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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reminds me of the time that he told Charlie Kirk cancel culture wasn’t a big deal. Trump has pushed the GOP to the far right, true, but on cultural issues, he’s the one thats been influenced and following the base.

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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This was Trump when he ran for president 10 years ago

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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Britain really flopped when they decided to call their days off “Bank Holidays”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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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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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You’re an inspiration to the rest of us who have decided the rai is divine intervention against going to the gym!

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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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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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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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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

Right? Revenue wise, it’d just be pennies towards the MTA, but the good PR would be a knockout

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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I was thinking if this exact scenario

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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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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

As we were slowly engulfed by the rising seas 🤗

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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

Ida Blankenship. She’d get me endless liquor and unintentionally share the best gossip. Plus, she was an astronaut, you know

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Nathan McDermott @nathanmcdermott.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The 2% who sat through a 3-hour meeting just to abstain:

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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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