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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
👖APPEAL FOR MEN’S CLOTHES👕

Someone I know in Bethnal Green is asking for men’s clothes for the psychiatric ward they work in Hackney. Too often people are in dire straits and don’t have families who can bring clothes.

If you’re local and can help out, please drop me a message.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
I have a feeling that this won’t happen, but in a few years someone will make a documentary about Horton’s life and the magazines will trip over themselves playing catch up. An incredible talent who will be remembered either way.
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sarahwoolley.bsky.social Sarah Woolley @sarahwoolley.bsky.social · 26d
I would love to read tributes to the late Kaleb Horton in Vanity Fair….so many comedians, musicians, and artists admired his work, and Graydon Carter knew he had a diamond on his hands.
Instagram screenshot from Horton’s account shows a message on beautiful stationery. The text reads “Dear Kaleb, Many thanks for reconsidering Vacation. Far more dystopian in your reckoning than I recall, but as you point out, it's become a heavily edited and endlessly quoted part of 80s culture. Thanks for revisiting it all with fresh eyes and your full attention. As ever, Graydon Carter.” Horton’s caption reads: “Thinking about how crazy it was that Graydon Carter thanked me for my first real article at Vanity Fair (I never wrote anywhere normies read before that), then at the same publication I warned people that the bad man was going to do the bad thing, then the bad man, *as president* , started beet with Graydon. That was profoundly surreal and I hope nothing like it happens to me again.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
I feel like it’s totally okay to get together with the boys and drink some frosty ones and talk about how impressive Kate Bush is
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
We're so close to having the ultimate vehicle on our roads
Worm driving an apple car
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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charlottebayes.bsky.social
Like if you don’t have kids and EVERYTHING is new to you, you trust these people? Literal baby health care professionals!!! But if you can’t for whatever reason FEEDING YOUR BRAND NEW BABBY IS NO1 PRIORITY - BEFORE FORMULA WE HAD WET NURSES FFS
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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charlottebayes.bsky.social
They made my sister feel SO BAD first 2x, she has implants but ensured they were in front or behind some chest wall so she could breast feed, but she couldn’t and they made her feel SO shit, baby no3 she shut them DOWN in the first 10 seconds
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
A lot of headlines recently about “record levels” of breastfeeding in certain areas but this doesn’t tell us anything about how these families are doing when it comes to infant feeding. Are these babies gaining weight? Avoiding jaundice? Are the chest feeding parents getting sleep?
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
Whenever a certain TERF columnist pops up I recall hearing of a Christmas she spent with her daughters *begging* her to stop discussing trans people and speculating about a trans journalist’s medical history. A complete loser with no life!!!
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
I was hoping whatever was bursting out of the guy's chest in Alien would be something nice
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
So proud of my city. 👊❤️

(Albany Park is a diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago.)

* Continuing to fight the "Chicago is a hellhole" narrative: I saw this because I biked a few miles to a lovely chocolate cafe on a gorgeous fall day where the leaves were starting to turn golden.
Lawn sign: On Oct. 12 we stopped ICE from kidnapping our neighbor!
October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
“We need an inquiry to establish if those doing the shooting in Ballymurphy were the same ones who opened fire six months later in Derry."

The parallels between what happened in Ballymurphy and in Derry are uncanny”

