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Bennett Hipp
@bennetthipp.bsky.social
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Trying to leave it better than I found it.

Ole Miss alum. Always go to the show. SC/VA. 🌴🌴
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Brad Lander, NYC Comptroller, wearing a blue shirt with yellow writing in all caps that says “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.”
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Sean Penn’s character from One Battle After Another — a short white man wearing military camo and a police vest.
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I’ve never needed an excuse to spend a Wednesday night out in Athens, but DBT/MJL is an especially good reason to.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS 2026 HEATHENS HOMECOMING WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FEB 11 MJ LENDERMAN FEB 12 T. HARDY MORRIS FEB 13 CAMP AMPED | THE LANES FEB 14 FLORRY @the 40 WATT PROCEEDS BENEFIT NUCI’S SPACE
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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If you find yourself day drinking in Decatur, GA, I highly recommend stumbling over to Arepa Mia.
A Fried Chicken w/ Mango Salsa Arepa.
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“There were eight Olympians on the floor — but only one Zeus.”

I’m not sure anyone is doing sportswriting better currently than @seeratsohi.bsky.social.

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“We are quick, in these moments, to look for mortal answers to immortal problems. Call it a Promethean complex, humanity's drive to obtain forbidden knowledge. I certainly have my quibbles with Phoenix's defense on that last play. Bonner shouldn't have shot the gap on the screen coverage, and the double should have forced Wilson to the right-her nondominant side, although she's pretty dominant there, too. “But looking for the mistake in a magical moment misses the point. Consider this: For days, WNBA fans and analysts have debated whether or not the Mercury should double-team Wilson. And in her final play of the game, Wilson showed us how self-defeating every solution is.”
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Wednesday’s Plan to Keep Southern Rock Weird
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"I love thoughtful southern music," Hood tells me. "So much of what gets clumped in about the south is so negative because of politics, and there are aspects of our southern history that are horrific. I love hearing people who show that the culture goes so much further beyond just the loud mouths you see on Fox News, and I love someone like Karly that's being loud and unabashedly cool and southern at the same time. And a lot of that is happening right now." Wednesday is a kind of conduit to the south —a way for outsiders to see it as it really is, and southerners to connect to a wider world, and each other. "That's the goal that I'm realizing wasn't the goal going into it— but that's another one of my favorite things to hear," Hartzman says. "Especially from a lot of young queer people that felt misunderstood and unaccepted. I'm not straight, but I'm not out in any official way, but I think people can tell I'm not in the most accepted segment of society in the south. I hope our music communicates that it's actually a really beautiful, specific experience and an advantage to be this person in a place where you're being underestimated or ignored."
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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You went to Columbia so I know you’re fully capable of doing your own research, but from literally one (1) NYT article about his reality tv show:
Speaking with The New York Times on the condition of anonymity due to nondisclosure agreements, over a dozen people who participated in the first installment of "Beast Games" said that they had not received adequate food or medical care and that some competitors had suffered injuries from the physical challenges. (The event was being filmed for Mr. Donaldson's YouTube channel to select contestants to participate in the Amazon MGM show later this summer.) Some contestants left the competition arena on stretchers, a contestant said, though it was unclear if any of those contestants had faced serious medical conditions. Another described watching fellow contestants vomiting and appearing to pass out. There were several hospitalizations. Despite reassurance that contestants' medications would be distributed to them when needed, several contestants said they had not received their medication on time - including one contestant who needed insulin - instead receiving it hours, or even days, after their scheduled dosing times. One contestant said she had initially been denied the food she required to take her medication and had been told by staff members that she didn't actually need to eat. After asking repeatedly, she was given half a banana. Contestants were instructed to supply the production staff with a Ziploc bag containing five days' worth of undergarments, which would be distributed to contestants once the games were underway. But several contestants said they had waited hours or even days to receive their clean underwear. One woman said that when she and a group of contestants who were menstruating during the event had asked the production staff about getting their underwear more quickly, she had been told that it was "not a medical emergency," and she recalled that a nearby member of the production staff had laughed at the women's pleading. One contestant said she had left the stadium bruised and bleeding after being injured and eliminated in the first challenge. She was handed $1,000 in a stack of dollar bills as a consolation prize but said she had to hand the money back to producers after the cameras were off. Competitors were told they would receive their real payments later, she said, but as of publication time, she had not yet been paid.
September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score.
9% critic score and 43% fan score on Rotten Tomatoes for the cinematic classic “The Skulls” starring Paul Walker, Joshua Jackson, Leslie Bibb, Craig T. Nelson, Steve Harris and Christopher McDonald.
September 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Country music fumbled the Maren Morris bag so badly — she is thriving. What a show.
A black and white picture of Maren Morris performing at the only National Park for the arts, the Wolf Trap Filene Center. 9/12/25
September 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Beckham Dutcher and Cash Borggreve from Newport Beach
Seth Cohen and Ryan Atwood from The OC
August 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Call me dumb but I don’t think it’s any better to deploy the National Guard in Ohio or South Carolina than it is in DC, but that’s just me.
deployed to D to protect the capital's 700,000-odd residents. Half a million Ohioans live in cities with higher homicide rates than D.C. Unfortunately for them, they won't get to see National Guard troops on their streets - just on their TVs, standing around outsiue the Lincoln Memorial.
August 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The Braves’ offseason, regular season and trade deadline — an unserious franchise not deserving of your attention, money or time.
My job here is done. But you didn't do anything.
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Reading Marissa’s piece yesterday, I think this is just what Tyler wanted. Rubin just happened to mesh well with that.
When they were done with the first batch of songs, the recordings went to Sanborn to, per Childers, "put the drugs on it." Childers and Sanborn had stayed in touch sporadically since Sylvan Esso opened some dates for his Mule Pull Tour in 2024, and, one day, he got a text from Childers, who wondered if he might help put some production touches on the record. "This album needs to be weirder," Sanborn remembers Childers writing. He'd never worked on a country project before, but it was a fast yes, especially when tasked with that kind of marching order. Childers sent the album opener, "Eatin' Big Time,' " and asked him to get to work. Sanborn did a pass. "Nah, man," Childers responded. "Go harder." "Then I just went," Sanborn explains. "I was like, 'All right, what if I totally do all this crazy stuff on it, and really have fun?' And I sent it back. He said, 'That's perfect, and I just wrote four more songs. Let's do the whole rest of the record." They worked for two additional days at Sanborn's in North Carolina that fall, finishing the rest at Rubin's Shangri-La studios in Malibu. Sanborn aimed to take the songs to a place where space and time felt fuzzy. "Did it come out 10 years ago? Did it come out 50 years ago? What even is it? It removes itself from a point in time," he says. Everett was then tasked with mixing to "paint a picture, not just get a snare drum to sound good."
July 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Still no?
Severe Hunger Grips Gaza, Where People Are Dying of Starvation After 21 months of war, Gaza's most vulnerable civilians - the young, the old and the sick - are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.
July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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My Fantastic Four
The Soggy Bottom Boys
July 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Preach, @actioncookbook.com. Needed this this morning.

