Ian Hoch Live
@ianhoch.bsky.social
Author of The Static Age | https://ianhochlive.substack.com | Radio host. Actor. New Orleans. Stage, screen, studio, real life.
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 2mo ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
🎶 I was gonna clean my room, but then I got high 🎵 My brother in Christ, I was not aware there was any other way to clean your room
It should be against the law to use your phone flashlight as a "lighter" at a concert unless you also turn your screen off You look like an idiot
"Oh no the extreme left is taking over the Democratic establishment!" I don't think that's entire true and I'm not exactly DSA material but the extreme right took over the Republican establishment and Republicans got literally everything they ever wanted, so
Victor Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) says Alright
ALT: Victor Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) says Alright
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The vibe from JD Vance during all his recent media appearances is “more sinister Jeb!” and that’s just not where you want to be
NEW from me: The collective zzzz when the White House drone attack story first broke was something much weirder than you could possibly imagine
The Creepiest Part of the UFC Drone Plot Was That it Didn't Look Out of Place
We treated this story like political messaging, not as breaking news
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BRILLIANT "It wasn't just the question of "what is America" that loomed over the whole weekend for me, though. I also wondered whether this was all even worth it. Not just White's $60 million investment, but, also, Trump's continued endorsement of hypermasculine gutter culture"
My horrible, no good weekend at the UFC White House fight
Read to the end for a really good World Cup fan
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Can we tell the difference between personal mess and public menace? Because one of those might disappoint you. The other one can rip this country apart.
Trump built a Scandal Immunity System and now Graham Platner is using it
For better or for worse, voters are learning to separate personal mess from public menace
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As an adult re-playing #Myst it's worth noting that the whole narrative of this series is that you can write ENTIRE WORLDS into existence and yet the worlds they wrote into existence in 1993 are actually only like 5 rooms and a couple control panels
If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
i dont understand why everyone is treating this “deal is close in iran” talk exactly as seriously as the last dozen “deal is close in iran” talk
Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social
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The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...
Boeing, Toyota Donated $1 Million Each to Transportation Secretary’s Road-Trip Show
A video series will feature Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family on a road trip to mark America’s 250th birthday and promote tourism.
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HUNDRED PERCENT. Especially waving cyclists and peds through when its not their turn - unless you have telepathically signalled your intent to every other driver, you really just put that waved-through person in danger that they were not in before
Travis comma bitch@prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 4mo agoFYI you’re not being polite by waving someone through a stop sign when it’s your right of way. Being polite is moving your ass according to the rules and not confusing people.
Bad Congressional maps are the big problem that makes all the little problems possible - and in the Confederate south, the problem is not just growing - it is metastasizing.
Bad maps are breaking America
The fight over congressional maps may sound technical, but bad maps are how extremism, corruption, and broken government survive.
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Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...
I can't speak to other cultures, but for every English-speaking culture on Earth as of 2026, "are we the baddies?" is essential to understanding the moment. It's not just that there are baddies; there are genuinely millions of people who can barely comprehend what they support and why.
Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 4mo agoI loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age
Had a great interview this week about the Trump admin's outrageous move to blow up the US Forest Service - unbelievable levels of gaslighting here
Ian: We must save the US Forest Service; here's why | WWL
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Have you seen "Shiny Happy People" yet? It confounds me that Hegseth and others in the movement continue to get away with this toxic Christian cosplay - or act as if the rest of us don’t see the huge disconnect between Jesus’ message and their own.
Pete Hegseth and the "Shiny Happy" machinery of Christian monsters
The defense secretary’s politics of force, hierarchy, and grievance look a lot like the evangelical horror show exposed in "Shiny Happy People"
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LOL that was the worst shit I've ever heard. I feel confident I will never encounter a real life person who could point at that and say it was strong, or useful, or made him look cool, or made America look anything but limp
"Decimated" means to destroy one-tenth of ("deci") so I guess 90 percent of Iran is in pretty good shape