www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/...
Were Bloody Sunday soldiers involved in 'Ballymurphy massacre'?
In the wake of the Saville report, relatives of 11 people killed in Belfast by the army in 1971 are now calling for an inquiry into their deaths
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
I would love to read tributes to the late Kaleb Horton in Vanity Fair….so many comedians, musicians, and artists admired his work, and Graydon Carter knew he had a diamond on his hands.
Instagram screenshot from Horton’s account shows a message on beautiful stationery. The text reads “Dear Kaleb, Many thanks for reconsidering Vacation. Far more dystopian in your reckoning than I recall, but as you point out, it's become a heavily edited and endlessly quoted part of 80s culture. Thanks for revisiting it all with fresh eyes and your full attention. As ever, Graydon Carter.” Horton’s caption reads: “Thinking about how crazy it was that Graydon Carter thanked me for my first real article at Vanity Fair (I never wrote anywhere normies read before that), then at the same publication I warned people that the bad man was going to do the bad thing, then the bad man, *as president* , started beet with Graydon. That was profoundly surreal and I hope nothing like it happens to me again.”
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
This podcast is a treasure trove of incredible bits
An exchange between Kaleb and James from Episode 68: Stop Sweating: Kaleb: So, here's the idea. I'm gonna play Irene, a chocoholic. And you're a man, okay? And you're just kind of talking to her at some sort of business casual work function, all right? All right. Yeah, go ahead and start improvising at me. James: Hey, Irene, I haven't met you yet. What are you about? Kaleb: I consider myself a chocoholic. I'm into all of it. I'm into all of it and I'm totally indiscriminating when I have to be. Hershey bars, Ghirardelli chocolate, See's chocolate. I'm an ardent proponent of fascism, Hershey bars, you name it, I love it all. James: Hold on, did you just say you were an ardent proponent of fascism? Kaleb: Yeah, I love chocolate. Me and chocolate were utterly inseparable. I believe in neither the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
October 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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eldashraheb.bsky.social
My tribute to Kaleb Horton and The Last Exit Show, a podcast he hosted with @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social
Cover art to The Last Exit Show Kaleb Horton IN MEMORY OF KALEB HORTON & THE LAST EXIT SHOW Kaleb Horton's premature passing has quietly devastated me in ways that I'm just starting to come to terms with, which is a bit nuts, because the majority of my relationship with him was parasocial. We got lunch once, bumped into each other intermittently around NoHo, and corresponded probably less than a hundred times, never really rising above "sincere acquaintance" status despite awareness of each other for close to fifteen years. He was my age and a significantly more successful writer than I, whose final years in the devastated, post-COVID landscape were far more arduous than anyone of his talent and ethic should endure. We knew each other most intimately during this moment when we were both struggling to navigate the rolling disaster of writing careers in a time actively hostile to our callings. All these factors are weighing on me, but I think the real grief I'm experiencing comes from the fact that he seemed to personify the revolutionary potential of the 2010s internet, a potential that sadly did not come to pass. It seems my body had decided to register his death as the definitive end to an era that could've changed things for the better. In the beautiful eulogies I've read online and the tender remarks given at his memorial, I haven't seen much discussion of his tenure as co-host of The Last Exit Show, the podcast he co-hosted with James Murphy, where I first discovered his singular voice. In 2012, The Last Exit Show was the first podcast to become a personal obsession of mine, so I'd like to elaborate on this under-discussed avenue of his genius. The Last Exit Show was (ostensibly) a comedy podcast hosted by two people on the outskirts: a poor rural guy in Central California and a poor urban guy living in South London, each with writerly ambitions. Most episodes began with a desolation-tinged comedy sketch, followed by diaristic chats on niche subjects and their esoteric minutiae, be they lost musician bootl… spaces. One episode charted how they would manage Billy Joel through a career revival akin to Johnny Cash's stint with Rick Rubin, earning Joel an 8.8 on Pitchfork. Another delved into Kaleb's process of tweaking the comic strip Dilbert into a Harold Pinter torture play, and catching hell from its crank creator, Scott Adams. They discussed all things with Kaleb's acerbic streetwise wit and James' affable generosity, allowing for a soft Don Quixote-Sancho Panza dynamic for effect. Their varied subjects ultimately served as entry points to deeper dialogues about how two alienated Millennials, without traditional means, endeavored to achieve fulfilling lives amidst constant dejection, finding self-actualization in craft, and meaning in the walked detritus of the post-opportunity West. This is what made The Last Exit Show a must-listen whenever it dropped, especially at the time. This was at least three years before Chapo Trap House articulated similarly disaffected sentiments to a much larger audience, but even after that show became big, they weren't talking about Mack McCormick, hobo graffiti tags on boxcars, or childhood visits to Buck Owens' Crystal Palace. Like many things, Kaleb was ahead of the curve; always a dubious honor, as you can't feed a starving man yesterday. Though Kaleb was the show's primary driver, James was astounding as the supporting mic. Like all great foils, James supported, challenged, and enhanced his co-host, and vice versa. Specializing in 40s horror films, world history, and an Irish-centric ennui, James's presence moved between exceedingly friendly and approachably wise. Together, they pushed each other to greater peaks. After The Last Exit Show wound down, James went on to co-host Pop Could Never Save Us, a podcast with Holly Boson analyzing the UK charts, which is definitely worth your time and support. I said the show was ostensibly comedy, because it could often be bracing or rather, fearlessly direct about fraught prospects and ensui…
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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aled.bsky.social
The genocide still happened, Palestine still isn't free, their homes, hospitals, schools and places of worship are still rubble and tens of thousands if not more are dead and Keir Starmer's Labour and the British media and establishment facilitate every bit of it.

The blood will never wash off.
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Oct 14
Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.
London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?
Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
An underrated Drew Struzan poster that I spent ages looking at in Seattle’s museum of pop culture.
Said post features Kermit and Miss Piggy on a boat as Kermit plays the banjo and famous faces look on above a rainbow.
October 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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realgdt.bsky.social
The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.
awd.bsky.social Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · Oct 14
Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan
October 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
It was a privilege to write Michael Culver’s obituary for @equityuk.bsky.social’s magazine.

A true peace campaigner, Culver visited Brian Haw’s camp up to 3x a week with supplies (incl the T-shirts he designed)

If you want to know more about him: this is worth a watch youtu.be/mToyl2E4uRs?...
Anti War Artist: Michael Culver - Documentary
YouTube video by saqlainMDG
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October 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
Horton’s work was extremely popular here in the UK, not just in America. I hope an editor on this side of the pond takes note. bsky.app/profile/matt...
mattdpearce.com Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Oct 13
Some extra notes on the late Kaleb Horton, plus a dive into Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ conflicting visions of who their journalism is for.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-measur...
It bothers me there isn't an independently reported obituary yet, some kind of arm's-length acknowledgement of this life and its conclusion. The death was already deeply painful for those who knew Kaleb, his family, his loved ones; the survivors have assembled some small literary pyres to push back the void. But as a fellow writer, when I think about the idea of a talent passing unrecognized by our culture's remembering machines, I see something that scares me. Here there once lived a man who awaits the stranger's appraisal.
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Any time anyone makes this point I think it is entirely valid to point out that the current Prime Minister of the UK appointed a man who maintained a friendship with a convicted child sex trafficker as US ambassador to the UK while ignoring and overruling warnings about doing so.
lorddover.com Lord Dover @lorddover.com · Oct 13
Unfortunately, when you look closely, he’s a total loon.

How can anyone expect evidence-based policy from someone who once claimed he could hypnotise women into having bigger breasts?

It’s apparently very rare for a politician to have both a heart and a brain…
October 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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psmithjournalist.bsky.social
I can't begin to describe how accurate this is.
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
Sure, but if she’s an early years expert then why does she subject her own children to the British press and The Firm? Giving pictures of your kids to the Daily Mail is freak behaviour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kate warns too much screen time damages family life
The Princess of Wales says that smartphones and digital devices are causing an
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
sarahwoolley.bsky.social
If you’re a parent in London interested in mutual aid and community organising that benefits children and their families then I’m always up for a chat as I’m struggling to meet other parents who are into that instead of say, raw milk and being anti-vax
October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM