@jakebackpack

Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks.

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Joined May 2009
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Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt15h
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @GrahamRayman & @joeanuta politico.com/news/2026/10/26…

Mamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friends

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This is as close as gay men of my era will ever get to seeing Tab Hunter in a date with Natalie Wood.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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.@BarackObama I recommend the Cheeseburger Spring Rolls.
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I'll beat this dead horse until it comes back to life: not only do Jews and Muslims share status as tiny minorities in the US, but Judaism and Islam are far, far more similar to each other as religions than either is to Christianity.
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MSU/YouGov: Only 11% of Jewish likely voters in Michigan hold a negative view towards Muslims. 34% of Michigan likely voters hold a negative view towards Muslims.
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Honestly tickled that The UPS Store just misses the top quartile of American chain snobbisme.
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Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans? Here’s what the data show washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
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Homo floresiensis Don Rickles
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Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
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I remember the first time I saw myself *represented* in a major Hollywood blockbuster...
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À chaque Rubio son propre Parthénon.
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Does Obama not understand that to most Americans the Cheesecake Factory is a very nice and fancy restaurant?
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Tapping my "One-time downloads are not use" sign.
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The Big Lebowski
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@HawkEmDownChrisOct 20
You can’t say Rocky, Remember the Titans, Coach Carter, or The Sandlot. What’s the greatest sports movie of all time?
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I wrote a sonnet about turning the Titanic around overnight.
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jacobbacharach.com/2026/10/2…

The White Star Lyin’

You don’t turn the Titanic around overnight.You do not turn that boat around at all.You steam ahead. The night begins to fall.The women put on pearls, the men their whitedinner jackets. The b…

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I wrote a sonnet about Texas turning into Paris, France if you don't vote Republican.
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A Far, Far Better Thing

Texas will turn into Paris, France, if youand your family do not vote Republican.Lake Austin or the Rio Grande, the Seine.They’ll moules-et-frites your humble barbecueand vanish when l’addition is …

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The Carcettization of Zohran Mamdani by the Columnist Jonathan Chait
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Still haven't seen Digger but I *have* seen the production cost numbers and I have to say that I am absolutely tickled by the fact that Iñárritu managed to scam even more money for a quixotic and stylistically bewildering project than Aronofsky did with Noah.
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Paris vaut bien une bless your heart.
Trad West
@trad_west_Oct 18
“The situation has never been so serious; the Fifth Republic is on the verge of collapse. My family has served France for centuries, and if France calls upon me, I will be at its service. The indispensable condition is that France desires the return of the monarchy - a monarchy above parties, unifying.” - Luís de Bourbon, direct descendant of Saint Louis IX
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The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Womann
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#TexasSenate Semafor: CBS News’ Bari Weiss tasked staff with pursuing the theory that Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was in a mental health facility after he disappeared from the campaign trail for over a week in October. He was at home with the flu, journalists from The New York Times confirmed, citing images from Talarico’s home security cameras.
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I'm prejudiced (from Western Pennsylvania), but Fallingwater actually is the highest expression of human genius and the single most Lives Up To and Then Exceeds Expectations tourist attraction on the planet earth.
kate wehwalt
@mcmansionhellOct 17
i've come completely full circle on this over the last seventeen years of my life and i do think that frank lloyd wright and louis sullivan are in fact america's greatest architects
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I'm just a simple country MBA, but DJT was a Fordham kid who transferred to Penn in his junior year when it was a non-selective ivy and got an econ BS degree, not an MBA.
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Actually agree with many of the author's points but my grad business education was mostly about linear algebra and calculating the NPV of annuities. nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…

Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down.

Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

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