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Call me Trixie

@trixienorton.bsky.social
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Writer and editor interested in history, health care, politics, MST3k and Rifftrax, old movies, books, more books, and all the books. I block Al Franken apologists and people who ask "Are you AI?" when they can't answer an honest question.

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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 2h
Isn't Elizabeth the English version of ... you know what, never mind.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h
In case you were wondering whether or not local cops were gonna stop ICE when they show up at polling places in blue cities, the answer is a resounding no
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 6h
This goes against the intuitions of a lot of older people who were socialized into the party alignment of the 1970s-1980s-1990s. But you could make a case that the Trump second term is the most directlyand outwardly anti-Christian presidency in American history.
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Allison Pregler 📼🎃 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 19h
Just watched the new #MST3K, absolutely knocked it out of the park! So happy for these guys, AND we learned a new animal based dance craze?? Thanks for the amazing return @rifftrax.com!
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 3h
On the other hand, I absolutely love Kevin Can Go F*ck Himself and I wish more people watched it.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 3h
The Auctioneer by Joan Sampson.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 3h
More than one, even.
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GOP's the problem @fabadap.bsky.social · 5h
"raises serious questions" ??? Can we use Ossoff-speak from now please? Everyone's seen the debates by now..hope y'all took notes
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h
Casey Newton says he simply HAS to return to using a right wing propaganda website owned by an overt white supremacist, because that's where the AI bros are there was simply no way to effectively cover the industry without submerging himself in sewage, we are told
"And so, in the coming days, I plan to resume posting on X. I am doing so not because I think it’s any better — it isn’t — but because I have exhausted all of the alternatives. I continue to believe that anyone who can avoid posting on X should. But my calculus about the t.radeoffs involved for my own work has shifted: as the stakes of the AI conversation have risen, boycotting X over my disagreements with management has grown both more costly and less effective.

Should the AI crowd ever move elsewhere, I will happily follow them. But I’ve become convinced that it’s important I engage with them, even if doing so makes me feel like I’m coworking inside a Port-a-Potty."
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 4h
The GOP already has. How much of a tax cut did the Sackler family get this year?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 5h
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 4h
I kind of shocked this wasn't everyone's headline. www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wa...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 4h
Breaking: Pope Leo XIV to be investigated for mortgage fraud.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 4h
"There's nothing wrong with deducting your mortgage interest from your taxes." You know, it sure seems like the pandering tends to be to people in downstate.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 4h
"The Cultural Revolution was a huge missed opportunity" "The Weimar Enabling Act was a huge missed opportunity" "Soviet agricultural collectivization was a huge missed opportunity" "The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand von Hapsburg was a huge missed opportunity" should I go on?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 6h
If/when Democrats regain at least one branch of congress, keep things simple: put *$10+ billion theft* in the news every day. Each day highlight a different theft: planes, real-estate, crypto, defense contracts, insider trading, kickbacks, tchotchkes, etc. But tie it back to *$10+ billion theft*
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 20h
Behold, the moral cravenness of the "non-crazy" parts of the Republican Party
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 7h
He's trying to get press attention. It's tough these days with the corporate media. He's on Substack posting quite a bit.
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🚲🕸️𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖔𝖕𝖘🕸️🚲 @scoopsstp.bsky.social · 15h
We are witnessing levels of passive voice cop language unprecedented in modern times
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whuppy @whuppy.bsky.social · 7h
The abiding mystery to us civilians, Mr. President, is why every Dem doesn’t talk like Ossoff did, whether leading, lagging, or tight.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h
Absolutely wild. Why did ABC 404 this story?
Screenshot of ABC News page with a 404 message w a headline “oops! Page unavailable”
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 7h
Basically, the Founders were college educated and into new ideas like deism, the People were increasingly literate, and democracy lapped the Founders very quickly and overtook their most conservative ideas. 2/2
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 7h
It would be a great convo but Tom doesn't want to get into it, and it's his thread and I've certainly pushed enough and then some. When Wood died earlier this year, many people wrote Substack articles, though. Here's one. 1/2 historykillers.substack.com/p/review-the...
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 7h
It's infuriating. Follow every precept of Jesus and get tossed for not gender conforming hard enough while asshats promoting the death penalty are feted in the press as good Catholics. Oh well, Jesus probably has something to say about this situation.
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($70/630) Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Authoress @zoetheauthoress.bsky.social · 15h
Get the NYPD under control and focused on fighting ICE, leave the protesters alone! This is your big test! Newsom failed it, Walz failed it, Pritzker failed it! You're up!
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DrakenKnight @drakenknight.bsky.social · 16h
Why is NYPD protecting ICE and not New Yorkers?
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 7h
Abolish ICE!
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 21h
Tom said we’ve been a center right country for 250 years. Some us said not during the Revolution and cited a popular history book so people would know what we meant. All I’m saying is we haven’t always been a center right country. How did you get here from there?
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 21h
Drinking and losing a war.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22h
The pogrom against Somalis in Minnesota ordered by the United States President today will be live streamed as soon as it can be provoked.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 21h
This is horrific. And the inevitable result of needing to continually feed MAGA ever extreme and violent content to hold their attention.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 23h
Reading books is a great way to build up a good foundation for critical thinking. I encourage everyone to read Gordon Wood, he's great.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 23h
"These people" meaning in this case those of us who read a lot about the American Revolution?
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh I see. We all misunderstand it, even though you don't know what we think, and you understand it even though you haven't explained your reasoning. We bray and you reason. We read books and you argue on the basis of the title.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This guy needs one of those field sobriety tests. "Blow into this before talking to the media."
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, it's a "Gordon Wood was wrong" argument. I guess Wood didn't know anything about the founding either.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Confederacy? The Union? Both conservative. We've always been conservative. Always. Don't question it. We never change. Ever.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Biden had been wearing some weird device, reporters would have asked questions about it. But the White House press corps fears Trump, so they don’t ask about this or the spackle covering his bruised hands.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm afraid all being in cult does is make you oblivious to your soul.
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We'll find out tomorrow, won't we?
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Call me Trixie @trixienorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Political humor is tough when it's not local. It's always funnier when it's local. innerloopblog.com/2026/07/15/g...
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CDC To Develop Diarrhea Parasite Vaccine From Rochester Man Immunized By Genesee Cream Ale
CDC researchers say a Rochester man who can drink Genesee Cream Ale without blowing up a toilet may hold the key to stopping the Cyclospora outbreak.
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa, these were two of the biggest H1-B sponsors!!! A third tho is Oracle... Which is NOT being punished this way, guess why?
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margin of error @ihaveopinions.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Watching our press and political culture refuse to take racism seriously as the core motivation of Trumpism is like watching a hospital full of doctors refuse to say the word "cancer."
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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