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Nathan McDermott

@nathanmcdermott.bsky.social
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Roaming Reporter formerly of KFile at CNN & BuzzFeed. Board member @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social Host of Beautiful Losers of History podcast: rss.com/podcasts/beautiful-losers-o… Mostly journalism, history, gay absurdism and the Simpsons

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City
On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
stemmb (the extra b is for byob)
Ms Thomas said: "The London institution dedicated to Stemmb (science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine) has outdone Oxbridge for the first time in the guide's 33-year history.
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Cleopatra was African!!!” “No, Cleopatra was Greek!!!” Meanwhile, Cleopatra:
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Wrote about Nolan's Odyssey and what it tells about both the Bronze Age Collapse and our own age of wreckers and destroyers. Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds: www.patreon.com/PastLivesMed...
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Christopher Nolan's Collapsing Worlds | Past Lives
For Past Lives subscribers, an audio version of this episode will appear on the bonus feed this coming Thursday. Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/08/2026
Late century party in the water belt: Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Marjory Wentworth, an Ohio activist and a member of G92 faith org., tells me at least one of the Haitian immigrants who Trump’s ICE fixed with an ankle monitor today at the blue ash Ohio office is a grandmother: “When she walked out with the ankle monitor, some of us wept.”
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Metro tried to make bus service better. Somehow, ridership and speeds are both down" -- 51st.news/metro-tried-...
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Metro tried to make bus service better. Somehow, ridership and speeds are both down
A year after Better Bus, reviews are mixed.
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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 18/07/2026
And every U.S. president so far, with the sole exception of George Washington, was alive at the same time as either Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) or Herbert Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964). Washington died December 14, 1799, 24 days before Fillmore was born.
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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Scandal and the Scale
I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
one thing i find funny is that the founding generation would likely have been very enthusiastic about, say, muslim immigrants and intensely skeptical of all the catholics
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy “French National Guard mutiny during call to repress working class rebellion” Day, to all who celebrate!
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Tuned-Out Middle
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Great photoessay. I love New York, man...
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The City That Watches Together
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Absolute banger of an investigation by @mayakaufman.bsky.social and her co-reporters here!
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Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A giant. Gordon Wood spent decades arguing productively & provoking productive argument in response. If you haven't read him yet, "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality & Deceit in the Eighteenth Century" is a marvelous place to start: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1... RIP
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Brendan @broberts.lol · 08/06/2026
Here's a couple snippets of the fantastic @lamaterial.bsky.social story on the days leading up to the deadline (this was actually their first story, an incredible way to kick off the site) lamaterial.com/p/five-days-...
SATURDAY, FEB. 8: Hours until the filing deadline.

It was chilly out and not yet 8 a.m. when Raman and her communications
director Stella Stahl sat on a low concrete ledge in Los Angeles State Historic
Park and called reporters for embargoed interviews. Raman told the LA. Times
that she had “deep respect” for Bass, but the city couldn't function without big
changes.

Then the councilmember hopped into an SUV with her chief of staff, Andrea
Conant, and headed toward the City Clerk's office at Piper Technical Center.
She called the mayor as they drove.

Bass was shocked and baffled, in part because she felt that Raman had never
‘made the severity of her concerns known, publicly or privately, nor did the
‘mayor think that Raman had presented a clear alternative during her years on
the council, or while chairing the council's housing and homelessness
committee.

The roof of Piper Tech, the building where candidates file, has sweeping views
of the downtown skyline and distant mountains. But the journalists gathered
up there were focused on the parking lot below, waiting for any sign of Raman.
1f she showed up, it was real.

Raman strode into the building just before 9 am. with cameras clacking.
Millman — who was now acting as Raman’s campaign consultant — turned
toward nearby reporters. Now that Raman was filing her paperwork, the
embargo was lifted and they could reveal she was running,

"I'was an outsider when I first ran, and I think I'll be an outsider in this race,
and I'm OK with that,” Raman told the cameras a few minutes later, positioning
herself as a change candidate despite the fact that after five years on the
council many will consider her part of the very establishment she is railing
against.

The breathless media comparisons to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the
DSA-backed 34-year-old who breached Gracie Mansion in November, began
before Raman had even left the filing area.As news of Raman's final decision reached Brentwood that Saturday morning,
Caruso grew incensed that the city might end up with something he thought
was worse than Karen Bass: a possible socialist mayor.

He started dialing around again, getting second, third and fourth opinions
about whether he should change his mind one last time.

still in his workout clothes, Caruso — who is typically ferried around town in an
impeccably tailored suit — briefly considered getting in his car and driving
himself down to Piper Tech to plunge into the race. But he was out of time to do
anything but sit back in astonishment.

