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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 20h

they are staging an “all-american halftime show” to counter bad bunny’s… what? his un-americanness? uh. guys. BAD BUNNY IS AN AMERICAN. PUERTO RICANS ARE US CITIZENS, YOU IGNORANT, INCURIOUS, JACKASSES.

Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 20h

every sentence in this story, except when Bad Bunny is quoted, is insane
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA plans rival Super Bowl halftime show

Turning Point USA plans to stage an “All American Halftime Show” during the Super Bowl, positioning the event as a patriotic counterpoint to Bad Bunny’s headlining performance at Levi’s...

www.sfchronicle.com

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 19h

Someday the Rams will become a four quarter team. Not today, but someday.

Still, a win is a win.

the la rams logo is on a blue flag

ALT: the la rams logo is on a blue flag

media.tenor.com

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 20h

They are setting up a fake organization as a threat so they can come after anyone who opposes them.

They will come for us all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 22h

At least Henry Kissinger is still dead

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Nicole Jones-Dion @praxiscope.bsky.social · 1d

Aspiring TV Writers - FOX Writers Incubator is now open for submissions!

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

buttondown.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

I want to make it perfectly clear I've got nothing against TRON: ARES. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

But what I want most is for the younger generations to love going to the movies, which means we need more movies for them. Not every movie needs to be for 50 year old white guys.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't rocket science, Hollywood. When you make movies for Gen Z & Alpha, they pay to see them. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S opened to $80M WITH a day & date streaming release on Peacock. When you make movies for their dads, those dads have a choice between the theater or their bitchin' home theater.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

If we ever take this country back from madmen we will need to prosecute crimes like this. Otherwise we’ll only set up something worse down the line. If they know they can get away with it they will try again.

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

THIS.

They should have learned their lesson with Tron Legacy but IP is Hollywood’s god now so even if it’s a dead horse that’s already been beaten they’ll beat it again.

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 1d

Jared Leto may have a toxic reputation, he may have a wildly unappealing screen presence, but say what you will, he also can't open a movie either.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It was inevitable that, without needed change and reform, the War on Terror would swing back to America

It’s the march of capitalism and its reliance on hidden and then overt authoritarianism. We can see where this is going by looking at what we did to others, and so we must band together with them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good thread for up and coming writers who need help navigating how to network

Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 2d

I had never been in a general meeting before and didn’t quite understand what it was, but I knew the fact that it only lasted 5 minutes was a clear sign it did not go well. The exec later told my agent, “Nate was shy bordering on terrified.”

Here’s a 🧵 on generals and how to turn them into jobs.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Also it's all fake. Kid Rock grew up on an estate in Macomb County with orchards and horses. I'm not sure he's ever been inside a single-wide.

Francis Ford Copulate @francis-f-copulate.bsky.social · 2d

as opposed to a barefoot single-wide tweeked fucking redneck toothpick with a gut in a dipshit hat. got it.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 1d

Thread boost

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Every week it’s “do they want people/kids/disabled people/seniors to die?!”

And we keep explaining that yes, they do. Yes, they think it’s good when “weak” or marginalized people are eliminated, and they will do anything to encourage that.

And every week somehow it’s a surprise.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 2d

Hollywood writers too. The number of people I know who have left Los Angeles since 2020 makes me really sad.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 2d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is at the core of tech oligarch circle- with his creepy spytech company Palantir now a key government contractor -and his belief system is a bizarre synthesis of Atlas Shrugged, Nazi philosophy via Carl Schmidt, and endtimes belief in the AntiChrist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest news story of the week that you may have missed is the real possibility that TikTok will go MAGA. Subscribe now to have all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my exclusive newsletters, sent straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Congrats to the Seattle mariners for locating the end of this game

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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