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Ed Winstead

@eswinstead.bsky.social

Writer (NYT, BOMB, Interview, etc.), editor (EIC of Guernica, now long retired), occasional journalist, full-time pedant.

163 Followers  |  201 Following  |  209 Posts  |  Joined: 09.11.2024  |  1.8938

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Frasier - Out of Sherry
YouTube video by J P Vogel Frasier - Out of Sherry

Donald Trump finding out from Howard Lutnick that the tariffs have been struck down, but the opposite
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20.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 4386    πŸ” 791    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 139
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Welcome to Alamance County, North Carolina An excerpt from "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter" by Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs.

Up 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 Graham’s first Black elected official. He was lynched in 1870. There are no public markers for his life yet, but now there’s a book.

04.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

This is amaaaaazing β€” I’ve been so interested in Outlaw’s story for a long time, and cannot wait to read this

05.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A 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.

A 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€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Two Faces of Lummie Jenkins The people of Wilcox County, Alabama, remember the longtime sheriff as a god or a monsterβ€”it just depends on who you ask.

Ending 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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31.12.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

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 couldn’t say, but not about what people should or shouldn’t steep themselves in.

08.01.2026 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If 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€” πŸ‘ 7658    πŸ” 2204    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 134

He drew pictures of animals as fat as we could demand them.

β€”Virginia Woolf, remembering her father when she and her siblings were kids

05.01.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

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

01.01.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gooner Veltiner. Anything to that?

01.01.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow did I pick the wrong night to go to the Taco Bell in Times Square

01.01.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That is genuinely shocking

01.01.2026 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
@joepompliano on Threads posted a pic of a map dotted with dozens of yacht names and said: β€œPretty 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+ others”

@joepompliano on Threads posted a pic of a map dotted with dozens of yacht names and said: β€œPretty 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+ others”

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

31.12.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9697    πŸ” 2698    πŸ’¬ 336    πŸ“Œ 344
That end-of-year feeling

That end-of-year feeling

Ah, the end of the year

24.12.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
24.12.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard out here

22.12.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œGiddyup jinglehorse” is one of the stranger lyrics

18.12.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thats some jacket on the bartender in this conceptual rendering of an empty airport bar

16.12.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book 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.

Book 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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11.12.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well that doesn’t seem good

10.12.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s strange to center-justify this.

08.12.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Shocking Blue - Never Marry A Railroad Man
YouTube video by Red Bullet Shocking Blue - Never Marry A Railroad Man

"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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03.12.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best comedy ever made, The Cable Guy, isn’t even on this list

25.11.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spectrum of Desire

You 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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22.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary β€’ NC Newsline As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.

β€œWhen 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.” ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/t...

21.11.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Editors 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€” πŸ‘ 3499    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 85

The @inquirer.com might be the best paper in the country right now

16.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the hell kind of chairs are these

13.11.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES love it!

13.11.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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