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Jay Welch 🗽

@welchjay.bsky.social
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Yelling about Nixon since 1978. Parent, Registered Domestic Partner, Lapsed Methodist, comedian, and father (in that order). Roughly one post in ten is just a joke.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 9h
Liz Truss = here to stay
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look, this is bad. Yes. But the Trump admin sent six (6) people to Maricopa and Pima. Where, by my count, there are 404 polling places, spread across 18,000 square miles (each county is ~9k sq mi). What they want is the FEAR to discourage the voting they can't actually prevent.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You and Roger Ebert both! He said "Penn is hardly recognizable" and called it "a virtuoso tour de force – one of those performances that takes on a life of its own" My bet is the perf gets forgotten because it's 1) supporting & 2) in a movie that itself is so much in the shadow of Scarface
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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I agree with this. I think everyone's misinterpreting what he was saying, which was something like "If they take out Los Angeles or San Diego, then see how you feel about an armed Iran." It's bullshit, because Iran couldn't do that, but it's still different from what everyone is claiming.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Violation of Multiple Court Orders, Defeated Former Brooklyn Democratic Leader "Elect" a New Party Chair in a late-night Zoom call. Only four elected district leaders were actually on the call, with the rest voting by proxy. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/05/b...
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In Apparent Violation of Multiple Court Orders, Brooklyn Democrats Elect a New Party Chair
During a virtual vote held late Sunday evening, Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and her allies tapped Assemblymember Nikki Lucas as the new leader of the party.
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Intrusive Thot @apricity.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
When I visited Salt Lake City in the 2000s, I had never before seen such a high number of homeless youth.
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Katie Hannigan @katiehannigan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A lot of millennials are in therapy cause a lot of baby boomers aren’t.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The refusal of English language media discussion of Brazil to discuss religious shifts within the country makes it very hard to take any of the analysis of the politics there seriously. I know just barely enough to know that the Catholic vs Pentecostal/evangelical divide is central.
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I for one am shocked that Trump’s press secretary would like to fuck an 80 year old.
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went up from NYC to go canvassing in Westchester NY-17 today and even in a light rain it felt SO GOOD
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went up from NYC to go canvassing in Westchester NY-17 today and even in a light rain it felt SO GOOD
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looking forward to the reveal that his posting binges were concurrent with his chemotherapy or dialysis treatments where he forced to sit still for extended periods of time
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Holy shit Richard Ayoade is so funny on Taskmaster
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He is the head of a mafia party
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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is why giving Talarico money was pointless past like May/June/ he already defined himself and got earned media, Paxton money deluge was never going to overcome that + fundamentals + polls! Give to Nixon/Hamilton/Jackson: candidates who still need to define themselves
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is the world like where J.R.R. Tolkien died a week before the armistice, and Wilfred Owen went on to teach Philology at Oxford and spend decades on a masterpiece? What would that world be like without Middle-Earth? What beautiful work do they know, without which their world is unimaginable?
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hello my name is jrr tolkien and i wrote a whole book series about what it would be Like if some funny little guys who just like to hang out and eat and have friends were drafted into a nightmarish conflict vastly beyond their understanding and were forever changed by it also wwi was normal for me


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There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

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There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMALI!
#yeahl #he didnt get into allegory y'see #].r.r. tolkien #lotr
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/10/2026
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from criminal negligence
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 03/10/2026
it’s sooo funny that jesse eisenberg turned down the social network sequel but said yes to “now you see me 3”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
that twitter still has a lot of normal people on it is the main problem! it would be a lot better if it was exclusively fascists and the blast radius of their propaganda was smaller! truth social isn't warping brains that weren't already warped
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the United States is already a bilingual country, we're just in denial about it
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NYT has gained monopoly power in the American liberal economy. With no comparable competition, they can say “fine, good luck elsewhere” to nearly any person, idea, or story they want US liberalism’s ideas became more based in what NYT wants, not which ideas are strongest or best. Monopoly power!
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.
New York Times homepage link reading: 
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thankfully, the lesson from the Cornell mess is pretty obvious whatever way this goes: this really ought not be for universities to handle. Fund real police detectives and have them suppress rape carcerally rather than with puny academic sanctions.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will never tell you everything is fine and you will always be safe or to ignore the very real threats trans people and our families face. But in a time of immense danger, panic is all the more dangerous. i think a lot about the Toni Morrison quote "we cannot be optimistic, but we can be clear."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"prosecutor who actually does his job" is the same as "democrat" to them since "republican" and "criminal" are now synonymous bsky.app/profile/cold...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why the news media considers it acceptable to make calculations of newsworthiness based on "is there already coverage of other scandals related to the same individual elsewhere in the paper" is an exercise I'll leave up to the reader
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what the Trump kids are doing is like 1000x worse than anything Hunter was alleged to have done. But there was a "BIDEN SCANDAL" shaped hole in the news and Hunter filled it and there's no such hole available for Trump that's not already being filled by 15 other things bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Schmitt thing is kind of scary because it shows just how much many elected Rs genuinely believe the crazy stuff. He and his staff thought they’d pulled the red thread on The Giant Conspiracy. They were so convinced it must be real they didn’t even think to double check.
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt got “Michael Cohen in Pragued”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very thankful for this guy.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The past few years really have been a crash course into the deep bonds of solidarity and mutual devotion between the members of the Brotherhood of Rapists and Pedophiles
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.
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Jay Welch 🗽 @welchjay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Eric Schmitt had screwed the pooch any harder here, he'd be eligible to work for the FBI
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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