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Some day Ezra Klein will explain that “Knowles was practicing capital punishment reform in exactly the right way.”

Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with the stepson of the author of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* explain this picture of you with Dylan McDermott! [SMITH]: That is Dermot Mulroney sir

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Soccertown Media @soccertownmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 WE’RE #2 📣 podcast.feedspot.com/soccer_histo...

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I watched DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD on a flight today. Absolutely incredible pitch: “What if we take Robin Hood and make him dull and sad and have no action for the last hour?”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“At the direction of our brilliant President, we are no longer calling it artificial sweetener. It’s now ‘superior sweetener.’ We feel this will really rev up the economy after the midterms.”

Howard Lutnick speaking behind a sleeping Trump in the oval office today

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Almost exactly two years after vowing to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars, SpaceX has multiple engine failures and barely sends a Starship 100km from Earth. Musk is like Da Vinci in that he doesn’t know how to build a rocket.

: Reuters

Space
SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years, Musk says
By Reuters
September 22, 2024 1:47 PM PDT • Updated a month ago

From David Burbach:

And SpaceX will NOT attempt orbit as one of the 2nd stage engines shutdown halfway through first burn, will do suborbital to Indian Ocean again.
2 of the 33 first stage engines also shutdown mid-flight

SpaceX changed their minds and went for it, orbital burn successful. Very curious about their flight rules and how the call was reversed

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I, Tim Tebow, am shocked—SHOCKED—that the Christian financial literacy classes I’ve been promoting aren’t on the up-and-up. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to get back to this Christian anti-human trafficking conference.”

Tim Tebow said he has paused his relationship with Life Surge one day after an investigation by "Pablo Torre Finds Out" and Mother Jones laid out allegations that the Christian group has pressured people to hand over thousands of dollars for financial advice that didn't pay off.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7631567/2026/09/26/tim-tebow-life-surge-christian-group-pablo-torre/?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.c1LG.u5qcZN2u684M&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share

Multiple people who spoke about their experiences also said they were put under intense time pressure to make life-altering financial decisions, with one alleging that Life Surge staff said the devil was behind their doubts. Life Surge has denied the accusations.
Mother Jones reported that Tebow spoke at 20 Life Surge events between 2024 and 2025, and was on pace to speak at 20 this year.

The former Florida Gators and Denver Broncos quarterback said Friday that he was at an anti-human trafficking conference on Thursday when the story came out, and he was
"caught off guard" by the allegations.
"I think that's why we're really trying to understand more of the facts to really learn it," Tebow said.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you confront the Cornell University President over his support for Israel, he can hit you with his car, lie about you threatening him, then ban you from campus. If you and your frat bros brutalize a fellow student, you will be temporarily suspended and can write an essay to get off easier.

Kotlikoff Drives Into
Student and Recent Grad Following Harassment'

Videos showed Cornell's president backing his car into a student. The university committee reviewing the incident says no one will be chargers

Cornell President
Backed His Car Into a Student. The School
Just Banned That
Student From Campus

The plaintiff reported the incident to the Cornell University Police Department on Nov. 8, 2024, and that same day, the Xi chapter was placed on temporary suspension for alleged violations of the Student Code of Conduct. Temporary
suspensions were also issued for defendants Ingalls, Newell, Lee, Lopes, Sarabia, Norris and Kretzschmar, according to the lawsuit.
The defendants were offered the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to the University, according to the lawsuit.
On Nov. 26, 2024, the University released a statement, titled
"Update on disturbing allegations of sexual violence," explaining that the University was continuing to investigate the incident.
In January 2025, the University began a Title IX investigation in response to the plaintiff's Formal Complaint, according to the lawsuit.
According to the complaint, Cornell's Title IX investigation is believed to have concluded, while the Ithaca Police Department is still investigating the incident.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Paramount+ presents Brett Ratner’s re-imaging of the classic, JULES AND JIM

Two men and a woman run joyously across the bridge in the French new wave film

Melania, Trump, and Xi staring weirdly in different directions at the White House

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone will do pretty well in the “small round pieces of tape for perverts” business.

Ad for Meta glasses: The first thing we designed was the light.
Before the styles and colors, we created a light that lets everyone know when you're capturing the moment.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“I don’t know my address” is a cute affectation when you’re a billionaire with a staff of assistants and drivers. It doesn’t, as Jensen would say, scale.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Given his track record and craven ambition it seems certain that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social applied that pressure on behalf of the Ellisons, knowing that MBS and Elon Musk would be partners as well. He’d bet that $200 million from Musk will help his campaign more than “left wing critics” hurt it.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Saw Alexis Ohanian saying that in 2019 the average American couldn't think of a male soccer player comp for Alex Morgan because "you didn't even have a concept of a man playing soccer in America" and I'm tired of absurd wealth making dull white dudes so confident in their ignorance.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NPR has decided that “White House officials” are still credible sources. And economists have shown, repeatedly, that the societal savings of keeping people insured vastly outweighs the cost, yet Vance’s claim of $2.2 billion saved (less than a week of the Iran war) is credulously accepted.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AMERICAN GOLDEN AGE - “travel less” - “meat is overrated there are many alternative proteins” - government-approved news and entertainment - measles and polio are back - you pay more for everything - your retirement savings is propping up Elon Musk and crypto - air and water are toxic

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“A second brain has hit.”

