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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hadn't seen this term @daveweigel used: "Democrats aren’t crafting the kind of bold-faced messaging that excites take-writers this year." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0... "Take-writers" nails my main problem with social media: sorting engagement-bait "takes" from useful observations, like Weigel's.

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🟡 Semafor Americana: Dems plan, GOP laughs | Semafor

In this edition: A bad night for generational change, Ken Paxton waits for the cavalry, and Trump’s poor Canada polling.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m never whelmed, but sometimes I’m gruntled.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hambone am sweet, chicken am good Possum eating very very fine But give me oh give me oh how I wish you would That watermelon hanging on the vine (Remembered from childhood, from the minstrel era, I’m guessing)

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And, really, by their logic, the people who died at Pearl Harbor weren't WWII casualties? Sheesh.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s Not Just AI. Firing Human Copy Editors Is Affecting Newspapers Too

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Pronounce Aaron like a pirate’s “ahrr,” and Erin like “errand.”

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just barely—more like pronouncing the “M” farther back in the mouth. One can hear a slight distinction between “palm tree” and “pom-pom.” Virginia and North Carolina, but via a Yankee mother.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Oh, dem Dodgers! Dey can’t take deir medicine! Dey shoulda stayed in Brooklyn.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Do they serve “Beam Me Up Biscotti” with coffee orders?

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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

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The Companies Behind ICE

Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

And it would be a nice precedent for him, one that meant he could pardon himself for the NY felony!

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

That stinks. I’m personally not fond of the “blame and guilt the patient” routine one gets from PAs/nurses at a orthopedist’s office when the doc’s fix is ineffective. Hit ‘em when they’re down.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Enter a “section break” after the table, or whatever, then set the numbering options for the new section at 1, or whatever number you want to start with.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Or, even better, play “I Wanna Be Your Underwear” (worst love song ever)

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Let's just make the theme for the next year "Recall"! (I know, I know, but still . . . )

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yes, sort of the approach of Alden Capital Management to America’s legacy newspapers.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Bye, Walt. Keep speaking truth, Jimmy.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

@joshtpm.bsky.social Maybe it’s time for a “Wag the Dog” discussion to begin. I’d been wondering how long it would take for growing domestic pushback against the administration to be “solved” by an Iraq-style foreign misadventure. Seems like we’re there now.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Anyone see this? Well played, NYT Cooking. Well played.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Well played, NYT cooking. Well played.

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke. The last man on earth playing the piano as the world ends . . .

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Annex the Green(Sudeten)Land! 🤬

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#nytspellingbee Geez. What’s the matter with “pinnace” on the 2/23 bee? Don’t boats count?

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Seems like Biden could just release it on his own, as an “official act.” The Court has made it clear that he’s immune from any prosecution for doing so!

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Robert Alden Rubin @rarinfv.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I was delighted to learn from Google’s A.I. today that the ducks called “buffleheads” get their name because their heads look kinda like those of buffalos, and because they are also the size of buffalo heads. 🤓 Quite a feat for a little duck!

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