Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
Executive editor, features, CNN. Serial fiction and archives of nonfiction at Indignity.net. This Bluesky is about the Machines.
Reposted by Tom Scocca
in folk tale terms I think what we have here is a version of the hidden identify trope (I could be wrong, I'm a dabbler on folktale theory) -- but the hidden identity trope often ends not with the humiliation of the deluded, but with a joyous wedding. that's the point!
January 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM
in folk tale terms I think what we have here is a version of the hidden identify trope (I could be wrong, I'm a dabbler on folktale theory) -- but the hidden identity trope often ends not with the humiliation of the deluded, but with a joyous wedding. that's the point!
Age 5, reading about the on-the-ground carnage of Operation Menu
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Age 5, reading about the on-the-ground carnage of Operation Menu
It is true that children of your generation were positioned to first encounter the comics during the brief era when all the popular strips and panels from a city's recently expired second-through-fourth-place daily papers would be collected in a sprawling mega-section in the last surviving daily
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
It is true that children of your generation were positioned to first encounter the comics during the brief era when all the popular strips and panels from a city's recently expired second-through-fourth-place daily papers would be collected in a sprawling mega-section in the last surviving daily
Older people did too!
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Older people did too!
Reposted by Tom Scocca
Just enough contrarian opinions and you hit "The Ebert Zone", further still you become Armond White (Good), cross the line and you become Armond White (Punished)
January 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Just enough contrarian opinions and you hit "The Ebert Zone", further still you become Armond White (Good), cross the line and you become Armond White (Punished)
Reposted by Tom Scocca
There is a version that is, but it's not the link going around, for some reason. It's just their live blog www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: ICE agent identified as state and federal officials clash over shooting investigation
The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show. State investigators said the FBI had ‘reversed course’ on a joint investi...
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
There is a version that is, but it's not the link going around, for some reason. It's just their live blog www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Nope, the first two posts in his thread, starting with telling people not to believe ICE's account, were posted back to back at 1:20 p.m.
January 7, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Nope, the first two posts in his thread, starting with telling people not to believe ICE's account, were posted back to back at 1:20 p.m.