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Dan Watson @wats.ink · Mar 18

Du Bois: The North was not abolitionist. But there was a minority who hated slavery with perfect hatred; As the abolition-democracy gained in prestige and in power, they appeared as prophets, and led by statesmen, they began to guide the nation out of the morass into which it had fallen.

last page of “the general strike” chapter of black reconstruction

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 4h

“I cherish a particular day in the fall.“

It's No-More-Yankee-Fans Day!

Some people wait for that warm spring day when summer dresses and tank tops come out on the streets of New York all at once. Me, I...

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 4h

what do you do after the three months are up

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they should go the whole way around the lake

Dan Watson @wats.ink · 8h

what are they doing to the kids?

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 9h

it hasn’t been a great 24 hours for the mariners/jays championship series

Dan Watson @wats.ink · 11h

somebody bought this house only two years ago and whatever they did in the meantime they want another $1.5 million out of it

15 Charlcote Pl, Baltimore, MD 21218 - 5 beds/6.5 baths

(BRIGHT MLS) For Sale: 5 beds, 6.5 baths ∙ 16409 sq. ft. ∙ 15 Charlcote Pl, Baltimore, MD 21218 ∙ $4,500,000 ∙ MLS# MDBA2183508 ∙ Coming Soon: Live authentically. Charlcote House. The James Swan Frick...

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 1d

another good one is that olivia de havilland was still alive at age 102 to (unsuccessfully) sue FX for making a ryan murphy show taking place 55 years earlier where she was one of the characters

Supreme Court Denies Review of Olivia de Havilland’s ‘Feud’ Lawsuit

Olivia de Havilland, the 102-year-old actress known for roles in 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Adventures of Robin Hood,' won't get another crack at legal glory. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reje...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 1d

this yankees game is not the fan psychodrama i was hoping for.

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since i’ve gotten an AMC subscription i usually scroll through the full list of what’s showing at white marsh a few times a week, and am often amused by the odd one-off showings in a genre probably best described as “evangelical slop”

a guy has a spiritual awakening when he “stumbles upon a broken statue of the Virgin Mary”

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · Mar 13

75-year-old CLR James talking with Stuart Hall about Trotsky and Melville etc and suddenly he says “have you seen Dog Day Afternoon?” www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

discussing the attitude to authority of Americans vs Europeans

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 1d

our newest feature film Please Give Me Acting Awards, a rehash of The Wrestler but with a less interesting lead actor and no Marisa Tomei

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever I say people should leave the military, I'm told that we need the good people to stay because they're a firewall against unjust orders. Okay. When does that happen? Assassinating Venezuelan fisherman? National Guard in cities? Insurrection Act? Excited to see this firewall in action soon.

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 2d

Trump threatens to invoke insurrection act to bypass court rulings against national guard deployment: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Use Emergency Powers to Bypass Courts and Deploy Troops

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 2d

ringo saying what the beatles saw of america was the parking lots outside their hotels

I asked Ringo how he liked seeing America. He took me to the window of his hotel room, pointed to a brick wall across the parking lot, and said, ‘That’s what we’ve seen.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/arts/music/henry-grossmans-photos-of-the-beatles.html

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 2d

roger ebert in a little snapshot gets an entire father-son relationship and the labor conditions of the mid 20th century (that it was once pleasurable to be a college professor, even that it was possible to make a living working full time for years as an electrician for a university)

Ebert opens the review of "Wonder Boys" (2000) with: "My father was an electrician at the University of Illinois. He never taught me a thing about electricity. “Every time I walk through the English building,” he said, 'I see the professors in their offices with their feet up on the desk, reading books and smoking their pipes. Now that’s the life for you.'"

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wonder-boys-2000

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream

Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

stringinamaze.net

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 3d

the schedule was tough, but they had the bills beat and fucked it up. if they win that game and are 2-2 then 2-3 after two humiliating losses, i'm not sure if things are feeling any better, but you could at least say 'when we get healthy we can beat buffalo'

Formerly FoxForceFlacco @bmoreorless.bsky.social · 3d

When the Ravens were up 15 points with 4:00 to go in the season-opener at Buffalo, I thought we were going to the Super Bowl

A month later, it’s the worst Ravens team since Billick’s last season and this likewise needs to be Harbaugh’s last season

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

In 2009 they stopped selling houses to those who couldn't afford them but now they're doing the same shit on like microwaves and cooking utensils. This year the top 1% surpassed 50% of the total consumption, top quintile are actual consumers, rest of the economy is one giant failing Rent-a-center

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only character i’ve ever seen portrayed reading Harper’s

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

there's a reason why half the out and out racists online have AI generated Ghibli profile pics and it's because being pro-ai in and of itself has become a dogwhistle

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 4d

yeah i just sold this to netflix for 25 million

one of the docs was about weirdly costumed swiss yodelers

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audience Q&A lowlights: after two hours of extremely uncommercial documentary short films, some idiot lady asked the group of directors if they make a living doing this

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i was tempted but i went for the documentary shorts

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Dan Watson @wats.ink · 4d

i was tempted but i went for the documentary shorts

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