David Martin
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Investigator. The occasional byline.
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🌒 West 🌒
1 day ago
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
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Ygrene
4 days ago
BREAKING: the data centers are no longer satisfied with our water and energy and have now started getting into the snack cabinet
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You know a football stadium deal is bad when a baseball newsletter weighs in
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Fox News is no longer on the TVs at the gym (yay!) but big Fox does a Sunday show so I had this face staring back at me while I was on the elliptical
4 days ago
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Reporters are too gentle with farmers. This three-time Trump voter gets to shit on Democrats w/ no pushback.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
6 days ago
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I watched Christmas Vacation last night and just realized the visiting dads/grandpas both played former Nixon A.G. John Mitchell (John Randolph in All the President's Men and E.G. Marshall in JFK)
6 days ago
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The pre-show huddles in Taylor Swift: The End of an Era were good content because T.S. and her team were speaking to each other and not rotely appealing to some mysterious bearded man in the sky
6 days ago
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This JCPenney stereo was maybe my all-time favorite Christmas gift. Shades of Matthew Sweet's boyhood.
7 days ago
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How many days has Epstein been front-page news since
@semaforben.bsky.social
wrote on July 20 that the "larger Epstein belief system is QAnon for people who went to college"?
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J.C. Bradbury
9 days ago
Ugh, please don't publish assertions about the supposed "economic impact" of the new stadium. I've seen the "study", it is GARBAGE. Newspapers shouldn't be repeating propaganda as news.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/w...
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Ken Tremendous
9 days ago
What happened here -- I thought Chris Berman was retired by ESPN, then a bunch of years went by, and then somehow, like Palpatine, he was just back, yelling at me again, out of breath, turning red from lack of oxygen, ruining everything
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BeijingPalmer
10 days ago
imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
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Even if Bari Weiss' concerns about the piece are sincere (doubtful) you don't pull the piece two days before air. 60 Minutes, for better and worse, is a battleship, not some alt-weekly.
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‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html
9 days ago
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Blue sky nice ghost
11 days ago
The Legal Eagles poster looks like Robert Redford is greatly amusing himself telling an offensive joke while Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah suffer nearby
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Adam Serwer
11 days ago
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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There should be an uncle’s cut of Taylor Swift docuseries The End of an Era. It’s just stuff like semis being loaded, conveyance systems, outdoor weather meetings.
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"I am more like the person who straps on skates once or twice a year; I can make it across without falling, but not in a way anyone would describe as graceful."
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Party tips for sober people, introverts, and misanthropes
How to stay sane and sober through alcohol-fueled winter holiday celebrations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/askasoberlady/p/party-tips-for-sober-people-introverts?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
14 days ago
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Steve M.
14 days ago
Between the speech, the Truth Social posts, the press-availability rants, and the presidential photo plaques, it's as if Trump is trying to surround himself with his own opinions, the way hoarders want to surround themselves with their own junk.
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Bobby Silverman
16 days ago
the sentence "Much of the menu at 1587 Prime reads like magnetic poetry for people with expense accounts" had me lol'ing
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Chris Hayes
17 days ago
This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
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Marked 30th anniversary of Heat by re-reading James Wolcott's 2003 tribute. He was right to highlight the music (Kronos Quartet, Moby, Eno, et al.), "a tapestry of electronic pulsations that suggests the uneasy night thoughts of neglected machines."
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OF VICE AND MANN | Vanity Fair
Michael Mann never got the kudos he should have for his 1995 movie, Heat, a compulsively watchable pairing of De Niro and Pacino, and his gutsy TV series Robbery Homicide Division ...
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2003/4/of-vice-and-mann
16 days ago
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It's great how straight Rob Reiner played Marty DiBergi in Spinal Tap. The only look-at-me moment is the intro, when he does the funny thing where he can't decide what to do with his arms.
youtu.be/sEvQHxmrgNA
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Opening to This is Spinal Tap (1992) VHS
YouTube video by Films and Cinema Collection
https://youtu.be/sEvQHxmrgNA
16 days ago
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Crazy that Tapestry and Blue were recorded at the same building at the same time
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19 days ago
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Nicholas Grossman
19 days ago
“Post-liberalism” means two things: 1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth. 2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.
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cameron
19 days ago
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen
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jamelle
21 days ago
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-scraps-plan-to-mint-quarters-featuring-abolition-suffrage-073583d4?reflink=article_copyURL_share&st=sRCnY7
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Tom Jackman
23 days ago
Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP.
apnews.com/article/raul...
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Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
Malo was battling colon cancer and later leptomeningeal disease, a rare complication when cancer spreads to membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
https://apnews.com/article/raul-malo-dies-mavericks-d31ac0c4e1a77c85fcd800f71f079eb7
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Gef the Toking Mongoose
26 days ago
The Bic corporation was started by one man who needed to shave, write something down, and set something on fire at the same time
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Kevin M. Kruse
25 days ago
In this segment, Senator Schmitt insists he knows nothing about a major scandal, goes on an extended rant filled with lies and smears, insults Stephanopolous and his show directly, and is generally a preening asshole. Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.
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Kat Tenbarge
27 days ago
This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Doughnuts and Bullets: The Absurdity of Working for RFK Jr.
What happens when your new boss thinks you’re a child killer?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-rfk-jr-cdc-anti-vaccine-guidelines-policy-cuts-director-fired.html
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Your classmates were right, my guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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Listened to a 90s playlist today. I thought my car might take flight when this came on.
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Morphine - Honey White (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RHINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1T3x2fEiU
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The Volatile Mermaid
about 1 year ago
Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.
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crippling unhip deformity
about 1 month ago
when you're rich, you get treated like a savant for getting sub-index fund returns on your gambling addiction
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.
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Arizona Right Watch
about 1 month ago
TPUSA brands itself as “guiding citizens through development of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation so they can meaningfully engage in their communities to restore traditional American values like patriotism” but what it really does is it finds the biggest crybabies and snitches in your area
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
about 1 month ago
everything about this is obscene but here's the real tell: "Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."
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"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."
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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html
about 1 month ago
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Ian Boudreau
about 1 month ago
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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Kelly J. Baker (she/her)
about 1 month ago
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?
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America Is Becoming Dallas
Part One: The Lord of Plano.
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/america-is-becoming-dallas
about 1 month ago
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David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition? Question answers itself, brother.
about 1 month ago
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Ing aka Tophat Artooning
about 1 month ago
He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt
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Don Moynihan
about 1 month ago
My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high
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Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
about 2 months ago
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Blending, like he's making a frappe
about 2 months ago
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Ana Marie Cox
about 2 months ago
Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.
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Skimmed this 1998 book, which hasn't aged well. As we've seen both with W and Trump, white rural people get pretty chill about the federal governmet's power once a Republican is in the White House.
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