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Rob DeSpain

@robot-despain.bsky.social

Books, booze, cats, and travel (have visited all 48 states).

568 Followers  |  233 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 11.11.2024  |  1.4342

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Ezra Klein is the epitome of a day late and a dollar short. One can imagine him explaining Kristallnacht to Germans well after it had ended, after tens of thousands of Jews had been put behind barbed wire in concentration camps, saying of course it was all wrong but here's why Nazis feel threatened.

16.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

Iowa City nods in agreement with you.

18.05.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@juliadespain.bsky.social knows and very much agrees with this post.

26.02.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Woke up this morning wondering which of the Washington-based foreign journalists here will end up being their generation’s William Shirer πŸ˜¬πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

16.02.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3043    πŸ” 327    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 19

He always looked so happy. Confetti in his Miller High Life.

01.01.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha @juliadespain.bsky.social But we still want this!

12.12.2024 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@juliadespain.bsky.social would lose her mind with this.

03.12.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here ya go @juliadespain.bsky.social

19.11.2024 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A dude from Belgium was behind me in line and he kept referring to The Bear as a movie, but he was so enamored with the heavy Chicago accent of one of the guys working, so we never corrected his β€œmovie” talk.

12.11.2024 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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