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David
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· Apr 18
Introduce yourself with:
One book: Neuromancer, by William Gibson
One film: Blade Runner
One album: A Black Mile to the Surface, by Manchester Orchestra
One TV show: Millennium
One book: Neuromancer, by William Gibson
One film: Blade Runner
One album: A Black Mile to the Surface, by Manchester Orchestra
One TV show: Millennium
Introduce yourself with:
One book: Off to Be the Wizard
One film: Freaks (1932)
One album: A Black Mile to the Surface
One TV show: anything Anthony Bourdain
One book: Off to Be the Wizard
One film: Freaks (1932)
One album: A Black Mile to the Surface
One TV show: anything Anthony Bourdain
Introduce yourself with:
One book: Watership Down, by Richard Adams
One film: The Miracle Maker, by Derek Hayes
One album: Futureperfect, VNV Nation
One TV show: eh, I don't really do TV shows. I hereby choose to substitute:
One video game: That Dragon, Cancer, by Ryan and Amy Green
One book: Watership Down, by Richard Adams
One film: The Miracle Maker, by Derek Hayes
One album: Futureperfect, VNV Nation
One TV show: eh, I don't really do TV shows. I hereby choose to substitute:
One video game: That Dragon, Cancer, by Ryan and Amy Green
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> Marissa Seuc-Hester, who leads a volunteer ministry for immigrants at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, helped Dadfar’s brother. Then she helped Dadfar’s family. The family was “fully independent” for the past six months — until Oct. 10, when Dadfar was detained.
HT @decentfilms.bsky.social
HT @decentfilms.bsky.social
Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE
The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October
coloradosun.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
> Marissa Seuc-Hester, who leads a volunteer ministry for immigrants at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, helped Dadfar’s brother. Then she helped Dadfar’s family. The family was “fully independent” for the past six months — until Oct. 10, when Dadfar was detained.
HT @decentfilms.bsky.social
HT @decentfilms.bsky.social
> Dr. Julia Sadusky, a psychologist in Littleton, Colorado who describes herself as a conservative Catholic… says the Colorado law does not limit her practice, but instead serves as a healthy protection for minors.
www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-devil-...
www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-devil-...
'The devil is in the details' - The Catholic debate over conversion therapy
Catholic experts are divided, with both sides citing Church documents to support their views.
www.pillarcatholic.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
> Dr. Julia Sadusky, a psychologist in Littleton, Colorado who describes herself as a conservative Catholic… says the Colorado law does not limit her practice, but instead serves as a healthy protection for minors.
www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-devil-...
www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-devil-...
By Ramesh Ponnuru
> Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either.
wapo.st/4olOQ7z
> Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either.
wapo.st/4olOQ7z
Opinion | Dick Cheney couldn’t get over Jan. 6
Other Republicans returned to Trump, but the former vice president was unforgiving, to his credit.
wapo.st
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
By Ramesh Ponnuru
> Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either.
wapo.st/4olOQ7z
> Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either.
wapo.st/4olOQ7z
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Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
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Nice rig. Can it run task manager?
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Nice rig. Can it run task manager?
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Day #150: Dune (1984)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Day #150: Dune (1984)
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I read this yesterday and I'm just gutted, especially as a former preschool teacher. Jordan expresses an extraordinary amount of empathy here without reciprocation. I wish the media, institutions, and parents involved sought the restoration of this man's life with the same fervor they destroyed it.
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
radleybalko.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I read this yesterday and I'm just gutted, especially as a former preschool teacher. Jordan expresses an extraordinary amount of empathy here without reciprocation. I wish the media, institutions, and parents involved sought the restoration of this man's life with the same fervor they destroyed it.
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Pray for Jamaica 🙏🏾
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Pray for Jamaica 🙏🏾
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A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.
No, ICE (Probably) Didn't Buy Guided Missile Warheads
A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.
wrd.cm
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.
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Gloria Lane and David Poleri in the Broadway production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street, 1955
December 3, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Gloria Lane and David Poleri in the Broadway production of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street, 1955
> one aspect of the reforms, arguably one of the most important, has not gotten as much airtime—possibly because it is the hardest to explain succinctly. That is the adoption of “knowledge-building curricula” by many of the relevant school districts, particularly those in Tennessee and Louisiana.
There Are No Silver Bullets for Illiteracy
We know what works. But success stories take time.
thedispatch.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
> one aspect of the reforms, arguably one of the most important, has not gotten as much airtime—possibly because it is the hardest to explain succinctly. That is the adoption of “knowledge-building curricula” by many of the relevant school districts, particularly those in Tennessee and Louisiana.
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For those no longer on Twitter, sad news to share about the one and only Craig Heist:
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
😢
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I love baseball
October 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I love baseball
I just received a note in my contact form that informed me that one of my technical blog posts was “GOATED CONTENT, DUDE!” It felt good, too.
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I just received a note in my contact form that informed me that one of my technical blog posts was “GOATED CONTENT, DUDE!” It felt good, too.
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“The criterion of a genuinely Christian spirituality is the experience of spiritual suffering. This is what it means to be marked with the sign of the Son of Man, that is, the cross.” —Benjamin Crosby
Am I a Christian if I Don’t Have Spiritual Experiences?
Christians often desire ecstatic encounters with the divine. But not everyone has them.
www.plough.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“The criterion of a genuinely Christian spirituality is the experience of spiritual suffering. This is what it means to be marked with the sign of the Son of Man, that is, the cross.” —Benjamin Crosby
The #1 thing I took away from this article about the National's new president of baseball operations is that he has a beautiful family. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The #1 thing I took away from this article about the National's new president of baseball operations is that he has a beautiful family. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Insider politics: Trading favors among friends does the people no favors at all. marylandmatters.org/2025/08/06/a...
A county worker was fired for 'gross negligence.' Now, he's nominated to lead his old agency. - Maryland Matters
To lead the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment, County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy (D) is turning to someone who was fired from that very department a decade ago.
marylandmatters.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Insider politics: Trading favors among friends does the people no favors at all. marylandmatters.org/2025/08/06/a...
> Perhaps the key difference between Francis and Leo in this regard isn’t so much a matter of substance, but rather that Leo doesn’t feel the need to spell all that out in terms of splashy public comments. He’s seemingly content for people to intuit his approach from what he does.
Maybe we should stop waiting for real pope to emerge from under careful facade
You may want to consider that the cautious, careful and measured façade, in the end, is the real pope.
cruxnow.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
> Perhaps the key difference between Francis and Leo in this regard isn’t so much a matter of substance, but rather that Leo doesn’t feel the need to spell all that out in terms of splashy public comments. He’s seemingly content for people to intuit his approach from what he does.
Enchiladas for breakfast, mmmmmmm
September 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Enchiladas for breakfast, mmmmmmm
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Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan https://theonion.com/fritolaysia-cuts-off-chiplomatic-relations-with-snakist-1819568143/
September 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Fritolaysia Cuts Off Chiplomatic Relations With Snakistan https://theonion.com/fritolaysia-cuts-off-chiplomatic-relations-with-snakist-1819568143/
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one of my dumbest, now in black and white
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
one of my dumbest, now in black and white
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This from @amymantravadi.bsky.social via @www.jrrjokien.com last week was a nice perspective. www.jrrjokien.com/p/is-eowyn-a...
Is Éowyn Alright?
Mae govannen, friends!
www.jrrjokien.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This from @amymantravadi.bsky.social via @www.jrrjokien.com last week was a nice perspective. www.jrrjokien.com/p/is-eowyn-a...