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Robert Rubsam

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Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com

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Beauty Land, by Greg Mendez 14 track album

AOTY incoming gregmendez.bandcamp.com/album/beauty...

03.03.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greg Mendez Announces New Album 'Beauty Land': Hear "I Wanna Feel Pretty" Yay! Greg Mendez is back! We last heard from the Philly singer-songwriter in 2024 with First Time / Alone, which was one of our favorite EPs of the year. Now he’s announcing his new album Beauty Land ...

Greg Mendez signs to Dead Oceans for new album 'Beauty Land'; hear lead single "I Wanna Feel Pretty"

03.03.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

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Secretary Rubio's remarks indicate that Israel put U.S. forces in harm's way by insisting on attacking Iran. And the administration was complicitβ€”joining their war instead of talking them down

This is unacceptable of the President, and unacceptable of a country that calls itself our ally.

Post See new posts Conversation Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx Secretary Rubio's remarks indicate that Israel put U.S. forces in harm's way by insisting on attacking Iran. And the administration was complicitβ€”joining their war instead of talking them down This is unacceptable of the President, and unacceptable of a country that calls itself our ally.

Going to see more and more non-leftist Democrats talking like this from now on

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eddington real

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Movie of the year incoming

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This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

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a mock up of the cover i have no mouth and i must scream only it’s i have no kids and i must spend with a switch 2 as the main image

a mock up of the cover i have no mouth and i must scream only it’s i have no kids and i must spend with a switch 2 as the main image

starting to feel it again

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"No stupid rules of engagement"

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"Vagabond" by Remedios Varo features a mysterious figure encased within a contraption and traveling through a shadowy forest, embodying themes of exploration and self-discovery. Varo's surrealist style blends elements of fantasy and science, reflecting her interest in mysticism and the metaphysical.

"Vagabond" by Remedios Varo features a mysterious figure encased within a contraption and traveling through a shadowy forest, embodying themes of exploration and self-discovery. Varo's surrealist style blends elements of fantasy and science, reflecting her interest in mysticism and the metaphysical.

Vagabond
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20024

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Trump releases a statement saying he is sending Americans to war with Iran because β€œIran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump.”

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Draft-dodging chicken-hawks love to talk tough (from their fancy, gold-plated beach resorts). But they have NO CLUE what war is really about.

We need a War Powers vote NOW.

You deserve to know who wants to send your kids to war to fight for Trump's lies.

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The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former β€œFox & Friends” guest and a former β€œFox & Friends” host.

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Who is this for? Who actually believes this?

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In 1973, a veto-proof majority of Congress took the position that POTUS’s constitutional powers to use military force are limited to:

1) declaration of war

2) specific statutory authorization

3) national emergency triggered by attack on U.S., its territories or possessions, or armed forces. 1/n

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The American-Israeli Strikes on Iran are (Again) Manifestly Illegal After weeks of threats, the United States, joined by Israel, has launched military strikes against Iran. It remains to be seen whether these strikes will be fairly limited, or are the opening of an ex...

"Whatever happens, though, one thing is clear – that this use of force by the US and Israel is manifestly illegal. It is as plain a violation of the prohibition on the use of force in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter as one could possibly have."

@ejiltalk.bsky.social

www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

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theonion.com/this-war-wil...

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Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

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Guess I live in a rogue state now

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The Thing You Did, by deathcrash from the album Somersaults

SOTY so far deathcrash.bandcamp.com/track/the-th...

27.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Years ago I was talking with a Drift adjacent person at a party, and she kept dismissing everything, including Killers of the Flower Moon, as "middlebrow shit for moms." Of course, she loved the Sweet East

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I interviewed Sean Price Williams, he's a really nice guy and he's an incredible DP, but god was that movie so boundlessly self-satisfied with its own superficialityβ€”sound familiar?

27.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking back, The Sweet East was probably the most prescient and thus the stupidest movie of the 2020s

27.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s my fourth of july

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It happened plenty of times here

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This came to me in a dream

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[some rough beast:] it's slouching time

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Nothing Republican legislators like more than a new population of β€˜illegals’ to harrass and exploit

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