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Who does Adrien Brody think he is.....Elaine Stritch? #Oscars

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Just when you think it can't get any worse.....

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"Especially in the light of the billionaire’s other blatant efforts to cozy up to Donald Trump, Bezos’s move is more than a gut punch," writes Guardian US columnist Margaret Sullivan.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Democracy Dies in Deference to Dear Leader

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 7 days ago • 2807 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 8 days ago • 250 comments

Great think piece....er, strand-of-posts, here.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Farewell to the great (and underappreciated) Roberta Flack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCq...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

Just.....read this.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 12 days ago • 2199 comments

It really has been a radical change in a relatively short time frame. I ran up long distance bills in my younger days; a few years later I worked in a call center for the phone company. Landlines, that is.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

YES PLEASE! deadline.com/2025/02/some... #somebodysomewhere

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The world is burning and this feels off-topic, but a little something I've been working on, about the power of story, and my favorite kind. Thanks and greetings to @thelocherroom.bsky.social @ehl.bsky.social @rogernewcomb.bsky.social @damonljacobs.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/patricke...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

When a simple discussion about TV theme songs brought me to this....which then left me a sobbing mess because *gestures at our current timeline* www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvao...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

submitted 14 days ago • 257 comments

Insanity.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Farmers: “He was supposed to hurt other people, not us.”

submitted 20 days ago • 4026 comments

Best sign so far today. #NoKingsDay #fiftyfiftyone #indivisible

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Food for thought - 60 Minutes profile on laws in Germany regulating online hate speech. www.cbsnews.com/video/polici...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I get the speed & brutality of massive destructive power grabs but I have yet to see anything that explains in any way how Trump to say nothing of musk are free to operate purely by malign fiat, untwisted, as sole owners of a country that had rules & cops & g-men & bench warrants til three weeks ago

submitted 15 days ago • 58 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 16 days ago • 385 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 16 days ago • 2046 comments

Bernie Wagenblast, the iconic voice of @mta.info subways, has a message, the day after the feds took the letter "T" referring to trans people, off websites about the Stonewall National Monument. @thecity.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

❤️ 🎯 ❤️

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So many once-great newspapers have fallen to the dual dragons of bothsiderism and business decisions overshadowing editorial vitality. The NYT's fall, though, has been perhaps the loudest, hardest and saddest of all. Such negligence, never to be forgotten.

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