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David J. Loehr

@djl.bsky.social
3.4K followers 2.3K following 15K posts

aka @dloehr on the bird site Writer & performer, The Incomparable Radio Theater Co-creator, Where or When? Panelist, The Incomparable Host, Afoot Co-host, Magnum, podcast Playwright, podcaster, father, cat bed, he/him davidjloehr.com/links/

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't listen to terrestrial radio much anymore, have not heard it at a store, don't listen to "top 40" lists, and don't read or watch "incessant news coverage", though I do check out new music & try to stay informed. Never heard the song, never heard of the title or artist till today.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
January 6, 2021
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Monstrous.
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The only product idea Zuckerberg has been able to think of since Facebook ads is "it would be really great for us if you would route every aspect of your life through our servers"
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks, Gavin.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Intuition.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026
Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very grateful to our listeners for their contributions to $400,000 for migrants. Take a look and join us at alotrolado.org
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Al Otro Lado
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Philip Michaels @philipmichaels.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Magnum PI Memorial Ballpark it is
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Follow-up essay to my piece on AI being meant to replace, not, or at least, not just human labor, but human connection; this one taking apart what we mean when we talk about AI/AGI, and the rarely-spoken truth of what it's for: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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Grand Theft Automaton: Ur A Slave 4 Me
No one is shy about what they want AI for--BUT THEY SHOULD BE GODDAMIT
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Someone tell Trump that the teens are in reach, he'll be so excited!
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Whatever, couchfucker.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm assuming this was all Newsom.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That's some fucked up definition of "public interest" there, Mr. Carr.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tbh, good advice regardless of mergers and media consolidations. Support the weird, small art made by real people.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
are the drones and snipers there to protect the arch wouldn’t it be cheaper to just not have an arch in such a dangerous place
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thread. I've seen this in Indiana as well.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 21/09/2026
“The pricing would be … substantially less”: er, but the shipping costs from a landlocked country on the other side of the planet — rather than, say, the one we share a massive land border with — should be a humdinger.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/09/2026
You can see exactly how much it's being spent on digital ads here. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com?adv=meta%3A3...
adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
2026 anti-trans ad tracker
Anti-trans political ads in the 2026 US midterms on Meta and Google, flagged nightly by a classifier.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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NellMinow @nellminow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God bless the Danes for realizing that Donald Trump is so stupid that they can persuade him a deal that's been in place since 1951 is somehow a win for him. The best Don con since the FIFA Peace Prize. Hahahahahahaha.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's hard to believe that letting him get away with it once only encouraged him to do it again. Who could have foreseen this? Who?
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Stephen Hackett @ismh86.net · 18/09/2026
Getting close to $400k! If you haven't signed up to fundraise, there's still lots of September left. stjude.org/relay
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Relay for St. Jude
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The "apparent outcome"? That's not a thing, sir, there is no outcome until all the votes are counted. That's like baking a cake and throwing it out when it hasn't baked through in the time specified in the recipe. The "apparent outcome" was that it was never going to finish baking through.
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is nuts AND...290 people attended in-person (with another 230 online). Pathetic showing from a small & unpopular but very loud group that has hijacked American public health to our deep detriment.
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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FCC Chair/POTUS enforcer Brendan Carr risks national security to bolster Ellisons' media monopoly. ParaBros—staked heavily by UAE, Qatar, and journo-killing Saudi Arabia—will own CBS, CNN, HBO, Comedy Central, BET, TikTok, 2of4 historical news archives +more. Recipe for propaganda. #BlockTheMerger
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#BlockTheMerger
Twelve state attorneys general sued to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Concessions don’t protect workers, consumers or creators. Tell the AGs to hold strong and take it to trial. SIGN THE P...
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
By Lil Sebastian
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Looking forward to seeing @flophousepodcast.com with @dankmccoy.bsky.social @flophousecat.bsky.social @elliottkalan.bsky.social and @howelldawdy.com tonight at the Whirling Tiger in Louisville.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/09/2026
FIRE YOUR ADVISORS IF THEY TALK LIKE THIS
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026
Fire anyone who says this shit.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In my head canon, Toto's "99" is a love song from the point of view of Maxwell Smart.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another hugely important piece to all this, relevant across everything this regime & its supporters touch, is: They think this shit is easy. It's Lucille Bluth saying "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?" all the way down.
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
reminder that the Kennedy Center is the US’s official memorial to John F Kennedy, no different than the Lincoln Memorial or the Jefferson Memorial Imagine Trump threatening to close the Lincoln Memorial unless they rename it the Trump and Lincoln Memorial www.kennedy-center.org/memorial/
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A Living Memorial
Washington D.C. hosts many memorials to past presidents. But only one comes alive with over 2,000 events a year: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
God doesn't appreciate lying, Mike.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is a world-historical villain who's putting us all in extreme danger, so put him at the center of this story. Dems can highlight how Trump is actively using DOJ and EPA to help AI data centers steamroll communities, and vow that a Dem majority will stop it. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
RFK Jr. has decided to change the way measles deaths are counted at the CDC. As @drdebhoury.bsky.social says in this article by @melodyschreiber.com: “The change doesn’t make any sense”. It only makes sense if you’re RFK Jr. and you desperately need to manipulate data to hide your malfeasance.
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Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak
CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases
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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 15/09/2026
Also legal to sing it to the tune of "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota."
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It’s completely legal to sing “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” to the tune of “WKRP in Cincinnatiiiiii.” No one can stop you.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.
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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a writer, I learned to do my own artwork and parlayed that into a day job in graphic design and marketing. I'm happy to design book covers any time. If you have the money to spend on the credits to keep prompting until you get something usable, you have enough money to pay an artist.
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