Six weeks later, the race remains wide open. According to a recent poll, more
than half of voters don't know which candidate they will back.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Oh, late-night legal folks ... you're going to want to check this one out.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 09/06/2026
Okay then give the creative who came up with it a promotion because it’s a banger line
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Principal Skinner 

GOOD MORNING, CLASS.
A CERTAIN AGITATOR -
FOR PRIVACY'S SAKE, LET'S CALL HER NITHYA R., NO THAT'S TOO OBVIOUS. N. RAMAN
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New Graham Platner story
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
An objectively funny thing to post, as if the period from 1977 to 1979 didn’t exist.
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy Pride Month from La Croix’s subliminal bisexual indoctrination
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Who is this delightful fellow?
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"That a movie born from an internet meme opened bigger than the latest Pixar movie+ sequels to “Devil Wears Prada” and “Scream” is melting [the] brains of studio executives who've long trusted that franchises were the most reliable way to get butts in seats." GIFT LINK www.wsj.com/business/med...
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‘Backrooms’ Turns an Online Obsession Into Box-Office Gold
Young filmmakers from the internet are beating big franchises at the box office.
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Covering your Nazi tattoo with your phone hand in your mirror selfie
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The @thebarbedwire.com is a phenomenal publication. Any editor or newsroom leader would be a fool not to hire or commission pieces from Olivia and her team. Can't wait to see what's next for them.
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NYC needs to do the same for OMNI cards. I do not mourn the death of the MetroCard and only use my phone/card to tap into the subway, but I would absolutely spend money on limited edition OMNI cards (and immediately never use them)
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Sitting back in bliss after sharing a fable that depicts me as a dumb frog.
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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/05/2026
don't, they know what they did
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 29/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani is going full speed ahead with plans to build the QueensWay park over abandoned train tracks in Central Queens, after his administration decisively told advocates for bringing transit to the right of way that he won’t change course.
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Mamdani Officially Buries The QueensLink - Streetsblog New York City
The Mamdani administration told QueensLink advocates they won't change course on plans to fund the QueensWay.
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just got @patrickwyman.bsky.social’s new book and now feeling depressed thinking about Doggerland
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
BREAKING NEWS: The Park Slope Food Coop has voted to boycott all Israeli products. 67 % in favor of the boycott 31 % opposed to the boycott 2% abstain The boycott includes items produced in the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as Israel's pre-1967 borders.
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🎃 Crash (2004) enjoyer 👻 @timtinkers.online · 25/05/2026
I have been thinking about this headline at least once per week for the last three years
I almost downloaded a pebble-identifying app – but some stones should be left unturned
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Andre "Chainsaw Buffet" Feast @formercymencry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Goku using the Kamehameha while training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
possibly the shortest video i've ever done?
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Metrolink In Trouble (& NIMBY Meddling in Burbank)
YouTube video by nandert
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My hot take is that we have no expectation of privacy when out in public. I don’t necessarily like the proliferation of cameras everywhere, but the public sphere is just that. Laws against harassment already exist, and banning recording devices in public is just an attempt to ban modernity.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My new book, Lost Worlds, is out today! It tells a new story about how humanity went from hunting and gathering to the cusp of "civilization" that incorporates all of the stunning new archaeological work of the past couple of decades. I'm really proud of it! www.harpercollins.com/products/los...
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Lost Worlds
"Wyman evokes the sights, sounds and smells of entire lifeways that have disappeared….Lost Worlds convinces us of the value of slowing down to recogniz...
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
in this household we support only one Odyssey adaptation
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“We’re not doing any housing…” “Is that a question?” “Yeah, are we kinda being pricks?”
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Boomer libs fantasize that this would have prevented the Vietnam War, when really it would have just prevented the Civil Rights Act from passing. Also, we’d still get involved in Vietnam.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
As some clever devil said: if Khrushchev had been shot in 1963 and not Kennedy, all we can say for certain is that Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs. Khrushchev.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...
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VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti | CNN Politics
Becky Halioua, who was investigated after attending a vigil for Pretti shortly after his death, feels the VA probe is a “scare tactic” and an attempt to silence those “with the loudest voices.”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
please, god, I’ve never wanted anything more than this
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Half the Work Is Done: The Clear-Cut Case for a Subway in the I-94 Trench
The I-94 trench is an open cut waiting to be covered. Before we fill it, build a subway that merges Minneapolis and St. Paul into one downtown.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The IBX/TriBoro circa 1978
The Wagner transit plan for KochA light rail at 42nd St, which is a thing we should still do IBX/TriBoro and North Shore deactivation both spotted on this map
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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The blue shell is a tax hike on the rich
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