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Jess

@mmebahorel.bsky.social
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I have opinions on things, especially DC theatre, especially ones that got a major critic to block me on that other hellsite. They are mine, but you can borrow them. The politics ones are extremely mine, especially the ones with my name on them.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h
On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that Americans aren’t uniquely stupid, voters everywhere have skulls filled with mush and worms. On the other hand, global fascism is probably not an ideal state of affairs.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 3h
This is technically accurate but referring to Hastert as a guy guilty in a hush money case certainly buries the lede. It's like calling Al Capone a tax cheat or O.J. Simpson a memorabilia thief on first reference. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 1h
Finally, some good news.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tonight's middle finger to the regime.
A light wood and beige and brass concert hall with an orchestra on stage. NSO at Strathmore.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
have now heard or seen from multiple reliable people that this was leased pianos being returned and not the KC liquidating anything not that this will convince anyone but a few of you who follow me basically for dc debunking
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many story understanders today!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
despite this being a permanent dismissal of the algae case something tells me we have not heard the last about the algae
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Same day we got "the federal government will enable document theft by putting passports in identifiable envelopes", we also get "let's make TSA jobs even worse than they already are while we send fuel prices through the roof." Great job supporting travel industries, and right before the midterms!
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest in looting from the Commander in Thief rewarding his creepy fascist buddies. Jesus Christ. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars Congress approved for countries impacted by the war in Ukraine.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Supreme Court gonna extraordinary rendition the building because not irreparably ruining the facade damages government interests.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/10/2026
Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself.
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I knew Ric Grenell stole the WNO endowment. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations, Backpack!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is really the most appropriate way for me to get the Paul Gross news.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fantastic cultural geography. Very strong lede. Even if you don’t read it all (you should; remember we are working on our brains) the first three paras do the work. Thanks to the person who shared it. www.queergeographies.com/stuck-on-the...
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Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These people are evil.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We would be thrilled with the status quo ante, our slightly dilapidated facility racing away from control by a dictator who probably stole WNO's endowment, leaving everyone broke but free. The stakes are indeed existential. (I'd like WNO's money back and people in jail but I'll take what I can get.)
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’ve known about these cousins for a long time, they branched off during a family dispute eons ago after a volatile debate on pebble collecting
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please, my slop bowls. (I'm a millennial in DC. I contributed to putting them in business. This hurts. And screws with so many upcoming dinner plans.)
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The children yearn for Enkidu
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the train, lady coming home from clearly the worst date ever (he is contemplating buying a Cybertruck), please light him up the way he deserves and I hope your next man is worthy of you. (This phone conversation with clearly her bestie was the best breach of quiet car I will ever hear.)
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Any way the wind blows... Not much wind, not much rain, and time for Irish Exit on the way out
A wine glass with a whitish liquid, a cinnamon stick, and a straw. It's a spiced pear spritz.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fueling up for a nor'easter because I clearly have great timing for a NY trip.
Blue Bottle coffee disposable cup, chocolate croissant on a brown paper bag, and a clear plastic pot of yogurt, all on a grey Amtrak seat back pull down tray.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time there’s a mass shooting, people circulate those posts reminding everyone how to avoid spreading false information in the first chaotic hours. We need one of those for AI stories.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is a national security imperative to tear this down and salt the earth.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two arms marked China and Hegseth clasp over a caption that says "Examining the U.S. military's sensitive parts"
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MSNOW, you had all day to get the Ford's Theatre (note the spelling, it's all on the signs) right, including which facilities with which signs are actually NPS property that Burgum could sign and which are not, aka everything you just showed because you managed to not include the historical theatre.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do I drive home for Christmas due to a particularly well-placed Culver's? I don't not drive home for Christmas due to a particularly well-placed Culver's. The additional reason is to do the grocery version of this in reverse, bringing Trader Joe's to my mother.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jesus fucking Christ. The only two presidents to get shot in the head.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Le code du bâtiment, c'est moi"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I keep making the Kombucha Girl faces about the military coup question. It's absolutely about wanting some consequences, not just for it to all be over. Dying peacefully in your sleep is the best possible death to wish for, and Donnie don't deserve that. But also, don't do a coup, coups are bad.
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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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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes, it can happen here. We applied the same tradecraft CIA uses to assess a foreign government. American democracy is deteriorating faster than it was in June — the shift this summer is from punishing individuals to intervening in the machinery of the November midterms.
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Jess @mmebahorel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't know that I encourage clicking through, but also, I cannot have seen this alone, you gotta click through. (Most of the article is stuff we all already knew, but witnessing the photos from the Reach is the visual equivalent of "smell this milk".)
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