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Journalist | Historian | Master of Disguise | Cultural history & more | If I share it, I've read it. I block generic resistance accounts.

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ESPN
President Donald Trump plans executive order that would "solve all of the problems" facing college
sports
now

ESPN push alert ESPN President Donald Trump plans executive order that would "solve all of the problems" facing college sports now

oh ok

07.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 653 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 136

Hamnet, Wuthering Heights and The Bride are their own weird little genre. Shouty goth girl historical movies with lots of color and 2 with Jessie Buckley. I wasn't 100% on any of them but I hope we see more and better iterations of this genre

07.03.2026 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

06.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 1129 πŸ” 138 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 16

Beautiful clean crude

06.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The cover of this week's Economist: War Without Strategy

06.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 343 πŸ” 121 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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ChatGPT Backlash Reveals New Pitfalls in Aligning With Trump Downloads of rival AI tool Claude soar amid feud with the Pentagon.

New Buying Power is out! I wrote about Anthropic's feud with the Pentagon, the OpenAI backlash, and the near-ecstatic reaction to seeing anyone with any power or influence in American life publicly break with the Trump admin. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Here we go again, America. We have to give a President another blank check and give him as much as he wants to shoot unlimited $20 million interceptors at $20,000 drones and if we don’t we are unpatriotic so pay up.

05.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 3467 πŸ” 915 πŸ’¬ 217 πŸ“Œ 38

My new PBM is forcing me me to do mail order by charging outrageous copays at a pharmacy. I weirdly enjoy my mom and pop pharmacy in the Bronx, they do my flu & covid shots, the pharmacist speaks 4 languages. I’m pissed that my PBM is charging me 2x to get me to give up a regular human interaction!

04.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In case you missed it, book bans are going national

27.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

So let’s think about this.

A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.

The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

27.02.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 4931 πŸ” 1565 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 88
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In Manhattan’s East Village, commercial gentrification has long caused tensions for residents of St. Marks. But for 60 years, Charles FitzGerald has helped make the famous block an emblem of New York City’s counterculture. nyti.ms/4l0FBcl

27.02.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Library of Congress finds cinema's previously lost "first robot" Library of Congress finds cinema's previously lost "first robot"

Library of Congress discovers a copy of an 1897 film by Melies considered the first portrayal of a robot in a movie www.avclub.com/library-of-c...

27.02.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

27.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 19201 πŸ” 4333 πŸ’¬ 1075 πŸ“Œ 170

This is like if classicism had a baby with cubism

27.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Β© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Β© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

The Great Parade (definitive state) by Fernand LΓ©ger, 1954
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137817

27.02.2026 14:21 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This was fun to read first thing. So much of my teenage and young adult years spent having landline conversations that went β€œWhat are you doing?” β€œI don’t know, what are you doing?” β€œNot much.”

27.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you cannot be serious

26.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Democrats Investigate DOJ Over Epstein Files Involving Trump (w/ Roger Sollenberger)
Democrats Investigate DOJ Over Epstein Files Involving Trump (w/ Roger Sollenberger) YouTube video by The Bulwark

Talked to Roger Sollenberger who was first to report on the DOJ covering up the transcripts of 3 FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser in the Epstein Files.

Reporting since been confirmed by NPR/WSJ. Big story.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqCx...

26.02.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 698 πŸ” 196 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 6
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

26.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 9393 πŸ” 4607 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 673
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Property Taxes in NYC are a Mess. Here’s Why Even Renters Should Care. They’re the engine of the city’s budget, but unequal and outdated. Here’s your guide on how property taxes work β€” and how they affect everyone, not just owners.

Everyone in NYC is talking about property taxes!

Hardly anyone understands the system, but there's widespread agreement the outcomes are inequitable.

We've got a guide to help you make sense of it all, and learn why you should care, even if you don't own property.

www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/p...

25.02.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

25.02.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 16125 πŸ” 4223 πŸ’¬ 260 πŸ“Œ 186

As someone who worked in magazines for many years I do sometimes think about whether we lost anything when SEO killed the clever headline

25.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lenten Rosary For Victims of ICE.pdf

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices.

drive.google.com/file/d/15NhY...

18.02.2026 10:10 πŸ‘ 642 πŸ” 212 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 32

They loved this in the lesbian bars

24.02.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Vibe-Teachingβ„’ allows us to maximize enrollment and graduation rates without expanding facilities, faculty positions, or effort. It satisfies student demand for maximum flexibility, minimal cognitive effort, and zero human interaction..."

24.02.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is a remarkably creative and fun jaunt through a thousand years of English, and a creepy story to boot. I’m good through the 1400s. How about you? πŸ—ƒοΈ

22.02.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

23.02.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 1081 πŸ” 403 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 30

I never said it was shoveled by the city. And as someone who lives in this building, it was not shoveled this quickly after the first storm. Who knows what happened but Mamdani did say he would issue summonses to landlords who did not clean their walks 4 feet across.

23.02.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know the answers to your questions and I don't know if a city shoveler hit my sidewalk. It might have been the building porter. Mamdani did talk about issuing summonses to buildings that didn't shovel it themselves, which they're legally required to do.

23.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Believe it or not this is the northern Bronx

23.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0