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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only thing that has made me feel better in recent months is lifting hard, so look. If you see me coming at you looking incredibly ripped, be both impressed and worried. For both of us.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sat here asking myself wtf the word “whalefall” even means and then my brain came up with the phrase “hot whale fall,” as in, a pretty whale in natural makeup and flannel walking in the park with a PSL, living her best life. You’re iconic and don’t let anyone tell you different, Caitlin Orca.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I report on this for a decade and someone just…tweets it out.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I dunno. All the time the question of our fascination with Bad Men feels like something to explore. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Why We Love Bad Men (AKA: A Qualified Appreciation of Martin Scorsese)

This essay has been gestating for literally years. Okay.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What’s the best explainer yall have seen of what happened in the Cornell sexual assault case? Like weighing who dropped what balls and how.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest: Trump rails against “communism”…and also admires President Xi and has the government invest in private businesses. The many ways Trump keeps undermining his own message: www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...

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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message

The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.

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npr.org

How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message

The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My latest, on how Trump keeps calling Dems "communists"...and then undermining his own message. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n... Feat. @scottlincicome.bsky.social, some cuts from the Ruthless podcast, Columbia U's Sheri Berman...and a hell of a headline from @realbabylonbee.bsky.social

npr.org

How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message

The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

npr.org

How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message

The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Genuinely you know what is balm for the soul? Go watch Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Two ladies being joyful kind idiots. The single funnest movie in existence.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Was gonna write something gutting and personal about the Cornell thing but instead I'm gonna say hey take care of yourselves and raise nice boys.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spent all day in bed with a hellflu and look it’s being sick but it’s also being in bed all day so anyway I’m now the Darmine doggy door guy.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

EVERYONE: [nothing] EVERYONE: [still nothing] EVERYONE: [nothing] ME: You know, I think The Killer is Fincher's most coherent film.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bring back listicles oh my God don’t make me go 45 seconds into your reel to wait through your list of steps to change my life and become a god JUST WRITE IT DOWN AND LET ME READ IT

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my latest newsletter, I make one of my best jokes yet. Anyway subscribe and share. Please and thanks. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Among the most crucial things you can teach your small children is the importance of a big finish. Singing a song? Put those hands up and get LOUD at the end. No other way to do it.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/09/2026

In case you missed it: I sat down with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for U.S. Senate in Kansas — as a Democrat. He’s been an outlier throughout his career, and he’s running a campaign that could end up making Kansas — no joke — closer than Texas. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...

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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas

LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay hold on THE MAGICIANS wasnt on that list. People. Also: Industry. Aqua Teen. Orphan Black. New Girl. Master of None. You can put HOUSE OF CARDS on it and not those? That list is trash.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can’t wait for newsroom top brass nationwide to push their reporters to go find tales of WOKENESS GONE CRAZY GET THOSE CLICKS. You know this is coming.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I assume there’s a German word for the remorse you feel for gawking at the lesbian bar story.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why do we love Walter White? Omar? Stringer Bell? All the other Bad Dudes? I give you bell hooks: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The day is over so on your commute home go read me losing my mind over Breaking Bad and Fight Club and Scorsese and our love of Bad Dudes: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov... And then share/subscribe/etc.

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Why We Love Bad Men (AKA: A Qualified Appreciation of Martin Scorsese)

This essay has been gestating for literally years. Okay.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

OK but remember job interviews where you showed up with copies of your resume printed on *~*~*special thick paper*~*~* to show you cared, even when you had already mailed (MAILED!) them the same thick-paper resume? And you wore your nicest hosiery and petticoats and bonnets fuck I'm old

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my latest newsletter, I make one of my best jokes yet. Anyway subscribe and share. Please and thanks. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why do we love Walter White? Omar? Stringer Bell? All the other Bad Dudes? I give you bell hooks: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well now that everyone is wrong about Breaking Bad, let's read something about why we get so wrapped up in stories about Bad Men: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

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Why We Love Bad Men (AKA: A Qualified Appreciation of Martin Scorsese)

This essay has been gestating for literally years. Okay.

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Grace Segers @gracesegers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ALL I'LL SAY is that top 100 lists in general are always bad, but top 100 TV show lists are especially terrible because they: a) are too American-centric b) overlook little-seen gems c) mostly ignore genre shows d) completely dismiss animated shows e) almost always make Breaking Bad the top (wrong)

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait wait hold up hold up hold up hold up. Angels in America was made in 2003. You can find room for Ted Lasso and NOT that? You absolute philistines.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well now that everyone is wrong about Breaking Bad, let's read something about why we get so wrapped up in stories about Bad Men: daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/why-we-lov...

daniellekurtzleben.substack.com

Why We Love Bad Men (AKA: A Qualified Appreciation of Martin Scorsese)

This essay has been gestating for literally years. Okay.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait wait wait was Dark not on that list? PEOPLE. Go watch Dark and have your brain broken.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New era of life: if you ask how I'm doing I do not answer "fine" or "good." You are getting honesty. You are getting "I'm surviving" or "whatllyado" or "cranking away" or "treading water." And you are getting it delivered with a manic shaky smile. Are you uncomfortable? So am I. IT'S 2026 HELL YEAH.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyway objectively this tv list is the worst one NYT has done yet. Exhibit A: The Leftovers at 25?!? Exhibit B: White Lotus AHEAD OF LEFTOVERS?

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If breaking bad is top 3 on that damn list I will hold an instagram live where I just scream. Scream and scream.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting an email from someplace you bought a random Christmas present 9 years ago feels like a recession indicator. Or it should be.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hot take: there have not BEEN 100 great TV shows this century. Like, not even close.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lord almighty I’ma need a king sized bottle of jager and a few hard slaps to the face* to steel myself for the can-we-elect-a-lady-president conversation yet again. *administered by a kind and loving woman friend of course

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The equinox is a time of powerful energies so I’m excited to announce I’m saging the entire country today. Just burning some sage bundles and smudging the shit out of everything. Open your windows. Groove on it. Put on some Enya. Dance with your shadow. Look at you you freaky little witch.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hot take: Bluey had better be in the top ten.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DAMMIT I was typing too fast and meant $2600. THAT IS STILL A LOT.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's a fun ahead-of-midterms fact: it's harvest season. If you have a combine with a 400-gallon tank, you're spending ~$2800 to fill it up. That's...a lot.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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