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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
People need to go to jail &/or be shunned from polite society for committing unprecedented crimes & constitutional violations. They can't become Harvard & Stanford fellows. They can't be on CNN. They can't get unfettered NYT op-ed access. They can't get 7-figure Wall St parachute jobs. Etc. Etc.
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Charles Grodin
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The music that plays only when Goodman is onscreen—his personal jaunty theme song—fills me with tremendous delight.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Wow—what a shitty circus.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Partisans and conspiracists” could be shortened to “Republicans” to save space and promote truth.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me listening go @tafootballshow.bsky.social and feeling homesick
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Does that paper on the right say “DRAMATIC MIRROR”? I’ve GOTTA know the story behind that.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This hed and post would’ve earned me an immediate failure in journalism school. You, the reporter, cannot write that ICE “mistakenly” did something; you can write that an ICE spokesperson *says* the action was a mistake, but you cannot assert this as truth.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“It’s not right that I’ve been negatively affected by policies I supported” is a good distillation of their ideology
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MAGA candidate fumes after his relative deported: 'That's not right'
A Republican running for the Maine's open 2nd Congressional District seat expressed outrage that a member of his family is facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Paul LePage, t...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
romanticize your life! be whimsical! sleep in silk pajamas, string fairy lights through your plants, tear down flock cameras, scatter nails in ICE hotel parking lots, drink your morning coffee out of teacup rose china with a splash of good vanilla, LIVE 💕
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The one trait consistent to EVERYONE on the right is an inability to understand anything until they experience it personally
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Brian Johnson” is also the name of Anthony Michael Hall’s character in “Sixteen Candles” and I waited as long as I could for one of you to say it; I can no longer stay silent on this issue! @ugarles.bsky.social @veryimportant.lawyer @lronmexico.bsky.social
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Heh—yeah, sounds about right. About 200 pages in, it finally clicked for me: “Oh, shit: This is a weird futuristic comedy!” Was treating it as some sort of sacred tome because of its reputation, so it went right over my head.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A question that some people in media asked me as a thought experiment was: would u have traded Obama losing to Romney in 2012 in exchange for trump never being president and part of my answer is: it’s the same political party
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
These are the kinds of “Yeah, of course” statements that bear repeating—often and as-is. During an argument w/ a MAGA former friend about voter ID, I just kept repeating “Voting should be free.” Any sputtering, contrarian caterwauling or what-abouting was easily defanged by this plain statement.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
No Country for Old Men is in the same vein as The Fugitive, I suppose.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I appreciate this not only for its accuracy but also for its choice to incorrectly use “who” instead of “whom” because using the latter would only open up NYT to the dreaded “elitist” accusations. (An accusation they get regardless, so why not just use the correct word and at least be right?)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is an undeniably true and provable statement and because of that, it can be reasonably inferred, SAT-question-style, that anyone who votes GOP is either racist or is OK with racist policies and leaders. (Does that make the latter group racists? I say yes; not sure of the SAT logic, though.)
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“They’re a bit melty but DAMN are they exquisite!”
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The Faculty”!
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Honestly not trying to “Well, actually” this; just pointing out and giving credit to @theferocity.bsky.social for talking about this on Vibe Check. He’s the only one besides you I’ve seen/heard make this (excellent) point.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A question I like to pose to movie nerds: If you could only watch three movies for the rest of your life, but all three have to be by the same director, who is the director and what are the movies?
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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the (excellent) podcast Criminal did an episode earlier this year in part about what was in American’s food before government regulation and I can’t stress to you enough that regulation is the only reason we’re all alive to joke on here about diarrhea lettuce
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The Poison Squad
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Do you think the teens in this photo were/are aware of how it’s being used?
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Always loved her and am delighted that’s she’s delightful offscreen.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
No one warned us about the stresses and disappointments of raising kids in “unhealthy air quality” smoke days, because our parents never had to navigate such challenges while their generation spent decades voting them into existence.
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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 16/07/2026
This is why I keep saying we need to stop granting their premises. "We have to do something about how immigrants These Days don't assimilate." And we get all our charts ready and show them the numbers and they go on to the cat-eating accusations. We need to say "shut the fuck up, bigot."
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Balls!”
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Imagine being the most cowardly and shitty person in a triumvirate that included Joe Fucking Lieberman.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Anyway, he’s dead now. If anyone is interested in paying me to write it up as some sort of roundabout obituary, lemme know.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’ve long wanted to write (and once unsuccessfully pitched) an article about how Lindsey Graham sleeps at night, not in the flippant idiomatic way, but literally. How does a person so slimily pull a public 180 like he did and actually live with himself? Is it a lack of shame or guilt? How? Why?
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 03/07/2026
Like every patriotic American, I am celebrating the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg and the Union victory at Vicksburg this weekend, which just happen to line up with the days (July 3 & 4) that the Declaration of Independence was published and widely distributed. That’s why we celebrate, right?
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So I said “Bobby Lee, it sounds like you’re just feeding brigades to emplaced artillery” and then Longstreet started crying.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The very idea that anyone has an actual right to control whether the people around them speak their language or share cultural touchstones is flatly ridiculous. Sometimes the world you grew up in disappears! It may make you feel isolated and lonely, but you are not entitled to that world.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game
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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
immaculate grid
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Don’t judge me too harshly: The Aldi giardiniera is pretty legit.
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“The Pro-Life Party!”
Gilbert Gottfried, arms raised, delivering the punchline to “The Aristocrats.”
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Enough is enough. It’s time to Make Mustaches Embarrassing Again. #MakeMustachesEmbarrassingAgain #MMEA
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“The Conservatives!”
Gilbert Gottfried, arms raised, delivering the punchline to “The Aristocrats”
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Yes! It takes ONE newspaper editor to fixate on this, “Her Emails”-style, to turn it into A Thing. Or ONE elected Dem deciding to make some noise. Ferfuckssake. bsky.app/profile/npad...
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Nick @npadiak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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