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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

7 Podcasts for Bookworms
In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading.

This delightfully snarky, deeply researched series delivers takedowns of the kinds of nonfiction best sellers you might pick up at the airport, focusing mainly on self-help, financial advice pop psychology and political punditry like “The Secret” and “The Rules.” “If Books Could Kill” is hosted by Michael Hobbes (a journalist well known to podcast fans for You’re Wrong About” and “Maintenance Phase”) and Peter Shamshiri, a lawyer. The duo project infectious joy in deconstructing the appeal of these mass-market juggernauts despite being laden with pseudoscience, oversimplifications and questionable data. Alongside a breakdown of the flawed arguments and ideas in each title, Hobbes and Shamshiri also explore how these books have fed into false and harmful cultural narratives, championing critical thinking skills in an entertaining and persuasive way.

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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

CNN reporting that the DC pipe bomber was motivated by Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. It’d be nice if we had an FBI run by people we could trust to tell the truth about these types of things. ICYMI from Sept. at @atrupar.com’s PN. www.publicnotice.co/p/kash-patel...

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Kash Patel's FBI is a total mess

A new lawsuit indicates he's too busy chasing online clout to notice.

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Drinkthepotion🖤🌹 @drinkthepotion81.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The theatrical releases are "not our business model" company is better for movies? Further consolidation hurts creatives who are already fighting for work. This should be fought vigorously. Anyone who appreciates creatives knows this. It is "none of the above."

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 05/12/2025

It’s a public service not a business. Losses are not relevant. It’s in the goddamn constitution. Gonna lose my mind. AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

That this is happening the same year Warner Bros. released SINNERS makes even more depressed about it.

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Yeahhhhh this could legitimately be a death knell for theatrical distribution. Every time major studios merge it means fewer wide release films get made in general - which means fewer jobs for filmmakers and worse times for theaters - but in this case it could wreck the whole system.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s increasingly clear that we live in a world by and for billionaires now, but the movies have always been a stridently democratic art form. The spaces where indie films thrive need to be protected and we are losing sight of that in an ever growing sea of corporate content.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The pro shot version of Merrily We Roll Along with Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, and Lindsay Mendez hits theaters this weekend. I don't see any reviews, so maybe there's an embargo, in which case it would be completely inappropriate for me to say "Do not miss it."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

What is this dig at BlueSky doing in a judicial opinion? www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

If I were a statewide elected official in Mississippi,
and I was told to drop whatever else the people of that good State tasked me
to do, to focus instead on interpreting a “uniform” law that apparently has
fewer adopters than Bluesky, and to decide whether to follow an intermediate
appellate decision from New Mexico at the behest of federal judges in New
Orleans, I can tell you this much: I would not think the exercise beneficial to
federalism.
I respectfully dissent.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It turns out, financially incentivizing viral slop, rage bait, hate, divisive politics, porn bots, and other generally horrifying vaudevillian behavior was a really quick way to destroy that app. Who could have seen that coming, except for everybody who used it?

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This meme made me laugh.

A meme with a character from Watchmen whose name I can’t remember, saying:

It is 1982. I am one year old. Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2010. I am
twenty-nine years old.
Tron bombs at the box office
It is 2025. I am
fourty-four years old.
Tron bombs at the box office

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Screaming. Guys will literally install Grok in their cybertrucks instead of going to (real) therapy.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It feels like this is becoming a more common mass shooter profile: Someone who's interested in politics but not as a vehicle to express clear values or a coherent viewpoint. He just wants to mock anyone who takes it seriously.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

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She Broke Off Two Engagements. She Couldn’t Commit. Now She’s Dating Chatbots Instead.

As chatbot romance grows more common, women are redefining what they want from a partner—even if they are just ones and zeros.

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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2025

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

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Trump admin 'seems to care very little about autistic people,' says advocate

In making unsupported claims about autism, the Trump administration is "pointing the finger" at parents and making them feel guilty, says autism community advocate Colin Killick.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Too soon to circle back to all the people who said "The left did this"?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Institutional statements like this serve the same function as decrying “polarization.” They purport to diagnose the problem while studiously avoiding pointing out that the right bears much more blame for destroying norms and undermining any sense of mutual respect.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 12/09/2025

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

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LJ @ljay90.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Gamergate was a precursor to our modern Discourse(tm) and folks will look at you like you've grown a third head when you explain that to them

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This is a pretty solid explainer about what e-bikes are and the rules around them. What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Ordinary voters who bought in should have a chance to change their minds. Pundits should be saddled with this error permanently

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🍂🎃This Guy Likes Spooky Movies 👻💀 @thisguylikesmovies.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

He said immigrants were eating dogs and cats. What did you think his policy was gonna be?

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 01/08/2025

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Norms & duct tape, folks. It’s all that’s held the Republic together for decades. And shredded the last norms and rolls of tape.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

and some now-prominent pundits legitimated this nonsense

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This is damn absurd. Trump said that he would spend two weeks trying to negotiate a deal with Iran to avoid war. He said that two days ago. He clearly did not mean what he said.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I hope everyone who farmed clicks by arguing that trump was anti war in some sense is proud of themselves

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Ben Shapiro getting all upset at the parade coverage as though he isn't used to taking part in activities where no one comes

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

this statement was made just yesterday

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

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Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families

Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If LAPD is telling you they don't want to take part in your fuckup you have fucked up in ways that defy human comprehension

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The eagle looks fucking embarrassed.

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

those nuns were right about her

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025

12 to 15 hours?!?!?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

hard to believe an elon musk product fell apart and exploded at the finish line

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025

Cory Booker as he breaks Strom Thurmond's speaking record: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people are more powerful."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

To note one of the many knock-on effects this remarkable speech could have: So much of Booker's speech is, in content and form, a challenge about how much Democrats are willing to put themselves on the line. And the timing, 4 days before a Saturday of planned national protests, couldn't be better.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

if there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/03/2025

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

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Abby McDonald @abbymcdonald.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

People are thinking of the AI boom as TERMINATOR when it’s THE BIG SHORT.

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