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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 6d

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 6h

This is a thing I drove today.

A 2026 Toyota RAV4 GR Sport in red with some black trim in front of an Alamo-looking building in Arizona.

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 6h

Now it worked. It didn’t work earlier in my bill shatner post

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 6h

@strngwys.bsky.social

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

Also excellent.

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

a man in a suit and tie is saying " we 'll do it live "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying " we 'll do it live "

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

@strngwys.bsky.social’s favorite is a different one but I forget which.

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

I love “You’ll Have Time” especially for the backup choir. youtu.be/ffJbFx1WuO0?...

You'll Have Time

YouTube video by William Shatner - Topic

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Brian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 8h

It's weird that Shatner created only two albums, and one is absolutely horrible, and the other is so shockingly excellent.

Common People

YouTube video by William Shatner - Topic

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

But his version of Common People is better than the Pulp original IMHO

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

Has Been is so great. Ben Folds produced it, which makes sense.

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

Sometimes you just have to watch William Shatner’s 1979 presentation of Elon John’s “Rocket Man.”

Not because it’s good, because it isn’t. But because it’s also perfect.

youtu.be/8wI4jMxveyI?...

(AUDIO RESTORED) William Shatner "Sings" 'Rocket Man' 1978

YouTube video by Ultra verba, lux mentis.

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

I’ve wondered how to factory reset myself.

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 8h

The grand traditions, even

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Worf Email @worfemail.bsky.social · Aug 27

All crew,

Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu

Worf

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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 14h

lol so I can watch Apple TV on the Apple TV app on Apple TV

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Stephen Edelstein @saedelstein.bsky.social · 18h

Some people got the wrong message from "Dr. Strangelove."

ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

NEW: After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are increasingly wavering on the practice.

In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.

www.propublica.org

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 21h

Live in your life in such a way that John Oliver doesn’t do a segment on you.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 25d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

quite a take from someone who called COVID restrictions "fascism" and "a violation of constitutional rights," and argued that SEC penalties for announcing a fake leveraged buyout of Tesla trampled on his first amendment free speech protections

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1d

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

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Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 1d

Yes.

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 1d

Well today’s air travel was safely completed. The airport was a bit interesting.

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 1d

Overworked air traffic controllers now not getting paid, compounded by TSA agents not getting paid and a stupid video of Kristi Noem blaming it on Democrats everywhere?

Perfect day to go flying I guess. #maytheforcebewithme

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Ty Duffy @tyduffy.bsky.social · 1d

That escalated quickly. Wow. www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Penn State fires James Franklin after season with title hopes rapidly unravels

The move caps one of the most stunningly quick collapses in college football history.

www.nytimes.com

Chad Kirchner @chadkirchner.com · 1d

USAID

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