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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@billcorbett.bsky.social Just left our youngest at St. Olaf College, 650ish miles from our home. Before we said a tearful goodbye we joked that maybe since he was in MN he would see the Rifftrax guys around. Then just now in the hotel, there was this. Lovely, but where are your branded toiletries?

A hotel soap wrapper labeled Kevin Murphy.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I wish there were a podcast where every episode profiles an institution whose reason for existing has ended, but instead of acknowledging that, the leadership hires a bunch of middle managers and consultants to help them pretend the problems they know to solve are the problems that need solving.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

TIL: John Oliver is only 2 years older than Steve Vladeck

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I hate that we have one fewer Catherine O'Haras than the bare minimum we need. I hate that we have multiple supernumerary narcissistic sociopathic ignoramuses with power. I hate that those are both true simultaneously.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I've had three kids opt for the potato!! 😍😍😍

A bowl of candy and a bowl of russet potatoes.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

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Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

Cesar Chavez holding a shofar while attending a Yom Kippur service in 1971

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 22/09/2025

Many genuine opponents of Putin’s regime could now be threatened by the Trump administration’s immigration policies, writes Christian Caryl.

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America Is No Longer a Safe Haven for the Russian Opposition

ICE is deporting asylum seekers into the arms of Putin’s secret police.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

prescient (from 3 months ago)

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Here is a tomato I grew in my garden and sliced into this evening. The cultivar's name is Gin Fizz. And that is the extent of my comments on the matter.

This is a yellow tomato that has been sliced in two. The middle part is red. It calls to mind a Georgia O'Keefe painting, maybe? Sure. That's it. This is an art appreciation post, nothing more. Art and tomatoes.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I have a doctorate in theology and I diagnose Don Jr. as having a gravely disordered character and a critical deficit of basic human decency.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The fact that Fountain Park and The Ville got hit, and especially the tower collapse and death at Centennial Christian, is just so unfair and heartbreaking. So many churches would have been empty on a Friday afternoon but not them. They were feeding the hungry.

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Phil @philiptejon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We were never supposed to have this much access to stupid people’s thoughts

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

(Background: I'm in my late 40s and I'm in law school trying to start a new career and it's really hard and I'm spending Mother's Day studying for finals.) Y'all, my 17yo made me a handmade GAVEL for Mother's Day! He made it himself on a lathe!! 😭😍

A beautiful hand-lathed gavel made of black walnut.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The use of "worse than 9/11" for events or situations in which not a single soul has died is a weird Republican hyperbole tic that really tells us how their minds work. Mike Kelly (PA-16) used that line on the day that birth control became available without a co-pay under the ACA. It's unhinged.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

NEW:Trump’s DC attorney nominee Ed Martin is apologizing, saying he didn’t know about the alleged Nazi sympathizer views of a Capitol rioter he repeatedly praised. But audio saved by CNN’s KFile shows Martin discussed those views on his podcast — undercutting his claims. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

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‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer | CNN Politics

Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter who is an alleged Nazi sympa...

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The President of the United States can hand out clearances like candy if he chooses to do so. Things like this are legal because no one ever thought about the possibility of a POTUS being a completely irresponsible person.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Is there a concise summary somewhere of the reasons many people dislike Angela Nagle so intensely? I found some of the discussion on Reddit and elsewhere but even there it felt like I was jumping into the middle of a conversation I had missed the beginning of.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

People of a certain age remember when the J Peterman Catalog figured prominently on Seinfeld. Well, apparently Elaine has slacked off in her editing, because here is a typo in the current catalog. Tee hee.

Picture of a typo in the most recent J Peterman clothing catalog. Instead of saying that there is never an occasion "where it doesn't thrive" -- the "it" being a linen herringbone blazer -- this ad copy says there is never an occasion "where tit doesn't thrive."

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Facebook just informed me that I am two clicks away from premium comfort.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Folks in St. Louis, any word on damage in the area around MICDS? My parents are older and they live there. I don't live in St. Louis anymore. #mowx

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Huh. Wondering how the very loud barred owl coitus I observed today in our backyard fits into all of this ...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Malhuret comes from the centre-right in France. This is part of a trend we're seeing across Europe and Canada. Centre-right politicians and media are not merely abandoning Trump as a phony ideological ally, but are now strongly denouncing him as the malign tyrant of a former ally turned rogue state.

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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Laughter the appropriate response. Embarrassing. Stupid. Illegal. Not going to happen. Politically strange and alarming.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Out to dinner and my server is so high he apologized for not bringing food he already served twice so far and also has introduced himself about 3 times

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"Orange" is famously the English word there are no perfect rhymes for, but are there any for "signal"? My family and I were discussing this at dinner. Best we could come up with was "Lou Ferrignal." As in, relating to Lou Ferrigno.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I keep an emergency kit in my car for breakdowns and flat tires and getting stranded. I've never used it. Why do I not keep a bunch of gift bags of all sizes in neutral colors in there? I would use it all the time.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This split between the Republican governor of Oklahoma and education chief Ryan Walters is indicative of what's to come. Trump's education agenda is unpopular and nobody embodies that unpopularity quite like Ryan Walters. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I miss when there were parts of the internet where you could say"I'm really struggling, in fact I'm barely hanging on" and your internet friends would help you out.

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

For all federal employees: Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs. If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Holy moly, after months of attempts and a couple of hours just this evening, I finally managed to successfully change the dingdang MS Word Normal template so that ugly Aptos is GONE and there's no more absurd 1.16 line spacing with extra line breaks where I didn't want them. Hallelujah!

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A small personal delight in an otherwise depressing time: Through a fluke of scheduling affecting my 2L class, I'm getting to take Con Law II as a small seminar (it's usually a big lecture) with one of my favorite professors, while I'm writing my law review paper on a fourteenth amendment topic.

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Oh my goodness! I just saw that Tony Slattery died. What a very funny, wounded, and courageous man.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

If you know *anything* about operations of federal government, Dunning-Kruger tech bros quoted in this story sound just like: How hard could it be to land a 747? How hard could it be to do surgery on the eyeball? How hard could it be to lead a SEAL team raid? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Also jarring to me that we've never had any real collective mourning in the USA. More than a million Americans have died of Covid and, barring some very isolated moments, there's been no sense of coming together to mark the incalculable loss. No events. No monuments. Etc.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

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Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livilsberger’s Political Minifestos?

Over the last four days the bizarre Cybertruck fire outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas has run from comical interlude to possible terrorist incident to tragic suicide of another veteran of America’s…

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Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

For reasons unknown to me, my parents, who are approaching eighty, not only own these Nixon and Agnew puppets but have them displayed in their guest room.

Creepy looking vintage hand puppets of Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon.

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