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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 55m

Tiny men and their toy soldiers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 56m

The Sentinel is not a great or even good movie (a prime example of 70s horror sleaze, however), but, my God, a cavalcade of stars (some just a few years away from breaking big) show up. Could've done without the sudden appearance of actual freakshow folks as demons though.

Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 2h

My wife refers to this as "Ferris Bueller's Little Sister Syndrome." The Republicans are obsessed with the thought that someone is getting away with something. Whether or not it's true (in this case it's not) is beside the point for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 2h

Attn: @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 2h

Lit Editor Business: Patrick Reardon reviews @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social's new children's book Leaf Town Forever for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social

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Review: Just Imagine: <em>Leaf Town Forever</em>, by Kathleen Rooney and Beth Rooney, Illustrated by Betsy Bowen | Third Coast Review

The eight-year-old inside me perked up early in my reading of Leaf Town Forever

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 15h

Watching The Sentinel (1977) on Netflix, and at 55 Ava Gardner was still a snack.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 17h

Triumph of the Swill

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty much what life has been telling me for years.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

You know they’re worried about this weekend’s turnout at the No Kings rally when they’re already making comments about it. Who’s ready for Saturday?

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 18h

If the shipping wasn't $5, I'd get it. I have a copy, but that was one of the better issues.

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Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 19h

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Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 19h

Who would've thought the reality show game host/clown known for saying, "You're fired" would fire so any people and lose so many jobs? What a clusterfuck.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 19h

Someone is trying to auction one of my early zines, bless them. It's over in 32 minutes.

www.ebay.com/itm/29766423...

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 19h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 19h

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Sex, Karate & Videotapes: The VHS Craze of the 1989 Transformation

An entire nation playing pop-cultural catch-up to the tune of cheesy pop songs, the flickering light of old television sets and the sound of rewinding video cassettes. Explore the story of Poland’s VH...

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 19h

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Flannery O'Connor Reads "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (1959)

YouTube video by ByWayofBeautyDotCom

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 19h

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Flannery O'Connor Reads 'Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction' (c. 1960)

YouTube video by Open Culture

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

I told my son that he'd recognize Keith David's voice, and he figured out it was President Curtis from Rick and Morty.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

While we were watching They Live, as Keith David and Roddy Piper take up arms to take down the aliens in a commando raid, I turned to my son and said, "Hey, uh...weren't we, like, construction workers yesterday?"

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

Yup. I rewatched AoP13 a few years ago and gasped when the little girl gets shot and killed. Then I said, "What the FUCK?" when her straight-laced dad leaves her behind to seek vengeance on the gang member. Carpenter is a lot of fun, but his storylines do have their improbable tangents.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

I've watched my way through Carpenter's oeuvre, except for Big Trouble in Little China and Vampires, but it is curious that I never watched They Live back in the day. Guess I preferred his horror flicks.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

Disturbingly, you see how folks used to greet a guy suddenly showing up with an assault rifle at a bank or TV station with a sort of shocked curiosity.

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Monster Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social · 20h

It has a bulldozer ripping up a shantytown. It has cops in riot gear showing up to bust the rebels in a church, beating up a blind priest, terrorizing homeless families, and so on. It has the rebels talking about how the MSM is pushing the storyline that they're antifa, I mean, commies.

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