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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 1h

The people who are always screaming about the specific language of the constitution are always very careful to pretend that those three amendments don’t exist- unless they can be used as a bad-faith pretext to undermine their intent.

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 4h

Very different but wonderful.

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 4h

FINALLY!!!

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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait to get this book & even more—cook from it! 😋

Michael is one of the most knowledgeable & nicest food people i have ever met!

Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 4d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 6h

Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver and Uprooted are absolutely fantastic and immersive fantasy novels; together they’d be somewhat long!

The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey fits the bill, at 9 gripping books that are each pretty hefty. It starts with Leviathan Wakes, which cannot be put down.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 15h

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 23h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 18h

This looks familiar.

My friend refers to wearing “shit-colored glasses.”

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 1d

"Ukrainian actress Tania Galakhova portrayed what it's like to live with depression."

Source:
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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 1d

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 18h

I just looked it up - turns out Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and The Hustle (2019) were both remakes of this film!!!

The Tinseltown Twins @tinseltowntwins.bsky.social · 1d

David Niven, Shirley Jones, and Marlon Brando on the set of Bedtime Story (1964) 🌙

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

It's always a good time to read Sontag on Riefenstahl:

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Although Triumph of the Will has no narrative voice it does open with a written text that heralds the rally as the redemptive culmination of German history. But this opening commentary is the least original of the ways in which the film is tendentious. Triumph of the Will represents an already achieved and radical transformation of reality: history become theater. In her book published in 1935, Riefenstahl had told the truth. The Nuremberg Rally “was planned not only as a spectacular mass meeting—but as a spectacular propaganda film…. The ceremonies and precise plans of the parades, marches, processions, the architecture of the halls and stadium were designed for the convenience of the cameras.” How the Party convention was staged was determined by the decision to produce Triumph of the Will. The event, instead of being an end in itself, served as the set of a film which was then to assume the character of an authentic documentary. Anyone who defends Riefenstahl’s films as documentaries, if documentary is to be distinguished from propaganda, is being ingenuous. In Triumph of the Will, the document (the image) is no longer simply the record of reality; “reality” has been constructed to serve the image.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 23

DW Griffith directed BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), a virulently racist film (and neither his first nor his last one of those) that saw racist violence follow wherever it was screened.

So, naturally, there are film bros and gals who think we should "ignore the racism" and keep it in the canon.

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 18h

“But of course I don’t regret working to help him get elected, the other choice was a Black woman.”

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

Oh so they're going full Mengele now

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine my astonishment 🫩

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 1d

The takeaway: Alex Jones is not an important part of a white supremacist authoritarian takeover, so they can cosplay as real judges.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS BID BY INFOWARS' ALEX JONES TO CHALLENGE $1.4 BILLION DEFAMATION JUDGMENT OWED TO FAMILIES OF SANDY HOOK SCHOOL SHOOTING VICTIMS

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DocDanPgh @docdanpgh.bsky.social · 2d

Bonus Argentine flag! 😀

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
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i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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