Reposted by NickUrfeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8hTrump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass" 10372612633
Reposted by NickUrfejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis? 303102851356
Reposted by NickUrfeJJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀 32723881470
Reposted by NickUrfelastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes. 751473
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Think about Andy Beshear, out there holding back the tide in Kentucky. He represents a strain of the Democratic Party that you see in places like Kansas, etc. There is simply not a comparable UK politician. 190
Reposted by NickUrfeIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/ 14849295
Reposted by NickUrfebfd1212.bsky.social @bfd1212.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Theres a plaque on the gas station near my house in Indio, CA commemorating when Swaggert met the woman he was busted with. 0393
Reposted by NickUrfeGore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Joe Don Baker was the Jason Statham of his day 9726
Reposted by NickUrfeCarrington Ward @carringtonward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026GW Bush & !Jeb! Ostentatiously learned a lesson from from Pete Wilson immolating himself and the CA GOP. Of course poor George and Jeb never actually had the courage of their conviction… slunk off from Trump’s shellacking like pathetic inbred dogs. 1122
Reposted by NickUrfeDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“One paradox of our time is that whilst the educational attainment of the population has increased, there has been a decline in public intellectual standards” 616335
Reposted by NickUrferax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256211950
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tillis is obviously a fucking idiot, but fighting Ruhle to a draw on these questions is just black belt level rhetorical judo. If her body language is any indication, she knows what's happening and is not a good enough interviewer to stop it. 000
Reposted by NickUrfeBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing. 263105952
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"That why they're going to hell" -- the old man's still an artist with a Thompson 000
Reposted by NickUrfeTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see* 1403390600
Reposted by NickUrfeMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026so incredibly massively fucking tired of this 31935216
Reposted by NickUrfeRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797773047
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To wit: it’s not a “fever” if it never breaks! That is, the ‘fever’ metaphor was only ever attractive because it entailed a radicalized GOP reverting/changing through almost no political effort by Democrats. This is a legitimate political movement, and to that exact extent, it has to be defeated. 000
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026JD Vance, mercifully, seems like the very last man on earth who could accomplish it. 000
Reposted by NickUrfethe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026people were so fixated on the Duke stuff in White Lotus S3 that we forgot this choice in S1 926421
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 05/10/202624 comments is something else. You guys fucking suck, and no one tell the difference (nor miss you) when the Murdochs replace you with AI. 000
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Not trying to suggest ignorance on your part, but I suppose I inferred it from most of the companies you mention being ready to wear (Spier & Mackay) or adjacent (Proper Cloth). If you've mentioned a tailor or notable M2M group you like, I apologize for missing it. 000
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One day, you should treat yourself to something bespoke (or at least made to measure!). I think you'd love the truly limitless selection of fabrics. E.g., www.instagram.com/p/DcRC0jQDHe... 101
Reposted by NickUrfeJerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chicago’s an immigrant town. Midway Blitz stole a lot of our neighbors, but we fought them tooth and nail,* protected far more than we lost. 1175
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026AI as a search tool seems to be running the entire "Google search is a gift from the gods" to "Google search is unlimited slop and/or undisclosed sponsored results" playbook in two years instead of 20. 040
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What's funny about this is that @whstancil.bsky.social thinks it shows that people have been brain poisoned by social media in their antipathy towards the economy and anxiety about the future. Don't these people know that cable was way worse than streaming and median wages actually rose in 2021? 000
Reposted by NickUrfePaste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediatelypastemagazine.comMacklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediatelyThe rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October. 6860201263
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How is she not in Congress, folks? One of the funniest skeets of the day. 000
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sorry, but the level of angst people had about the Great Recession was too low. Had it been higher, Obama, et al, would’ve pushed for an appropriate stimulus. Would never happen today, cf. the Covid stimulus payments. Turns out we’re doing objectively better, notwithstanding social media. 000
Reposted by NickUrfeLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p... 801575285
Reposted by NickUrfeFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 302016167
Reposted by NickUrfeTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026JCO for the win. 231452222
Reposted by NickUrfeEugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why colleges are fighting so vociferously to restrict players’ ability to form unions. 13112
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As this interest has developed for you, I've been surprised you haven't considered a M2M or bespoke tailor for one of these pieces. Korea and Japan are where the energy in those spaces are, too. A tweedy green herringbone blazer would be a great first commission. Not that you asked, of course. 000
Reposted by NickUrfeNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This (superb) reporting reveals ASU has basically attempted a full cover-up and the only reason they aren’t going to get away with it is the genuine courage and solidarity of his teammates. Very rare in college sport. 08820
Reposted by NickUrfenick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays. 6453642147
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You do have to wonder whether we're about to find out that there is some astroturfed quality to this thing, like donors buying books to push GOP politicians up the NYT bestseller list. 010
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My almost unfalsifiable view is that, if you got to question either of them with any degree of rigor, you'll find out they would've voted for Socrates's death sentence. The Middlemarch version of this is that I'm convinced David Frum thinks Bulstrode is the novel's ill-used hero. 000
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This brought to you via half-remembered summaries--aremembered with conviction--of The Sovereignty of Good and The Idea of Perfection. 010
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I simply do not believe you can take Middlemarch into your heart and launch the Iraq War. Accordingly, my most lowercase-c conservative view is that 1) below is false. Whatever else you can say about Rumsfeld, Frum, et al, you can't say they were 'liberally educated'. 210
Reposted by NickUrfeChrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Somehow this post became current events analysis. 928174
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026...about Watchmen or The Leftovers, they have a singular point of view that their entire being is bent on expressing. It's a joy to puzzle through them, to feel mystified and experience the uncanny. The basic assumption that the audience *wants* that (set aside deserves it) is nowhere in Lanterns. 010
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And infuriating as that is, the worst part is that that dynamic is literally the opposite of what made me such a Lindelof diehard. His shows are so strange and obscure and actively spurn any form of fan service, towards the end of telling the story *he* wants to tell. Whatever else you can say... 110
NickUrfe @nickurfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026...writers made this choice because they don't trust the audience to know that the Sheriff's name is actually Kerry. There are many more. And to this point, that's my real objection: my overwhelming impression throughout is of being disrespected, like they're writing for people who won't notice. 110
