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Dan Fejes
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Tom Breihan with the kind of fearless self-reporting and transparency that newsrooms like NYT & WaPo can only aspire to. stereogum.com/2479735/vira...
Scott Lapatine will try to tell you that I volunteered to write this post. Do not believe this man. This Jonas Brothers résumé guy post was sitting at the very top of our shared spreadsheet. It had the little yellow tag on it, which means we're putting in on Facebook. We only do that with the important posts. This was a priority. I love my co-workers here at Stereogum, and I would not allow any of them to subject themselves to this useless brain-melt catastrophe. I did not volunteer. I merely jumped on the grenade.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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"OK smartass, name *another* one" is an all timer.
Exchange between Elizabeth and snuff-bait Emily Dickinson (https://bsky.app/profile/sabertoothedpie.bsky.social) E: "I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person s-bED: is it even a conspiracy at this point if every powerful person ends an email with epstein with shit like "hugs"? E: Name one person at the NYT other than Landon Thomas who did that. Just one! I'll take one!
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Side note but calling what's happening in Gaza a war has been widespread in Western media too, and I think that's very misleading. It's an attack on Gaza, not a war.
Definition of war from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war 1 a (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such armed conflict (3) : state of war b : the art or science of warfare c (1) obsolete : weapons and equipment for war (2) archaic : soldiers armed and equipped for war 2 a : a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism b : a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end a class war a war against disease c : variance, odds sense 2
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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BLUESKY HAS THE JUICE #bluejays #worldseries
Bluesky reacting to the game 7 wildness
November 2, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Bluesky has the juice. #bluejays #worldseries
Multiple accounts posting on the Bichette HR
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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It's not too late to change your Halloween costume plans.
Spirit Halloween costume: Conservative Guy Scared of Cities * Saw that thing on the news * Too many of "those" people there * Can't park Ford Super Duty * Not scared, bro
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I am replying with a 1 pixel x 1 pixel picture with no alt text to troll you.
October 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I don't usually boost my own posts, but here's an exception.

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Fear, he points out, is a natural phenomenon: it is like rain, but there are ways to prevent it from drenching you. Towards the climax of their uprising in Serbia, the police started rounding up activists wearing Otpor! T-shirts and hauling them into the police stations. Naturally the kids were terrified. Otpor! set about defusing their anxiety. "First we debriefed our people when they came out of the police station, then we briefed the people who were at risk of being arrested. We told them, you will be handcuffed, then if you are male you will be put in a cell with drunk k people; if female, with whores. They will separate you from your friends, then after a few hours they will come and take your fingerprints and they will remove your belt and shoelaces and you will feel embarrassed because your trousers will fall down. Then after a few hours they will take you to an interrogation and this is the list of questions they will ask you and these are the answers you will give them. "Meanwhile, we invited people to gather in front of the police station; everybody at risk of being arrested had lined up a lawyer in advance. Parents of the kids were informed, and we had a network of old ladies who called the police station continuously to ask about those who had been arrested. And now you are sitting there, and everything is happening as predicted, and the good detective is offering you a cigarette and the bad one is hitting you on the head and it looks like a bad joke. And the phones are ringing in the police station and nobody can do anything. And my question is, who is under siege now? This is not the most comfortable situation for the police: they deal with criminals. You block them from doing their normal job, traffic, looters, the things they should do instead of interrogating an 18-year-old kid for wearing a T-shirt..." And gradually that particular pillar of tyranny, the police, is weakened, one policeman at a time.
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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There's some very different context here, but there's a lot to be said for thinking things through.
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Fear, he points out, is a natural phenomenon: it is like rain, but there are ways to prevent it from drenching you. Towards the climax of their uprising in Serbia, the police started rounding up activists wearing Otpor! T-shirts and hauling them into the police stations. Naturally the kids were terrified. Otpor! set about defusing their anxiety. "First we debriefed our people when they came out of the police station, then we briefed the people who were at risk of being arrested. We told them, you will be handcuffed, then if you are male you will be put in a cell with drunk k people; if female, with whores. They will separate you from your friends, then after a few hours they will come and take your fingerprints and they will remove your belt and shoelaces and you will feel embarrassed because your trousers will fall down. Then after a few hours they will take you to an interrogation and this is the list of questions they will ask you and these are the answers you will give them. "Meanwhile, we invited people to gather in front of the police station; everybody at risk of being arrested had lined up a lawyer in advance. Parents of the kids were informed, and we had a network of old ladies who called the police station continuously to ask about those who had been arrested. And now you are sitting there, and everything is happening as predicted, and the good detective is offering you a cigarette and the bad one is hitting you on the head and it looks like a bad joke. And the phones are ringing in the police station and nobody can do anything. And my question is, who is under siege now? This is not the most comfortable situation for the police: they deal with criminals. You block them from doing their normal job, traffic, looters, the things they should do instead of interrogating an 18-year-old kid for wearing a T-shirt..." And gradually that particular pillar of tyranny, the police, is weakened, one policeman at a time.
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Don't forget the beer dads.
My kid and me in a bean and a unicorn inflatable costume, respectively.
October 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Here you go. My kid and me.
Inflatable bean and unicorn costumes in Kent Ohio.
October 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Me and my kid.
Bean and unicorn inflatable costumes at a protest in Kent Ohio.
October 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Me and my kid, fighting fascism.
