fallsvillager
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fallsvillager
@fallsvillager.bsky.social
AKA Dan Shaw Former style journalist and NYT writer. Rural transplant with roots in New York City. Loves Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Queens, Wellfleet, and Falls Village, the second smallest town in Connecticut.
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Wonder when the Court will realize they're sitting on the branch they're sawing off?
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Column worth reading, by former two-term GOP governor who discovers that Harvard is not the hellscape of intolerance and group-think that the MAGA and its media are constantly telling him about.

(Think of parallels in so many other realms.)

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me.
The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Today and every day 🩵
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer”

When making Noem's $220,000,000 ad campaign, DHS bypassed the competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts, to give the job to the husband of her spokesperson
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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There sure is a lot of missing evidence when it comes to DHS.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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it's almost as if you shouldn't and can't negotiate with completely amoral vacuous shitgoblins
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I do wonder what it was like to be a woman working at the NYT and wake up to the “Did Women Ruin the Workplace” headline.
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Time for the two of you (and your brethren) to have a DAILY YouTube press conference about the state of our country (and no Schumer). You are our best speakers and best hope to save our republic.
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
wapo.st/3WRMcKG Thank you, George Will (yes, George Will).
Opinion | When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and Army veteran
George Retes is suing the federal government for unconstitutional detention.
wapo.st
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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I want people to understand the impact of higher costs of health coverage. Please share your story with me so I can lift it up.

forms.gle/KmS6GiR9WgkR5qVo6
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Warped priorities: 17 NYT news stories on the Louvre jewel heist (so far); 3 NYT news stories on 7 MILLION PEOPLE attending No KIngs Day events (including one on late-night comedians and one on Trump's "brown liquid" video.)
October 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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“This is the house John Roberts built.”
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained.

As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters.

MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM