Donald Trump finding out from Howard Lutnick that the tariffs have been struck down, but the opposite
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Writer (NYT, BOMB, Interview, etc.), editor (EIC of Guernica, now long retired), occasional journalist, full-time pedant.
Donald Trump finding out from Howard Lutnick that the tariffs have been struck down, but the opposite
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9tD...
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
09.02.2026 17:12 β π 4386 π 791 π¬ 165 π 139Up now on @indyweek.bsky.social, an excerpt from this essential new @uncpress.bsky.social release. It tells the story of Wyatt Outlaw - a voting rights crusader and Grahamβs first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now thereβs a book.
04.02.2026 14:45 β π 20 π 15 π¬ 3 π 1This is amaaaaazing β Iβve been so interested in Outlawβs story for a long time, and cannot wait to read this
05.02.2026 18:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A vintage news clip shows a headshot for a writer named Joe Aporopolis with a twity mustache and long hair smoking a pipe. Also, is he wearing Cleopatra eyeliner? I sure hope so.
While doing some research, I came across a former horse racing columnist for the LA Evening Express named Joe Aporopolis and now I regret not having this much flare in my LAT byline photo.
28.01.2026 02:23 β π 40 π 2 π¬ 1 π 2Ending a bad year on a good note: @atavist.com is excited to introduce Revived, a project breathing new life into old stories. We're releasing previously published features otherwise lost to dead outlets and dead links. First up, from @alexmarvar.bsky.social.
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Reflective of a very shortsighted and unidirectional understanding of how social media works that they cooked up so many rules about what people could and couldnβt say, but not about what people should or shouldnβt steep themselves in.
08.01.2026 14:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
05.01.2026 20:57 β π 7658 π 2204 π¬ 29 π 134He drew pictures of animals as fat as we could demand them.
βVirginia Woolf, remembering her father when she and her siblings were kids
Museum guy: sorry, I know you and your kids are having fun, but we closed 5 minutes ago
Me: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Gooner Veltiner. Anything to that?
01.01.2026 20:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wow did I pick the wrong night to go to the Taco Bell in Times Square
01.01.2026 01:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That is genuinely shocking
01.01.2026 00:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@joepompliano on Threads posted a pic of a map dotted with dozens of yacht names and said: βPretty much every billionaire that owns a superyacht is in St. Barth right now for New Year's Eve - Jeff Bezos, Miriam Adelson, Shahid Khan, Sergey Brin, Jerry Jones, and 100+ othersβ
orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
31.12.2025 17:25 β π 9697 π 2698 π¬ 336 π 344That end-of-year feeling
Ah, the end of the year
24.12.2025 22:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs hard out here
22.12.2025 13:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βGiddyup jinglehorseβ is one of the stranger lyrics
18.12.2025 19:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thats some jacket on the bartender in this conceptual rendering of an empty airport bar
16.12.2025 00:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Book cover for SPAWNING SEASON: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood by Joseph Osmundson. The cover includes a prominent image of a salmon, trumpet vines, and a collage of images of nature and a vintage image of sperm approaching an egg.
Well! I wrote a book. I've been pretty quiet about it. I'm generally open to a fault: depression, breakups, body issues. But this book charts a part of my life very VERY few people know about.
I almost had a kid. And then I didn't have a kid.
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Well that doesnβt seem good
10.12.2025 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs strange to center-justify this.
08.12.2025 23:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Never Marry a Railroad Man" is the best song about the untrustworthiness of railroad employees, who can't help but love their trains more than they love people β an unmistakable symptom of the metastasis of capital.
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The best comedy ever made, The Cable Guy, isnβt even on this list
25.11.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You mean to tell me that everyone's talking about the combination of sex and a pre-enlightenment understanding of science and the human body? Surely they're referring to this
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βWhen he told them he was born in Raleigh, the agent questioning him grew angry, Vazquez said. They abruptly pulled off the road into the parking lot of a carpet cleaning company, where they dumped him, a half mile away from where they picked him up.β ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...
21.11.2025 04:04 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
17.11.2025 15:35 β π 3499 π 516 π¬ 74 π 85The @inquirer.com might be the best paper in the country right now
16.11.2025 20:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What the hell kind of chairs are these
13.11.2025 04:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES love it!
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