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Published: October 8, 2024 17:19

If you look closely, you can see her blinking in morse code. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 8, 2024 14:59

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Published: October 8, 2024 14:25

I just got a NYT push alert on the story. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 8, 2024 13:34

"Bob Woodward revealed weeks before the election that Trump secretly sent Russia's dictator Covid tests while US doctors faced a shortage" feels like it might be the kind of thing the media would run with, because it has the precise narrative structure of…

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Published: October 6, 2024 21:27

If Will Stancil wanted other people to spend less time on Bluesky and more time on Twitter, he could start by spending less time on Twitter himself. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 6, 2024 21:25

The minister of the church who kicked out the PA Senate GOP candidate, on why he did it: “You can Photoshop. You can make things seem like they aren’t. Maybe they’re going to post we’re eating dogs or eating cats, like in Ohio. Forgive me if I’m wrong. I…

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Published: October 6, 2024 15:22

A thing that people constantly do in the romance novels that I edit that I don't like but can't do anything about: Fist people's hair.

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Published: October 6, 2024 13:17

Elon going to Trump's event at the assassination-attempt site and cosplaying as the bullet is pretty wild.

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Published: October 5, 2024 18:49

Me: My experience as a historian and activist is that people in positions of power tend to be subject to multiple, intense competing pressures, that what they say and what they do often diverge, and that their future actions are, while heavily…

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Published: October 5, 2024 17:52

The thing about Harris's outreach to the right is that it's presumptively intended to win her the election, and if possible control of the senate (which hangs on a collection of red states). Does it indicate how she intends to govern? Fuck if I know. We…

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Published: October 5, 2024 03:28

Fund organizers to establish democratically organized system-wide student associations for every statewide public college/university system in the country. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 5, 2024 03:08

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Published: October 4, 2024 23:59

I just had a "Dear God, this actor is doing the most English-actor-playing-an-American-tough-guy accent ever" moment while watching Slow Horses, and looked up the character to confirm. Hugo Fucking Weaving.

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Published: October 4, 2024 23:52

I do love that Mick Jagger sings the theme song for Slow Horses, don't get me wrong. But c'mon. "Slow Horses/couldn't drag me away. Slow Horses/we'll ride them some day"? Really? A little on the nose, IMHO.

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Published: October 4, 2024 13:28

I did not realize how badly Republicans had failed in polarizing public opinion on the Electoral College over the last eight years. Excellent news. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 4, 2024 13:20

These are both really interesting arguments for voting Dem in non-swing states, neither of which I’ve heard before. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 4, 2024 01:31

Suspended! Thanks, all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 4, 2024 00:33

Watching Rosemary’s Baby for the first time in yonks. Ruth Gordon and Sidney Blackmer truly are old-Upper-West-Side-weirdo goals.

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Published: October 3, 2024 23:20

POLICE TEAR GAS FUTILE [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 23:15

When Helen Mirren is playing a Russian, you know you’re gonna have a good time. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 23:11

For the record, All That Jazz is also the greatest movie ever made. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 23:05

WHITE NIGHTS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 23:04

Nice save. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 22:46

You know me. I love radical protest, and I love trading crypto. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: October 3, 2024 22:45

“I saw a clip of Chappell Roan yelling at one of her stage handlers. I think it was Chappell Roan. It may have been Goody Proctor. Anyway…”

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Published: October 3, 2024 22:43

Hey, y’all. I’ve got an impersonator. @johnstonn.bsky.social. Reporting would be welcome.

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Published: October 2, 2024 18:10

A lot of people who hate Vance wanted Walz to use the debate to make him look bad, but the Harris-Walz strategy was clearly to use it to make TRUMP look bad instead. Like that strategy or not—and I think I mostly like it—it wasn't an accident or a flub.…

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Published: October 2, 2024 16:05

Last night in the car my dad told me that when he went off to college and was thinking of pledging a frat, *his* dad wrote him a letter saying he hoped he'd reconsider that "nonsense." According to my dad, that letter included the phrase "I've always…