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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 1h

The urgency of professional douchebag Michael Tracey's impulse to attack rape victims and defend sex criminals suggests some really unsavory behavior in his past, if not his present. I mean, unsavory beyond attacking rape victims and defending sex criminals.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: I looked up what reality show Rick Devens participated in prior to winning Big Brother, and then decided to answer the question with a question: what the hell am I doing? I don't care about this in the least little bit. In fact I *anti* care.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The excellent Brian Aldiss's "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" was Spielberg's AI starting point.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: However much it was, the largest fine the NFL levied against a team was not nearly large enough.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick lasted one issue before a thin-skinned addle-pated chief executive took offense at something they published and 86'd it from the public sphere, no doubt shouting FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS!

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An increasingly rare sighting of The Bad Crow Review, featuring applause for the White House press corpse's delicate applause for the few among their colleagues who have done more than fuck-all to stand against the regime's assault on a free press. Plus music! badcrow.substack.com/p/97-of-the-...

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97% Of The Press Applaud The Three Percent Who Bailed, Plus

Quoting David Shuster got me handcuffed on an asocial media site, plus music

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't get out that much but I'm guessing the number of people who hold either of those two positions doesn't exceed like six.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Tomlinson "Don't Call Me Tom" Holmin and X-over.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I see the TV pool networks are boycotting orange pustule events in solidarity with CNN, but I guess the print press are doing a Niemöller?

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Notacult notacult notacult notacult not a cult

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Cheeseburger: Pasadena. I have eaten a cheeseburger in Pasadena but there was one in Culver City that was better.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Greenspan used the stock market as an indication of economic health, which was dumb but nobody knew it because his gnomic utterances ensured nobody understood what he was saying.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Taylor Swift's "Life of a Showgirl" outfit was originally created by Bob Mackie for ah who am I kidding.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fuck that $5,000 bullshit: I'm now expecting the Natalie Harp Memorial Slavish Devotion Bonus™, 'cause he loves me.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I tell you what, gonna send a strong letter to John Fetterman's stroke.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Ft. Ross was established in what is at present CA's Sonoma County, and today its multi-ethnic nature would have it atop the list of towns to terrorize. They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs! Rootless cosmopolitans!

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The first screenshot shows conditions here in Honolulu at 6pm, the second one conditions in Lihue on Kauai, which along with Ni'ihau is set to get clobbered overnight and into Tuesday. Humidity here has gone up about 3 points the past hour, and the winds are shifting.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The US Open was the first yella ball Grand Slam event, courtesy of David Attenborough.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: J. Peterman, made famous by that show about making Steve Bannon rich.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The most excellent Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a column for Ladies Home Journal.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Democrats attacking Hasan Piker in order to torpedo Abdul El-Sayed's senate run are among the best ever exemplars of @schwarz.bsky.social's Iron Law of Institutions.

As the Iron Law of Institutions says: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A whistleblower says USPS has been violating court orders for months in pursuit of a program that could disenfranchise tens of millions of people and the NY Times places it way down the page in favor of the bond market's upset tummy. Money talks, a plot to kill democracy walks.

A screen grab of the New York Times website shows a story about the regime's plot to screw up mail-in balloting for tens of millions of people placed way down the page with the three of the top five stories placed above it focused on money issues.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I just love this photographer's treatments of his images. So consistent and atmospheric. Beautiful work.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" was the first Looney Tunes short. Looney Tunes was the ultimately successful Warner Bros challenge to Disney's Silly Symphonies. Also a predictor of the modern political era, although not so much as The Simpsons.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Loony Tunes' Dr. Lorre is a damn near photorealistic rendition of Peter Lorre, a fine actor and lovely human being.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Peter Cullen emulated his older brother to do the voice of Optimus Prime. Don't know who the inspiration for Eeyore was.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Svante Arrhenius was the first to tie fossil fuel combustion to atmospheric warming but he built on a lot of other people's work. There's a follow-on to his theories in a 1912 story in Popular Mechanics about the impact of burning coal on the climate

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The tiny leaf sheep won The Guardian's Invertebrate of the Year competition but only because the entire US federal legislature members were arbitrarily and unfairly disqualified.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our stupid and cruel health care "system," as viewed through the lens of yr. genial host, plus the *only* good reason for a Kushner-Jeffries confab, plus some music. The Bad Crow Review is at least temporarily back from a loooooong hiatus.

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Was Jared Kushner Pulling A Fredo? Plus,

I need a 12-inch both-sideser on this tariffs thing, stat! Plus music

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Nobody knows how many Olympic gold medals Usain Bolt won. Couldn't slow him down enough to count.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Ryan Leaf go "poof!"

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not enough people are asking why, after years of disputing figures released by Gaza's health ministry, the Israelis now accept the ministry's confirmed death toll from the genocide. The obvious answer is that they know the actual death toll is far, far higher than what has been directly confirmed.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Ilie "Nasty" Năstase was the first computer-ranked men's number one player. There have been 312 number one players since then, most of whom were Roger Federer.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Mercury and Venus don't have moons so they can't have solar eclipses, yet they're considered full-fledged planets while Pluto, which has five moons, isn't. It's political correctness gone mad.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Milk transfusions really sound more like something that could take off today than something that was tried and discarded 150-plus years ago. Raw milk especially.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Death Valley is the site of the highest air temperature ever recorded, at 130-plus degrees fahrenheit. Been there! Done that! Although it was only in the high 100-and-teens when I was there.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was a compelling advertisement for Teddy Roosevelt's Meat Meat the Miracle Eat and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: AMAZING FANTASY #15. Now approaching retirement age in an era when all the worst crooks have Secret Service protection, a disillusioned Spiderman spends his days drinking down at the American Legion hall.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: All I know about Ariana Grande is that she licked donuts, put them back and then shaded donut lovers—both gross but many of us grew up when cameras weighed a ton and weren't surreptitious so the gross teen stuff we did wasn't immortalized.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The Navy uses dolphins as security near the Kitsap naval base, which is, if you'll excuse the descriptor, absolutely, grotesquely fucked up.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: I'm probably late with this but I actually knew it: The entertainment at the 1966 New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry dinner was, absolutely hilariously, Velvet Underground.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The first commercial AC was built for a printing plant. It ultimately did wonders for the working life of newspaper printers.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The last known television address of Ghost Rider was Agents of Shield. I've long thought Reese Witherspoon should get the spot in upcoming features.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Musk's net worth is still up a hundred billion since the beginning of the year, but it's down $600 billion from the rocket stock peak. He'll probably recoup it all on the "historically accurate" mecha-Hitler version of The Odyssey though.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The lesson Democrats took from Jesse Jackson's strong 1988 Democratic primary showing was that they hadn't been punching left hard enough since McGovern. They internalized the fuck out of that lesson.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Shark Week is here, everybody. Post a shark.

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The Bad Crow Review @weldonberger.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Track 61 under the Waldorf Astoria in NYC was FDR's wheelchair-eliding secret train platform during his third presidential campaign. This is probably where JK Rowling got the idea for Harry Potter's Platform 9 3/4. Or not.

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