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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom?
'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Definitely be careful to not misspell "assign."

Picture of a Teams message describing someone who needed "to manually assing."

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Happy first day of classes to all UNC students! It's heartwarming to think that Bill Belichick's next girlfriend is somewhere among them 🥹

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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Acclaimed Experimental theatre director and playwright Robert Wilson has died at 83. Two of his most known works were collaborations with Philip Glass (Einstein on the Beach) and William S. Burroughs and Tom Waits (The Black Rider). #RIPRobertWilson m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kg...

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Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach: Knee play 1, Train

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Late to this post, but is Fetterman too proud to resign and thinks he can just be so unbelievably incompetent and terrible that he'll be recalled? (And doesn't know that Senators can't be recalled.)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

It really is incredible how despite a half-century of expanding executive power, ballooning the debt, bloating the government, and policing private behavior, the GOP is still discussed as the party of small government libertarianism and fiscal responsibility. Just no relation to reality at all.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Imagine watching Blue Velvet on Tubi and it cuts from Frank Booth doing some of the most depraved things you've ever seen to a fucking Charmin Bears ad.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/06/2025

Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 25/06/2025

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

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Andrew Grevas @andrewgrevas.com · 24/06/2025

I’m in the process of moving all of my work - from every outlet I’ve ever worked for - to Substack. 95% of it will be free. Do me a solid & sign up to be a free subscriber! open.substack.com/pub/andrewgr...

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The Grevas Projects | Andrew Grevas | Substack

Andrew Grevas' essays, interviews, columns, reviews & more - all in one place. Click to read The Grevas Projects, by Andrew Grevas, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Tried my hand at the Best Films since 2000 ballot. I'm decently happy with it, although my shortlist was 3x the size.

Text: "The 100 best movies of the 21st century reader's choice, my ballot: Lord of the Rings the two towers, Godzilla Minus One, Kill Bill Vol 1, Werckmeister Harmonies, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, First Reformed, The Substance, Decision to Leave, Phantom Thread, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I guess that the lesson that we learned from Iraq was "make sure that everyone knows that it's based on a lie from day 1."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2025

seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?" AOC/Bernie: 70% Moderate Dems: 30% Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025

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Kelvira 🎃 @ohhellkell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The only king I'll acknowledge

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

There’s no better moment to stop drawing the contrast, good versus bad immigrants, families v felons, and instead to full-throatedly insist on rights and dignity for all

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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“We can’t tax rich people because they might move” So move. Bye. Peace out. See you later.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I made a fascinating discovery while perusing David Lynch's effects that are being auctioned off by the estate: a book from his personal library about Maya Deren. Lynch had previously claimed that he wasn't familiar with Deren's work.

A stack of books from David Lynch's collection, including ones about Maya Deren, Luis Buñuel, Marlon Brando, and more.

Passage from Greg Olson's book "David Lynch: Beautiful Dark" where Lynch apparently claims to not know Deren.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Criterion Wes Anderson is way too expensive. Yes, it's 4k instead of Bluray, but the Ingmar Bergman box (which is also very pricey) is still almost half the cost for 10 more discs and TWENTY-NINE more films.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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Rodeo Punk Parade @rodeopunkparade.com · 09/05/2025

Make the people happy

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Had to update a classic in light of the Steelers moving Pickens today.

Meme showing two QB options for the Steelers: one shows a stick figure Mason Rudolph drastically underthrowing stick figure DK Metcalf, the other showing stick figure Aaron Rodgers doing the same.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/05/2025

Most NEA translation grants for single books are around $12,500. An F/A–18 Super Hornet costs about $65M. These two jets dumped in the ocean would’ve financed 10,400 book translations.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Who showed him Mark Ruffalo in Mickey 17?

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 30/04/2025

Chess Position xkcd.com/3082

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tyler Shough is a full year older than Sam Howell.

Google page for Tyler Shough, birth date 9/28/1999

Google page for Sam Howell, birthday 9/16/2000

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is your periodic reminder that if you don't like what President Donald Trump is doing to our country then turn off your TV and get up off your ass because democracy is not a spectator sport. Here is my guide to resisting Trump. newrepublic.com/article/1931...

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Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance

Ordinary people have more power than they know.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Big week for popes: happy birthday to the Pope of Trash, the great John Waters!

John Waters posing with his hands together in front of an icon painting of himself and a stained glass window of Divine.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

At least we won't have to wonder if the Pope fired a cardinal or made any other big news in his last meetings because it will just come out in the next Signal chat leak.

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Unklerupert @unklerupert.uk · 06/04/2025

No, I’m not religious, but I believe in the holy trinity

Black and white photo off three family men with their arms around each other. David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed

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Nick Luciano @nick-luciano.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy birthday to the late, great Roger Corman!

Audrey II from the Little Shop of Horrors musical wish the caption "Feed me, Seymour...birthday cake!"

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sen. Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s inclined to support the Grassley-Cantwell bill. Says he’s heard from constituents worried about the tariffs, esp farmers & restaurant/lodging sectors. Everyone in red states :: call your reps!!

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