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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Absolutely amazing piece by Nithya

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

calling it: he had his damascus moment. the risen christ appeared to him in full glory and declared that Trump has been persecuting the Church. donald trump has repented of his many sins and will spend the rest of his days in humble service of the least of these, where our Lord is truly manifest.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's astounding how much of Catholic social media is:

Principal Skinner: Is loving immigrants part of my moral duty?

No, it's the Pope who is wrong!

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But the show I want to single out—the one on my personal 10-shows ballot that did not make the list at all—is this beautiful, and apparently now largely forgotten, creation. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. (86 Ted Lasso to make room for it.) www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/a...

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In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn (Gift Article)

The final season of the SundanceTV series uses deep Christian themes in telling the story of an ex-convict who is unequipped for freedom.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗

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Matt Jordan @itsmattjordan.com · 17/07/2026

Mayor Mamdani is not its first victim

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dang they really got a category for everything

THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is the guy systematically blocking women and Black officers from being promoted in the military because he regards them as unqualified to lead.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is the direct consequence of Trump's policies to move resources from Medicaid to tax cuts. When RFK Jr. and Vance say they are eliminate fraud in the healthcare systems, these are the types of families affected.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/07/2026

MTA Rider Gives Up Seat To Pregnant Rat

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"For Cuomo? Why, Jessica, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Cuomo!" -My paraphrase of A Man For All Seasons

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/06/2026

"WE LOVE LIFE AND OURSELVES!" "WE CAN GOVERN!"

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The only acceptable use of Claude

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I mentioned that at my Tonys party. lol. Ultimately, I think we're both very glad we ended up with the spouses that we each have.

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I really wanted to respond with a joke about My Fair Lady but couldn't come up with a good punchline

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I think they ended up losing money on two of those three shows (although perhaps the tours were profitable.) But that might be why the board doesn't want to roll the dice on another potential money loser.

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Fair. I guess a movie microtargeted at people who are now 38-42 can't be considered a movie for all millennials. But as someone who loved spending hours at The Wall and Tower Records, the movie definitely spoke to me. Plus - being in your late teens/20s! It felt so far away and exciting back then.

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I concede that it is clearly about Gen Xers in a Gen X environment. But I would argue that millennials were the ones who watched it over and over

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Were Gen Xers watching it and liking it, though? I was in middle school when it came out on VHS and I don't think I've ever met a fan of that movie who isn't roughly my age. I've actually heard a few Gen Xers bash it for not being authentic (something a middle schooler obviously doesn't care about)

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I just rewatched Empire Records (it autoplayed after watching something else, and I was very glad it did), and I want to argue for that being a quintessential Millennial movie for a specific subset (namely, people who were 11-15 when it came out on video.)

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Møtif (Alex) - 🎂 the 24th @m0tif.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This might be the best video ever

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Do not let recency bias sway you - Mine, Mine, Mine is far superior to Mother Knows Best, if only for the incredible counterpoint. (And yes, for "see how I glitter.")

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

is there a more elder Millennial coded movie than Empire Records?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The money was always there for the good things.

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My dad told me that BS stood for Barbra Streisand, and I believed him for a long time

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/05/2026

Trump Ratchets Up Rhetoric Against Snoopy theonion.com/trump-ratchets-up-rhet…

Trump Ratchets Up Rhetoric Against Snoopy
President Escalates War Of Words Against Fictional Dog

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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

a powerful reminder of the grotesqueness of man's sinful nature, thank u sonic

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

you're laughing? orban is eating shit immediately after our loser vice president went there to try to help him in the biggest display of contagious loserdom in history, and you're laughing? yeah, me too

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pig'slaundry @pigslaundry.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."

four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"

Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"

Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s a tidy narrative arc, but very bad for American democracy. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Mark @franklinshepard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I guess it turns out I was MAHA all the time without realizing it

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/03/2026

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business theonion.com/jesus-clarifies-return…

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

Screenshot from the Atlantic covering yesterday’s protest, showing a woman dressed as lady liberty being arrested. The caption reads Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains, following clashes near the Metropolitan Detention Center during the
"No Kings" national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

If no-one was literally putting cash in her bag at the exact moment she was posting, then its ethical

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is again flooding the airwaves and social media with snappy videos of himself in a custom Carhartt jacket, warning New Yorkers to stay safe. He is again holding news conferences at the city’s emergency operations headquarters, surrounded by top aides in outerwear bearing agency emblems. And he is again at the helm of a government operation that, by virtue of its complexity and general unwieldiness, can lend itself to people falling through the cracks.

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