@tolstoybb @MattZeitlin Wish it’d gotten more love at the Oscars.
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David Fellerath
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David Fellerath
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Commercial pilot & general contractor.
Oxford, NC Katılım Eylül 2008
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Casting beloved Dionysian Stavros Halkias in that role…lmao well done Yorgos Lanthimos
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@mattyglesias Not necessarily… my understanding is that many Stuyvesant-qualified students opt for private schools, which distorts the student makeup.
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@AliceFromQueens Brilliant. I score it a 9.8 with points deducted for not quite sticking a reference to the Beastie Boys' "To the Five Boroughs"!
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Throw a total curveball at a politician and see how he handles it.
It’s a test.
Timmy Facciola@TimmyFacciola_
Zohran Mamdani on Staten Island self-determination:
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@timurkuran I had to quit watching Season 2 of Wolf Hall (which came out in 2024) because the non-traditional casting of roles in a drama set in 16th-century England kept taking me out of the film, ruining my suspension of disbelief.
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Three cheers for Richard Dreyfuss. “Inclusion standards treat us all like children,” he says. And they kill art.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Richard Dreyfuss giving a blunt response on new inclusion standards in cinema…
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It’s still early but we should be very concerned about last night’s crash at LGA and the questions it raises about FAA staffing levels at airports. The audio is terrifying and suggests that a single overworked controller was directing ground ops as well as takeoffs and landings.
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a charismatic door-to-door AT&T salesperson persuaded me to change internet providers on the spot. I feel both a tremendous rush and like a mark — is this what people in the 50s felt like all the time
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@robbysoave Presumably, there are old FBI files on Chavez that might provide support for the allegations. The Times report doesn't say anything about this, but it surely occurred to them to file a FOIA request during the years they worked on this story.
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Now that Cesar Chavez is credibly accused of sexual abuse of numerous women, including 12 and 13-year-old girls, I presume we are going to be releasing any and all government files pertaining to him, scrutinize his relationships with other labor leaders and the Democratic Party, publish his private correspondence, and consider as tainted or (possibly even complicit) anyone who met with him or traveled with him, particularly in the presence of young girls. That's how this goes, right?
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@phl43 If you're talking about HONS AND REBELS, Mitford ends the narrative during WWII, after her husband's death. Basically all the fun stuff of youth is in that book, not the ugly Stalinism. But did she write a follow-up?
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I have read her memoirs, which is actually a pretty good read (same for the memoirs of her sister Diana, who had the opposite political views), but I didn't know this story.
Ceb K.@CEBKCEBKCEBK
Jessica Mitford helped the Communist Party produce an entirely fake wife for a black rapist on death row, to testify to his innocence. This was one of the key triggers of the civil rights movement, along with equally fake CPUSA pro-rape activism like the Scottsboro Boys case etc.
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An unvarnished take on Chavez from 40 years ago. The writing is extraordinary, a voice from a different and more honest century.
Matthew Schmitz@matthewschmitz
Richard Rodriguez upset LA Times readers in 1988 by writing about Cesar Chavez in somewhat critical terms.
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@matthewschmitz Wow, how come nobody in journalism writes like this anymore?
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Richard Rodriguez upset LA Times readers in 1988 by writing about Cesar Chavez in somewhat critical terms.
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@KuperSimon It may be that there's no other punishment that would be as meaningful as a sanction and as effective as a deterrent.
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Well, this is quite a big deal. Senegal definitely deserved punishment for the walk-off, but stripping them of the title seems a bit much skysports.com/football/news/…
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On the left is a complaint that One Battle After Another wasn't like the Weathermen. On the right is a description of the Weathermen.
Sonny Bunch@SonnyBunch
She's very close to getting it! nytimes.com/2026/03/08/opi…
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@mattyglesias In the recent NC-04 Democratic congressional primary in which incumbent Foushee fended off a Free-Palestine challenger, the cleverest attack was that her support from an Anthropic-adjacent PAC was, in fact, AI PAC.
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@dareader23 @asymmetricinfo No need to feel sorry for me! I'm glad I never felt like I had to act out hatred for Protestants or engage in some other stupid animosity. I'm happy to hear that your folks were supported by the Irish Republicans!
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I’ve seen several people with vastly different political ideologies quote tweet this with vague posts about how the answer is obvious and i cannot for the life of me imagine why the mayor of new york (or any non limey) should give a shit about this.
Timmy Facciola@TimmyFacciola_
Zohran Mamdani on whether he supports a united Ireland: "I gotta be honest, I haven't thought enough on that question."
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@asymmetricinfo Sorry to belabor the thread, but I'll add that I *did* manage to find an Irish kindred spirit in those years (mid 1990s) when I encountered the work of the then-emerging playwright Martin McDonagh, whose early efforts were about his ambivalence toward his Irish heritage. /end
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@asymmetricinfo @Timodc I get that... my parents grew up strongly Irish American in NYC, Long Island & Westchester, attended parochial schools, raised by parents who were determined to escape the working class and succeeded.
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@asymmetricinfo @Timodc Irish ethnic identity seemed strongest within the police and fire departments, which seemed to require becoming invested in domestic political and social commitments that I was disinclined to share.
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@DavidFellerath @Timodc It is not salient to every Irish American, but at least when I was growing up, it was highly salient to an electorally significant subset, though one you may not have interacted with much as a young professional.
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@asymmetricinfo @Timodc Megan, I'm a fan of your work, but I disagree. As a deracinated fifth-gen Irish-American living in NYC as a young man, I tried to connect with Irish nationalism. I concluded that it's not interesting or relevant. It's just rote ethnic cosplay staged one day each year.
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There’s a reason NYC has a big St. Patrick’s Day parade, and Irish Americans have long been more radical on this topic than actual Irish people. (Though the Taoiseach also finds it necessary to claim to be in favor of unification even though Irish politicians are in fact rather frightened of the prospect)
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@bobbyfijan I guess you could have someone like Bill Gates who spends the first half of his life getting rich by building an important company, then turns to heavyweight philanthropy. But still nowhere close to the same influence as Ben.
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@DavidFellerath In terms of public+private … I’m not sure it’s possible.
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You can read the actual daily diaries of George Washington or the Autobiography of Ben Franklin to see that this isn’t true
David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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