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford
Medicine-led research finds
By Krista Conger
A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is
two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“We DEMAND a return to what is was last week, where we are granted a daily audience with the king, who will scream at us if we ask questions that displease him; call us pigs, liars, and enemies of the American people; and we’ll get something fun for the book in 2028.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No deal with Paramount-WBD can legislate where “30 films/year” are made; the Saudis are also building studio facilities in LA. It also can’t dictate who writes/directs/acts for the Ellisons and MBS. So “Hollywood is saved” for an authoritarian cabal. www.screenglobalproduction.com/news/2025/12...

screenglobalproduction.com

How Saudi Arabia is building demand for its studios as new ones join the scene

Saudi Arabia is fast establishing itself as a major production hub for the Middle East and is set to grow further as new entrants join the scene.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SMART has finished crunching scheduling and weather data. Would you like SMART to explore other ways to make air traffic more efficient? [Supervisor must manually opt-out in 3…2…1…] SMART calculates that 30% fewer planes would be optimal and will begin a process of eliminating them.

F.A.A. to Roll Out New
A.I. Tool for
Washington Airports
The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region's three major airports next week.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s Barron’s job to lose.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When ur LAPD and u get to a crime scene after a security guard has already handled it and ur excited to have ur riot gun but u can’t clear a shell and ur buddy helps u and the shell falls on the ground and u have to pick it up and then u go to CVS with ur gun slung over ur back like a badass 🤙

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think people have a hard time reconciling the fact that the biggest mass killer of the century is also a sleepy, dying clown.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@cnn.com gives administration officials minutes of uninterrupted airtime to bury the most velvet glove question in a mountain of bullshit… …and still gets kicked out of the White House for being “fake news.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democrats should run towards this, tbh. Just as Trump and the GOP are all some combination of idiots, bigots, criminals, and perverts, so is anyone who votes for them. Being a Trump voter should be a public shame to any self-identifying serious person.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My man WILL sell you a 2023 Dodge Charger today.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My wife has published a dozen novels that were stolen by Anthropic for AI training, and when she checked the status of her settlement checks she discovered that all of her publishers have submitted claims demanding 100% of the payouts for themselves. This is, apparently, a thing that’s happening.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man is thinking, “Look at all these beta bathroom hand washers.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

MBS is a spoiled sadist lunging from one failed project to the next, but as pissed as he might be, he’s gotten value from the dumb, thirsty greed of Trump/Kushner: intel on his family rivals, no punishment for human rights atrocities, and nukes. And he’s kept Putin, Modi, and Xi on speed dial.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

INT. FBI An AGENT sits across from an APPLICANT. AGENT: As you know, we don’t do ‘background checks’ anymore, but we googled you and- APPLICANT: You saw the videos. AGENT: Deep Goat. Eye of the Tiger… APPLICANT: I understand. AGENT: I don’t think you do. The Director LOVES you. You’re hired.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Wife of Supreme Court Justice helped organize January 6th” needs to be revisited someday.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ME WATCHING SEASON 2 OF ANY STREAMING SHOW: Wait why does she hate that guy? Was he in the first season? What’s she trying to do again?

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I built a career on going to those people’s parties and riding in their jets and writing about them as demigods, and now I’m building an even bigger career on explaining how I’ve always known they’re dangerous children.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NYT: The President returned to a favorite theme of election security …

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks to my private coal mine I’ve been able to keep my house cool, charge my car, and net export 6kWh to the grid to help prevent a blackout. No wait, that’s thanks to my solar panels.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If only there was some audio tape of Trump having memory issues; then his “diminished mental capacity” might be a constant national story.

NBC NEWS

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Audio of interview confirms
Biden memory lapses
A newly released recording of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with then-President Joe Biden shows diminished mental capacity.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ntozake Shange has a poem about this.

The opening of the "Toussaint L'Ouverture" section of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf"

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok I have a theory. Trump and Natalie aren’t actually fucking but they talk a lot about what they would have done when he was younger (it makes him as close to hard as the medications allow.) So all the younger, jacked-up AI Trumps she makes are, basically, her sexting him. It’s their kink.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Fourth Reich, brought to you by OpenAI

An obscene AI generated post on truth social if Goebbels had lived to see the terminator kind of shit

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Alan Ritchson seems like a good dude, and I think REACHER uses him as a human shield for some gross right wing vigilante porn that is, tonally, different from the books—where Reacher is deliberate about who he kills. Also, casting Nick Searcy, a MAGA-pilled asshole who was at January 6, is bad.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“I will use donations to my PAC to hire the greatest, most luxurious political consulting firm in the country, which I just started last week and consists of a webpage with stock photos and a P.O. box.”

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The decades-long degradation of the GOP—as it was fully captured by its core pillars of racism, Christian nationalism, and billionaires—bred an astonishingly crappy generation of politicians. Vance, Cruz, DeSantis, Cotton, Hawley, Rubio…just the most unlikable group of betas. Impressive to idiots.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another reason Dems should do this is that affordability will be co-opted by Republicans (“Those high Biden prices were dropping until we had to prevent Iran from getting nukes. Trust us in ‘27!”) So both parties sound the same. Punishing corruption? That’s a promise only one side can make.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I usually fly United, so it has been annoying to see the giddy rollout of their Starlink partnership, promising the fastest, most reliable WiFi in the sky. It has been unsurprising that the WiFi hasn’t worked on three of my last four flights.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wrote a movie recently about a wanna-be “good billionaire.” It’s dark comedy about how that’s a pretty much impossible thing to be. I had two Oscar winners as co-producers. A billionaire bought the production company, and a month later I was told, “We’re not moving forward with that one.”

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