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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 2h

The owner of the wedding venue/catering company where my wife and I got married was a Jew who was so South Philly, my wife and I thought he was Italian when we met him. Didn’t help that when we were setting up a meeting, he said not to come on Tuesday because Joey Merlino’s people would be coming.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 2h

All the fantasy books try to tell you that evil is always self-defeating; let’s hope they have that right.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🎯🎯🎯

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Constitution assumes that even if politicians followed their baser instincts, their jealousy over power would keep the checks and balances intact. The Founding Fathers never considered that their baser instincts might turn them into groveling worms.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pe[low]te Hegseth can’t keep up with women he claims aren’t strong enough to compete with men in his “warrior” military.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is just the tech bro version of cheating at golf.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seriously 👇

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Money doesn’t really mean anything except the food, shelter, healthcare, etc. that it can get us. But to some people, money is an end, not a means. And those people just fundamentally see the world — and the rest of humanity — differently than the rest of us.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can’t convert true believers. It’s like that Kurt Vonnegut story: they’re at a hedge fund manager’s party, and he tells Joseph Heller that their host had made more money in one day than Heller had ever earned from Catch-22. Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have…Enough”

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 06/10/2026

We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.

Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera.
Photo credit: Photofest

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.'
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe he’ll just work for anyone who will pay him.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m at the point where when a nurse at the hospital asks me how I am, I say, “I’m here. That’s the good and the bad all at once.”

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Besides, the news about the pneumonic plague in Russia hadn’t broken yet, so they’d have to invent “quindemic” or “pentademic” or some other bs.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sounds about white.

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Late555 @late555.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If only we could all be as fiscally responsible as trump... 🙄

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pathetic and Insanity 😡 I've been there.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Britbox problem is also on PBS Passport: too many shows are murder mystery series. A few are good — my wife and I are currently watching Miss Fisher — but less gruesome subject matter, especially for dinner time, would be appreciated. A new Through the Wormhole or something…

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pathetic…..

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He kept yelling "I'm a U.S. citizen." They kept him pinned to the sidewalk anyway. He left in an ambulance with injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. DHS calls it "without further incident." www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Spark: North of 60 @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seems that the punk and the grunge kids are the ones who got all the morals. We didn't suck them out of the likes of Ed Sheeran, I promise. Those with a coloniser mindset gonna act like a coloniser—it's science. This was at Coachella, Ed, which is bigger than any Kraft property 👇🏻

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Green Day change lyrics in support of Palestine during Coachella performance

YouTube video by The Project

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The president of the United States declaring that he’s banning the free press should probably be a big news story. Maybe even bigger than Biden misspeaking occasionally.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If this plays in Seattle I'm there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gas prices hit $4.46 a gallon today — a gain of 17 cents over the previous week and $1.26 higher than the same point last year. Diesel prices are up more than $2.74 from a year ago. Families, farmers, and truckers are all getting squeezed. Meanwhile...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

His dad definitely paid someone to take his SATs.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026

My parents thought I had Polio. I got the vaccine and it turned out I didn’t. Anyone who does anything to make parents like mine worry about this is a god damned bastard. Fuck these people.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Evil Twin Facial Hair did so much work in the 70s and 80s.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Checking inventory: Kermit, Bullwinkle, Scooby-Doo, and at least three Schoolhouse Rock songs. All present and accounted for.

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Being Gen X myself, we’re not used to people even listening when we gave people shit; thank you if you actually noticed it. (I suspect it was more Boomers, though; they’re all yentas.)

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This reminded me that yesterday the Facebook account for “Dorothy Parker” reposted her infamous review of “The House at Pooh Corner” that ends something like, “…at that moment, Tonstant Weader fwowed up.”

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Brian Gerstel @briangerstel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They have nobility, but noblesse better goddamn oblige, or they’ll regret it.

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