actioncookbook.substack.com/p/america-be...
These people, the gleeful goons, the giddy race scientists, the cheerleaders of misery, the "America for Americans only" demagogues — they don't believe in this country. They never have, no matter how brazenly they'll wrap themselves in the flag to justify their actions. The country they believe is small and cruel. It's a country where secret police demand to see papers, where neighbors turn on neighbors, where the state is the enemy of the people rather than the embodiment of their collective will. It's a place governed by fear and by hate, but even more so by doubt-doubt that any country could possibly be big enough to contain multitudes. Doubt that any country could be strong enough to take the unrealized dreams of the rest of the world and make them possible. Doubt that any country could be resilient enough to face hardship head-on and keep marching toward those ideals put to parchment by imperfect men two and a half centuries ago. They don't believe in America, and no matter how tightly they grip the reins of government right now, America doesn't belong to them. It belongs to the people who do believe in it, whether they came over on the Mayflower or through Ellis Island, in business class or on foot, "the right way" or not. Heck, maybe they were here long before anyone who looked like me showed up. It belongs to people who believe in those ideals that we've strove towards but never quite lived up to, people who believe that we should keep striving anyways because that arc of the universe isn't going to bend itself. It belongs to people willing to do the work, willing to stand up for their communities, and willing to take to their streets to stand up for those unmet ideals. It belongs to people who can still see the promise of this place in their mind and want more than anything to be a part of it, even if they have to cross an ocean or a desert to do so.
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This was really hard.
THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY Reader's Choice: My Ballot BlacKkKlansmar 2018 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Little Women 2019 Past Lives 2023 OME Booksmart 2019 Almost Famous 2000 MAD MAX Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 The Social Network 2010 Parasite 2019 0BROTER PARASITE O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
June 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Celine Song, you’ve done it again. Cinema.
A movie poster for Materialists.
June 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Dads rock.
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June 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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NO KINGS NATIONWIDE PROTEST JUNE 14, 2025 STONEFIELD NOON-2pm 2100 HYDRAULIC RD Organized by indivisible Charlottesville
June 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Mexican flags are bad apparently because racist bad actors will stop making bad faith racist arguments with the disappearance of said flags, or so says this terrible point.
Look, protesters can wave whatever they want, but as someone who's written about protests like this, I'd politely suggest if you're trying to dispel racist claims that you're an army from a foreign country, maybe *don't* wave a foreign country's flag as you square off against US troops?
June 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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And I certainly wouldn’t have attempted to explain that decision away like this!
PRASH Death Cab for Tootie @deathcabfortootie.bsky.... • 6h * Reply to Stuart A. Thompson Struggling to understand why you decided to bury *why* he was kicked off twitter until waaaay later in the article 2 132 ... Stuart A. Thompson @stuartathompson.bsky.s... • 5h it's one of those things that if you get into it a little, you need to get into it a lot. bc of the way he talked about it, i wanted to include it in a section about Griner because he felt attacked by the media who didn't consider him a real person, yet does the same thing constantly. 10 4
June 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Image of a girl sitting outside at a patio holding a green juice, looking upwards hopefully and text that says “girl who is going to be okay.”
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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@itsfelder.bsky.social Was down in St. Pete this weekend visiting my partner. Spotted this outside of a coffee shop near downtown.
A “Hand In The Dirt” sticker in the wild in the Grand Central District of St. Pete.
May 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Same writer.
Headline of a shitty Boston Herald opinion column by Douglas Mackinnon: Trump puts'America First' by working with Qatar
May 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM