Nathan McDermott
Roaming Reporter formerly of KFile at CNN & BuzzFeed.
Board member @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social
Host of Beautiful Losers of History podcast:
rss.com/podcasts/beautiful-…
Mostly journalism, history, gay absurdism and the Simpsons
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- Can’t recommend Past Lives enough if you’re looking for a history podcast, especially if you appreciate the perspective of the “common man” in history and want something different than the usual “great man” perspective
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- Has Alan Moore been wrong about anything?
- Is Sean McElwee a joke to you people?!
- I just found out that Indonesi'a high speed train system is called "Whoosh"
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- Any theories on why young men in the US are lonelier than their international counterparts?
- A family member was dumbfounded that I could live in New York, and leave my clothes in a public laundromat dryer unattended for an hour and come back without them being stolen.
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- You had to be there
- Autumn in New York Winter in New York
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- nypost.com/2025/11/29/u... Every sentence in this article is better than the one before it
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- Shes still spitting out bars
- The NIMBY left is getting purged from the party like the Left Socialist Revolutionaries were purged by the Bolsheviks. YIMBY Lenin is looking down from heaven and wiping away a single tear
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- So MTG ran for office promising to fight a shadowy cabal of Democratic sexual predators, but then quit because she didn't want to fight a shadowy cabal of Republican sexual predators, got it.
- No member of the Democratic leadership has been this kind to Zohran, lmao
- Meanwhile, at the Post
- “Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims…” “In one of the messages, Mr. Epstein flatly asserted that Mr. Trump “knew about the girls,” many of whom were later found by investigators to have been underage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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- What’s crazy is that this was all for a $4,000 bet! Clase’s contract next year is for over $6 million!
- Found this historical curiosity on a walk today
- Threatening to replicate the French military strategy from World War II just makes Curtis Sliwa all the more endearing nymag.com/intelligence...
- The Texas Supreme Court changed its policy to allow judges to refuse same-sex marriages. The change happened last week but it’s only being reported now because nobody noticed, in case you want to see an example of the real world impact of the collapse of local news industry
- To paraphrase George HW Bush, America should be a lot more like the Drudge Report and a lot less like the New York Post
- Per @seanmcnulty.bsky.social, A24's been dropping ad money during sports and UFC ad breaks to promote their movie starring The Rock, and honestly, good for the sports bros. If this gets them into independent cinema, they're just that much closer to discovering Tár. theankler.com/p/cable-tv-n...
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- I think America is less on the brink of another Civil War, than it is entering Years of Lead territory, ala Italy in the 70s and 80s, when political instability and extreme polarization led to routine violence from nonstate actors. Not quite an insurgency, but regular violence nonetheless.
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- Cant wait to check this out! Patrick’s podcast episodes about Stone Age and Bronze Aged societies made me see these people as human beings for the first time in my life, rather than broken pieces of pottery and beads of jewelry found in an archeological digs Give them a listen on Tides of History!
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- From 2022: Hakeem Jeffries pays $200 in property taxes thanks to sweetheart subsidy law that he supported when he served in the state Assembly. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...
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