Utamu
@utamu.bsky.social
Scribe, wanderer, head nodder, knee slapper, looks like we got ourselves a reader. #215.
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There is beauty everywhere but especially in autumn in Philadelphia! 😻
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
There is beauty everywhere but especially in autumn in Philadelphia! 😻
Sarah Stillman: "Disappeared to a Foreign Prison. Trump admin's deporting pple to countries they've no ties to, detained indefinitely/forcibly returned to places they fled. I got a WhatsApp call from 11 strangers locked inside a secret detention camp in Ghana." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Sarah Stillman: "Disappeared to a Foreign Prison. Trump admin's deporting pple to countries they've no ties to, detained indefinitely/forcibly returned to places they fled. I got a WhatsApp call from 11 strangers locked inside a secret detention camp in Ghana." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Saw this in real time and laughed. Watched the replay 13 more times, and it’s still ridiculous.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Saw this in real time and laughed. Watched the replay 13 more times, and it’s still ridiculous.
@theatlantic.com profiled RFK & his conquest to reshape public health. “Although he says he has not taken heroin since he got clean, he considers his brain to be a ‘formulation pharmacy,’ able to transform anything, rock climbing, falconry, sex, into a drug.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@theatlantic.com profiled RFK & his conquest to reshape public health. “Although he says he has not taken heroin since he got clean, he considers his brain to be a ‘formulation pharmacy,’ able to transform anything, rock climbing, falconry, sex, into a drug.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Why did the crab cross the road?
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Why did the crab cross the road?
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Remembering the late 🇺🇲 American actor and comedian Arthur "Harpo" Marx (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964), seen here in the pre-Code comedy classic film "DUCK SOUP" (1933)dir. Leo McCarey
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Remembering the late 🇺🇲 American actor and comedian Arthur "Harpo" Marx (23 November 1888 – 28 September 1964), seen here in the pre-Code comedy classic film "DUCK SOUP" (1933)dir. Leo McCarey
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
#HarpoMarx
🎬 Paramount Pictures
Steve Kerr isn’t afraid to speak out vs. Trump. As others pull back, Kerr leans in. When he slams his fist in response to gun violence, wears Harvard’s colors to stand vs. Trump admin, when he attends a “No Kings” rally, Kerr is increasingly alone. He senses it." www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/16/s...
Why Warriors coach Steve Kerr isn’t afraid to speak out against Trump
Between attending last month’s No Kings rally and the continued used of his platform, Steve Kerr isn’t staying silent in the second Trump administration.
www.mercurynews.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Steve Kerr isn’t afraid to speak out vs. Trump. As others pull back, Kerr leans in. When he slams his fist in response to gun violence, wears Harvard’s colors to stand vs. Trump admin, when he attends a “No Kings” rally, Kerr is increasingly alone. He senses it." www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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Obviously, it's been the best scoring season of Tyrese Maxey's career, and it's not even particularly close.
But Maxey is putting up career-highs pretty much across the board. From assists, to getting to the FT line, to efficiency, and the all-in-one advanced metrics.
But Maxey is putting up career-highs pretty much across the board. From assists, to getting to the FT line, to efficiency, and the all-in-one advanced metrics.
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Obviously, it's been the best scoring season of Tyrese Maxey's career, and it's not even particularly close.
But Maxey is putting up career-highs pretty much across the board. From assists, to getting to the FT line, to efficiency, and the all-in-one advanced metrics.
But Maxey is putting up career-highs pretty much across the board. From assists, to getting to the FT line, to efficiency, and the all-in-one advanced metrics.
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You don't get these all that often, so savor them when they happen — that was an "I will not let us lose" game from Tyrese Maxey. Superstar shit.
A new career high 54 points.
The Sixers are 9-6.
THE RECAP @phlysports.bsky.social
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A new career high 54 points.
The Sixers are 9-6.
THE RECAP @phlysports.bsky.social
allphly.com/sixers-bucks...
Instant observations: Tyrese Maxey's 54 points carry Sixers to OT win over Bucks - PHLY Sports
Tyrese Maxey set a new career high with 54 points in a classic performance for the Sixers in their win over the Bucks.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
You don't get these all that often, so savor them when they happen — that was an "I will not let us lose" game from Tyrese Maxey. Superstar shit.
A new career high 54 points.
The Sixers are 9-6.
THE RECAP @phlysports.bsky.social
allphly.com/sixers-bucks...
A new career high 54 points.
The Sixers are 9-6.
THE RECAP @phlysports.bsky.social
allphly.com/sixers-bucks...
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it."
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at GU Politics: "the struggle is not whether AI is good or bad. It's who controls it and who benefits from it."
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
#bernieatgu #aisystem #ai #berniesanders #geoffreyhinton #computerscience #gupolitics #gupoliticsforum #georgetown
@theonion.com: Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape. “For too long, liberal Hollywood's pushed its false narratives of unhappy slaves desiring freedom, who criticized “violent extremism” of films in which enslaved people break free from their shackles."
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Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
WASHINGTON—In an effort to bring an end to what he described as an anti-American trend in filmmaking, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing a 100% tax on the profits of movi...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
@theonion.com: Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape. “For too long, liberal Hollywood's pushed its false narratives of unhappy slaves desiring freedom, who criticized “violent extremism” of films in which enslaved people break free from their shackles."
