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Annie

@annmarhen.bsky.social
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Luddite, progressive, writer, professor, activist, mom, hopeful cynic. No MAGA, DMs, crypto, or porn. Opinions are my own.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 14h
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10h
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 9h
#Russia www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...
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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 10h
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Ryan O’Connell @ryanoconnell79.bsky.social · 12h
File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
USSS CAT rocking the BNVD-FUSED. Those things are nuts. Binoculars, night vision, and a full color heads up display in one. They also have a rapid target acquisition feature that transmits weapon sight to the goggles, allowing shooting around cover without exposing a head. Photo cred: @apnews.com
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OK then 👍💥
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Newest Super Group,,, FLAVOR DAVES,!! #DaveMatthews #DaveGrohl #FooFighters
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s boycotting Walmart because they’re selling Obama jackets. Ohana is the Hawaiian word for family. He’s one of the people who didn’t know there’s a “B” in dumb.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/10/2026
Trump even lies about the most obviously false shit. It’s a disorder.
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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The writers and actors were brilliant
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lots of blue on this chart from the New York Times
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Toshirō Mifune in Rashōmon (1950)
Captured in a piercing, sun-drenched close-up, Toshirō Mifune delivers a visceral portrait of raw physical intensity as the volatile bandit Tajōmaru in Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece Rashomon (1950). Sweat glistens across his brow and cheekbones beneath the oppressive heat, while his narrowed, predatory gaze and furrowed brow radiate an unpredictable mixture of suspicion, pride, and feral defiance. Bound in a coarse, dark cloth head-wrap over disheveled hair, Mifune's weathered features and dark stubble reflect the untamed existence of an outlaw living on the margins of society. The photograph evokes a palpable sensory environment: the stifling, humid heaviness of the ancient forest, the relentless drone of summer cicadas echoing through the canopy, the abrasive scrape of rough-woven hemp against dust-streaked skin, and the blinding glint of high-noon sunlight breaking through the leaves.
As the film that catapulted post-war Japanese cinema onto the global stage, Rashomon redefined narrative storytelling through its revolutionary exploration of subjective memory, human vanity, and moral ambiguity. Adapted from Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short stories "In a Grove" (Yabu no Naka) and "Rashōmon," the plot constructs four conflicting testimonies surrounding a single violent encounter in the woods. Mifune’s landmark performance turned the traditional samurai-era villain into a kinetic, animalistic force, seamlessly fusing explosive physical theatricality with deep psychological insecurity. Collaborating with visionary cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, Kurosawa famously used angled mirrors inside the dense forest set to bounce harsh, natural sunlight directly onto the actors' faces, creating a striking visual rhythm that visually manifests the fractured, elusive nature of truth.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's as if he is TRYING to lose the midterms. With historically low approval ratings, it would be wise to avoid the press altogether. Instead, he gives TIME magazine this bonkers, unhinged & l-e-n-g-t-h-y stream-of consciousness interview, pathologically lying throughout. shorturl.at/PMvVB
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There were a lot of very confident people in my mentions telling me that I was being played and that there was “clearly no terroristic plot” here. Maybe we should all wait for the facts to play all the way out? 🤷‍♂️
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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jack Smith's revelation that Trump paid for the organizers of the Jan 6 insurrection adds one more detail to the picture already in place. But it also darkens the picture. Trump is now competing with John Wilkes Booth for the title of worst American political figure ever. His crime was premeditated.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AIPAC decided they were going to set a record on the amount of money they spent against me in the primary election. $70 million. Do you know what we could do with $70 million?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
A grim little montage of where American politics has landed.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It wasn’t often Johnny Carson was almost lost for words but when JANE FONDA asked him about Zsa Zsa Gabor’s pussy on THE TONIGHT SHOW in 1989…
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m spitballing here, but: “Petrol thieves” sent to scout base and get information on surveillance/response times. Trump’s “they wanted to do big damage” comment could be a lie, but could be a leak of a classified assessment referring to the actual would-be attackers, not the recon element.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This whole story is insane. If passengers hadn’t intervened, this could have been really bad. Having to worry about rogue pilots as well as hijackers is… not great.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In court filing, man accused of setting Jan 6 Capitol Hill pipe bombs asks court to suppress his "confession" Defense says agents conducted a "methodical dismantling of a man whose autism spectrum disorder left him unable to withstand the psychologically coercive tactics deployed against him"
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JUST FILED: The worst kind of viral moment for a Senator Who is skipping Trump's Ohio rally? Forecasts for 11 more US House races shift Latest twist in Kennedy Center battle macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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DAY AHEAD - My Daily Editorial Note
September 30, 2026
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the Senate's pre-election swan song, they spent a day asking Jack Smith about the techniques of his probe of the Trump election subversion criminal case Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) blasts the GOP for spending precious time on something that doesn't meet the moment
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have zero sympathy for the Mueller people who were gigantic babies at the end of the day, but we should let this Jack Smith guy get a second crack at it.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Epic backfire!🔥
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fuck? Since when do people who are accused of actual terrorism get out on bail?
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