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I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

solidarity with LA. fuck ICE.

Stanley Cup Final game 2 going to OT!

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

"critics pounced" is doing so much skeevy work here

A great thread:

What...should they have done? #ephs

This is so petty. Folks should just come to Logan Circle...or heck hang out in Shaw my neighborhood is party central this whole month.

Oh hell yes, they got a longtime private equity guy to review my book! He hated it! Do you want to be cool and preorder BAD COMPANY, or do you want to be like GARY??

🌍🧑‍🚀 Nader is bad? 🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been

The entire internet right now.

It's a good thing my wedding anniversary dinner starts in an hour let me check the news on Bsky to see if anything happened today...

the democrats should invite Elon to meet with them. tell him that the meeting is on a patch of sticks and leaves that APPEARS to be sitting atop solid ground. but here is the twist,

Nice sign of web platform diversification when the most powerful men in the world are feuding in parallel on two different microblogging platforms while we're all posting the godzilla let them fight meme on a third.

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I just finished @bridgetgillard.bsky.social new novel "Little Bosses Everywhere" and it was excellent. The grifting, the historical genesis and the sheer psychological aspects of MLM nuttery are all detailed perfectly. Now if only we could fight back somehow - and rescue the conned...

Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.

Again, I have done the thing. New toon: the presser and the coverage. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The first time I had a morphine drip in a hospital I realized two things: 1. I definitely wanted to keep pressing that button. 2. I should never be near a button like that in real life ever again.

Sea captains I encountered today...

Death and the Maiden, by Camillo Verno, 1895, 📸 via @bleachereport.bsky.social

Happy #TACO Saturday

This...took a turn I was not expecting. Pretty sure JC would say "hey look you seem like you like Lucy more than me maybe we need some time apart".

I have nothing but compassion for people who struggle with addiction. I also don't want people under the influence to be flying airplanes, driving cars, or running the country. Simple as.

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

so this quote is not accurate, he's still wrong but he is very much aware of Operation Paperclip. he says "...was built by American citizens, some German and Jewish scientists who came over during World War II..." JD Vance is a shithead enough without needing to misquote him.

Time for a great picture: