Bobby Silverman
@robertsilverman.bsky.social
Reporter and whatnot
email: RASilverman@protonmail.com
Signal: RobertSilverman.71
email: RASilverman@protonmail.com
Signal: RobertSilverman.71
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Exits: Something darker
Writer Robert Silverman on the Knicks, the authoritarian need of humiliation, outgrowing childhood fears, and Karl-Anthony Towns.
www.basketballfeelings.com
At @wtevs.bsky.social's BASKETBALL FEELINGS, the Zesty KAT stuff took me right back to my own dumb childhood jock dreams and the ugly homophobia that’s seeping into ever corner of the current fascist moment—even the '24-25 Knicks. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/exits-some...
The Hornets' uniforms look like a bottle of Sunny D
December 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Hornets' uniforms look like a bottle of Sunny D
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This is always where MAGA was heading. But that doesn't make it any less terrifying.
Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is always where MAGA was heading. But that doesn't make it any less terrifying.
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
www.theverge.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
Speaking of the flattering angle the WSJ found, it just me or is this sentence very oddly phrased. It's like they forgot to include quotation marks around "good letter" because if not that sure is some weirdly stilted language they chose
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Speaking of the flattering angle the WSJ found, it just me or is this sentence very oddly phrased. It's like they forgot to include quotation marks around "good letter" because if not that sure is some weirdly stilted language they chose
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Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
![Well, fast forward to Goodfellas. That was sort of like a feeding frenzy in New York City, and I got an audition for it. I went in and I auditioned for the guy who gets who owns the nightclub—he gets hit over the head with a bottle by Joe Pesci. And I thought, “Well, look, they’re not going to cast me as this guy.” I mean, it didn’t make sense, you know? But I got a callback! So I went back and I go into the room, and Martin Scorsese says, “What do I know you from? I know you from somewhere.” I said, “Well, I did those readings at Paul Newman’s for you, for The Color Of Money. He said, “Oh, that’s right, that’s right! Look, that part you auditioned for—obviously, you can’t do that part of. It just wouldn’t work. But I have this character!” He’s a doctor and it’s in the part of the movie where he’s like the only person that that Henry Hill trusts while he’s all coked out and everything like that. He said, “Do you think you could do that for me? I know it’s not much, but if you could do it for me, I would really appreciate it.” And I’m sitting there thinking, “Okay, act like you’ve been there before.” [Laughs.] I said, “Yeah, sure, Marty. I mean, you know, it’s not about the size of the part. It’s what we do!” So he says thanks, and that’s how I got cast! [Laughs.] I didn’t say, “Well, gee, Marty, I have never done a movie before hardly.” But I got cast in Goodfellas—that’s how all of that happened.
I do remember I went to my day job—I was a waiter at a place on 10th Avenue—and I said, “I just got a part in Goodfellas!” And they said, “No way! Get out!” I said, “No, I met with Martin Scorsese, and they’re going to cast me as this doctor.” And one of the guys said, “Oh, I’m going down there tomorrow, and I’m taking my stuff, because if you got a part, I know I’m going to get a part.” [Laughs.] He was like, “They must just be handing out parts—they must need tons of people if they cast you—you just got here!” So he went down there and he didn’t get a part. And here I a…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bck7uabvjt4xu5uzn3exzhqj/bafkreihprpksbsipsbrgqrbrjh2t7moeap457yglhouhssilvkmowqc654@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...
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Really amazing the extent to which even the biggest and most politically favored industries in the United States are oafish 19th-century style scams being run by blowhard hucksters and ideologues with no coherent ideology. The One Weird Trick economy. powering-the-planet.ghost.io/less/
Lessons from the Bakken
The New York Times recently profiled Harold Hamm, Continental CEO Resources chairman emeritus, and noted how Hamm is advising Trump to go all in on fossil fuels. This should surprise no one as Harold ...
powering-the-planet.ghost.io
December 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Really amazing the extent to which even the biggest and most politically favored industries in the United States are oafish 19th-century style scams being run by blowhard hucksters and ideologues with no coherent ideology. The One Weird Trick economy. powering-the-planet.ghost.io/less/
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Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
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It’s been said a million times but it is Wild - absolutely wild; one for the books - how corrupt and abusive of his vast governmental powers this coverup has been since July zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying
A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president.
zeteo.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It’s been said a million times but it is Wild - absolutely wild; one for the books - how corrupt and abusive of his vast governmental powers this coverup has been since July zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...
At the opening night party for Mickey Mantle's restaurant, my dad spent 15 mins chatting w/Keith Hernandez. I was too awe/starstruck to interrupt and ask dad to introduce me. When they were done chatting I stage-whispered YOU KNOW KEITH?? My dad replied: "Hernandez? I thought that was John Stossel
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At the opening night party for Mickey Mantle's restaurant, my dad spent 15 mins chatting w/Keith Hernandez. I was too awe/starstruck to interrupt and ask dad to introduce me. When they were done chatting I stage-whispered YOU KNOW KEITH?? My dad replied: "Hernandez? I thought that was John Stossel
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You would believe from reading this Matt Taibbi tweet that @eoinhiggins.bsky.social’s book is about him or that it names him on the cover. No.
The book spends more time on Glenn Greenwald. The cover suggests a general phenomenon in our culture — that everyone online has seen.
