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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 46m

If this is what journalists have to do in 2025 to stay independent, so be it. Fuck the sec-def. He’s a snowflake.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1h

No money for healthcare, no money for veterans, no money for farmers. But good news: Trump just doubled Argentina’s bailout to $40 billion.

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1h

This is the sign my wife will be carrying to the protest on Saturday in Washington, DC. It’s a nationwide “No Kings” event, with local protests everywhere, and turnout is really important. More info on locations across the USA: www.nokings.org

Sign: “Democracy is dying in daylight. Protect the vote.”

Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

But for the most part, the service is very good and obviates the need to find a sports bar, and we are able to watched other stuff like MSNBC. 4/4

Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

For example, the Mariners games are on the Seattle Fox station, but those broadcasts are blacked out, so we watch the games on FS1. Also, MLB’s channel is blacked out, perhaps because MLB is trying to sell its owning streaming service. 3/4

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

The Stream app enables you to watch your regular cable lineup from anywhere. There are blackouts of some channels for certain national programming if you are out of your home market, and that has required us to get a little creative. 2/4

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

For all the complaining we do, and have done, about cable companies, I must praise Xfinity and its Stream app. We’re traveling, and the AirBNB where we are staying has no regular TV — just streaming. So we’ve been watching the Mariners on my iPad with the Xfinity app. 1/4

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

I had to prove I was a human to read this Axios story about how AI is writing about half the crap on the Web. I think it was because I was using a VPN. A robot probably detected that and threw up a barrier.

Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds

New data shows AI-written content is plateauing — and doesn't perform well in search.

www.axios.com

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss is a self-unaware lightweight, which would be merely funny if she wasn’t suddenly in charge of CBS News.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 4d

If you become a Blue Jays fan, that’s it, we’re done.

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 4d

I think I’d like to see the Seattle Mariners play the Seattle Pilots in the World Series.

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 4d

Five hours of stress probably took five years off my life but it was worth it. Go Mariners! Nicely played Tigers! Epic game.

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 4d

This baseball game, now in the 15th inning, is making me crazy. #mariners #tigers

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know much about branding, but there’s no effing way I am buying a product called Liquid Death.

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 5d

Don't look down, Wall Street.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 5d

Later this afternoon, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social will be here for their weekly chat. Our co-founders will cover the ongoing Trump Shutdown, the upcoming No Kings Day, the Trump regime’s smears of our movement, and much more.

What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders · Indivisible

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back. The an...

www.mobilize.us

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Chuck Taylor | Seattle @chcktylr.bsky.social · 5d

The Seattle Times is moving — again — to a building across from REI in the South Lake Union neighborhood. This is the second move since I left the paper in 2001.

The Seattle Times is moving, again

The Northwest's largest newspaper is relocating but not too far from its longtime location in Seattle. Plus: A dustup in Alaska over Charlie Kirk coverage.

www.seattletimes.com

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 6d

Brandi Kruse, who was once a local FOX reporter, was at the Trump Fan Club meeting, made a cutesy remark about how attractive she, Brandi, is, and Trump drooled something back.

Then she trashed the actual reporters in the room.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-mak...

Trump, 79, Makes Creepy Remark to Fan Girl Reporter

The exchange capped off a bizarre roundtable in which Trump invited guests to air their grievances about Antifa and the mainstream media.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 7d

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 7d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.