Reposted by AJThe Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 09/10/2026Mike Ditka, known for his sweaters and aviator sunglasses, won championships as a game-changing tight end before leading one of the most memorable teams in NFL history. He died at the age of 86. on.wsj.com/4dvaAL2 082
Reposted by AJMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance. 854325576773
Reposted by AJCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Marathon Man” turns 50 today. 🎂 It’s true: Hoffman really did stay up all night to look "out-of-it during the dental scenes," director John Schlesinger said. It didn't work. "I had to completely reshoot.. That’s when Olivier said to me 'Why doesn’t he just try acting?'" 1842660
Reposted by AJAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote. 10248661310
Reposted by AJMike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This K is alive and well! Labor compensation vs. corporate profits JPMAM 8267112
Reposted by AJStephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news. 1553649784
Reposted by AJMichael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This whole AI plan - all of it, from shoving it down people's throats, embedding it in every corner & human endeavor, to having it commit cyber crimes in a desperate attempt at corporate capture + regulatory subsidy - seems not particularly well-conceived. Maybe there's no plan? 131
Reposted by AJRose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Poland had some wise words, for Russia. They can puff out their chests all they like, they can keep killing... But this Polish Foreign Minister is 💯 correct. They will never win. 51526614
Reposted by AJThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them." 442225456065
Reposted by AJAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Today on 9/11, we remember and honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism. Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing. 1/ 180113852472
Reposted by AJMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/202625 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. 561328337339
Reposted by AJAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."publicnotice.coNina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.” 441531520
Reposted by AJRené Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The biggest streaming platform having a staggering 14 pre-80s films is such a sad state of affairs. My media server has more pre 1910s films than this, my 70s collection alone is ~1600 films. Netflix is an embarassment for cinephiles. 182
Reposted by AJYashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/09/20261. Rick Steves has spent $2 million of his own money to rescue a single-screen theater in Edmonds, WA. This is part of a multi-million-dollar effort he has made to invest in community properties in order to preserve local institutions and keep them serving the communities they were built for. 268103791889
AJ @ajetchicago.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Kudos to the @theguardian.com for keeping climate change news high priority. You would hardly have noticed any of it from U.S. media which seems to keep the top stories on all the weather disasters happening and not the source of it. Guardian published the UN warning on breeching 1.5 degrees. 010
Reposted by AJJohn Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 03/09/2026I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183... 67945236
Reposted by AJAnnette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 25720
AJ @ajetchicago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is my reply to this post from Rick Kogan. Read the article below which came out 10 years ago from the late great Kris Vire. www.timeout.com/chicago/thea...timeout.comRace and representation on Chicago stagesA decade after we first asked why Chicago theater was so white, a new generation of artists weighs in on whether we’ve made progress 000
Reposted by AJAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Cuban: I've given money to end Citizens United. I know my next dollar isn't going to change my life. But it can sure change a lot of other people's lives, and that's the way I try to live 31790501861
Reposted by AJAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026"Look at the last 3 GOP presidents. One oversaw a double-dip recession with a savings & loans scandal that looted the Treasury. That was Bush I. Another oversaw near meltdown of the whole capitalist system. That was Bush II. Then the next presided over a pandemic-driven collapse. That was Trump I."publicnotice.coAre voters finally realizing GOP presidents are disasters?Michael Tomasky makes the case that they are. 1922429854
AJ @ajetchicago.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And now Tim Curry - 2026 can F off. RIP to a legend. www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...tmz.comActor Tim Curry Dead at 80Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned. 010
Reposted by AJAmadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible. 46149454072
Reposted by AJJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894411285
AJ @ajetchicago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Paul Simon’s GRACELAND turns 40 today featuring the brilliant Boyoyo Boys. 000
Reposted by AJMark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-ml-... If it sounds like genocide and acts like genocide. It’s genocide.huffpost.comIsrael's Ben-Gvir Advocates Killing '30 To 40' Palestinians In Gaza A NightPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extremist national security minister made the comments while speaking with a former Israeli hostage. 20463154
Reposted by AJJon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. 551476485
Reposted by AJMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Me LOVE this! Me want more Cookie Monster content! 513422
Reposted by AJThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/08/2026President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6vtrib.alTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 2121193820
Reposted by AJHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Hunter Biden: “As it relates to Donald Trump, fuck him. Fuck his son. Fuck his daughter. I mean it. All of them. The whole family, down to the grandchildren. I hope that, for the rest of time, their names will live in ignominy. They have done the most awful things to my family and to me.” 27439941036
Reposted by AJDr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy. 18783563014
Reposted by AJGreg Kot @gregkot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Glen Hansard gone at 56. Motorcycle crash in Dublin. Shocking stuff. Street busker-turned-Oscar winner. As a songwriter, he had a way of capturing the bittersweet moments of life, and our interviews inevitably circled back to how his approach to songwriting evolved. Link in comments. 2265
Reposted by AJThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Bernie Moreno was a car salesman with a record of wage theft and employment discrimination. Anthony Fauci was the director of NIAID from 1984 to 2022 and in 2008 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work fighting HIV/AIDS in that role. 30446451512
Reposted by AJJeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Tens of thousands of deaths from extreme heat this summer, as well as many summers before, not to mention the fires etc, has everywhere been reduced to a stupid pro/anti air conditioning fight. Our addiction to techno-fixes is almost as dangerous as our addiction to fossil fuels. 394
Reposted by AJMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/07/2026Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo. 539141982763
Reposted by AJJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 16/07/2026Man this guy really turned out to be a rancid bag of shit huh 4316
Reposted by AJDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"Who won the 2020 election?" is the sort of question you ask people to ascertain if their brain is functioning. Failure to answer is akin to being unable to address questions like "can you remember your name?" and "what year is it?" 631755341
Reposted by AJDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs. 65107533680
Reposted by AJA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Best “remove glasses to look at something unbelievable” in cinema history.static.klipy.comJurassic Park: Dr. Grant's SurpriseAlt: Jurassic Park: Dr. Grant's Surprise 104102001485