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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.

DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are greater covers (I'm shocked not to find Aretha's Respect in the first few replies here), but this one puts a smile on my face every time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIGo...

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Rock and Roll

YouTube video by Rasputina - Topic

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tori Amos's cover of "Livin' on a Prayer" is also pretty great

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 07/10/2026

Props to the photo editor for getting this down to the vast and trunkless legs of stone

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 02/10/2026

Anthropic copyright settlement news: Good news for authors of Wiley's For Dummies series. After outcry over the high % claimed by Wiley, Wiley is changing split to Default (50/50). Announcement below. (They're still saying that payment will be via literary agencies, rather than direct to authors)

From: Wiley Anthropic Settlement Communications <WileyAnthropicSettlementComm@wiley.com>
Date: Friday, 2 October 2026 at 21:48
To:
Subject: An update to your For Dummies claim in the Anthropic settlement

Dear Author,

We recently wrote to explain the claim percentage we submitted for For Dummies titles in the Anthropic settlement. While we continue to believe the classification of these works as Education Works is accurate for the reasons set out in that message, we are sensitive to the concerns raised

We value our relationships with our For Dummies authors and the work we've built together across this series. With that in mind, we're changing our claim for For Dummies titles to the settlement's Default Option for non-Education Works. Under the Default Option, the payment for each title is divided 50% to the author and 50% to Wiley

Here's what this means for you:

i. We'll enter the 50% allocation for your For Dummies titles in the settlement portal.

ii. To confirm your allocation, visit https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/allocation, enter your assigned claim and PIN number, and enter 50% as the author share (subject to (iv) and (v) below). If you've already entered 50%, your entry matches ours and no further action is needed. Additional instructions for updating your allocation are located here: Allocation Portal Instructions.

iii. Once all entries match, the Settlement Administrator treats the claim as undisputed. Payments go out in tranches, with undisputed claims paid first, so confirming promptly helps you receive your payment sooner.

iv. If your work has more than one royalty-bearing author, given your work agreement already specifies a royalty split between the authors, we suggest that same split apply to the claim allocation. For example, if the two authors of a work split royalties 70%/30% under their agreement, Author #1 would claim 35% and Author #2 would claim 15%.

v. If su…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the anniversary of Brian Friel's death, Seamus Heaney - 'The great thing about him is his total grip on the home ground and his attentiveness to it, and at the same time his sense of intellectual and artistic responsibility drawn from the farthest horizons.'

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Indeed. I read a book proposal a while back on the burgeoning class of very rich, as opposed to mega-rich, people in America. The stat I remember is: there are more butlers in the US now than during the Gilded Age.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“For us, that’s a pretty hard red line—for someone to be paid for doing editorial work and then also being compensated as an agent" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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At People of Publishing, Agents Grapple With the Ethics of Making a Living

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m very sorry to read this. He was a wonderful writer, and when I interviewed him once or twice (about patrimonial wealth—he wrote a book about it) I found him witty and thoughtful and kind. He arrives too soon at Sedgwick Pie. May his memory be a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

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He Wrote the Book on the Sedgwick ‘Family Disease,’ and Succumbed to It

John Sedgwick was born into an illustrious family, but privilege was only part of the story.

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes! But maybe the greatest postal pop song isn’t from Motown: youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw?...

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The Box Tops - The Letter (Upbeat 1967)

YouTube video by vinylsolution

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is it more evil to destroy books than to kill civilians? It is certainly diabolical.

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I almost don’t care if it works, the idea is so nifty

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, it's National Poetry Day. Please enjoy this moving meditation on life and death by Norman Nicholson, whose anthology is here: www.amazon.co.uk/Selected-Poe...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎯🎯🎯

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Overton window snuck off to the left while nobody was looking

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026

Under Bush, Pentagon lawyers who opposed his policies "did not face reprisals." Today, says former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, "the function of the lawyer in the Pentagon has been severely constrained and ridiculed, in part, by Secretary Hegseth." 🧵

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No one alive has seen a president choose to walk into the teeth of American greed. A THREAD. PLUS: Ask me anything.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

While waiting for Trump to enter the signing of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement at the UN, they chose “Send in the Clowns” as the background music. Yes, it’s real.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Before Sept. 21 is over, celebrate the joyous creativity and generosity of @electrolemon.bsky.social — watch them all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwG...

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YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you have not read it, it's a fine day for "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... Published on the second day of the first Trump White House.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19/09/2026

👇🏻

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

True. Rewatched it recently and it holds up.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A point made in this piece is that Trump has destroyed an entire community. For people outside of DC, I can understand why you may not understand. But for those of us from here, its the culture he is destroying that hurts so much. The building is secondary. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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Column | The Kennedy Center is empty and in peril. Its community is in anguish.

The fiasco of this week’s closure reveals the truth of President Trump’s motivations — and what the arts community stands to lose.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The invaluable @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes that Congress should terminate the 25-year-old post-9/11 "state of emergency" that every president has abused in their own way. She calls it "deeply dangerous to our democracy." Thread==>

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Watched this again recently. It holds up. One of the great horror films IMO

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My alert system failed! Cannot believe I missed "The Journalist and the Firefighter" and the follow up when they came out. www.kcrw.com/shows/questi... Bravo to the staff at @kcrw.com's Question Everything and of course to @bartongellman.bsky.social The rethink in journalism that I've waited for.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

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