Matthew Budman, book guy
@matthewbudman.bsky.social
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News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
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Aaron Rupar
about 17 hours ago
Mamdani: "While only action can change minds, I promise you this: If you are a New Yorker, I am your mayor. Regardless of whether we agree I will protect you, celebrate with you, mourn along side you, and not for a second hide from you."
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OK, if you insist
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Not a great year for Music I Like, but enough to fill out an appealing playlist
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Matthew B's 2025 favorites
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7ASpm2HOAQF4Xl2qcDlGNG?si=848b70f530da4470
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the Mountain Goats
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these fucking people. they pass laws to make sure every person with a screw loose who wants an Armalite can show up to the day care armed & ready to kill, then complain that the day cares are locked to protect the children inside
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SEXY BEAST (2000, dir. Jonathan Glazer)
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2 days ago
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hey, Gemini, get the hell out of my iOS device
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Ellen Chang
3 days ago
RIP Isiah Whitlock Jr. We loved all the characters you played, especially as Clay Davis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJ...
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The Wire: Shit Clay Davis Says | HBO
YouTube video by HBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJZgOiVAI
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I had no idea that so many country artists went out of their way to explicitly embrace Trumpism this year
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
5 days ago
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Post a perfect album from the '90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
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Trump sees small-business owners as losers and suckers just like the rest of us who aren't grifter billionaires, so who cares if they can't afford health insurance
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These small-business owners will become uninsured after key ACA subsidies expire | CNN Politics
When patients come to Eric Frankenfeld’s chiropractic practice with insurance woes, his wife, Lisa, the office manager, tells them not to worry because she’ll work with them to keep care affordable.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/politics/small-businesses-health-insurance-aca
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Behold Trump's Golden Age
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Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs
Businesses in vulnerable sectors found themselves caught between rising tariffs and beleaguered consumers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/27/corporate-bankruptcies-economy/
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@michellegoldberg.bsky.social
: "It’s become, over the past year, easier to imagine the moment when his mystique finally evaporates, when few want to defend him anymore or admit that they ever did." (gift link!)
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Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/opinion/trump-weaker-resistance-stronger.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.hze9.yEWW4XuIkznV&smid=url-share
7 days ago
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WuTangIsForTheChildren
7 days ago
Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏
www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...
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Goodreads suggests these were my favorite reads of 2025, heavy on Hampton Sides and, improbably, eighteenth-century seafaring
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Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime Where we're working in a mine For our robot overlords Did I say overlords? I meant protectors
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Chiron Beta Prime
YouTube video by jocopro
https://youtu.be/B3DyxaCYlfg?si=d_wrf7zgvCnaGPQF
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Chuck Redd: “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.” Trump take jazz
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Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. Musician Chuck Redd, the show's host, says he called off the performance after the White House announced President Donald ...
https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-center-jazz-jam-canceled-e556b53085a483140436cfaa8b6f177f
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Timothy Simons
9 days ago
I hope that all of you have a joyous holiday season surrounded by your family and loved ones*. *Except for ICE. I hope no one talks to you or gives you a present and that you accidentally shit your pants while everyone tells you to go fuck yourself at the grocery store.
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@cjewishhistory.bsky.social
’s stunning
#AnneFrank
exhibit yesterday, there was a European map showing where the Nazis put concentration camps, and it looked JUST LIKE THIS
www.annefrankexhibit.org/
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honor sachs
9 days ago
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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Aw, man, you don't know who Santa Claus is, man! Yeah, well, I'm not from here, man. Like, I'm from Pittsburgh, man. I don't know too many local dudes
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Santa Claus And His Old Lady
YouTube video by Cheech & Chong - Topic
https://youtu.be/VCzlpxBOSEI?si=LtkFQtM6l40wE3zS
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Elon's DOGE legacy: millions sick and hungry, hundreds of thousands of deaths, less government efficiency, and almost no money saved.
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10 days ago
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lol "capitalism"
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11 days ago
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Marcy
12 days ago
Teaching my gentile husband that the frustration that comes from trying to light a full menorah with fragile generic candles is all part of the Jewish Experience. "This is worse than building Ikea furniture." Happy eighth night and Happy Winter Solstice.
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nice post-Chanukah present
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@tobymorton.bsky.social
FTW
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The ‘TrumpKennedyCenter.org’ website is taken. This comedian owns it.
The creator of satirical domains bought the site this summer and is plotting its content, even if some things are “hard to parody.”
https://wapo.st/3Y63LYm
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Karen Tumulty
13 days ago
The government’s historic role as a trusted information source is under threat. The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case under Trump, by @NaftaliBendavid
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/20/data-information-federal-government-trump/
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Got an email from my mother promising a belated birthday call, and my wife rushed to play this classic. "The day after my birthday is not my birthday, Mum."