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@calmatters.org: @thecacoast.bsky.social signal pro-building shift. To address state’s gripping housing crisis, the commission backed a change to make it easier to build affordable housing in Monterey and elsewhere along the hundreds of miles of the Pacific coast. www.marinij.com/2025/11/17/m...
California Coastal Commission changes signal pro-building shift
Housing advocates and some Democratic leaders see the powerful panel as an obstacle to reform.
www.marinij.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@calmatters.org: @thecacoast.bsky.social signal pro-building shift. To address state’s gripping housing crisis, the commission backed a change to make it easier to build affordable housing in Monterey and elsewhere along the hundreds of miles of the Pacific coast. www.marinij.com/2025/11/17/m...
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🚨BREAKING: PhRMA funneled a secret $4 million donation to congressional Republicans' dark money group & months later the GOP delivered an $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by defanging rules that lower the price of cancer medicines.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
Big Pharma’s Dark Money Scores $8 Billion Bonanza
The country’s top pharmaceutical lobbying group secretly gave millions to a Republican-aligned dark money group, then won billions in drug-pricing exemptions.
www.levernews.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🚨BREAKING: PhRMA funneled a secret $4 million donation to congressional Republicans' dark money group & months later the GOP delivered an $8 billion windfall to PhRMA by defanging rules that lower the price of cancer medicines.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
The secret $4 million donation was discovered in tax documents.
Unraveling DOJ: 60 attorneys describe a year of chaos & suspicion.If we’re indicting people bc POTUS hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job. Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; it was to find facts that fit the narrative.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Unraveling DOJ: 60 attorneys describe a year of chaos & suspicion.If we’re indicting people bc POTUS hates them, that’s counter to the whole point of doing my job. Our job wasn’t to engage in fact-finding investigations; it was to find facts that fit the narrative.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy: "Richest man on earth owns X. Paramount owns CBS & soon WB, which owns CNN. 3rd-richest owns FB,Insta& WhatsApp. 4th owns WaPo/Amazon MGM Studios. Murdoch owns Fox, WSJ /NYPost. Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much media? www.theguardian.com/profile/robe...
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
@robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy: "Richest man on earth owns X. Paramount owns CBS & soon WB, which owns CNN. 3rd-richest owns FB,Insta& WhatsApp. 4th owns WaPo/Amazon MGM Studios. Murdoch owns Fox, WSJ /NYPost. Why are the ultra-rich buying up so much media? www.theguardian.com/profile/robe...
"The best reprieve from the current moment was 100% Adam Sandler. I get it: When you imagine people who might offer a meager light in darkness, the first person you think of may not be Opera Man or “The Chanukah Song” rhyming “Chanukah” w/ Seattle SuperSonic-ahs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | Adam Sandler Is the Light We Need. Yes, Adam Sandler.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"The best reprieve from the current moment was 100% Adam Sandler. I get it: When you imagine people who might offer a meager light in darkness, the first person you think of may not be Opera Man or “The Chanukah Song” rhyming “Chanukah” w/ Seattle SuperSonic-ahs.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
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the work that photojournalists are doing in Chicago right now is incredible www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
the work that photojournalists are doing in Chicago right now is incredible www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
@editorialboard.bsky.social: "Constitution gives the authority to tax & spend not to the head of state, but to members of Congress. Money is power, Founders feared a POTUS would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the govt uses the federal treasury." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
Opinion | The Power Grab That Embodies Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@editorialboard.bsky.social: "Constitution gives the authority to tax & spend not to the head of state, but to members of Congress. Money is power, Founders feared a POTUS would turn into a monarch if he alone could dictate how the govt uses the federal treasury." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...
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He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.
"Bay Area author, naturalist & illustrator Obi Kaufmann, whose book has been quietly flagged at Yosemite to remove & revise “negative” US history info, calling out the “whiplash irony & being being phased out of park bookstores." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
www.sfgate.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"Bay Area author, naturalist & illustrator Obi Kaufmann, whose book has been quietly flagged at Yosemite to remove & revise “negative” US history info, calling out the “whiplash irony & being being phased out of park bookstores." www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
@juddlegum.bsky.social: Trump’s solution to the housing crisis is a lifetime of debt. In 1985, the median income was $23,620 The typical house was 3.6 x the typical income. By 2023, median price of a home was $428,600, or was 5.3 x the median income of $80,061." popular.info/p/trumps-sol...
Trump’s solution to the housing crisis is a lifetime of debt
50 years of higher interest payments.
popular.info
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
@juddlegum.bsky.social: Trump’s solution to the housing crisis is a lifetime of debt. In 1985, the median income was $23,620 The typical house was 3.6 x the typical income. By 2023, median price of a home was $428,600, or was 5.3 x the median income of $80,061." popular.info/p/trumps-sol...
@bcappelbaum.bsky.social: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn’t the Dems’ future. This Guy Is: @governor.pa.gov. Dems need it for the future of the Party & quite possiblythe future of democracy in America. What kind of Democrat can win Pennsylvania? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
@bcappelbaum.bsky.social: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn’t the Dems’ future. This Guy Is: @governor.pa.gov. Dems need it for the future of the Party & quite possiblythe future of democracy in America. What kind of Democrat can win Pennsylvania? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...