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Talia Lavin

@swordsjew.bsky.social

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journalist, author, sword collector. haggard and unblest. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: [email protected]

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Nov 11

time to unleash The Grilled Cheese Essay (which personally made padma lakshmi cry) on the newskies

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4h

i like fitz bc i love fitz and the fool tbqh

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13h

yeah.

M. Jeffreson @mjeffreson.bsky.social · 13h

Somewhere waaay down the list of "shit im angry at these fascists for" is the general idea of robbing me of the notion that "things were going to keep getting better".

Maybe not fast enough, maybe not evenly, but as sure as water flows downhill, it was going to.

These fucks.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13h

i miss living in a country that wasnt murdering itself so openly

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

lol, lmao, sure, okay

The person close to the White House said the administration has informally deputized Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to serve as a conduit to Democrats. Asked about the arrangement, Mullin said, “I don’t have a badge,” and otherwise declined to discuss whether he was briefing the administration on bipartisan Senate talks.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

people have wondered, “what was livejournal like?” well—

Sophia D’Aurelio Adair @vitaphonezone.bsky.social · 2d

Jean Lorraine, Clara Bow, and Adrienne Doré in an Otto Dyar publicity portrait for The Wild Party (1929) featured on a French cigarette card:

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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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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

breathable light tights would totally be comfier than pants

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

nice legs boo

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

dong wig. thats just fashion

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

always & forever amen

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

yea but this should be normative male fashion. chinos are boring

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

it also has a dong

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

ok but you can do a cheap version of this and look like a hot glam slut. no excuses

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

huge cods. big cods

im 100% behind the codpiece revival then i can softpack all day

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

faux fur exists

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

nylons lace heels faux fur big curls. lets bring that shit back

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

the moment in This Present Darkness where an angel and a demon fight to the death over the reverend's wife's parking brake is seared into my brain

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

men can wear tights and fur capes and heels theyre just cowards

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

why dont dudes dress like this anymore

Sharon @mojitana.bsky.social · 2d

Real men wear heels.

King Louis looking gorgeous in ermine and gold. He's rocking some pre-loubiton high red heeled shoes with white silk toes and garnished with red ribbon around his slutty ankles.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

wig assumptions, anyway

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 2d

This is the thing I wish I could get through a lot of Dem politician's heads. Your colleagues in congress believe you are demonic. And they mean that *literally*.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i do not respect this belief but it is enlightening to wrap your head around the fact that a significant number of your political rivals believe you are literally in league with satan, and act with concomitant zeal and brutality

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i watched so many exorcism videos from deliverance ministers and also almost hired one for research and man the whole thing is scary as hell

but also in a healthcareless country, i can see the attraction of praying the depression/misfortune away in community

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