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TODAY: @raxkingisdead.bsky.social on what we’ve seen in the men of Cornell University. “I want to diagnose it. I’m the naive fool who believes that in diagnosing it, I can cure us all of it.” flaminghydra.com/gentlemen-an...

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Gentlemen and Scholars of the Ivy League

I heard the two men talking, this morning, before I saw them. Then I saw them, and then they saw me, walking up the steep ramp toward them to the pedestrian bridge over the expressway. Their talking s...

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20h

The CEO of General Mills should receive the title “General Mills.” It should be like becoming the Dalai Lama. Everyone who works there should have a military rank.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 17h

NEW: Yesterday, public-health watchdogs announced that Mars, Inc. had pulled the plug on its end of the booze deal, but this morning, Sazerac told me it has "no intention" to pull the existing product off the shelves.

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Pop-Tarts "regrets" its BuzzBallz collab. Sazerac? Not so much.

Plus: The Maris theory of the modern middle tier!

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19h

do the honorable thing

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 19h

Few will understand...

jason kelce in three different outfits.

first: cowboy outfit - caption says "whiskey"
second: canadian outfit - caption says "whisky"
third: anglo outfit - caption says "scotch"

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 30/09/2026

And that’s… good, right? We’re allowed to say that’s good?

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

it seems like he very much does not enjoy the game actually

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

Fingers just last month: www.fingers.email/p/the-countr...

People have been tagging me on a Bluesky post about BuzzBallz’s new collaboration with Pop-Tarts this week. What can I say? It’s real, in the sense that the supplier, owned by the flavor-forward sickos at The Sazerac Company, filed for and received COLAs from the TTB for these products back in April 2026, and they are now appearing in retailers’ online listings. If you want to understand how the booze industry got here—beyond Patrick Cosmos’ immortal "everyone is 12 now" theory, which is honestly a good place to start—may I direct your attention to my October 2025 column, “The infantilization of the American drinker.”

Will there be a regulatory backlash? At a moment when fly-by-night dipshits are hawking drinkable “GLP-1” in Long Island gas stations and Roadkill F. Kennedy, Jr. is taking hot MAGA dumps on the very concept of public health, it can be hard to imagine such a thing. But pendulums always swing back. When this one does, the companies behind the 15%-ABV hitter that’s small enough to hide in a backpack and branded like one of the most familiar children’s breakfast brands the country has ever known might find the policy climate, well, a bit toasty.

🥐 Fingers Regulatory Roulette house odds: 175:4 white-space innovations in the toaster strudel space

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Internet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 28/09/2026

Me when the bartender takes my beer bottle when there's half a sip of warm back wash left

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

SOURCE CALL: If you work/recently worked at Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits, I'd love to speak with you. Email dave@dinfontay or text dinfontay.11 on Signal. Anonymity available!

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

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It Was the Essential Home of Supreme Court News. Now It’s a Joke. What Happened?

How high-stakes poker brought down a pillar of Supreme Court coverage.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

That's right bud, it *is* just like your Big Green Egg

meme. illustration of a wojak-style character roasting his own brain on a spit with smoke billowing up from it.

caption reads: how you look using your home cocktail smoker kit from williams sonoma

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

hearing that the dancing nancy sticker might actually be a tinkerbell (?) sticker… we’re talking about two different shades of alabaster previously undetectable to the human eye

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/09/2026

i’ve seen forms of whiteness you people wouldn’t believe