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David Martin

@bydavidmartin.bsky.social
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Investigator. The occasional byline.

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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 2h
I was a Bible quiz kid, and I think it was good for my development we used the King James Version as our texts
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why My Gen Z Students Are Fascinated by the King James Bible
The King James Version is a master class in cooperative intellectual struggle.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With my father who is in his 80s. He just muted MS Now to watch an AI-narrated video about the Amish in his iPad. 🥴
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U2's early start meant they were still young men even deep into their career. The Edge was 25 and Bono was 26 when The Joshua Tree was released.
ultimateclassicrock.com
The Day U2 Had Their First Band Rehearsal
A look back at U2's first band rehearsal, which took place on September 25, 1976.
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The substance of her comments aside, it's insane that the head of CBS News would participate in an event honoring a GOP mega-donor who has said "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beck sounds like someone who grew up too fast and never grew up at all www.vulture.com/article/beck...
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
pretty funny that he thinks his base (people with 84 month loans on $75,000 trucks that get 14mpg) are going to ignore $7/gal gas because they’re so excited about him picking another fight with MSNBC
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's 94 degrees right now in Kansas City. The mind reels at how much I'd be bitching about the heat if we still had a dog who liked walks (RIP Buddy).
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The new book Passport Photo Service is fun. I was not prepared for AC/DC's Brian Johnson looking like a 9th grade earth science teacher without his trademark cap.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think I were trying to get AES elected, and I knew that AES would be asked about every new comment of mine, I would shut the fuck up between now and Election Day.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How do you write about comedy after 9/11 and neglect to mention @theonion.com's 9/11 issue?
nytimes.com
Comedy After 9/11: What Joking About Everything Costs Us
Predictions of the death of irony after 9/11 proved completely wrong, of course. Now there is no “too soon” to laugh at a tragedy — but maybe there should be.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh no someone let the air out of the catcher
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watched the movie Short Cuts for the first time in years. Was not prepared for the volume of nudity (was it necessary for THREE of the actresses to disrobe?) and Budweiser product placements.
Madeleine Stowe hoisting a Budweiser bottle up in a scene from Short Cuts
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Gayer Than Thou 🏳️‍🌈 @gayerthanthou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Man, Dad's interests are so specific that I'm just never going to be able to find him a birthday gift . . . wait a minnit
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
i've been married almost 20 years and yet my soulmate still wanders free
Since 2003, an anonymous "grammar vigilante" in Bristol has been correcting misplaced apostrophes on shop signs and street signs at night. He uses a long-handled tool called the "apostrophiser" to reach high signs and fix errors like "Amy's Nail's" and "Cambridge Motor's". By day, he is a mild-mannered engineer who considers his work a cause worth pursuing.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
big year for "if you're hiring selectively for conservatism odds are you're also hiring selectively for incompetence"
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can see it. Onion style.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This guy is running dozens of methane gas turbines around the clock to try to get a robot to say mr gotcha lines
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don't know how you ever reach voters who think "whole Democratic Party" aspires to ram through changes that cultural conservative voters find upsetting. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Martin Kuz @martinkuz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In 2003, I wrote about Tyrone Noling, who by then had spent seven years on Ohio’s death row. Three decades after his conviction for murder, he's still there. He's still innocent. And when his petition for clemency reached the state parole board this week, I was in the room. @acluohio.bsky.social
martinkuz.substack.com
A life in the balance
The long struggle of an innocent man on death row to once more breathe free
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One explanation of the why pundits have gotten weird is that they spend too much time on X. I think an under appreciated additional reason is "I spent time with a billionaire, and they were nice to me."
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"is it legal? no. should he stop? also no." -- every Supreme Court decision about Donald Trump
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In his newsletter today @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social said Joseph Quinn looks more like John Entwistle (or John Bonham) than George Harrison and boy is that true.
Joseph Quinn playing George HarrisonThe cover of a John Entwistle solo album
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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"wes anderson just pulled up." "it's early, are you sure it's him?" "i'm sure."
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Was chatting about movies with a friend and he remembered the brief military comedy phase of 1996-'97
Posters of Down Periscope, Sgt. Bilko and McHale's Navy
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
New York Times photo editors doing the lord's work
Screenshot of a section of the New York Times home page. Max Miller looks haggard in photo.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Occasionally at the MLB trade deadline, I think of the time the Kansas City Star wondered if the Royals—who were 12 games under .500 at the time—had considered trading for an ace starting pitcher in the last year of his contract
Screenshot of 2008 news story with the headline "Royals never entered Sabathia sweepstakes"
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Watching Drugstore Cowboy for the first time. Very little effort was put into making Kelly Lynch look like a drug addict.
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🎃 Seasonal Creep 👻 @windingdot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Therapist: Mr. Ohio can’t hurt you, he’s not real Mr. Ohio:
Cartoon of a white Ohio with a man’s face and long skinny legs and arms and a cane
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hilarious New York Times photo of Todd Blanche, who looks he's being led away after briefly turning into the Hulk
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
Patrick MacGoohan in an episode of Columbo; he’s seated at a glass desk in a wood paneled office with plants and wearing a black turtleneck with a tweed jacket.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/07/2026
It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very good piece by @adamserwer.bsky.social on the masculinity scam. I saw TV ads today for two different Republicans men running for office in Missouri in which they were clutching guns. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Just as the manosphere and its galaxy of hucksters want you to fork over your cash so you can feel better about yourself as a man, Republicans want to make you feel insecure about your masculinity so that you vote Republican. Masculinity, in this sense, is a lifestyle product: one that comes with a set of political beliefs predicated on the subjugation of women, minority groups, and anyone else who men are told are their inferiors.
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Read Wikipedia page on "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" after watching Elvis EPIC movie. Mentions Phil Spector cribbed the bridge from "Hang on Sloopy." You can hear it in this mashup the Beach Boys did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48j...
youtube.com
Fooling Around: Hang On Sloopy / You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' / Twist And Shout (Party!...
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“What do you think? Too Larry?” Heather Havrilesky’s essays about her parents in Disaster Preparedness are very good.
A passage from an essay in Disaster Preparedness
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Watched The Killing of a Chinese Bookie for the first time. The stage show stuff is good but it felt like Cassavettes incorporated so much of it into the film because it was the easiest thing to shoot.
A screenshot of the Mr. Sophistication character
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My man looks like Pat Boone being tased
Ken Paxton, mid-bullshit
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@sotoalfred.bsky.social Dirty Work Hive welcomes a new member
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Also just thinking about different Mitch McConnell’s legacy would be if he’d voted for impeachment and conviction. Had a chance to have a right side of history last roll of the dice and chickened out
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/07/2026
Call me a cynic, it I’m starting to get the sense Trump isn’t really sure what he’s doing on Iran.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 06/07/2026
Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
HELLDUDE:
@helldude
i ordered a bunch of sardines in bulk and my kids found them and have started saying to each other "i swear it on my father's sardines" and i dunno it just doesnt feel like im coming back from this one
* Jun 3, 2019 7:18 PM • Web
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David Martin @bydavidmartin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Every day is like this
Screenshot of grim New York Times headlines
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Look at his little doctor’s hat
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