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Will Vautrain

@vautrain.bsky.social
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Terror Management Theory. Technology. Futurism. Politics. Chicago. Music. Guitar. Food. Cycling. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I think Emily Wilson has earned the right to have whatever opinion she likes about adaptations of Homer. Her translations are amazing achievements and she's already survived several rounds of outrage about a female translator of such a manly poet.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My friend Don Aldo hit the nail on the head: “Knowing the limits of his intellect, President Camacho hired someone he knew to be smarter than him, making him orders of magnitude wiser than whatever is sitting in the Oval Office today.”
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I guess we’re back to physical intimidation and violence in Congress. Republican-led House narrowly passes Trump’s $70bn bill to fund DHS and ICE – live www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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The final vote was briefly tied, because Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican, originally voted No, which would have killed the measure in a 213-213 tie. After being surrounded by House Republican leaders, he changed his vote and the measure passed.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
MAJOR BREAKING: No one is talk about these 5 most FLIPPABLE house races. They're massively underfunded and your donation could literally flip them. keithscheatsheet.com
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Keith's Midterm Cheat Sheet — The 5 Most Flippable House Races
Keith's Midterm Cheat Sheet ranks the 5 House races where your donation makes the biggest impact this midterm — built from real polling, fundraising, and election data. Powered by Oath.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Please sign this petition to rename Wabash Avenue in Chicago, on which Trump Hotel & Tower is located, Barack Hussein Obama Avenue. c.org/YMn5RSxj9P
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Sign the Petition
Rename Wabash Ave, to Barack Hussein Obama Ave
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
All these lemmings imagining they’re getting an Audemars Piguet for a few hundred quid/dollars. You’re getting played!
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
How Americans view Trump. And, frankly, this view is pretty favorable compared with reality.
Photo of a horse’s ass. The horse is brown and standing in a green field.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 11/05/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "AI art can fuck off"
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If diet soda kills cancer, then why is he still alive? Just saying.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Luke, use the Force.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Let's call him J. Edgar Boozer.
Screenshot of a tweet by New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) breaking the news that the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she published a story about Kash Patel using FBI personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, with agents querying databases on the reporter and considering whether she violated federal stalking laws. The embedded image shows a close-up of Kash Patel with a caption referencing the NYT article.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I hate so much that this timeline has the concept of “looksmaxxing”. Fuck that, and the horse it rode in on.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@lemmefinishk.bsky.social This is a pretty common counter to the melting pot analogy, which is obviously oversimplified and just wrong. The salad bowl analogy is much more accurate and I’ll add that it’s no crappy side salad, either. It’s a main fucking course salad that has a lot going on. 😂
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Robert Mueller dared to do the job he was asked to do, and to do it with integrity. That kind of behavior is just totally foreign to Donald Trump.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
noem's dog looking down from heaven
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This just sickening and wholly un-American. The Trump administration is pure evil. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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She was an orphan in Iran adopted by US veteran. The Trump admin wants to deport her
She is one of thousands of individuals adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship due to a complex intersection of adoption and immigration law
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
RIP Cathrine O’Hara. Such incredible talent. She was so funny and humble and a beautiful person. So far, the way 2026 is going, it can fuck off along with 2025. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Catherine O’Hara managed to make difficult characters utterly delightful
The death of the 71-year-old actor and comedian leaves behind a long line of unforgettably original comic creations, from Beetlejuice to Schitt’s Creek
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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I can think of few documentary topics less interesting than Melania Trump. Perhaps the visual dynamics of paint drying, but that would at least be less void of humanity. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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Are people really going to see Amazon’s $75m Melania documentary?
This weekend sees the release of a controversially funded film about the first lady, directed by a disgraced film-maker
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Peak fascism meets peak capitalism.