Two people in a bean and a unicorn inflatable at a protest.
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I did this and it was an amazing decision. Strangers were hugging and high 5ing me. I ducked into a bar for a beer because I was sweating my balls off, unzipped the front, 2 women walked in, one said "your horn is deflated" and the other said "want her to blow it up for you?" Just the best day.
My kid (inflatable bean) and me (inflatable unicorn) at the #NoKings protest in Kent Ohio.
October 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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These still exist, friends.
A picture of old school Jarts, the ones that would kill you.
October 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I snapped this about 5 minutes ago, thought you might appreciate it.
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I snapped this one off the cuff last night and I like it so much better than any of the ones I tried to carefully frame and compose.
A kitten peering watchfully out of an empty box of Doritos lunch sized bags. The shadow of a much larger cat is cast on the floor and pointed towards him.
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"posted about problems we have in the country," oh I bet that was a doozy.

Then this near the end.
He also says he used AI to research the laws of where he could hang flags.
October 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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It produced some of the best memes I've seen.
Picture of the Emperor from Return of the Jedi. Caption: oh...I'm afraid those tokens will be quite fungible when your friends arrive
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I've never seen a perfect 100 that large!
282 reposts, of them 282 are quote posts.
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Not watching the game but this doesn't seem good.
A bunch of "Phillies omg no" type posts.
October 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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With alt text.
(Alt text 1/2.) I started at The Associated Press as a news associate, a junior-level position, on May 3 following 10 months of reporting for The Arizona Republic. In Arizona, I covered breaking news, criminal justice and Black Lives Matter protests. I built a respected reputation in the newsroom and in the communities I covered, and I was proud to land a job at the AP. Last Monday, the Stanford College Republicans launched a smear campaign against me, attempting to "expose" my already-public history of activism for Palestinian human rights at Stanford University. I was transparent with my editors, and they reassured me I would not face punishment for my previous activism. I was told my editors were only hoping to support me as I received an onslaught of sexist, antisemitic, racist and violent comments and messages. Less than 48 hours later, the AP fired me. The reason given was my supposed violations of the AP's social media policy sometime between my first day and Wednesday. In that interim, powerful conservatives like Senator Tom Cotton, Ben Shapiro and Robert Spencer repeatedly lambasted me online. When I asked my managers which exact tweets were in violation of policy or how, they refused to tell too. In the end, rather than take whatever misstep I made as a teaching opportunity - as is the point of the news associate program - it appears they took it as an opportunity to make me a scapegoat. (Alt text 2/2.) This is heartbreaking as a young journalist so hungry to learn from the fearless investigative reporting of AP journalists - and do that reporting myself. It's terrifying as a young woman who was hung out to dry when I needed support from my institution most. And it's enraging as a Jewish person - who grew up in a Jewish community, attended Orthodox schooling and devoted my college years to studying Palestine and Israel - that I could be defamed as antisemitic and thrown under the bus in the process. I am one victim to the asymmetrical enforcement of rules around objectivity and social media that has censored so many journalists - particularly Palestinian journalists and other journalists of color - before me. The compassion that drove my activisrn is part of what led me to be a reporter committed to just, critical, fact-based coverage of under-told stories. Now, after being fired after less than three weeks at my job, I have to ask what kind of message this sends to young people who are hoping to channel righteous indignation or passion for justice into impactful storytelling. What future does it promise to aspiring reporters that an institution like The Associated Press would sacrifice those with the least power to the cruel trolling of a group of anonymous bullies? What does it mean for this industry that even sharing the painful experiences of Palestinians or interrogating the language we use to describe them can be seen as irredeemably "biased?" While the last few days have been overwhelming, I will not be intimidated into silence. I will be back soon.
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Picture of the Hindenburg disaster with the same headline as the CNN story: "Analysis / What is the Insurrection Act?"
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Tom catches us old folks up on the drama with his usual flair. www.stereogum.com/2325068/prem...
At least in my corner of the internet, people got mad. We love Charli XCX! We love “Sympathy Is A Knife”! We do not think that song was an invitation for Taylor Swift to talk shit! Taylor Swift is punching down! And hey, you know who else was a real bitch to Taylor Swift? Donald Trump was a bitch to Taylor Swift! What, she doesn’t have that energy for him? She must love Donald Trump. That’s the shit I’ve been seeing online. Stop it! Don’t do that! It’s stupid! Do you really want to hear Taylor Swift singing a song of bitchy Trump put-downs? No. You don’t. That would be bad. It would be clumsy and cringey and obnoxious, and it would play right into the stupid endless tedious culture war that we’ve all been fighting for a decade, or maybe for our entire lives. And anyway, if your big takeaway from the year’s biggest pop record is that Taylor Swift should be nicer to Charli XCX, then you don’t know The Life Of A Showgirl, babe.
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Thinking of this today, for no reason.
Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed, October 30, 1984. Opus standing in front of the mirror, thinking, and the mirror responds to him. Panel 1: Opus: mmmm...ta do do do... yessir...one has to look snappy for a day of neighborhood canvassing...especially if one is... Panel 2: Opus: a statesman! Mirror: a politician. Panel 3: Opus: I am a statesman! Mirror: A statesman... is a dead politician. Panel 4: Opus: Well... i do not have to sit here and listen to myself. Mirror: Lord knows, we need more statesmen.
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM