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Michael Carlson

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Nora's dad. Yank, ex-Montréaler, Brit (adopted pre-Brexit). Commentator, broadcaster, writer & speaker on Culture (arts, books, film, Americana), Politics & (as Mike) Sports. Even the odd poem. Accept no substitutes. His not Him before gerunds ☮️


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And the UK election was on the 4th of July

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Opinion | Why I No Longer Subscribe to the New York Times

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I'm not sure why his death took him off air. Talk about ageist.

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Story of my life. But you knew that already

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being with an older man is fun because they forget they already told you stuff and you can gaslight them into thinking you’re psychic

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i’ll be so mad if climate change defrosts my frozen embryos before i’m ready

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It is beyond time for these delusional dinosaurs to meet their asteroid.

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That We Can All Go Fuck Ourselves

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Praise Jesus! Be baptized in Freedom

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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That can't be true. Trump said last night on CNN it wasn't his fault & Tapperbash didnt question that

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He learned his lesson well. No lie is demeaning to his party or too blatant not to be backed by their media

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Amazing how the media consensus is that Trump's measured command of facts and his controlled & honest presentation makes him the obvious choice to be president. CNN did drop fact checking for nothing

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Ellin Stein's avatar Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social
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This point cannot be made strongly enough.

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Steve Silberman's avatar Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social
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One thing I find fascinating about Nancy Mace is that she doesn't consider that her kids are growing up watching their mother telling lies like this daily, in an endless loop of the most cynically dishonest BS imaginable. They don't have an easy road ahead. www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-mace-f...

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Ellin Stein's avatar Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social
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Yes, what doesn't come to mind when you hear the words "Anne Frank" except "filthy and evil"?

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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One of his best... Wore the vinyl down in the 70s, still play it today

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Fans of space #jazz, #trance, hypnotic grooves, behold the cannabis-friendly majesty of Eberhard Weber's "Sand Glass." It's peak ECM and Rainer Brüninghaus' finest hour on keyboards. Charlie Mariano's solo on nagaswaram (of all things) pierces the dome of Heaven. youtu.be/0vN4aXWKsmM?...

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Next they'll rename it Viagra Falls for national men's day

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Perspective can fool you, but he's a pretty small guy🤏

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Can @nytimes be far behind?

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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An official campaign arm of the Republican Party is now indistinguishable from the most brain dead online troll.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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They don't want to give up

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Is there a way I can cancel my subscription again?

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Talia Lavin's avatar Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social
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gonna write a tumultuous, epic novel about three generations of Finns and call it East of Sweden

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Justin Trudeau's helicopter landing pad?

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Andrea Junker's avatar Andrea Junker @strandjunker.bsky.social
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Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together than I have of Donald Trump and his son Barron.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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In Britain it's called "paying"

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Travis Kelce arrives on stage to carry Taylor Swift

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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JJ Reddick's ascension to the Lakers head coach gig is a testament to the power of podcasting about a thing rather than doing the thing

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Sam Freedman's avatar Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social
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Just hit me that Matt Goodwin is our J D Vance. Start with sympathetic stuff about "left behinds" and end up simping for fash-adjacent narcissists.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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I liked Seth Meyers offering "doug burgum!" as an alternative

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Really distracts you from the asphalt, with its extending yellow lines, I get it

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Honey, why is there a sack of smelly damp wheat un the bathroom?

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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We got Latimer’s attack ads on TV here and hooooooooboy are they bad. Weird to see Fox News talking points in a Democratic primary race for NYC.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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The Stanley Cup being decided in Miami three days into actual summer is total generational overload for me. Of course I lived in Montreal in the 70s, when the Cup arrived as usual in May.
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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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I thought 60 Minutes had been using AI reporters & executives for years

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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As I wrote in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, the drive for a school prayer constitutional amendment failed in the 1960s because so many religious leaders testified before Congress that they, in fact, did NOT want secular leaders writing and mandating prayers, because that was something they took seriously.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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Between the stage and the vip area at a swift concert

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Back the Blue until a rich person's PR flack emails you

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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He has to learn this is America. The law isn't supposed to apply to the rich and famous

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Lupita Nihongo's avatar Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.

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Michael Carlson 's avatar Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social
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You know Ian Tyson's song Irving Berlin Is 100 Years Old?

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