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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 21h

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 20h

if the Criterion flash sale is late that means the discs are free. it's the unwritten law

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 19h

That’s called burying the lead

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Matt Ghoulberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, but this was a lie. He was lying. He’s actively attacked Social Security and Medicare with his policies. Also, if “moving to the center” was correct, why didn’t voters spark to Harris hanging with Liz Cheney as a show of reaching across the aisle?

Even Mr. Trump highlights the pattern.
Extreme as he is in many ways, he moved the Republican Party toward the center on several key issues. He won the party's nomination and the general election in 2016 partly by rejecting unpopular conservative positions on Social Security, Medicare and global trade. Last year he broke with prominent Republicans and said he would veto a national abortion ban. He also focused his 2024 campaign on areas in which the Democratic Party had moved left over the previous decade and was out of step with public opinion, such as
immigration, transgender issues and parts of education policy. Voters noticed. Polls in 2024 showed that most voters considered their policy views to be closer to Mr.
Trump's than to Kamala Harris's.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America.

Link below.

No Other Land Film - Support Masafer Yatta - Watch No Other Land

supportmasaferyatta.com

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Adam the K 🍜 @adamthek.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings but one youtu.be/EQ7jDVdL5Ko?...

Tracy Letts's Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry it’s so fucking funny to burn Donald Trump by telling him read One Hundred Years of Solitude

Petro responded to Trump later Sunday, and while he did not address the financial
implications of a freeze of US assistance, he criticized the US president, invoking his country's heralded Nobel Prize-winning author, Gabriel García Márquez.
"You are rude and ignorant toward
Colombia. Read, as your chargé d'affaires in Colombia did, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' and I assure you, you will learn something about solitude," Petro said in a post to social media.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d

More movies should tack on a five-minute scene after the story logically ends that is devoted entirely and exclusively to massacring Klansmen or assorted racists. I don’t really care what it is. Killers of the Flower Moon, 50 First Dates, Frozen 2, whatever

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 2d

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2d

Patrick Mahomes fools both Tony Romo and the Raiders.

"This f*cking never f*cking works."

It did here.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 3d

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 2d

Did this New Yorker piece light a fire with the Chiefs? Because they’ve been a blast since it was published—the most fun they’ve been to watch in years.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9d

There was a time when the Kansas City Chiefs were beloved as the fun, thrilling underdogs in the N.F.L. But they’ve since become the team that people loved to hate, @louisathomas.bsky.social writes.

The Kansas City Chiefs Are Depressing

The team’s vibes might change if they start winning, and they usually do. But is it possible to win all the time without losing joy and spontaneity?

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 2d

Um I would say that is more than a “test” but I’m not a supposedly venerable journalistic institution so WHAT WOULD I KNOW

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 3d

Good flicks!

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 3d

Our wine and dine and cinema tonight: for this rainy October evening Sam made her spin on zuppa toscana (Italian sausage soup) to go with a Chianti and a revisit of Robert Zemeckis’ underrated Hitchcock-inspired thriller What Lies Beneath, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 4d

lmao how is it possible that the same company trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is also cutting 2,000 jobs? i mean, i know how, but still, _how_?

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Paramount Skydance to cut 2,000 US jobs starting week of October 27, Variety reports reut.rs/4qijAb2

Paramount Skydance to cut 2,000 US jobs starting week of October 27, Variety reports

Paramount Skydance will begin mass layoffs the week of October 27, eliminating around 2,000 U.S. jobs as part of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan under new CEO David Ellison, Variety reported on Saturday, citing company sources.

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 4d

Oooooo I missed this!

Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · Sep 3

Summer 2026

A sign announcing Cool Machine, bitches!

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TJ D. @dallasshaldune.bsky.social · 5d

I am actually excited for this, but I’ve always admired GDT.

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 5d

Me reading all these reviews of Del Toro's Frankenstein that paint it as "What if Crimson Peak was even more Gothic, florid, and horny?"

Ancestral Sickos portrait man going "AYE...HA HA HA...AYE!"

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 5d

Watching Mr. Scorsese and it's up to the reaction to The Last Temptation of Christ, and there's no way to overstate the amount of mendacious stupidity we are all forced to put up with to indulge the Right. They had the playbook down cold even then.