The book spends more time on Glenn Greenwald. The cover suggests a general phenomenon in our culture — that everyone online has seen.
December 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You would believe from reading this Matt Taibbi tweet that @eoinhiggins.bsky.social’s book is about him or that it names him on the cover. No.
The book spends more time on Glenn Greenwald. The cover suggests a general phenomenon in our culture — that everyone online has seen.
The book spends more time on Glenn Greenwald. The cover suggests a general phenomenon in our culture — that everyone online has seen.
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Trump didn't refute any details about there being an explosion in Venezuela at a dock. He confirmed it today. It's the apparent 1st strike on Venezuelan soil.
If you have any information on the Christmas Eve strike, please reach out at signal at nslayton.12 taskandpurpose.com/news/us-vene...
If you have any information on the Christmas Eve strike, please reach out at signal at nslayton.12 taskandpurpose.com/news/us-vene...
Trump says US took out 'big facility' in Venezuela
The president said the United States “knocked out” a dock for alleged drug boats, but did not say if the military was involved.
taskandpurpose.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Trump didn't refute any details about there being an explosion in Venezuela at a dock. He confirmed it today. It's the apparent 1st strike on Venezuelan soil.
If you have any information on the Christmas Eve strike, please reach out at signal at nslayton.12 taskandpurpose.com/news/us-vene...
If you have any information on the Christmas Eve strike, please reach out at signal at nslayton.12 taskandpurpose.com/news/us-vene...
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As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…
December 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…
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Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
December 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.
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afaik adams is currently in a hospital bed, paralyzed from aggressively metastisized prostate cancer, his window of time on this earth rapidly closing. and he's spending that time retweeting mike cernovich struggling and failing to understand the point and purpose of foreign aid
This thought has been lingering in my head for a while but this tweet prompted me to write it out.
December 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
afaik adams is currently in a hospital bed, paralyzed from aggressively metastisized prostate cancer, his window of time on this earth rapidly closing. and he's spending that time retweeting mike cernovich struggling and failing to understand the point and purpose of foreign aid
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And, repeating myself just to be clear: The true story (Fraudsters stole money and pushed off accountability for a while by saying it was racist to probe it) is losing market share to a wilder, less true story (citizen journalists uncovered the scheme that Dems covered up to steal elections)
December 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
And, repeating myself just to be clear: The true story (Fraudsters stole money and pushed off accountability for a while by saying it was racist to probe it) is losing market share to a wilder, less true story (citizen journalists uncovered the scheme that Dems covered up to steal elections)
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Conservative influencer Nick Shirley, who in October joined a White House roundtable on Antifa, goes to one dodgy-looking daycare (the sign on the front misspells "learning") and films panicky employees who won't let them in. He promotes this as having personally uncovered $100 million of fraud.
Misspelled learning center, no children inside: Emmer presses Walz over Minnesota daycare tied to $4M
A YouTuber confronted a Minnesota daycare that can't spell "learning" but reportedly got $4 million in taxpayer funds amid a growing fraud scandal.
www.foxnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Conservative influencer Nick Shirley, who in October joined a White House roundtable on Antifa, goes to one dodgy-looking daycare (the sign on the front misspells "learning") and films panicky employees who won't let them in. He promotes this as having personally uncovered $100 million of fraud.
Aha, it seems the tush pushers have become the tush pushees! (why do I smell toast?)
December 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Aha, it seems the tush pushers have become the tush pushees! (why do I smell toast?)
time for some self-care (watching a bootlegged copy of The Cannonball Run on a Russian social media site)
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
time for some self-care (watching a bootlegged copy of The Cannonball Run on a Russian social media site)
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The celebration and digital metastasization of conspiratorial thinking culminating with the U.S. head of health and human services believing that and governing as if modern diseases don’t emerge naturally, pandemics are all manmade, and science (not the complexities of nature) is to blame.
Kennedy is ramping up his attacks on vaccines. Conspiracy theories are central to that agenda of undermining faith in public health, medicine, and experts.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. Claims 'Vaccine Research' Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu
Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed vaccine research was responsible for diseases like HIV, RSV, Lyme disease, and the Spanish flu.
www.rollingstone.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The celebration and digital metastasization of conspiratorial thinking culminating with the U.S. head of health and human services believing that and governing as if modern diseases don’t emerge naturally, pandemics are all manmade, and science (not the complexities of nature) is to blame.
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Won’t do a big thread of what I wrote this year because there’s not that much of it, but I am quite proud of this one
William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector
Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...
defector.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Won’t do a big thread of what I wrote this year because there’s not that much of it, but I am quite proud of this one
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant
What are you calling it?
Deep Dish Space 9
What are you calling it?
Deep Dish Space 9
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant
What are you calling it?
The Trouble with Nibbles
What are you calling it?
The Trouble with Nibbles
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant
What are you calling it?
The Challah Deck.
What are you calling it?
The Challah Deck.
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant
What are you calling it?
Deep Dish Space 9
What are you calling it?
Deep Dish Space 9
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No fucking way this dolt picked Frank and Dean Martin as examples of the problems with immigration lmao
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
No fucking way this dolt picked Frank and Dean Martin as examples of the problems with immigration lmao