Better Call Paul
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Don’t tase me, bro.
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You should never feel imposter syndrome about being a writer ever again
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You should never feel imposter syndrome about being a writer ever again
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“Ronaldo’s presence in the White House is unsettling but hardly surprising, given that the Trump administration is overflowing with men who have been accused of assault, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., and Trump”
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“Ronaldo’s presence in the White House is unsettling but hardly surprising, given that the Trump administration is overflowing with men who have been accused of assault, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., and Trump”
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Sanford, Florida grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in the United States. Now being held in Alligator Alcatraz.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
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Source: Orlando Sentinel
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November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Sanford, Florida grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in the United States. Now being held in Alligator Alcatraz.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
archive.ph/2025.11.16-1...
Source: Orlando Sentinel
archive.ph/2025.11.16-1...
Not many people know this but Would? by Alice In Chains is actually about wood.
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Not many people know this but Would? by Alice In Chains is actually about wood.
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I am not at all optimistic about where we are at this moment but I do not yet think the United States of America is down bad enough for an Elizabeth Holmes Redemption Arc to be be feasible. It's obviously not great, but she's one of the very last Slimers out of the Ghostbusters containment tank.
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I am not at all optimistic about where we are at this moment but I do not yet think the United States of America is down bad enough for an Elizabeth Holmes Redemption Arc to be be feasible. It's obviously not great, but she's one of the very last Slimers out of the Ghostbusters containment tank.
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Community leaders and immigrant families protested federal agents’ presence in Charlotte as agents drove around the city taking people.
People gather in uptown to protest Border Patrol arrests in Charlotte
Community leaders and immigrant families protested federal agents’ presence in Charlotte as agents drove around the city taking people.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Community leaders and immigrant families protested federal agents’ presence in Charlotte as agents drove around the city taking people.
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A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
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Have to listen to Bjork singing about the Jólakötturinn
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Have to listen to Bjork singing about the Jólakötturinn
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Played “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for a five year old girl, and she told me, “You know, I do”
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Played “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for a five year old girl, and she told me, “You know, I do”
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My degree was in English lit but I went to medical school later after this one time at a party and great quotes just pouring out of me I could not say "coagulate yourself bitch" without sounding pompous ass
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My degree was in English lit but I went to medical school later after this one time at a party and great quotes just pouring out of me I could not say "coagulate yourself bitch" without sounding pompous ass
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this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
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it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability
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In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
In interviews w/ Black mediamakers for my forthcoming book the observation that “woke” was a new stand-in/scare word for “communist” came up a lot. I began those interviews in Jan 2021. This piece is important AND we have to acknowledge how much of the play book was already in play before Jan 2025.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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We are so back
November 18, 2023 at 2:10 AM
We are so back
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YouTube TV making me log in on a browser like I’m 100 years old to activate their little $20 “yup, we’re in a programming fight again” rebate is pretty galling. Just take it off the next bill you turds
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
YouTube TV making me log in on a browser like I’m 100 years old to activate their little $20 “yup, we’re in a programming fight again” rebate is pretty galling. Just take it off the next bill you turds
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Psyched to check out HAMNET, which I understand to be about a pig with a modem
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Psyched to check out HAMNET, which I understand to be about a pig with a modem
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Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
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I love a meme targeted for my demographic
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love a meme targeted for my demographic
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We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
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"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
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Fundraising and writing books about how they’re such fucking losers.
Democrats don't want to be an opposition party, and they don't want to be a governing party.
So what is the point of the party?
So what is the point of the party?
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Fundraising and writing books about how they’re such fucking losers.
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Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
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A jury of my peers? 12 emotionally available sweethearts?!
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A jury of my peers? 12 emotionally available sweethearts?!