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Hurt Feelings - Flight of the Conchords (2009)
YouTube video by Fans of the Conchords
https://youtu.be/e0jlDrVs3Sg?si=wcfAgJKI5LS35nAc
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Michael Hobbes
14 days ago
These are the people the mainstream media is constantly telling us to understand and sympathize with.
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Chanukah birthday in the East Village: MARTY SUPREME and discussion over pierogi & latkes at Little Poland
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Was *sure* this was AI-generated satire. But it's not, it's really not. He's actually doing the Hunger Games next year. (OTOH, those didn't turn out that well for President Snow, IIRC.)
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Jon Phillips
16 days ago
Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?
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James Fallows
16 days ago
Theodore Dreiser: Greatest bad writer in American history. (Am Tragedy: Sentence by sentence, ponderous. Cumulatively, in its 800+ page heft, magnificent.) Can hardly believe that our English teacher, Mathilda Phillips at Redlands High, had us read and discuss the whole thing, chapter by chapter.
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NEVER LET ME GO (Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005)
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In
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news, Boni & Liveright published Theodore Dreiser's magnum opus a century ago today: two volumes, in a slipcase. (Wish this first edition were mine, but it belongs to Baltimore shop Royal Books.) Filmed a quarter century later as the magnificent A PLACE IN THE SUN.
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A reminder that Marco & Elon's legacy includes not only murdering millions of people by abruptly cutting off their aid but destroying the futures of countless more.
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Kash & Bongo's FBI is on the case
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17 days ago
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"Do you know anyone quite as malevolent? At your place of work? On your campus? A colleague? A teacher? Much less someone whose impulses & furies in no small measure dictate the direction, fate & temper of the country? Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump?"
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17 days ago
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
18 days ago
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
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Senator Patty Murray
18 days ago
A vile and disgusting statement from a sitting Senator. Freedom of religion is fundamental to the identity of America. What a disgrace.
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Amanda Katz
18 days ago
TV news having trouble triaging an antisemitic mass murder on Chanukah, a mass shooting at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities, and the apparent murder of one of America’s most beloved movie directors
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Five years ago today. If RFK Jr. had been Trump's first-term HHS secretary, we would have just let everyone die.
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WATCH: Health care worker is first to receive Covid vaccine in New York
The first Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine administered in New York was given to a health care worker on a livestream with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
https://www.ms.now/msnbc/watch/watch-first-covid-vaccine-is-administered-to-health-care-worker-in-new-york-97684037745?fbclid=IwY2xjawOroMJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHTUsyTWtTd3lWREpXMklwc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHt4qO98Wql8fxwuJFpEuK6bRiokEflDAyt4179-VvqP3XBBXbt6_qjpicBFP_aem_aqTUmUWkxJa6BA_NFYYDzA
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Private equity, man. This is the world about which
@brianralexander.bsky.social
@greenwell.bsky.social
have been warning us.
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Seeing more and more Santa hats out there, spreading like a virus into nearby neighborhoods
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but he's so convincing when he says he knows nothing about Epstein
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As Epstein releases near, Americans think Trump knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes | CNN Politics
Friday featured yet another drop in the drip-drip-drip of new information from the Jeffrey Epstein files. This time: new pictures released by House Democrats that feature Donald Trump and other powerf...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/politics/epstein-files-trump-poll-analysis
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Incidentally, the 12 MONKEYS virus was released twenty-nine years ago today, in Philadelphia
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The dreaded day is here. Thanks to
@evgrieve.bsky.social
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SantaCon 2025 arrives Saturday. Prepare accordingly.
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.
https://evgrieve.com/2025/12/santacon-2025-arrives-saturday-prepare.html
20 days ago
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In Trump's view, fraudsters are winners, and victims are losers. These suckers should have just gone out and done their own scams! Should be easier now that he has legalized financial crimes. (gift link)
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Fraudster’s Victims Are Seething After Trump Commuted His Sentence
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/nyregion/david-gentile-trump-commutation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E8.Legy.u4XT_m3a0bwz&smid=url-share
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In unrelated news: In a game sixty years ago today, Chicago Bears rookie Gale Sayers touched the ball sixteen times: nine rushes, two receptions, five punt returns. Six of those sixteen touches got him into the end zone. Damn.
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Michael Peregrine: Gale Sayers and the greatest performance in Chicago sports history
Dec. 12, 1965, was a day when everything went right for the Bears rookie running back Gale Sayers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/12/opinion-gale-sayers-bears-1965-six-touchdowns-49ers/
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FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966, dir. Richard Fleischer)
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