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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1h

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 7h

40 years ago today.

The opening panel of Watchmen, with an entry from Rorschach's journal dated October 12, 1985. "Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

“America First.”

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2h

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 23h

The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades) Timbuk 3 youtu.be/8qrriKcwvlY?...

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Dan Rutherford @rutherdan.bsky.social · 1d

Salesforce CEO sells out, invites Trump to invade San Francisco.
From his home in Hawaii.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 2h

plus, there's a long American history of lighthearted protest tactics! puppets at anti-WTO rallies, Black comedians in the civil rights movement, ample Bush mockery during the Iraq war, etc

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 3h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

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Captain Suboo baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 3h

What if Brian de palma wrote the "tiny fuppets" cartoon

GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 9h

CARTOON/K_GONZO.GIF

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 3h

this was before my time but Slate once did a whole tribute week to Stevie Wonder with delightful entries from @aishaharris.bsky.social, @matoswk.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, @thehighsign.bsky.social, and @sethstevenson.bsky.social among many others slate.com/culture/wond...

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 3h

this post is clear bait but it nevertheless bears repeating that the Free Press has an extensive, well-documented history of shoddy "journalism" that has rarely ever been corrected. but it's convenient to dismiss those with sounder factual and ethical instincts as a "mob" bsky.app/profile/niti...

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 4h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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✌🏽 @saraiya.bsky.social · 14h

man this sucks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

The 1996 What Up Doe Sessions https://archive.org/details/the-1996-what-up-doe-sessions

The 1996 What Up Doe Sessions : J Dilla : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A bootleg collection of obscure and unreleased beats.

archive.org

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 3h

"(machine translated)"

Project Push @project-push.tk.gg · 4h

Mahatma Gandhi is under attack in Manhattan because of Hezbollah
via Sky News Arabia
(machine translated)

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 6h

Issac Hayes, Black Moses, Cadillac in the Stax Museum of African American Music in Memphis

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15h

Riyadh headliner

the dan who stepped into yesterday @korbermite.bsky.social · 17h

witnessed a guy getting way too sloppy at the jeff tweedy show, which makes me ask - what’s the funniest solo project to make a fool of yourself at?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16h

just as an aside, “Coke Cola” is a cursed phrase

David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 16h

Attlee taught Labour to walk, now he watches on as they fly

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

the man said he wants to go to heaven!

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

the silent moments in the franchise are some of the most chilling

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

LOL bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

... oh boy this will be ugly

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

After Pakistan bombed Taliban figures a couple of days ago, Taliban reinforcements are now moving toward the front lines along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

maybe it doesn't anymore and I'm being overcautious lol, I just carry memories of sneering dismissals over the years

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

justice 4 this franchise

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

and look whatever you think of the Father of the Bride remake (a classic to my family, at least) you gotta admit she was a perfect foil to Steve Martin youtu.be/YXpPWwgATAg

Father of the Bride - "Still Fits" - Steve Martin & Diane Keaton x Kimberly Williams-Paisley

YouTube video by Josh Busfield aka bitterphase

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

lots to appreciate about Godfather Part II but for my money the single most affecting, indelible, devastating moment is provided here by Diane Keaton: the pain, the desperation, the betrayal, the yearning up until the door shuts in her unforgettable face. RIP youtu.be/DWlDdPXwHSo?...

A Scene from the Classic - "The Godfather: Part II"

YouTube video by Movie Pills

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