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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 1d

The Amazon Prime Days will continue until morale improves.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 1d

You win, Google. I'm just going to buy more storage for all the screenshots of funny memes I find on Instagram. 😔

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 2d

Being a Weezer fan through a truly legendary stretch of horrible albums in the 2000s really made me the person I am today.

Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 2d

It is SUCH a formative experience the first time your favorite artist releases a bad album. I envy all the kids going through it this week, you’re about to learn so much about the world! You’re learning how to let go!

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2d

The real reason Daniel Day-Lewis came out of retirement was so that @isaacbutler.bsky.social could write about him

Slate @slate.com · 2d

Daniel Day-Lewis is the poster child for Method acting. He in fact does its exact opposite. slate.trib.al/Wbu7x4x

He Might Be the Greatest Actor of All Time—and the Most Misunderstood

Only one performer has won three Best Actor Oscars. Is it fair that he’s also a joke?

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 2d

Bumping again--I'm back full time starting today. Am especially interested in hearing from unhoused people and advocates in Chicago who have been impacted by ICE and the now-looming National Guard deployment in our city. Signal is katie.507.

Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · Aug 21

After taking some time away to have a dang baby, I'm back to work at the Chicago Reader. Have a question or tip about the state of harm reduction, homelessness, and/or drugs in Chicago? Send me a line at [email protected]. I also cover: cultural lore, ghosts of all kinds, & city characters.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2d

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried.

She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 7d

Economists remain divided as to how a sky of blood and The Beast with ten horns rising from the sea demanding a tribute in gold and oil will impact the Q4 jobs report.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 7d

The New York Times: The seventh seal is broken. Locusts with human faces swarm the land. The oceans boil. Which is a troubling sign for the American economy.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 14d

Since their souls are worthy of salvation, they didn't spend anytime posting online so nobody here noticed anything.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 14d

What if the rapture did happen but it was only, like, one dude?

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 15d

I accidentally let the pigeon drive the bus 😔

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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · 20d

What do Simone Biles and one of the worst dates I’ve ever been on have in common? Absolutely nothing, except I mention both in this post.

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How do I ask someone out without suggesting a drink?

Don't make assumptions; channel Simone Biles; don't try to make a movie about sex addiction romantic.

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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 20d

“BECAUSE IT IS MY USERNAME!!! BECAUSE I CAN HAVE NO OTHER!!!”

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 23d

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 23d

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 21d

Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.

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And yet, you won’t find a Free Press article about that. Just as you won’t find one about how, in the first 24 hours after his death, Wikipedia’s volunteers quickly and quietly protected the Charlie Kirk biographical article from a wave of trollish edits suggesting he “deserved it.” Nothing reported about how Wikipedia’s volunteers deleted this bile within a few minutes or seconds of it being posted. What should be clear by now is that right-wing media coverage of Wikipedia isn’t actually interested in explaining how the site works. The goal is to undermine Wikipedia’s function as a volunteer-driven project that can produce an independent repository of facts that has (at least historically) been insulated from political interference.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 21d

chicago, irving park: ice spotted at home depot at addison/kimball

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Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social · 22d

This is what it’s like to be friends with @tonyhotran.bsky.social

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 25d

Right, it just doesn't look the way we would normally think a school shooting is—yet, it was a school shooting, I think, by most every commonly accepted definition of it.

Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 25d

Just burst out laughing remembering Wisconsin is playing Alabama today.

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 26d

Do you think a school shooting could encompass something that falls out of these two examples?

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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 26d

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios that Musk got it "backward" with DOGE.

www.axios.com/2025/09/12/d...

Exclusive: Musk got DOGE's mission "backward," Lutnick says

DOGE's savings are a fraction of what was promised, and many dispute even those numbers.

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