Evan Klondar
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Evan Klondar
@theklondar.bsky.social
Philly-born, DC-based. Dad of two. We’re all we got, we’re all we need.
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Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅

The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...
The Garden State Parkway's Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop Is Playing Fast And Loose With Famous Quotes | Defector
CHEESEQUAKE, N.J. — Have you ever scored a touchdown? I never played real football, so my own experiences have been pretty low-key, but man, did they feel great. I think I remember almost all of them—...
defector.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Devastating news. May his memory be a blessing.
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Resharing this for Holocaust Remembrance Day harpers.org/archive/2024...
The Dead Admonish, by John Ganz
Facing the ghosts of resistance and exile
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January 27, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
I understand and appreciate the fact that for some it is genuinely uncomfortable and distracting to think about how grim US history is. yes, that is strategically relevant, and no, I wouldn't put "did you know people used to send lynching photos to each other as postcards?" on a recruitment flyer
January 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I want an Office-style documentary set in the KPop Demon Hunters universe following the record execs who decided to sign the Saja Boys when they first break onto the scene.
January 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.

Praying for his full & speedy recovery.

And so deeply inspired by his example.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do?

Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.

And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@profanity.accountant testing one two three?
November 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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What’s important to consider, while watching the Eagles, is that life is nothing but a slow march toward eternal darkness.
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Jamelle is absolutely correct
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I’m a big fan of Liberal Currents, whose work I’ve found particularly invigorating over this last year.
November 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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@aaronschatz.com sorry to be nitpicky but in the special Super Bowl matchups it’s mistyped as “malace at the palace” and should be “malice”
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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a concept i talk about a lot with the guy i'm seeing is "fast thinking", which is like low-grade, shallow, and easily disposable pop intellectualism. key hallmarks include focusing on discourse over substance, not being able to separate similar form from different content, and "annoying = evil"
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.

We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cc @siracusa.social - Robot or Not?
A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Oppression is the mask of fear.
October 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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shit ain’t over til it’s over
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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this isn't a consolidated dictatorship and it's pathetic to pretend it is. but at bottom, you've got to ask yourself if you'll put yourself at hazard to preserve your freedom and that of your fellow citizens. a lot of corporate executives and university administrators are presently saying "no"
September 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Running Man, Demolition Man, The Matrix.
Build a trilogy out of 3 unrelated Films.
September 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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"this returns us to what is perhaps the most fundamental problem before us: not policy or program but culture and mindset. We want to program out the possibility of power used badly. But this cannot be done." www.liberalcurrents.com/good-governa...
Good Governance Requires Accountability
We must rediscover the virtue of ambition: the ambition to get out there and make some real changes—and the courage to face the music after.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM