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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

*taps microphone* anyone have an Atlantic subscription and want to send me a gift link to Chait's "Theory of Everything" piece? Pllleeeeaaaaassseee?

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

excited to read - thx for the gift link

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" is also solid.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

WHOA this is slander against the golden era of emo rock music. Panic! at the Disco's first album has some all-time titles, for example: There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

speaking of unsatisfying endings, I just finished Thomas Pynchon's latest and it just sort of...ends. But given how much he's indebted to James Joyce, I get it. Ulysses is one of the all-time unsatisfactory endings.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

did you ever see the movie Looper? There's a moment in it where the character is trying to understand the mechanics and the other guy is like "just...accept this." I loved the "shut up nerds" energy. Also Mandel is great! Station Eleven is also excellent

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

last year I read John Maynard Keynes' General Theory on Interest and Employment and I can't understand the US tax code. I use TurboTax and pray

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

BookTok is a big thing! Go do BookTok! (I've been mostly off of Bluesky for weeks but get sucked in periodically)

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I lived most of my life in Georgia or Los Angeles. Also, NYC in winter is bleak as hell. Snow makes it magical. It's rough to get through with zero snow

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

that feels a little out of your wheelhouse!

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

NYC went 2 winters (600+ days) without measurable snowfall (usually meaning at least half an inch). I was *big mad* about it

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

the guests at Mar-a-Lago are now dictating US foreign policy. This whole thing is pissy Cuban/Venezuelan expats with 1960s memories of "socialism"

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Rubio was the architect of the whole thing. This is all designed to get to Cuba

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

God bless a man who can make me say "we're doing Iraq but stupidly this time"

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Trump's superpower is forcing Democrats to defend indefensible positions. He's absolutely going to try and make this "Democrats love socialism and cartels." DWS is staking a position of "Maduro bad, illegal regime change also bad"

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

hilariously Clancy wrote Clear and Present Danger in the mid-90s about similar ideas.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Trump is ultimately a figurehead who says what he has to to win votes. I don't think he's driving the policy agenda himself as much as people think. Miller might be worse.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

and to expressly disavow "rugged individualism" was pretty wild.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

in a world where it's Tesla Model S vs...some shitty gas car, sure. Now there's an electric Mercedes-Benz for the same price but with all the high-end German shit Mercedes is known for. The S feels middle class comparatively

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Musk is a great example of the adage "it's better to be first than to be better." Tesla had an elite product and stopped innovating for a decade while companies with significantly more manufacturing resources decided to catch up

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

it's because of the solstice! Days are getting longer from 12/21 onward. We celebrate "the sun isn't actually slowing blacking out." Then we tolerate the bitter cold because the sun is still there.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 01/01/2026

Pope Gregory XIII in 1582:

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

meanwhile in Spain you have Madrid, Andalucia, the Basque Region, Catalunya...Belgium has 3 distinct regions with 3 separate languages. Germany also has a north/south divide between Berlin and Munich. None of the tribalism is uniquely American

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

oh...oh boy. In short: yes, this exists basically everywhere. But German is its own thing because it was 2 separate countries for decades. East Germany is still *very* different politically than West Germany.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I hate all of these ads. They feel like people who definitely do not know ball made them. He gets the order of "Go Dawgs / Sic 'Em / Woof woof woof" wrong

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Ryan Day's galaxy brain take was "run counter" and it worked. This is like when UGA beat Bama with a fullback flat route.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

OL is the most important position group in football. Not hard to find a fast shifty running back. Hard to find a 350 lb guy who can pancake a dude, much less 5 of them.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I didn't know about this but I'm also not surprised

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

you forgot the biggest economic crash in a century

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

yeah...Dick Clark owned the event and created his own production co that continues to own it. Nomenclature is weird but there's a reason

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

it's not his fault his eyes are wider apart than ET's

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

it's ultimately about humanity rising up and proclaiming our validity in the face of extinction and that almost feels like a New Year's message

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

NYC: both the *population* and accompanying graft of a small-to-medium European nation!

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

interesting. In another quintessentially NYC thin I was like "it's probably got uses but I think the taxpayers are way overpaying for it," haha

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I don't use OMNY, just my tap-to-pay credit card. Why OMNY exists as a middle-man is beyond me. DC Metro now has tap-to-pay without any service in the middle

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I'd make fun of NYC needlessly clinging to something outdated out of nostalgia but that's like 30% of NYC's economy

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

the one shining moment to remove Trump from present/future office was J6, when his power was at an all-time low and the GOP's independence was at an all-time high. McConnell misjudged the moment and here we are.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

my mom's husband was confused when I referred to something as "cringey white people behavior" and I asked if they knew who Kendrick Lamar or Bad Bunny were. QED! (Present company excluded)

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

the wild part is all of the cognitive dissonance. "Sure he believes he has ultimate, unlimited power, but that's just how drunks talk." This is the battered-wife syndrome Marjorie Taylor Greene was talking about. "He doesn't DO retribution, except for those few times he did."

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

City estimated it at 8.48m in 2024 (down from 8.8m in 20) www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

nyc.gov

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

8.8 seems high? I feel like it was around 8.4 at the last census and has held steady. But density is also a thing. London might have a smaller geographic footprint.

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Paul Dano deserves a better career than he's had and it is a crime of Hollywood that he didn't get it. PS you've heard the story of how he got the Paul (?) Sunday role, right?

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I've seen Netflix shows with worse lighting

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Trump is super German and his family taught him the only absolute is power. He never experienced paternal love. So he's accumulated power to impress his dead father who never loved him. It's somehow not more complicated than that

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

yeah and the rest of read Hugo at some point (or Dickens or)

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

she's gonna sell a lot more of those dumb t-shirts though

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Chris in DC @chrisb2.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I don't think anyone has a realistic shot in TX and Allred was like "man I don't want an expensive bruising primary for a race I'll inevitably lose"

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