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Chris Orr

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Editor, writer, film/TV critic. Atlantic, NYT, TNR, WaPo, etc. Dipping a toe in over here.

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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If you ever need to explain the meaning of the phrase "read the room" to someone, just show them this.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Someone wrap P.J. Washington in bubble wrap immediately.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I just saw the phrase “the Ian Fleming IP” and I want to kill everyone.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I would love to see the portrait in his attic.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The idea that record sports betting is a *good* thing makes me ill. Gambling is going to ruin professional sports, and likely much faster than we imagine. www.espn.com/espn/betting...
espn.com
U.S. sports betting industry shatters marks in '24
The sports betting industry in the United States posted a record $13.71 billion in 2024 revenue, with legal sportsbooks taking nearly $150 billion worth of bets.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How long before "to Rubio" becomes an accepted verb to describe the act of abandoning every moral scruple or ideological commitment out of cowardice and misguided ambition?https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/17/marco-rubio-state-department-toosi-00204407
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DHS ordered 6,000 agents to shift to deportations and away from drug and human trafficking - including investigations of fentanyl-smuggling Mexican cartels. Remember that the next time any GOPer claims this is all about stopping drugs at the border. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
azcentral.com
Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
European Parliament member 👇🏽
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Look, obviously there are federal prosecutors and judges who have been fine with Trump and others who have been appalled by him. But it's hard for me to believe this scorched-earth approach to Justice is not turning some fraction of the former into the latter. ca.news.yahoo.com/senior-u-pro...
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Senior U.S. prosecutor resigns, citing demands to open probe into Biden-era contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by of...
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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
No votes on Hegseth, Tulsi and Bobby Jr - the trifecta. The world is so crazy this week that Mitch McConnell is now the Resistance.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Remember "GOP Senators are letting Hegseth through to give themselves room to oppose Gabbard and RFK Jr"?
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The President of the United States is making official government policy that essentially boils down to an Insane Clown Posse lyric.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
In other news, at his Lakers check-in, Luka Doncic measured 6'10" with 8 percent body fat... www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
espn.com
Sources: Mavs new star Davis out multiple weeks
Mavericks star Anthony Davis was expected to sit out multiple weeks because of a left adductor strain, sources told ESPN.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I've never been big on Kyrie, but I'll have to reevaluate now that I know he's an #ArrestedDevelopment fan.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I read this piece and immediately gave Wikipedia another $20. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
theatlantic.com
Elon Musk Wants What He Can’t Have: Wikipedia
Musk and other right-wing tech figures have been on a campaign to delegitimize the digital encyclopedia. What happens if they succeed?
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If there were just a dozen GOP lawmakers in both chambers *combined* who took their oaths of office seriously, these two weeks of Trump would have gone very differently.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I think the lesson we can all take from this is that you shouldn't give complete control of your country to two "adults" who ostentatiously cheat at golf and videogames.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
If our current gangster regime were a tad more competent, they would have done this in time to nominate Eric Adams to be Trump's AG.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We are the GOP House. We are a serious governing body. Our top priority is harassing past WH whistleblowers. But first we need to hide all the emails our members sent them soliciting sex.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There are definitely no further Hegseth scandals yet to be disclosed.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Alternative headline: "Donald Trump accepts bribe from Chinese government to enable it to continue spying on American citizens"
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
THIS
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 15/01/2025
For anyone curious: Here's Justice Alito's full question from the transcript. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
Screenshot of Supreme Court transcript, which reads:

