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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 2h

I totally forgot that I pre-ordered this on iTunes like two months ago and woke up to it on my computer; the remaster actually sounds a lot better! (Usually I can't tell the difference)

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Mikæla @crashannburn.bsky.social · 4h

Any car can fly if you hit the ramp fast enough

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 3h

Has someone already combined the roadster video with Biddy Blas screaming right before he crashes because I'm doing interviews all morning and don't have time to do it myself

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 5h

“Fascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods. So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.” I spoke to the @theguardian.com's Michael Segalov about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS and making life affordable for all. 🗞️ Read online now. Link below.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h

the GOP candidate in Stefanik’s district, NY-21, asked about the highest city in the district he’s running in. straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/a-rebrand-...

“What is the most populous city in NY-21” “Most populous city? I don’t know, ask Grok.”

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 20h

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia For Tax Purposes

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This whole AI chatbot thing could not come at a worse time in this country. People are absolutely DESKILLED at building meaningful relationships and every suggestion that "YES, you DO have to talk to your neighbors" is met with rage from some corner. But relationships ARE humans' CURRENCY. The End.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Before I understood anything about my family’s history, I understood this: The food we ate was built for movement, the same way we were." Oh man, this piece is beautiful.

orionmagazine.org

Feeding the Revolution - Orion Magazine

The burrito’s history as a symbol of resistance

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"More than three-quarters of the money for the ballroom came in commitments of $5 million or more. Among the top donors are some of America’s blue chip companies, including Amazon, Caterpillar, Comcast, Microsoft and T-Mobile. (Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Post.)"

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, the top contribution amount, the list shows. The Adelson family, one of the GOP’s largest donor dynasties, committed that sum as well... Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project."

wapo.st

Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

please somebody make a movie where John Wick finds out who is responsible for climate change

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trump reverses course and cancels live-streaming of Hasan execution: "Many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed."

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They missed the easy layup of having "This January . . . he'll bee back" as the tagline

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Nothing can compare with the indignity of getting a LinkedIn notification that someone from the AARP looked at your profile

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I just found out about Crumbl. A chain store for cookies? And it's called Crumbl? Without the E? And their reward program is called "Crumbs?" So you earn "crumbs" and then redeem them for "Crumbls?" Look, I don't want to sound like a stick in the mud here, but everyone needs to grow the hell up.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's awesome that they're doing this but just makes it even more depressing that most of the bus stops in the county I live in don't even have a place to sit down, or any sort of shelter, but Japan has beautiful stone cottage bus stops for therapeutic reasons

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If the urn doesn't say "Sour Cream & Deader" on it then I'm not interested

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I spent the morning hearing from recent environmental science grads about how rough it is to find full time jobs doing things like habitat restoration and adapting landscapes to climate change. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has hired at least 12,000 new ICE agents so far.

brookings.edu

ICE expansion has outpaced accountability. What are the remedies? | Brookings

Examining ICE’s expanded role, this piece looks at federal authority, training standards, and long-term effects on civil liberties.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now this is a good ad

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Take up marathon running like the rest of us you broccoli headed tiddlywinks

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

TIRED: Male Loneliness Crisis WIRED: Males Who Aren’t Mature Enough To Process Rejection In A Healthy Way And Instead Kill Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Crisis

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

-170 newspapers closed or merged in the past year at a rate of nearly 3/week -The number of news desert counties rose by 26, the largest single year increase of Medill’s research -The newspaper industry lost more than 7,500 jobs between 2024-25 localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/sta...

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu

The State of Local News: 2026 Report

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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 13/10/2026

If you’ve heard Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman speak or watched one of his campaign ads, you’ve probably heard him say that he will slash your energy bill. But can he actually do that on his first day in office — or at all?

nysfocus.com

Fact Check: Can Blakeman Cut Utility Bills in Half on Day 1?

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor in New York, has made slashing energy costs a central theme, but has presented no plan.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The Cuban government is pushing ahead with its plans to transition to renewable energy, amid a de facto oil blockade from the United States that has strangled the island’s economy."

aljazeera.com

Cuba forges ahead with renewable energy plans amid US oil blockade

Cuban energy minister denies link to fuel shipments intercepted by US, says oil imports by private firms insufficient.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Having someone incompetent in that position is the point because they don't think it's important to keep the public informed.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Really enjoyed this deep dive with Jeremiah Chiu, who I think is one of the most fascinating musicians working today. Sometimes I'll put on one of his albums with Marta Sofia Honer and leave it playing on a loop for days because the music creates such a rich world that I want to live inside.

substack.com

FR 194: SML’s Jeremiah Chiu Is Activating Wildly

The L.A. electronic improviser brings it all together on his latest album, Edge Conditions

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just like Muhammad Ali they called him Cassius Watch me bash this Beat like a skull Don'tcha know I had beef with Carl von Clausewitz

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

From January 2026: "A Somali-born Muslim woman elected to Congress in an era defined by Mr. Trump’s bigoted attacks against immigrants, Ms. Omar has in the past seen death threats against her rise to the highest levels among U.S. lawmakers."

nytimes.com

Attack on Ilhan Omar Follows Years of Trump’s Targeting Her (Gift Article)

President Trump has spent years demonizing and dehumanizing the Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota, fueling escalating threats against her.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”

After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Everyone on here is getting mad about dumb stuff, like blog posts. Let's get mad about important stuff, like why the B-52s still aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Things that The Left is getting in the national divorce: 1. Miller Lite 2. Sports 3. McDonalds

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Probably one of those "A little from Column A, a little from Column B" situations.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Agreed, but I actually found the 4th one to be fascinating and deeply enjoyable which I . . . .was not expecting after the 2nd and 3rd ones lol

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We don't talk enough about how wild it is that there's a 4th Matrix movie about how if you manage to make a piece of popular culture with an actually subversive message the worst chuds in the world will purposely misinterpret it and make it cringe so that people will turn away from it

en.wikipedia.org

The Matrix Resurrections - Wikipedia

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Anyway been thinking a lot lately about the scene in the Matrix where Morpheus explains that everyone in the Matrix is simultaneously someone who needs to be freed and someone who can instantly become a tool of the system to inflict harm.

youtube.com

The Woman in the Red Dress - Full Scene - MATRIX - [4K HDR]

YouTube video by Cringe Cook

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The use of the phrase "getting clean" here is, uh, not subtle

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When your non fiction book has neither a table of contents nor an index

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hey remember when courts started deciding that if you buy your kid a gun and they use it to kill a bunch of people that you are also legally responsible? Anyway just thinking about that for no reason.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You think it's an accident that the one robot ended up on the Brightline track and got flattened by a train? The robots yearn for the void.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

ok so when the first robot in the video gets hit by the truck its little "eyes" turn into heart emojis so what we can infer from this is that the robots enjoy being destroyed.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Getting pretty close to “It is illegal to not be thinking about the President” territory

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