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LarryB

@larrynlarryshow.bsky.social
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Semi-retired marketer in career rehab/recovery, occasional writer, chili cook, B&W film, noir, cats, former horse wrangler, political junkie, leftish, anti Nazi.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 1h
Again what if the entire avant garde wasn’t killed off in the 80s maybe America looks different oh well never mind
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 10h
Excellent quote. This article also pairs well with Backlash Presidents, which takes on the historical and institutional dimensions of this problem but shares the same basic conviction.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026
we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck
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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stunning, if somewhat heartbreaking, essay. (That's a good description of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's work in general.)
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A STAR IS BORN premiered #OTD in 1954. Judy Garland was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Grace Kelly for THE COUNTRY GIRL. "The biggest robbery since Brink’s," Groucho Marx called it. George Cukor's lavish musical is on Tubi 'til Sept 30 if you'd like to marvel at Judy (and James Mason's) work.
Judy Garland and James Mason in a promotional photo for George Cukor's A STAR IS BORN (1954).
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LarryB @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How great is that breakfast?
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
"The first step to defeating fascism in this country is to throw the fascists out of office and thereby remove the instruments of power they use to oppress people like the Haitian community in Springfield. But there is a longer, harder struggle ahead, that cannot be solved with power alone."
liberalcurrents.com
Editor's Notes: Your Local Fascists
We know what to do with Trump and his stooges. The harder question is what to do with the ordinary Americans we will have to live alongside afterwards.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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LarryB @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bluesky really needs to add options other than "Like" with a heart. Really.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎯🎯post by @kananaskinyeti.bsky.social on XTwitter: "Covid isn’t my personality. Covid denial is yours. Avoiding damage to my body and mind is just part of my natural functioning, wearing a helmet or a seatbelt isn’t my personality either..." src: x.com/kananaskinye...
Covid isn’t my personality. Covid denial is yours. Avoiding damage to my body and mind is just part of my natural functioning, wearing a helmet or a seatbelt isn’t my personality either. Conversely though, nothing you’re doing outside of denying Covid is gonna matter much at all.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026
all about fibbing
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To Tell the Truth
[a confession]
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/09/2026
Inching closer to my goal on this one. In this economy everything sucks but if you've ever benefited from Scarleteen, or are a fan of making sure young people have access to great sex ed that doesn't talk down to them, please consider donating and/or sharing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spineless wimps. They never learn.
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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LarryB @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks for the reminder. Time to read it again. Essential to understanding our situation.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!
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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Here's a stupid thing said by someone who gets too much attention anyways! It's really stupid and I'm going to repost it!" You failed the only test.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s not going to get better
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It's not going to get better - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Barring force majeure, we still have more than two years of this: Most reporting on Trump’s speech emphasized either his belligerence — his rejection of global cooperation — or the fact that almost everything he said was a lie. But isn’t the bigger story the fact that the leader of what used to be the world’s most powerful […]
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something wrong with a country
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Something wrong with a country - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Every now and then I’m struck by something shocking enough to remind me of just how completely this country has gone off the rails. This morning that something was Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s complaint asking for an injunction against the federal government, to stop it, meaning Donald Trump, from barring the firm’s clients CNN, MSNOW, […]
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LarryB @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even worse now than when it originally aired.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The affordability discourse www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/the-...
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The affordability discourse - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Some related thoughts: Life seems increasingly unaffordable in a country like the US because, somewhat paradoxically, it’s so rich. I’m not talking in this post about poverty, which is a massive and d...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Earlier today Lukashenko said that all of Belarus' surplus of potash for export has already been contracted for export. There's no available volumes to export for Western countries. I think it's important to post this today.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Film history meme made by me have fun enjoy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dogs waiting to enter children's hospital rooms for animal therapy...Please don’t scroll without giving them some love! ❤ Original post
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
when you know you’ll never become known as the chicago pope so it’s okay to let loose at a party and wear a tiny captain’s hat
A photo of the pope wearing a little captain’s hat and holding a drink at some kind of party 20-30 years ago
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/09/2026
every. fucking. day. Trump permanently burns down something else, and Democrats insist that they will NOT punish the arsonist, they will only establish some committees to explore maybe putting up some tents in the ruins.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Corn: Trump wants to rule like Putin, and he wants to do deals with Putin. The war in Ukraine is just a nuisance for him that gets in the way. He doesn’t care about protecting Ukrainian democracy or the Ukrainian population. He wants this war over with so he and Putin can stride the world together
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/09/2026
It is pretty gratifying when a non-Trump federal judge considers the White House’s legal arguments for a plainly xenophobic policy change and then writes an opinion that says, in substance, “This is the dumbest, laziest shit I’ve ever heard, what is wrong with you people”
ballsandstrikes.org
Federal Judge Baffled, Annoyed By Trump’s Lazy Crackdown On International Students
When a judge is describing your legal argument as “exceptionally weak” and “largely disconnected from academic or practical realities,” things are not going as you’d hoped.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
promise kept
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The standard Democratic response to "why do you want men in girls' sports?" should be "why do you want to chase brave, loyal American men and women out of the military and the intelligence community?" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I would read a long essay that addresses the reality that none of the elites or oligarchs in the U.S. are afraid of the Democratic party and how that will likely mean that modern fascism will be more difficult to defeat.
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LarryB @larrynlarryshow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fintan O'Toole is a must read...every word he writes. There is no more insightful international observer of the flaming dumpster fire that is America than this Irishman. To be honest, I'm not really sure that we deserve the inspired quality of his prose. Pearls before swine, as they say.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would watch this.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My books are old and still priced to sell to libraries that don't have money but Anthropic stole them so if you ask Claude nicely it might regurgitate them and explain what I got wrong or there's a pdf around here somewhere I'd send you but don't bother just subscribe to @flaminghydra.com
Cover of Hollywood Math and Aftermath. Seriously if you want to read it, just go to 
https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com/hollywood-math-and-aftermath Cover of The Studios after the Studios. Seriously, if you want to read it just go to https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com/studios-after-the-studios
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The amount of times I said "holy shit" reading this story. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
santafenewmexican.com
Probe reveals elaborate network of audio surveillance at Santa Fe Public Schools
Santa Fe schools recorded audio without notice for years. A report found leaders knew, and district security chiefs took the fall.
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can’t not cry, watching this. 9/11 rescue dogs, whew 😔😩🇺🇸
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway, I guess I have to watch this space until November. If you see something, say something! www.ms.now/news/russia-...
ms.now
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
TH White on what to do when you're sad
From The Once and Future King, TH White explains that when you are sad you should learn something new
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There simply is no plan for how we're going to fund our universities without federal funding and foreign students. Everyone is pretending otherwise, & our leaders are totally absent from the public square in explaining this to voters, parents, students, & alumni. It's maddening.
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