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S(pooky) @vidiot.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse at a Kenosha, WI protest in August 2020, carrying a long gun, shortly before he shot three people, killing two.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is exactly right. They haven't settled for dim brutes who blindly follow orders regardless of the law. That's what they want. That's what they got. There's no reforming or improving it now. Democrats need to investigate, defund, and ultimately disband the president's brownshirt brigade.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I swear there’s a fucking curse on actors from The Wire. I’m fucking gutted.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If you need the food bank right now, there’s no shame. Shame belongs to a system that pays poverty wages, cuts childcare, and lets healthcare bankrupt families. If you can give, do. If you can’t, that’s okay too. We rise by lifting each other. Go to FeedingAmerica.org.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
More Insta snaps from the let them eat cake ball at Mar a Lago
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nobody brings the good stuff to radiology!
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Velveeta and pumpkin spice sounds like a bad Thanksgiving side dish! Or maybe a really good one depending on your taste. 😂
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I guess the alternative was summary execution and dumping their bodies in the ocean. apnews.com/article/pent...
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US will send survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel back to Ecuador and Colombia, Trump says
The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I think I must have worn the Zeno on a NATO strap from Howard! I haven’t thought about him in years. I bought an O&W RAF-style chronograph from him around the same time I bought the Zeno. His website was West Coast Time, a rudimentary Yahoo e-commerce store.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I do remember the Seamaster homage and I could not get over the Velveeta lume enough to pull the trigger on one! The Blancpain/Squale homage thankfully didn’t have the same treatment.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Back to Zeno, I had their Blancpain/Squale homage and it was a very cool watch, quite well made and had a high domed acrylic crystal that was fantastic. Super comfortable on a NATO. I miss that watch. I later had a Squale and I have to admit that I preferred the Zeno.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Eddie Platts/Timefactors was a major retailer of Zeno at that time (maybe still is?) but he is a cantankerous sort to deal with. He later bought the Smiths brand and revived it with those 1016 homages. And he owns TZ-UK where he doesn’t tolerate criticism of himself, Timefactors, etc.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fucking terrorists.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is straight-up murder.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
And here’s my father in law’s DOJ badge. Probably late 60s.
US Department of Justice identification badge from the late 1960s with the name and signature redacted.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Just a normal Thursday going through evidence in 50 year old federal criminal cases against mafia that I’ve had in storage in my basement. From back when working for the Department of Justice meant upholding the rule of law.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My 9 year old found a working iPod in a storage bin from 2008 and he’s acting like Indiana Jones. “It belongs in a museum!”
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Check for yourselves
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“He wanted to be a team player, but also follow the law,” one person said. Impossible to do both when you work for Trump.
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 18/09/2025
I think if you're at all a rational person you recognize that there is nothing that this administration would not do. No censorship, no murder, no corruption that they'd stop at. They're 100% all in on this and Republicans are 100% on board with it. All that matters is how we react.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This sane and thoughtful man will be deciding which vaccines your kids can get at the ACIP meeting tomorrow. He is talking about Dr. Monarez, who today was unbreakable in the face of verbal abuse from Mullin. Malone cannot understand how a woman could be so steely calm, so the CIA is his guess.
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The CIA trains people how to lie and manipulate others. That is a fact. Has she been trained to lie by our intelligence community?
Citizen Free. • @CitizenFre... • 7h
SENATOR MARKWAYNE MULLIN TELLS SUSAN MONAREZ THAT THE MEETING WHERE SHE WAS FIRED BY KENNEDY
WAS RECORDED.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The country you grew up in is dying. Or it’s dead. Hard to tell whether we can recover. Putin’s great triumph. The Confederacy’s triumph. Fascism’s triumph.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2025
Weird right? He used to support the first amendment
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2025
NEWS: A person is in custody after allegedly firing a gunshot at the home of Democratic state Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel, a state lawmaker in Illinois. There are no reported injuries.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Will Vautrain @vautrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If anyone had told me there would come a time when I would agree with anything said by Tucker Carlson, Karl Rove, and Nick Fuentes, all in the same week, I would have laughed out loud and called them crazy. Here we are.
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