briantedjones.bsky.social
@briantedjones.bsky.social
Writer, lawyer, Oklahoman.
You should have to hold a special license to attempt certain left turns in Oklahoma City.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You should have to hold a special license to attempt certain left turns in Oklahoma City.
Unstoppable force meets extremely movable object.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Unstoppable force meets extremely movable object.
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Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tell me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson without telling me you have never read Hunter S. Thompson.
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I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
Pope Leo's speech about movies has got me thinking again about something I think about a lot, and that's the sharp decline in the number of active movie theaters in rural Oklahoma over the course of my life.
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Pope Leo's speech about movies has got me thinking again about something I think about a lot, and that's the sharp decline in the number of active movie theaters in rural Oklahoma over the course of my life.
Death by Lightning an outrageously good time. What if we put a bunch of our best dudes in deep-track American history?
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Death by Lightning an outrageously good time. What if we put a bunch of our best dudes in deep-track American history?
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Edgar Wright’s The Running Man
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Phone Didion
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Phone Didion
Totally defensible to argue The Isley Brothers are the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Check out the dual cover “Ohio/Machine Gun” off 1971’s Givin’ It Back.
i think the two greatest bands of all time are the isley brothers and talk talk. times like this i wish i was even 1% good at writing about music so i could offer a better defense of this than “c’mon they’re really good bands”
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Totally defensible to argue The Isley Brothers are the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Check out the dual cover “Ohio/Machine Gun” off 1971’s Givin’ It Back.
imagine yelling at a thermometer "No it isn't!"
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
imagine yelling at a thermometer "No it isn't!"
I try to make this point whenever I can, but not a single Beatle was 30 years old yet when the band broke up.
I just got PR for the Beatles Anthology redux and it mentions their "eight years as a band." It's a commonplace but that genuinely does strain credulity.
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I try to make this point whenever I can, but not a single Beatle was 30 years old yet when the band broke up.
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"The single determining criterion for involuntary commitment is danger. Is the defendant a danger to himself or to others. You think you got the horses for that? Well good luck and God bless, but I'll tell you this: The last place you want to see me is in court."
If we send you this, it means we have a new Nancy collection on the way...
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"The single determining criterion for involuntary commitment is danger. Is the defendant a danger to himself or to others. You think you got the horses for that? Well good luck and God bless, but I'll tell you this: The last place you want to see me is in court."
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
If they gave me Bond, and they should, I’d do it like True Detective. Young Bond story in the 60s linking up with Aging Bond story in the 80s linking up with Old Bond frame in the 00s.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
If they gave me Bond, and they should, I’d do it like True Detective. Young Bond story in the 60s linking up with Aging Bond story in the 80s linking up with Old Bond frame in the 00s.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
If I'm reading the news right, after 10 years of waiting we've finally learned that the Trump health care plan is to liquidate Obamacare subsidies to pay each citizen-shareholder a dividend of $2,000.
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
If I'm reading the news right, after 10 years of waiting we've finally learned that the Trump health care plan is to liquidate Obamacare subsidies to pay each citizen-shareholder a dividend of $2,000.
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
It’s often overlooked (for all the other amazing stuff going on) but Todd’s comic timing in this clip is top notch.
since Helen Andrews is in the news again, how about everybody enjoy the best TV cspan ever did, where she gets relentlessly demolished as a truly awful person by her *libertarian* ex-boyfriend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...
Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer on C-SPAN2 BookTV
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s often overlooked (for all the other amazing stuff going on) but Todd’s comic timing in this clip is top notch.
no AI bailout
November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
no AI bailout
The GA Public Service Commission results last night + the recent reporting on the OK Corporation Commission's disastrous abdication of their regulatory mandate = a real opening for a Dem or Indy reformer next year when Commissioner Hiett's seat is up.
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The GA Public Service Commission results last night + the recent reporting on the OK Corporation Commission's disastrous abdication of their regulatory mandate = a real opening for a Dem or Indy reformer next year when Commissioner Hiett's seat is up.
I haven't seen any reporting on this, but the proponents of the Oklahoma recreational marijuana amendment withdrew the petition yesterday. Today was the deadline to deliver signatures, and the withdrawal request said they didn't collect enough.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I haven't seen any reporting on this, but the proponents of the Oklahoma recreational marijuana amendment withdrew the petition yesterday. Today was the deadline to deliver signatures, and the withdrawal request said they didn't collect enough.
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The makeup and prosthetics in the new Springsteen movie are incredible, especially on the horrifying Chickenman. The beak! The fleshy feathers! You can’t even tell it’s Richard Kind.
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The makeup and prosthetics in the new Springsteen movie are incredible, especially on the horrifying Chickenman. The beak! The fleshy feathers! You can’t even tell it’s Richard Kind.
Quick notes on Electric NE:
1. You only think you’ve heard Bruce howl like a lonesome coyote in the desert (Johnny 99)
2. You’ve never in your life heard a song like this Downbound Train
3. Something vaguely Michael Mann-y about this NE itself
4. This Atlantic C. is incredibly, fascinatingly bad
1. You only think you’ve heard Bruce howl like a lonesome coyote in the desert (Johnny 99)
2. You’ve never in your life heard a song like this Downbound Train
3. Something vaguely Michael Mann-y about this NE itself
4. This Atlantic C. is incredibly, fascinatingly bad
October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Quick notes on Electric NE:
1. You only think you’ve heard Bruce howl like a lonesome coyote in the desert (Johnny 99)
2. You’ve never in your life heard a song like this Downbound Train
3. Something vaguely Michael Mann-y about this NE itself
4. This Atlantic C. is incredibly, fascinatingly bad
1. You only think you’ve heard Bruce howl like a lonesome coyote in the desert (Johnny 99)
2. You’ve never in your life heard a song like this Downbound Train
3. Something vaguely Michael Mann-y about this NE itself
4. This Atlantic C. is incredibly, fascinatingly bad