrote for @lrb.co.uk earlier this week about Danni Perry bringing the Palestine flag onto the stage of the ROH and why claiming political impartiality in relation to a Verdi opera is like calling Guernica a painting of a horse. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Olivia Giovetti | Against Consensus

During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, one...

www.lrb.co.uk

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