Trey Lawson
@tlawson.bsky.social
I come to this place for magic.
Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him
Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him
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Every single one of them has to face voters in under one year. Remind them.
Call your reps to sign a discharge petition to vote on extending the ACA subsidies for 3 years...names in the attached article of the GOP reps who might sign to save their asses in next year's mid-terms...
www.rawstory.com/health-care-...
www.rawstory.com/health-care-...
These 25 Republicans could demolish a GOP scheme to save themselves
Republicans are obsessed with taking your health care away. This spring, they cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, all to give massive tax handouts to billionaires. For the last month and a half they shut d...
www.rawstory.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Every single one of them has to face voters in under one year. Remind them.
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My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
My wokest opinion is that every community deserves an extremely well-funded library that’s open to everyone and that librarians and teachers should make like ten times what they make now.
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The GUARD Act may look like a child-safety bill, but in practice it’s an age-gating mandate that could impose a mass censorship and surveillance regime on nearly every public-facing AI chatbot. Tell Congress to oppose the GUARD Act today. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
A Surveillance Mandate Disguised As Child Safety: Why the GUARD Act
A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (D-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors
www.eff.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The GUARD Act may look like a child-safety bill, but in practice it’s an age-gating mandate that could impose a mass censorship and surveillance regime on nearly every public-facing AI chatbot. Tell Congress to oppose the GUARD Act today. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Some great charts on #AI from the Wall Street Journal. t.ly/xvvbw "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue"
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Some great charts on #AI from the Wall Street Journal. t.ly/xvvbw "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue"
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everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Some other genre first, but then oh shit there’s vampires!
- Performing arts are a hell of a thing in all the best/worst ways
- Dude shouldn’t have messed with that book/artifact
- Is that kid the Devil?
- Space is vast & full of wonders/horrors
- Some other genre first, but then oh shit there’s vampires!
- Performing arts are a hell of a thing in all the best/worst ways
- Dude shouldn’t have messed with that book/artifact
- Is that kid the Devil?
- Space is vast & full of wonders/horrors
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Some other genre first, but then oh shit there’s vampires!
- Performing arts are a hell of a thing in all the best/worst ways
- Dude shouldn’t have messed with that book/artifact
- Is that kid the Devil?
- Space is vast & full of wonders/horrors
- Some other genre first, but then oh shit there’s vampires!
- Performing arts are a hell of a thing in all the best/worst ways
- Dude shouldn’t have messed with that book/artifact
- Is that kid the Devil?
- Space is vast & full of wonders/horrors
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 AM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Well, I guess I have to do some work this afternoon*
*Work = listen to the @realgdt.bsky.social audio commentary for Pan’s Labyrinth since I’m teaching the film in my Modern Fairy Tales class
*Work = listen to the @realgdt.bsky.social audio commentary for Pan’s Labyrinth since I’m teaching the film in my Modern Fairy Tales class
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well, I guess I have to do some work this afternoon*
*Work = listen to the @realgdt.bsky.social audio commentary for Pan’s Labyrinth since I’m teaching the film in my Modern Fairy Tales class
*Work = listen to the @realgdt.bsky.social audio commentary for Pan’s Labyrinth since I’m teaching the film in my Modern Fairy Tales class
Thought Bubble is a con I’d like to visit sometime. Would be fun to see how the Brits do conventions.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thought Bubble is a con I’d like to visit sometime. Would be fun to see how the Brits do conventions.
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It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
Spike Lee Blesses Pope Leo with Knicks Jersey
Spike Lee just blessed Pope Leo with a custom Knicks jersey during his visit to the Vatican, just one week after the Pope was gifted a custom Chicago Bulls one.
www.vulture.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"
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People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
One of the best to ever do it. The New Frontier, Richard Stark’s Parker, Batman: Ego…pretty much every comic he touched was outstanding.
Somewhere around here I’ve got a signed copy of his issue of Solo.
Somewhere around here I’ve got a signed copy of his issue of Solo.
Today is the birthday of legendary artist & writer Darwyn Cooke (Nov. 16, 1962-May 14, 2016).
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
One of the best to ever do it. The New Frontier, Richard Stark’s Parker, Batman: Ego…pretty much every comic he touched was outstanding.
Somewhere around here I’ve got a signed copy of his issue of Solo.
Somewhere around here I’ve got a signed copy of his issue of Solo.
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Is it 'online training course'?
June 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is it 'online training course'?
Operation Big McLargeHuge!
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Operation Big McLargeHuge!
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5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”
“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”
“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”
“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”
“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”
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How stupid is it that they don't call it The Christmas Spirit
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How stupid is it that they don't call it The Christmas Spirit
Saturday Night Movie.
Still trying to make Woovember a thing.
Still trying to make Woovember a thing.
A ★★★★★ review of Hard Boiled (1992)
I spent much of the third act on this rewatch pointing at the screen and shouting “Action Babies!”
boxd.it
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Saturday Night Movie.
Still trying to make Woovember a thing.
Still trying to make Woovember a thing.
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This is a MAGA person responding to a post about Epstein. The line of argument they are developing in order to defend Trump is: Epstein was not so bad.
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This is a MAGA person responding to a post about Epstein. The line of argument they are developing in order to defend Trump is: Epstein was not so bad.
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I’d like to please juxtapose Jill Lepore’s complaints about how whiny #MeToo students made Harvard a miserable place with the former President of Harvard’s texts to Epstein seeking advice on trying to date a student.
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 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I’d like to please juxtapose Jill Lepore’s complaints about how whiny #MeToo students made Harvard a miserable place with the former President of Harvard’s texts to Epstein seeking advice on trying to date a student.
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I just spent the better part of an hour rescanning/repositioning my digital antenna because MeTV had disappeared from my channels. Worth it.
November 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I just spent the better part of an hour rescanning/repositioning my digital antenna because MeTV had disappeared from my channels. Worth it.
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Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction