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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...

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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record

According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire is quietly shooting a pro-ICE movie that dramatizes the Renee Good killing. We got the script. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...

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The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script.

Locals aren’t happy about the film’s take on the ICE shooting of Renée Good.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Six NBA games were played that night. 😆 www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You may be right that a legal technicality lets Treasury evade the spirit of the law. Ironically the twice-impeached felon who always seems to get away with everything, looks more diminished and is more widely reviled with each fake gold tacky attempt at legacy. He is so cringe.

Why Does the U.S. Avoid Living People on Currency?
Throughout history, the decision by living leaders to depict their own likeness on currency has often been associated with monarchies and imperial regimes, Alan Stahl, a retired curator of numismatics (the study of coins) from Princeton University, says.

“It would be interpreted as personal rule rather than rule on behalf of the people,” Stahl said. “It would be interpreted as the rule of an individual and a sign of monarchy.”

Beyond formal laws, the United States has historically rejected placing living figures on currency out of concern for democratic ideals. Stahl says the precedent dates back to George Washington’s refusal to appear on coins during his presidency.

“Washington adamantly refused and said it would be a sign of tyranny if he allowed his image to go on the coins while he was president,” Stahl said. “Not only did his images not go on the coins … it wasn't until 1909 when Lincoln's image went on the penny that a human being ever went on U.S. coins.”

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Correct. Other law -Presidential $1 Coin Act: For creating $1 coins honoring American presidents. “No coin issued…may bear the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death of that President.” Not enuf room

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dear Reuters - critics? What is the law? Please state the facts. 1866 Thayer Amendment: Congress passed a law stating that no portrait or likeness of a living person can be placed on U.S. bonds, securities, notes or postal currency. It should not be hard to do accurate journalistic headlines.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is telling that the journalist who wrote this article did not bother to humanize the dead person or to find out if he/she had a name or a story. They are just a homeless person going through trash.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026

how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me

pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Heard one theory that he not attending because the ceremony is very long and he would probably fall asleep, as he does during Cabinet meetings. That would look worse than skipping it.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 31/08/2026

NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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MapQuest finds its way back to prominence thanks to uproar over Google Maps decision

MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app — and among the most popular apps overall — after Google renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton makes her first appearance on the Tonight Show - with Higher and Higher and Me and Little Andy 01/19/1977

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Dolly Parton Makes Her First Appearance on Her Birthday | Carson Tonight Show

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

goodbye Ms Dolly Parton - an absolute gem of a human and an enormous talent. with her sisters from 1970

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Dolly Parton, Stella Parton & Cassie Parton singing “Break My Mind” - 1970

YouTube video by Stella Parton

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Everyone in his orbit is corrupted.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A gift link as we support journalists but not Bezos.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The whole story about Ken Paxton, the stolen Mont Blanc pen, and a courthouse videotape, is just one wonderful detail after another. Here you go:

Related Texas comptroller-elect shuffles personnel, promises accurate state revenue estimate

AUSTIN - In the great pen caper, Texas' incoming Attorney General Ken Paxton drew a Blanc. It happened last year at a Collin County courthouse, where lawyer Joe Joplin rushed through the security stop, needing to get to a hearing. A few hours later, he realized he'd left a tray of three pens at the metal detector. One was a gift from his wife — a $1,000 Montblanc. Mon Dieu. "It came back like a Kodak moment. I knew I'd put it in a separate bin and that second plate didn't come out," Joplin recalled in a recent interview. He rushed to the security entrance and the pen was gone. Joplin talked to the sheriff's deputies, who told him that shortly after Joplin went through, another man picked up a tray of pens on top of the machine. Joplin said he's not into fancy pens, but it had sentimental value. He asked about security cameras and whether he might view the tape. The deputies were unable to help. Joplin, frustrated and a bit frightened of telling his wife, wrote to an old friend, "just to vent." The boyhood pal was Collin County Sheriff Terry Box. In an Aug. 14, 2013, email, Joplin recounted the details. "The loss of my pen is my responsibility," he wrote, but he also thought a lost and found procedure might be instituted.

Box is a sheriff who likes to see lost items returned. He ordered up the videotape. On the security video, the sheriff said he saw several people go through the machine after Joplin. And then he recognized the guy who picked up the pens — state Sen. Ken Paxton of McKinney. "It looked like he took a pen and put it in his pocket out of the tray," Box said. He asked a deputy to call Paxton and see whether he had it. He looked. He did. A day or so later, Paxton gave the pricey rollerball pen to a deputy to return to Joplin, the sheriff said. Paxton spokesman Anthony Holm called it a simple mistake. "Fifteen months ago a pen or pens was shuffled between two attorneys in a courthouse. This is far from newsworthy, as the pen was returned when the error was realized," Holm said. Joplin said he — and his wife — welcomed it back. "I don't want to cause anyone any harm. I was very grateful," he said. He declined to speculate on what might have happened. "You can surmise that," Joplin said.

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Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you wanted to fly Donald Trump out on a different plane without advanced warning to protect him, that would be one thing. But to put others on what you believed to be a targeted plane served only one purpose: To propagate and maintain a lie to assuage a single man’s ego.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Shrapnel tested 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 - lucky we have Status.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know access-to-power Byers serves your bottom line, but could you at least edit him? - "thoughtful liberal's favorite conservative." Puhleeze!

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Actually gamers have reflexes that make good top grade air traffic controllers. “Feedback from controller exit interviews reinforces this, with several controllers pointing to gaming as an influence on their ability to think quickly, stay focused, and manage complexity."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Few days ago a massive and well coordinated campaign started in Moroccan Facebook/Instagram with message "Spain opened the borders, they let everyone in" The one responsible is unknown and even if we find the bot networks they might be 3rd world hires, a standard practice for many governments 🧵 1/6

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Suckered again. Media must imply he is crying wolf. It’s absurd how much he gets away with. No other POTUS would be given such latitude. This is a war.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Imagine waking up every day and being such an absolute dickhead-f**kwad like this loser Moreno. Too dumb to know how loathed and vile he is.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Except that Rand Paul is failing at forcing him to talk. #fifth

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

From District Magazine. Grim.

Screenshot from District Magazine's Instagram post that reads "District.

In the Kerry Gaeltacht in August 2024, there were 543 properties listed on Airbnb and not a single house available to rent on Daft.ie at the same time.

Kerry has 30 short-term lets for every one long-term rental, this was the worst ratio in Ireland, according to renter charity Threshold.

Rents in Kerry rose 10.1% in the year to Q1 2025, almost double the national average of 5.5%."

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons? Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ross Douthat explaining journalism for the 14th time

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Eliza C @callande.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tina Brown My heart aches too. tinabrown.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

The photo of the sweet-faced, 19-year-old Private Isabella Gonzales from Texas, just a year out of high school, who was killed in last Friday’s Iranian strike on a U.S. military base in Jordan, hurt my heart. She died for incompetence.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.

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