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"The growing sense that 'freedom' is a word you say when you are bullshitting has made it harder to talk about freedom in non-bullshit ways." Terrific work from @danbrooks.bsky.social defector.com/american-fre...

Hey I wrote a story about how the “benefit” fights of the early American boxing scene show that it’s not just the UFC but rather the fight game itself that has no problem sending you out on a stretcher in your own retirement fight. sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/...

I wrote about the Trump Gaza video and MAGA irony more generally for the Times Mag. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/m...

Launching SEE FRIENDSHIP last night at Books Are Magic was a dream—the best a book event has ever been, possibly. Up next, I'll be hitting up San Francisco's Green Apple Books with Jay Caspian Kang on March 12—would love to see you there

For the Atlantic, I wrote about people saying "oneshotted" online — the place it's least likely to happen to you. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

begging people to get a grip www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Part of being married is silently watching them destroy all the nonstick surfaces in the house. No one tells you.

Nick learned these events were happening from the hooting of an owl. They were revealed to him in a dream.

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Real pretty morning

My generation has experienced a US economy that is not instrumental to human flourishing but antithetical to it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

Simply Cheetos

Seeing a lot of calls to violence on here from people who have no experience with or means to do violence. It's been 2016 for a long time.

Firefighter: [after my house burns down] Fucking fire, am I right?

in defending his notion of "ordered love," Vance remarks: "Aside from that, the idea that there isn’t a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense." Indeed it does! Fortunately for we who love Jesus and hunger for justice, Jesus's entire ministry challenges "basic common sense"

Tennessee Garvey

I probably did say that.

The word "Trump" does not appear anywhere in the substack this tweet quotes. Krugman says why he left, and it has nothing to do with Trump at all. This claim is horseshit.

If you watch the video, she says it's the admin's position that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional because illegal immigrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of US law, which is the qualifier in the Fourteenth Amendment. That is a legal opinion — albeit one with fun implications!

My stepsister has a developmental disability and both these guys are fat pussies.

Caity Weaver is so funny, man. She makes me jealous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/m...

here comes pete hogsex with two bottles of gin in one of those beer can helmets and hes driving a nuclear equipped walking battle tank

A lot of people say Bluesky is like Twitter, but one difference is that when I clicked on the obviously fake account, it was suspended.

RIP to a titan of both experimental theatre and forbidden hair

They're talking about the Democratic Party. The most interesting trend in the Democratic Party is that it might court moderates.

This claim from David Brooks is baffling, especially because he spends the column to this point talking about 19th century history. The populist movement of that time was specifically and explicitly against the influence of the rich on government and had zero support from new-money tycoons.

I've been using Bluesky the way I should have used Twitter (never posting.)

This period before Trump’s inauguration is a good time for everyone to re-read this 2020 @danbrooks.bsky.social essay about Trump, comedy, “ambiguous irony,” and outrage—the best piece of writing about how the Trump presidency affected popular culture last time around, in my view. t.co/ReuJhQzXAQ

The beast in the jungle

I can't think of anyone more qualified.

My man put his sandwich in the overhead bin, loose.

oh you're hanging out with friends again?? ok well.. enjoy your echo chamber. i will be out with my enemies having a productive and intellectually enriching night of angrily stating and restating our standpoints on today's most important issues

Savoy Tomato and Cheese in Tokyo. I was skeptical, but the recommendations were absolutely correct.

Voters wanted change, and the basic promise of the Harris campaign was continuity. So they went with the kind of change you get from a hand grenade. abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive...

This guy

"Normal" is the left's "woke."

I always bite on this prompt, because I am a reverse snob. Target Stable hand Stagehand Scenic carpenter Tutor

Welcome new followers! Just to clarify, I am not the Dan Brooks who writes about Star Wars. Here is a picture of a dog wearing pants in Japan.

I'm donut?

I agree with the first claim and strongly disagree with the second. We don't need propaganda. We need a progressive politics that improves American life for everybody.

Dear for best of who's grit

If anyone needs me for the next three hours, I'll be in this train car with 200 Japanese schoolchildren.

"Incompetence is more common than malice, even though it makes for a less compelling plot" Good piece by @danbrooks.bsky.social in the graun. The last paragraph.

It bums me out to see an editor talking this way. If you know anything about news journalism in general and the Times in particular, you know it doesn't work like that.

Belated big ups for this one from @danbrooks.bsky.social.

Oops, meant to tag @danbrooks.bsky.social on his excellent piece for Defector.

Haven't been here in a while, but I feathered my nest a little by blocking S*uthpaw. Together we can create a new network, without Twitter Lawyer Guys.

Guy with tattoos on his face rode his motorcycle up to the walkup window at the coffee hut, scaring Cracky. After I explained that he was timid, the guy — as a percentage of people will — tried to force an interaction. He even followed us when I led Cracky away.

earlier when i was out walking my dog i saw some other guy walking his dog. and it’s just like, come on man. fuck you