Reposted by Clay RisenTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 21hMiller Lite stats o' the day 463,561 461,974 -BYD sales in China <in September only> -TSLA global sales estimate <for the entire third quarter> 817831
Reposted by Clay RisenAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/10/20261 October 1936 | Dutch Jew, Andries Jacob Stad, was born in Enschede. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- A video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck 18398119
Reposted by Clay RisenKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Robert Gould Shaw on the Road and In a Bookstore Near You #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/robert-gou...kevinmlevin.substack.comRobert Gould Shaw on the Road and In a Bookstore Near YouThis has been an exciting week. 2288
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 23hFlying through Washington National is wild. Half the ads are for either advanced weapons systems or lobbying groups you can’t believe exist. The American Bakers Association? 230
Reposted by Clay RisenSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 62430911095
Reposted by Clay RisenWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the world you grew up in no longer exists 316012
Reposted by Clay RisenMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23hThis is incredibly hard to hear—grateful for those who bear witness. 05316
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Having grown up in Brentwood this surprises the heck out of me. 100
Reposted by Clay RisenFinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026CBS NEWS PARTNERS WITH KALSHI CBS News is partnering with Kalshi to integrate prediction-market data into its 2026 midterm coverage. CBS joins CNN, Fox News and NBC News in highlighting prediction markets as part of their coverage 569129
Reposted by Clay RisenMegan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happiest of Happy Book Days to @civilwarmemory.bsky.social! I read this book and blurbed it, and HIGHLY recommend it. 2145
Reposted by Clay RisenRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But also this heroine: "Cereese Qusba, 22, a senior and reporter for The Sun, couldn’t shake her concerned curiosity about the case. This month...Ms. Qusba was ready to hit publish on her investigation, which was 23 months in the making."nytimes.comStudents at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two YearsThe student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case. 534054
Reposted by Clay RisenCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The saving rate falls to 4.1%. “.. the biggest driver of strong US growth over the last 2.5yrs has come from household's spending growing much faster than their incomes.” @bobeunlimited.bsky.social 1829495
Reposted by Clay RisenMax Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A good summary of how @washingtonpost continues to do kick-ass journalism. Rumors of its demise were greatly exaggerated. It is recovering from the cutbacks and continuing to produce important stories. www.washingtonpost.com/impact?itid=...washingtonpost.com 4111
Reposted by Clay RisenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 117111872765
Reposted by Clay Risendisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Okay I looked it up. “hawk tuah” is a bigoted slur against Scientologist folks. 28323
Reposted by Clay RisenMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Help, I think I assembled my Ikea cat wrong 1929126
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I forgot my Facebook password. To “protect my privacy,” they want a photo of my driver’s license. Interesting… 120
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That’s super cool. I lived in Wicker Park when they were shooting that movie. And later when The Real World was filming.Those were the days … Which store was yours? 111
Reposted by Clay RisenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026unfucking believable 930814
Reposted by Clay RisenProf Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026elifesciences.org/articles/08347 815676
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m sure they would have all been great but this is a movie where the cast is the key. I can’t imagine it without MTM. She was perfect. 010
Reposted by Clay RisenJosh Wright🌹🌹🌹🌹 @joshwri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not surprising given all the monkey business that's been going on there recently. 011
Reposted by Clay RisenJay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Matt Labash is funny. But even better than that, he is great. mattlabash.substack.com/p/you-can-ge...mattlabash.substack.comYou Can Get Away, But You Can’t Truly EscapeOn Cape May, storm winds, bad news, and the things that follow us wherever we go 283
Reposted by Clay RisenDavid Wondrich @davidwondrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026State of the Martini, 1952 (according to the Los Angeles Times): 1311016
Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have a lot of friends here in the Northeast sending their kids to southern colleges, and they are SHOCKED at how much Greek life dominates, even at Vandy. My dude it’s the South. 2101
Reposted by Clay RisenSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas 311071216
Reposted by Clay RisenKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People are not ready for Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). 4432614
Reposted by Clay RisenDave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/09/2026when somebody orders a shot of malört 111321
Reposted by Clay RisenMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars. 19854261
Reposted by Clay RisenThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026The owner of a top BBQ joint in Texas decided to cut brisket, the top-selling item, from the menu rather than institute a $10 markup for customers. The decision was fueled not just by the skyrocketing price of brisket but by inflation. washingtonpost.comA top Texas smokehouse is cutting brisket from its menu amid soaring beef pricesButter’s BBQ in Sinton, Texas, says brisket is eating up 70 percent of its total grocery costs. 101481204
Reposted by Clay RisenJohn Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Seems to me that this public relations disaster could have been deflected with a little self-defecating humor. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/s...nytimes.comHyrox Athlete Apologizes and Forfeits Win After Soiling Herself in Race (Gift Article)The athlete kept going after the incident at a global fitness event in Beijing, leading to an uproar. 331
Reposted by Clay RisenEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dan Dennett tells a story of how he was at a seminar and the guy speaking was just ragging on another paper and how terrible it was. And so he very reasonably asked “if it’s so bad, why are you wasting our time on it.” And that’s how I feel about dunking on people 41097
Reposted by Clay Risenthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/09/2026on the other hand, the Mountain Goats, at it since 1991, still dropping bangers once a year on average and torching stages around the globe with ever-increasing intensity 2593567
Reposted by Clay RisenTerry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The article is brutal. Great student reporting. The chef's kiss is that the reporters found that the provost's letter defending his use of AI for witting op-eds and academic papers was 100% written by AI. 6494149
Reposted by Clay RisenAlex Acquisto @aacquisto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's been a little over a week since McClatchy's mass layoffs. I wrote about what's at stake when communities lose local journalists. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...poynter.orgMcClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. - PoynterI was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again. 11515
Reposted by Clay RisenOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026All US embassies in the Middle East have issued security alerts for their citizens, including Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman (Sep 19) 32850413
Reposted by Clay RisenDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 19/09/2026I did not have “psychosexual obsessions of a mediocre news personality destroy the U.S. military” on my “Exit from Hegemony” bingo card. 2032180
Reposted by Clay RisenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Thrilled to announce this ground-breaking new book, Area X: The Southern Reach Files! The Central agent in question is, of course, Hargraves from Absolution. The book includes some new ways of approaching storytelling, and also I hope will be satisfying in lots of other ways. More in a thread. 1/? 561393215
Reposted by Clay RisenJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"A small price to pay for freedom, Mandrake. A necessary sacrifice to preserve our precious bodily fluids from communist infiltration." 1834452