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Rob Gunther

@1robgunther.bsky.social
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journalist, podcast producer, illustrator | 1robgunther at gmail

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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who wants to be a millionaire: random person gets a chance at a huge prize Whatever is happening rn in Tennessee: random person tortured to death with a bunch of janky injections and maybe they’ll bring back the firing squad Amazing race: random people have to pair up and race to a faraway finish.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m serving one loaf of bread for $59, hmu.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ll eat anything, no complaints, but for real spinach is like mostly disgusting. I’m eating it right now with lunch. Squeaky on your teeth as a salad. Slimy as hell if you even think about cooking it. This needs to be said!
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rewatched The Fifth Element today for the first time in probably 20 years. Damn, was this always my favorite movie and I just like forgot? Just incomparable.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seriously insane to me that anyone is still covering Bill Gates like he’s some sort of an important person and not the guy who secretly tried to give his wife antibiotics after also secretly giving her an std, as revealed by his inclusion in the Epstein files.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For real, bring back The OA
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shocked. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/n...
Gift link Gift link
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If it were only named after Trump from the beginning, Abe Lincoln would still be alive today.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lanterns … little too slow tonight!
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yo are they still going to put Joe Biden on Mount Rushmore, I remember that being a thing
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lanterns is the best show on TV by a mile but Hal has no excuse to let his ring keep getting so low on charge, come on, if he can fly to Sinestro jail in outer space in one day, he can fly to his hotel room every hour or so for a top-off.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This seems like a major escalation. Iran war is spilling even wider. Also, this paragraph on MbS conveniently didn’t mention any bone saws, but hey, he’s in a tight spot right now, let’s try to take a broad view of the guy. apnews.com/article/yeme...
Ap news 
Ap news
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This was my experience at an ultra conservative all boys catholic high school on Long Island. They made a 15 second PA announcement about an attack, and then no further questions. After that, every period a student would get cryptically called out of class and wouldn’t come back.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Never forget: George W Bush used our collective hurt and fear right after 9/11 to lie us into a pointless war his dad started years earlier, most of Congress said OK, millions of people were killed, the Taliban is still running Afghanistan, and we're still taking our shoes off at the airport.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade,” [Hubinger, Anthropic scientist] wrote. “I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.” 🎁🔗
wsj.com
Exclusive | Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears
Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I chatted with @adamkinzinger.substack.com today. He says Trump wants to take the US back to an economic world where "might made right." That's one way to explain the trade war with Canada. But Kinzinger says that world existed in the 1800s. The US wasn't on top then, and won't be now. @slate.com
youtube.com
Why Did Trump Start a Trade War With Canada? Feat. Adam Kinzinger
YouTube video by Slate
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
(mandatory virtual coach training with 80 strangers on a zoom) Moderator - "OK, we got 3 and 1/2 hours to work through the curriculum, but if we power through I think we can get you out early." 1 virtual person - "this reminds me of many long stories that I'd like to share throughout the night."
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"But there has been little outcry. The U.S. has kept the desperation of deportees and asylum seekers at a great distance."
theatlantic.com
A Reverse Ellis Island
A city at the southern tip of Mexico has become the place where migrants’ dreams go to die.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Premium Rush
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In this house we still settle catan
Settlers
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If mystique shape shifts into someone wearing a jacket, and then takes off the jacket … what happens to the jacket? Is that a piece of her now cut off from the rest of her body?
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Instagwam" love it
theverge.com
This is Instagram’s new logo
It’s the first change to Instagram’s wordmark in a decade.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump says he wants. Trump says he’s eager. Come on stop doing work for him.
Times headline doing work for Trump.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally saw The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan designed it to be viewed: a 2:10pm show at a regular theater and I had to leave 15 min early because I thought I had enough time to watch the whole movie and pick up my kids from camp but the previews ran for 30 min and ate into my scheduled time.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump eating shit at the WHCD folks we have come full circle.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You can only get bucatini if you can prove Italian descent.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
We should do carbon offsets but for democracy, like we get to do a bunch of anti democratic bullshit at home as long as we invest in some election observing trainings overseas, lock up a political prisoner here, train a poll worker there, with a little effort we can be democracy net neutral by 2065.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When you get to very end part of the crushed red pepper container and each last serving gets exponentially spicier, all of the accumulated heat forced down to the bottom, you can’t rush this process, it’s like a holiday, a delicious lunch holiday.
Pepper dust.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
AHEM!
I came up with memorandum of misunderstanding first
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
As you can see here, the definitive secret to doing national athletic development is having a low-cost inclusive model, and, (reading a few paragraphs down, hold on) having a dad that also played professional premier league soccer.
wsj.com
This Nation Breaks Every Rule of U.S. Youth Sports—and Built a World Cup Monster
Norway’s Erling Haaland is one of soccer’s most fearsome and competitive stars. He grew up in a place where winning and losing hardly mattered.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Hero
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Insanely f’d up story that popped up on my socials tonight.
apnews.com
Israeli strike kills World Cup screening organizer in Gaza just before kickoff
Health authorities in Gaza say an Israeli strike killed an organizer of public screenings of World Cup matches in the enclave.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
clothes are still wet
Our dryer broke and I thought it could be repaired
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Gift link: Definitely investigate municipal corruption. But the framing of this headline forces you to focus on "plumber" and "$465,000," drawing the reader in with a shared assumption that a tradesman doesn't deserve this much money. Oligarchs take in much more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/n...
This NYTimes article focusing on a NYC housing plumber who they say makes too much money.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’re calling them freedom sprouts now!
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well at least we’re losing with our dignity still intact
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What I’m going to miss most from the World Cup is when the players take a dive and the trainers come out with like 12 water bottles in the little carrier and all the other players drop by to take a drinkie.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Huge moment for people who reposted that Ben Jacobs tweet based on vibes alone.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Textbook soccer nutmegging
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Big difference between the Tea Party and DSA is that the Tea Party was created and funded by billionaire oil money to look like an organic populist grass-roots movement, whereas the DSA is not.
newyorker.com
The Koch Brothers’ Covert Ops
What sets the billionaire brothers apart is the sheer size of their donations to Tea Party issues.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They're calling it the back-pocket veto.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Big Lex-Luthor-throwing-the-pencils-on-the-floor-that-second-time-in-the-Superman-movie energy.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Screwworm / Algae 2028
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Years in jail! Jail is where you go pre trial. If you get a sentence you go to prison.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Just how many weekends in a row will us media fall for it? To answer that question, we’re now joined by a retired general and our senior Middle East analyst
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
More like a memorandum of misunderstanding amirite
More war the strait is closed again
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If we can’t export democracy, at least we can export the second amendment.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I don’t known man, you throw statements like this deep into a straight Times report about congress, and it’s like, that’s not true. We had a decade of Mitch McConnell shaping SCOTUS via raw majority rule. Every reconciliation bill since. How do you write a sentence like this with a straight face?
From a times report about the senate.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sorry, if soccer says goalie is a hockey term (keeper? come on) then soccer can’t say hat trick either. Take both or take none.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Should have just filled the whole pool with bleach instead of water. It’s not like anybody’s swimming in it. I have good ideas like this all the time.
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