Stephen Lurie
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thinking about some stuff here and there writer / strategist stephenlurie.com
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Wrote a great essay for you to read
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
if you: (A) watched movies this year (B) are a fella (C) know some guys (D) exist in the economy (E) any of the above
jacobin.com/2026/03/osca...
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And the Oscar Goes to … Men Not at Work
Our male protagonists – or perhaps men more broadly – are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/oscars-work-best-actor-dicaprio-chalamet
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thought I’d check in on the easiest political prediction of all time! you’ll never guess the outcome! wonder when the fearmongering islamophobes will apologize!
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explain to someone from a big city beyond America that the state lottery is advertising on the bikeshare sponsored by a bank and operated by an app company, while the giant advertisement for a personal injury firm is actually the municipal bus
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about 50% confident Democrats will choose not to fumble their opponents’ official position of “pay for pointless foreign war by pillaging America”
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might fuck around and sort by price: high to low
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NEW:
@wired.com
has ID’d a number of the masked paramilitary agents in the exceedingly violent unit surrounding Greg Bovino that formed the leading edge of the invading force the federal government sent to Chicago last fall;
@awinston.bsky.social
and
@regret.bsky.social
have the story.
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
https://www.wired.com/story/border-patrol-bortac-borstar-use-of-force-midway-blitz/
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I don’t think we can overstate how big of a fuck up it was to let Menin becoming speaker of the council in the same cycle as a Zohran win & growth of progressive caucus to a near majority. Huge huge huge miss.
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Months ranked by actual foolishness: 1. June 2. October 3. May 4. September 5. July 6. December 7. August 8. —>April 9. January 10. November 11. March 12. February
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Adam Serwer
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So what this describes is ethnic cleansing
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...
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The World Cup groups are now set, so we can now see just how much of the world the US is excluding from participating in the cup here:
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I must now — after listening to
@harvilla.bsky.social
’s conclusive report here on the pre-historic nature of Jock Jams — withdraw this essay from circulation 😞
open.spotify.com/episode/5eZg...
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help, this cybertruck ate lisa frank
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The regime isn’t worried — they’ve got lots of plans on the horizon to 𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚌̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚜̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚙̶𝚙̶𝚛̶𝚘̶𝚟̶𝚊̶𝚕̶ make approval immaterial!
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Just one drop in the unfathomable well of money out there to advance AI against human interests. It’s not beatable on its own terms — simply have to find a way to push a mass cultural rebellion against AI that makes the money itself toxic. That starts in our own lives.
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Must be nice “work” if you can get it!!!
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How it’s all going at LaGuardia this morning: insane lines for unpaid & short-staffed TSA while 20+ ICE agents just hang out and chat.
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has anyone yet seen a reasonable explanation for why all the NY area airports are now boycotting wait time reporting instead of just continuing to report that
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democratic members of congress should be going to airports and explaining how everyone has to wait in long lines and everyone is less safe because the president wants to kidnap more people
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The temperature is changing a lot so we destroyed the thermometer.
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Loot baby loot
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good idea mister president, this will get ICE favorables way up
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ICY(belatedly caught up on Oscars movies this week)!
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Filter Down Economics
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What would it look like for a platform to encourage & visibilize non-toxic engagement? I don’t mean avoiding disagreement — I mean disincentivizing behavior that makes people dislike and/or leave the platform. Surely we have the tools to do this!
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Brent Crude? Sounds familiar, I think he was a popular adult film performer in the 70s…
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If Israel says it represents all Jews, the American govt says Israel represents all Jews, the most powerful Jewish groups say Israel represents all Jews — then when non-Jews attack Jews because they are angry at Israel, the people continually conflating Jews with Israel deserve to share the blame.
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Fetterman is turning out to be a MAGA Manchin, which is not great for a Democratic senator from Pennsylvania!
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you’re telling me March is about to get even madder…
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Adina M. Yoffie
19 days ago
The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out
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Kevin Duggan
19 days ago
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with
@sophlebo.bsky.social
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...
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Mamdani Ends NYPD's Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists, E-Bike Riders
Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally makes good on his campaign promise to end the punitive criminal crackdown on cycling in NYC.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/mamdani-ends-nypd-ebike-cyclist-criminal-summons
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This film is one of my strongest media memories from deep COVID era — an absolute gem (with a great soundtrack) that far more people should see!
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Everything that’s happening now feels ideologically aligned to what was possible in Trump 1 — what’s changed seems to be the ascendancy of the technofascist mythology among all the enablers that everything will just be easy, that we have the tech & smarts & power to do it.
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with all due disrespect to the AIPAC ghouls of my childhood to the present: eat shit, you will eventually lose everything
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lol can’t believe I was right about this
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David Dayen
20 days ago
No idea what's going to happen in Illinois tonight, but I think we can safely say that almost $100 million spent in a handful of primaries is a full-spectrum disaster for democracy
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The gas station is the perfect location — the vast majority of people do not see 99.9% of the evil shit these guys do, which the would hate if they knew, but they always see number go up!
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Extremely cool visual phenomenon during approach to JFK today:
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2003: weapons of mass destruction definitely exist! let’s go war! 2026: we did war and, uh, I guess there was a big threat, but the national counterterrorism guy didn’t know about it ok
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RIP* to Joe Kent, a real** one*** *eternal unrest **antisemitic ***national security risk
www.wired.com/story/even-m...
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Illinois primaries: $15+ million spent by AIPAC & Co. trying to trick voters into electing their bought & paid for candidates.
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impossible for the vast majority of us to imagine the feelings related to your home being exploded, your family obliterated, because they were located vaguely near someone else that another country wanted to kill
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is this good
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“Is there any doubt Marty would launch a meme coin? Would JB not find his way to becoming a vintage reseller on Poshmark? Can we not imagine Bob Ferguson at the podcast microphone?”
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ryan cooper
21 days ago
6 kids. god dammit
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/afghan-death-ice-mohammad-paktyawal-b2938902.html
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Best Actor Ranking to Make the Most Possible People Mad: (1) Ethan Hawke (2) Wagner Moura (3) Timothy Chalamet (4) Michael B Jordan (5) Leonardo Di Caprio
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The Secret Agent is probably going to be a Top 10 movie of the decade but win zero academy awards.
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Javier Bardem
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David Dayen
22 days ago
I'll tell you who's not winning Best Sound: This Oscars telecast
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F1: the best movie about something you can also watch on TV this weekend and also on Netflix all the time
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what’s the second worst film after Frankenstein to win 3+ Oscars
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t’s relieving that during the ads for the awards show for the movie industry facing an existential crisis of capitalist assault on creative freedom you can learn that both Scrubs and Malcom in the Middle will both be back on TV soon!!
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