Stephen Bowie
@smilingcobra.bsky.social
Ten pounds of television in a five pound life.
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I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him"
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him"
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
First vintage TV episode watched in
2026: Danger Man
2025: State Trooper
2024: Lawman
2023: too embarrassing (OK, Starsky & Hutch)
2022: The Untouchables
2021: Gunsmoke
2020: Armchair Theatre
2019: The Storefront Lawyers
2018: The Patty Duke Show
2017: Hill Street Blues
2016: Highway Patrol
2026: Danger Man
2025: State Trooper
2024: Lawman
2023: too embarrassing (OK, Starsky & Hutch)
2022: The Untouchables
2021: Gunsmoke
2020: Armchair Theatre
2019: The Storefront Lawyers
2018: The Patty Duke Show
2017: Hill Street Blues
2016: Highway Patrol
January 15, 2026 at 8:32 AM
First vintage TV episode watched in
2026: Danger Man
2025: State Trooper
2024: Lawman
2023: too embarrassing (OK, Starsky & Hutch)
2022: The Untouchables
2021: Gunsmoke
2020: Armchair Theatre
2019: The Storefront Lawyers
2018: The Patty Duke Show
2017: Hill Street Blues
2016: Highway Patrol
2026: Danger Man
2025: State Trooper
2024: Lawman
2023: too embarrassing (OK, Starsky & Hutch)
2022: The Untouchables
2021: Gunsmoke
2020: Armchair Theatre
2019: The Storefront Lawyers
2018: The Patty Duke Show
2017: Hill Street Blues
2016: Highway Patrol
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I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
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I don't know about this, Woody. Maybe the guitar could say 'This machine gives fascists better training'?
January 15, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I don't know about this, Woody. Maybe the guitar could say 'This machine gives fascists better training'?
Kind of, yes
So, just to be clear, the doomer position is that we are *not* about to begin WWIII and that we Americans are going to have to restrain and defeat Donald Trump ourselves, while the optimistic position is that WWIII may and should happen and that many people will die.
Doomcasting based on vibes. Bad practice in such moments.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Kind of, yes
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Many Democrats want to fund this
Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protes...
www.latimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Many Democrats want to fund this
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worm
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) declared he does not support abolishing ICE in a preview of a Fox News interview set to air on Wednesday morning.
The post Mayor Jacob Frey Says ‘I Do Not Support Abolishing ICE’ After Telling Agents to ‘Get the F*ck Out of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
January 14, 2026 at 4:42 AM
worm
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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we HAVE to win the MIDTERMS so a DEMOCRAT MAJORITY can attatch a NON-BINDING RESOLUTION asking the GESTAPO not to wear MASKS to the OMNIBUS BILL that increases their FUNDING again
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
we HAVE to win the MIDTERMS so a DEMOCRAT MAJORITY can attatch a NON-BINDING RESOLUTION asking the GESTAPO not to wear MASKS to the OMNIBUS BILL that increases their FUNDING again
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Asking Sioux to enter into an "immigration agreement with ICE"??? What next, is CBP going to deport them to Saskatchewan??
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January 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Asking Sioux to enter into an "immigration agreement with ICE"??? What next, is CBP going to deport them to Saskatchewan??
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Imagine an ICE goon shooting Ritchie Torres point blank in the face with a beanbag round while he's desperately trying to scan the goon's deliberately-obscured QR code
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Imagine an ICE goon shooting Ritchie Torres point blank in the face with a beanbag round while he's desperately trying to scan the goon's deliberately-obscured QR code
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Asking the ICE agent beating a guy up on the pavement to hold still so I can scan his QR code that he was required to wear instead of a badge that can simply be read
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Asking the ICE agent beating a guy up on the pavement to hold still so I can scan his QR code that he was required to wear instead of a badge that can simply be read
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THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
maybe an unpopular position on this website but i think the moderate dem focus on ICE training can be, with political pressure, the pathway to more fundamental reforms. rhetorically it is not too hard to move from “more training” to “turns out they’re untrainable and we have to start all over.”
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.
Rhea Seehorn or Wendell Pierce
Scoot McNairy
Jim Rockford is back on the case: NBC has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the classic '70s detective series The Rockford Files.
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Rhea Seehorn or Wendell Pierce
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This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
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imo if you are recording or photographing greg bovino you have a civic duty to hold the camera as high of an angle as possible. just towering over him
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
imo if you are recording or photographing greg bovino you have a civic duty to hold the camera as high of an angle as possible. just towering over him
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Hey for the record, “Trump is going to do whatever he wants and ignore congress anyway” is an argument against incrementalism, not for it.
Why are you scaling back the size of the ask in that scenario, other than to show off the pitiful limits of your own imagination
Why are you scaling back the size of the ask in that scenario, other than to show off the pitiful limits of your own imagination
January 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Hey for the record, “Trump is going to do whatever he wants and ignore congress anyway” is an argument against incrementalism, not for it.
Why are you scaling back the size of the ask in that scenario, other than to show off the pitiful limits of your own imagination
Why are you scaling back the size of the ask in that scenario, other than to show off the pitiful limits of your own imagination
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And a not-insignificant plurality of people for whom fake solutions that sound bold and achieve nothing are exactly what they want.
Bleak. Not hopeless, but bleak.
Bleak. Not hopeless, but bleak.
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 PM
And a not-insignificant plurality of people for whom fake solutions that sound bold and achieve nothing are exactly what they want.
Bleak. Not hopeless, but bleak.
Bleak. Not hopeless, but bleak.
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A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
Kent Brockman-ass country
New: CBS News seems to be preparing a new segment called "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil," per sources.
Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Kent Brockman-ass country
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Scott Adams the man is gone, but the idea of the man, the thing he stood for above all others, is alive. Anywhere someone is fucking up their successful professional lives not due to middling talent or performance but entirely because of their awful personality and beliefs, Scott is there, too.
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Scott Adams the man is gone, but the idea of the man, the thing he stood for above all others, is alive. Anywhere someone is fucking up their successful professional lives not due to middling talent or performance but entirely because of their awful personality and beliefs, Scott is there, too.
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Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Can’t believe he said this, seems somewhat disrespectful