"JUSTICE ALITO: But is it -- is it
like the old Playboy magazine? You have essays
there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal
and William F. Buckley, Junior?"
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This sounds like a bad thing.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So when RFK Jr. is running HHS, will CVS have to give a $5 coupon to anyone who comes into the store and *doesn't* get a vaccination?
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Tiago Dias @tiagodf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This sentence on repeat should be the whole *12 minute* read: "There are numerous reasons to be skeptical about these claims and the fervor behind them, not least of which is that unpasteurized dairy products are 840 times as likely as their pasteurized counterparts to lead to infection and illness"
nytimes.com
Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk
Despite the serious risks of drinking it, a growing movement — including the potential health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — claims it has benefits. Should we take them more seriously?
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
THIS. Posts that indignantly ask, "where is the deep reporting on this??" grate on me a lot. It was prob done months ago but legal vetting TAKES A LONG TIME. (Also treating sources well & factchecking & being thorough TAKE TIME). we don't "sit on stories" we "try not to be destroyed by lawsuits" ty
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Imagine the Biden administration saying they would withhold disaster relief aid from hurricane-ravaged Florida unless DeSantis agreed to do something about climate change?
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So when RFK Jr. is running HHS, will CVS have to give a $5 coupon to anyone who comes into the store and *doesn't* get a vaccination?
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
*Finally*, the Buffy reboot I've been waiting for.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New: After an eighteen-month investigation, @theins.press has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Russia’s GRU paid tens of millions of dollars to the Taliban to target American, coalition, and Afghan military forces. Unit 29155 was behind this operation. theins.press/en/politics/...
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Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war
The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, spent years financing terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and coalition forces. An investigation by The Insider has not only confirmed the ex...
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Is Ocean's Fourteen out already?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This would make such a great Washpost editorial cartoon oh wait
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Maybe we need a 21st century Martial Plan to provide aid to South Korea?
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A perfect sentence to encapsulate this political moment, I'm afraid.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Whether eagerly or under duress, you've now had your holiday viewing of Love Actually. So allow me to remind you, in about 6,000 words, why it is in fact the Least Romantic Film of All Time. @bendreyfuss www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen... www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
theatlantic.com
'Love Actually' Is the Least Romantic Film of All Time
The movie knows little—and cares less—about how people fall in love.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Whether eagerly or under duress, you've now had your holiday viewing of Love Actually. So allow me to remind you, in about 6,000 words, why it is in fact the Least Romantic Film of All Time. @bendreyfuss www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen... www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...
theatlantic.com
'Love Actually' Is the Least Romantic Film of All Time
The movie knows little—and cares less—about how people fall in love.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Dear Corporate America: What I'd like for Christmas is for you to continue to replace all your old manual or keyboard interfaces (which are generally fast, easy, and reliable) with brilliant new apps and subscriptions and lengthy online forms (which are slow, obnoxious, and highly unreliable)
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David Meyer @dmey.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This is fucking bonkers: A Long Island Star Trek fan got rid of her "NCC 1701" vanity plate 4 years ago but is still getting bills for speed camera violations and tolls because Amazon and other sellers literally sell fakes with that number. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/u...
nytimes.com
She Turned in Her ‘Star Trek’ License Plates, but the Tickets Kept Coming
Beda Koorey, 75, returned personalized plates inspired by the identifying tag on the U.S.S. Enterprise to New York State in 2020. She has since been inundated with tickets for others who used the same...
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
*And yes, it's worth noting that Trump can't run for president again either -- although something tells me he considers two terms a much less important constitutional limit than the necessity of being born in the USA. 3/3
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
But "wasn't born in this country" is the real tell. Trump is thinking seriously enough about Musk running against him that he explains why he can't.* And there, too, a tell: "I'm safe b/c he's not allowed to compete" is *very* different from "I'm safe b/c I'd crush him." 2/3
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
What's interesting is not the hilariously thin skin. (Trump already sent out a spokesperson to declare him GOP leader "full stop.") No, it's the "I'm safe" and born elsewhere elements. The first explicitly (though probably accidentally) defines Musk as a threat. 1/3
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
TIRED: Release damning information and then skip town WIRED: Skip town and then release damning information
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Congratulations to ABC News
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I will make a large donation to any member of Congress who proposes a bill that requires retailers to stop emailing "offers" after the recipient has declined to respond five times. The CEO of any retailer who ignores the injunction will be sent to prison until The End of All Time.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/12/2024
I'm a freak for battery swap and baby blue, so this 1920 Milburn is really speaking to me (thanks to @swingledave.bsky.social for the tip) bringatrailer.com/listing/1920...
bringatrailer.com
1920 Milburn Electric Model 27L Brougham
Bid for the chance to own a 1920 Milburn Electric Model 27L Brougham at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #173,052.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Absolutely essential reporting on Pete Hegseth from @janemayer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
A previously undisclosed whistle-blower report on Hegseth’s tenure as the president of Concerned Veterans for America, from 2013 until 2016, describes him as being repeatedly intoxicated while acting in his official capacity—to the point of needing to be carried out of the organization’s events. The detailed seven-page report—which was compiled by multiple former C.V.A. employees and sent to the organization’s senior management in February, 2015—states that, at one point, Hegseth had to be restrained while drunk from joining the dancers on the stage of a Louisiana strip club, where he had brought his team. The report also says that Hegseth, who was married at the time, and other members of his management team sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers, whom they divided into two groups—the “party girls” and the “not party girls.” In addition, the report asserts that, under Hegseth’s leadership, the organization became a hostile workplace that ignored serious accusations of impropriety, including an allegation made by a female employee that another employee on Hegseth’s staff had attempted to sexually assault her at the Louisiana strip club. In a separate letter of complaint, which was sent to the organization in late 2015, a different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours of May 29, 2015, while on an official tour through Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, drunkenly chanting “Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!”
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Tonight is a good night for anyone who has doubts about the #Celtics' ability to close out a tight game or doubts about Jayson Tatum in general.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
As someone who is new to Bluesky, I think I'm going to find folks' responses to the Hunter pardon to be a useful sorting device.
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Chris Orr @orrchris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Infuriating. Because obviously Joe Biden knows that Hunter is innocent even of any crimes he doesn't know about.
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