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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/03/2026

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war. “We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent." But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."

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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas

Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over"...

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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I WEAR COWBOY HATS ON THE TEEVEE - TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!!!

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Clearing my desk after "Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation." Lisieux is France's second most important shrine, seeing horrific fighting in 8/44. P 8 of The Arkansas Catholi 11/3/44. The "Miracle of Lisieux" tells the tale of the Carmelites. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDP7KDR...

photo of newspaper page of Arkansas Catholic November 3 1944.

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. I examine hw "What if?" is at the core of Austenesque Fiction. open.substack.com/pub/austenes...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Happy Wednesday! Yes, everyone, the book is finished! "Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation" is available for pre-sale through Release Day--June 30. This Historical Romance can be found at Amazon locations worldwide in e-book and print www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDP7KDR...

Ghost Flight: A Darcy and Elizabeth story set in WWII.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/05/2025

"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds" gizmodo.com/its-breathta...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy Wednesday! One of my favorite projects was the Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion crossover "The Sailor's Rest." Follow Elizabeth & Anne, Darcy & Wentworth through a kidnapping, a naval battle, and a comeuppance in this full-length novel. Available in Spanish, too! www.amazon.com/Sailors-Rest...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. Please join me to take a look at the differences between novels and short stories. #excerpt from Ghost Flight, too. open.substack.com/pub/austenes...

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A Novel Idea: The Short Story

Launching a banner week

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today is the launch day for "The Last Gift!" Sophia enthuses: "It was a moving, funny, and brilliantly well-written universe, where Jane Austen’s books are in one world. "The ending had me absolutely choked up. It was so well-written! Words cannot describe it." www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Tomorrow is a special day. No, not taxes, but perhaps something related to death? What if July 18, 1817, was not the end, but merely the beginning for Jane Austen? Please enjoy my short story, "The Last Gift" (4,500 words, e-book only), which releases tomorrow. www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...

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The Last Gift: An Austenesque Short Story

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

My Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is in Presale through April 15 on all Amazon platforms. The tale considers what would happen if July 18, 1817 was not the end but the beginning for Jane Austen. What if she invented her heaven and her characters awaited her? www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tidge over one week before my #Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is available as an e-book on all Amazon platforms worldwide. 4,500 words. www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...

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The Last Gift: An Austenesque Short Story

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tidge over one week before my #Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is available as an e-book on all Amazon platforms worldwide. 4,500 words. www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. Looking to see where your plotline will take you. open.substack.com/pub/austenes...

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A Photo of Love

Sourcing a View from a Room

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Also take note of their masks - as the administration demands that Columbia et al ban masks on campus, so they can identify protesters more easily.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 26/03/2025

The Mayor of Somerville, MA (where this took place) says that the mostly masked ICE agents misidentified themselves as "police" even though they had no connection with either Somerville or Tufts police. whdh.com/news/video-r...

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Video released of Tufts University student detained by ICE agents - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

MEDFORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Newly released video shows the moment a Tufts University student was taken into custody by ICE Tuesday.The president of Tufts said<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whd...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Want to bet they will change all the locks?

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

And soon the Trumpets will stop reporting the data.

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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Pretty good description of the state of affairs right now.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Egg price soaring well beyond $8 ... another fresh high. Funny how this is no longer an important story for the mainstream media. #inflation #EconSky

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Great job explaining why the economy could contract

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is how Putin kills us. Every single order Trump issues is aimed our demise. Scientists & researchers now warning Trump's firing of 100s of NOAA workers, the agency that provides U.S. government's weather forecasts, will put American lives at risk and stifle crucial climate research.

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Trump's firings at US weather agency will put lives at risk, scientists say

Scientists and researchers are warning that the Trump administration's firing of hundreds of workers at NOAA, the agency that provides the U.S. government's weather forecasts, will put American lives at risk and stifle crucial climate research.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

So the 'art of the deal' only works when the other person just rolls over and does whatever you say. When they stand up to you, you throw them out. What a disgrace that mobster in chief is

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

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Don Jacobson Author @austenesque.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Doing what Britain did in 1935. Unilateral disarmament

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