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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 15h

I have a group in for training this week and one of the guys is the son of a Puerto Rican artist. I've been looking at his stuff and, well, anybody got about 15 grand laying around they don't need? www.galeriarubenrios.com/originals

GALERÍA RUBÉN RÍOS

www.galeriarubenrios.com

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 18h

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 19h

This is really good. Now they have to not cave. Because when one does, eventually (within hours) they all will.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20h

that they left em masse, at least, seems like a good sign

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21h

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

Pentagon reporters exited the building in unison Wednesday after turning in their badges, having refused to sign the Defense Department's press policy.

@nancyayoussef.bsky.social called it a “sad day for those who support a free press.”

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, for sure.

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 21h

Uruk, 3100 BCE: Life was so much better before farming and writing and cities...

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 21h

1993

Return to good old days
Try as we will, there is absolutely no way to make a person do anything they don't want to do. You can issue pieces of paper; threaten all sorts of dire consequences; even lock people away. It will not solve a thing.

One of, if not the most important thing, is a return to the good old days. Not the days of lynch mobs and vigilante justice, although I am sure a good case could be presented in their favor, but a return to the good old days when justice was perceived to be sure, swift and painful. The days when a crime against one was a crime against all -- when a person was tried, found guilty or innocent and punished, quite often on the same day.
Of course, this resulted in some miscarriages of justice. But they will always be with us. No law is perfect.
--The Winnipeg Sun, 9 Feb 1993

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 21h

The call is coming from inside the House 🙄

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers.”

@politico.com #OH02
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 21h

I joke about the guillotine for billionaires. But am I really joking? It seems increasingly like it's us or them.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Who's going to write the opinion that kills the VRA? Justice Balls-and-strikes or Justice Ruckus?

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Argument in Calais is starting. You can watch here:

www.c-span.org/event/public...

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: The WERE, in fact, afraid of free and peaceful assembly.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Now do old Republicans. And middle-aged Republicans. And...

wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, Young Republicans are racist?! Huh, wow

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Checks out

innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

They make a desert and call it content.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine not only participating in the surveillance state, but paying to do so.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

I've been a little busy. Has Justice Balls-and-Strikes pronounced the end of the Voting Rights Act from the bench?

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

More of this! The answer to every such demand ought to be, "Make me, motherfucker."

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

trib.al

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

This is true of SO MANY THINGS.

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 2d

Books aren't just what the writer puts in. They're what the reader puts in, too. And some readers are assholes.

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Justice Ofjesse is adopting the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic, it seems. I'd much rather be commenting on the substance of her consequential rulings but, well...

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Michael Bazemore (insert Halloween pun) @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 2d

Right. Only 10 for long-distance. Now there are so many phones, we need 10 all the time. What's weirder to me is portability. No matter where I move, if I keep my number, you'll always register me as calling from NC. When my wife calls me, it's "from" LA.