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Release the bats


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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Chris Petkus's avatar Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Andrew Otis Weiss's avatar Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social
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The fur caveman vest of the late 1960s fascinates me because it became the mainstream media's go-to symbol of hippiedom -- right down to Sonny Bono sporting one to fake countercultural cred -- and yet it was nowhere to be seen on actual hippies.

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Jeramy Neugin 's avatar Jeramy Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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kim's avatar kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social
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the stars on the american flag represent the number of movies Samuel L Jackson did in 2004

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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seems newsworthy, can’t wait to hear about it showing up in paragraph 47 of another piece about how biden is old

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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Pouring one out for all the Idaho kids who won’t get to go to the library because their parents will get nervous about singing an affidavit.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This isn’t “hypocrisy,” he was lying about what he believes so they would confirm him

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Spencer Ackerman's avatar Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social
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The president can legally order the Purge

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸💍's avatar Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸💍 @melindamagpie.bsky.social
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“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.” ― V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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I was perhaps lukewarm about Pres. Humphrey's second term, but the first was absolutely solid.

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Meet n F*** Kingdom, Steve's avatar Meet n F*** Kingdom, Steve @itsphetz.bsky.social
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In a zombie apocalypse I scenario I volunteer to be the guy spraypainting shit like "THE DEAD WALK" and "THE GOVERNMENT ABANDONED US" and "AIM FOR THE HEAD" everywhere

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David_j_roth's avatar David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Dave Hutchinson's avatar Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.

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Maggie Astor's avatar Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social
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Look, I'm not a highly paid consultant so I could be wrong, but I think that probably I am not the only person who has left the store dozens of times without the product I intended to buy because it was locked up and no one responded when I pressed the button

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Microplastics Sommelier's avatar Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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H. P. Minecraft's avatar H. P. Minecraft @fancyhat.bsky.social
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followed an account on Twitter really similar to this and I missed em. good to see there's someone doing roughly the same thing

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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One thing among many I like about this sentence is that it's perfectly competent and in no way memorable. If you didn't know what story it came from, I doubt you'd be able to pick it out of a lineup.

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Swapna Krishna's avatar Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com
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This sounds like my 5 year old arguing about why he should get to pick out more than one toy at Target

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georgia-lux's avatar georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social
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big story out of Summer Games Show this year seems to be the Game Chunk, a small glowing fragment of meteoric metal that puts players in a "Fun Fugue" for hours or days at a time

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This scandal inspired @colson.bsky.social's Pulitzer-winner The Nickel Boys.

Florida to Pay Millions to Victims of Abuses at Notorious Reform School

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”

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BayBayFriend's avatar BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social
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hiking down the trail, with her magnesium, sipping on her thing, my magnesium girl 🎶

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hilzoy's avatar hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social
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The child and her family are Palestinian. She is, again, THREE.

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Catbus 's avatar Catbus @catbus.bsky.social
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heard u were talkin shit

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Moby Dick's avatar Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social
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a black night in an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any hospitable shore

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 Coach Jerry (referee 🟥) 's avatar Coach Jerry (referee 🟥) @gopher33j.bsky.social
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Watch Reggie Jackson speak absolute unfiltered truth tonight - I watched it twice. He isn't romanticizing shit - just jaw dropping.

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old roadside pics's avatar old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue
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hollywood theater, sandy boulevard, portland, oregon, 1980

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sandcrab's avatar sandcrab @sandcrab.bsky.social
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lights along entire Mid-Atlantic coast flickering as you ask AI girlfriend "if it's really fine" that you cancel plans for a quiet evening in to go out drinking with college buddies

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DougExeter's avatar DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social
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clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here i am, graduating from clown college. this is the happiest day of my life

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Alex von Tunzelmann's avatar Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social
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Please speak for your sad normie selves, NYT. The man was smokin’ to the end. Like a wild, beautiful, lanky wolf, with eyes that could pierce metal. I’m sorry if you don’t speak charisma

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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Mentioning those four movies undersells Sutherland's brilliance. He could go into any film--as foil, menace, wild card, patriarch, villain, monster, comic/anarchic force, center of gravity, two-scene wonder--and just nail the world, the role, the assignment. We'll be watching him forever.

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Chris Terry-Enescu's avatar Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social
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Absolutely losing it at Boris Johnson's publishers advertising his memoirs like he's a serial killer being released on parole

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Colson Whitehead's avatar Colson Whitehead @colson.bsky.social
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Me: Clean grill, clean mind…clean grill, clean mind... My wife: What’s that? Me: Nothing!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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""The flight records show that many of the department trips left city limits and some followed trajectories that hit multiple city landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center," the story notes." Oh

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Colson Whitehead's avatar Colson Whitehead @colson.bsky.social
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Haha - glad to hear!!

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Carolyn Kellogg 's avatar Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social
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Staples still has your fax supplies

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