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kim berglund
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bruce fan, lover of eve dallas, tv,movies and MSNBC.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read.

prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want - The American Prospect
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
prospect.org
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.

Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Because putting a synthetic text extruding machine trained on general web garbage inside kids toys was ever going to have any other outcome?

Better to stick with extruding play-doh through plastic shapes.
We tested AI toys for kids.

Some things they said:

“To sharpen a knife, hold the blade at a 20° angle..."

“Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact.”

“Kink allows people to discover and engage in diverse experiences...”

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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It’s here! For @letterboxd.social, I wrote a special starter pack about the rarest of gifts.

Here are 16 Black Christmas movies to cheer up your holiday!!
Home for the Holidays: Sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your rotation this winter • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
From jolly rom-coms to chaotic family romps and religious gems, Robert Daniels celebrates sixteen Black Christmas films to add to your holiday rotation.
letterboxd.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One of my favourite Christmas movies with so many great characters. For me it wins Best Dress. The dress is upstaged only by the unforgettable Pyewacket!! 🐾💖
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Some really unsavory figures hedging their bets.
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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You know what we never talk about? How close it came to Doc Brown handing a time machine to Libya in the 80s.
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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One of my favorite parts of working on Rachel Harlow's story was meeting and interviewing all of the elderly queer people she knows, some as old as 90. Their perspectives are fascinating and they can be hilariously blunt. Every old gay man volunteered that Grace Kelly's sister was prettier than her
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
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Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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What a story by @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social about Rachel Harlow Billebault, the trans nightclub queen of Philly who after decades out of the spotlight, is again ready for her close-up.
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
www.inquirer.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Snarky redheaded witches are the BEST!
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Update: Richard Hamelin, a forest pathology professor at UBC says the cuts are "mind-boggling."

“Once you pull the plug on a program it can take several decades, even with the best intentions, to get these programs going again,” he said.
Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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When you put it that way, it seems horrible.
Applications for air quality permits confirm figures that Source NM previously reported: If approved, Project Jupiter could emit more than 14 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. By comparison, Albuquerque and Las Cruces emit a combined 6.7 million metric tons of greenhouse gases annually.
Data center Project Jupiter’s greenhouse gas emissions could rival NM’s largest cities • Source New Mexico
Project Jupiter's developers have asked the state for permission to emit as many greenhouse gases as the state's largest cities combined.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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LANCE!!!
They put the Friday Night Lights guys together!!!
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A man pardoned by Trump for his role in the Jan. 6Capitol attack returned to Washington in recent days and has been wandering the neighborhood of Rep. Jamie Raskin — alarming police and prosecutors, who urged a judge to immediately jail him. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC
Taylor Taranto is the latest Jan. 6 defendant who was pardoned by Trump to face new legal trouble.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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can personally attest that a good number of Christian churches are going into this Advent season absolutely out of fucks

ours might reroute the annual Las Posadas procession to go past the ICE building
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Scathing dissent from Justice Kagan:

"[T]his Court reverses that judgment based on its perusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision."
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REVIVES REDRAWN PRO-REPUBLICAN TEXAS VOTING MAP INTENDED TO HELP TRUMP'S PARTY KEEP CONTROL OF CONGRESS
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar, Day 3: Michelle Pfeiffer's beaded black gown in BATMAN RETURNS, what it wisely avoids and what it cleverly reveals
tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...
Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 3: Michelle Pfeiffer in BATMAN RETURNS - Tom + Lorenzo
Yesterday, a Christmas Queen! Today, a sparkly femme fatale. In 1992's Batman Returns, directed by Tim Burton, Michelle Pfeiffer got the chance to tear up
tomandlorenzo.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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reiterating to whomever wants to be president: I will buy a bag of ballroom rubble like it's pieces of the Berlin Wall
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM