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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 11h

Call in the pro.

Inspector Clouseau examines the crime scene

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 11h

Question of the hour… #philately #stamps #democracy

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 11h

Facts are pesky things.

“The fentanyl seized in the United States, in contrast, is typically manufactured in Mexico using precursors from China and smuggled in through the land border, most often by U.S. citizens.”

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 12h

One more and it’s officially a trend…

FEC Document Concludes Trump Paid Actors to Attend Event at Which He Launched 2016 Campaign

Shortly after Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that a New York–based casting agency called Extra...

slate.com

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing to see here, move along, “golden age,” all is well/as it should be, etc.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 14h

Monday morning dog-own. Cats rule, cont’d.

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 17h

The Russians Understand Me Perfectly.

Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 18h

English friar William of Ockham’s less-well-known Occam’s Razor Theory of Crime: “If you can just put a ladder against the building in broad daylight and get away with it, there’s your brilliant crime plan right there, buddy.”

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 18h

As every local journalist knows: Almost every local story is, in some way, a zoning story.

To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning

www.nytimes.com

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Are there currently tariffs and other import fees on stamp shipments actually mailed from Canada?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

“When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement,” DHS’ Tricia McLaughlin asserted, “while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs.”

By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here, move along please. All is as it should be.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 2d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.