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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 4h

A new study has found the share of studio production spending on U.S. films has dropped significantly over the last 25 years. Tell your representatives to pass the bipartisan Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act (MPTERA): actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 10h

i'm sure this will all work out fine

Mendoza’s campaign has hired a chief of content who co-founded a local creator hub called Renowned, while Giannoulias’ campaign is currently advertising a $6,500-a-month new media manager role for someone with “a phone full of Chicago creators” at their fingertips.

“This is the first municipal election cycle in Chicago where we’re seeing content creators be relied upon so heavily to communicate with voters,” said Joanna Klonsky, a local media strategist.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 6h

Also what does Ethics Reform even mean if there's nothing that merits removal from office? Does Rahm (or anyone else slinging this nonsense) think that the impoundment and the boat murders and the naked bribery and the illegal war will just stop because we wrote "new rules?" He wants toothlessness.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 6h

The funny thing about Rahm calling for Ethics Reform instead of impeachment is that he covered up a murder because he was worried it would hurt his mayoral reelection campaign. This is like how, after said murder was made public, he called for Ethics Reform for the police instead of accountability.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 6h

Both times I was hit in Chicago I was in a bike lane and a car decided turning right into me was more important to them than waiting for me to pass.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 7h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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nyc5265.bsky.social @nyc5265.bsky.social · 21h

Reagan and Thatcher rose to prominence once no could remember the Gilded Age. Glass-Steagal was repealed when no one could remember the Depression and look where we are now that no one can remember World War II...

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 20h

If we rented the same apartment we were living in before we moved away, the rent would be 1k than my mortgage is now.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 22h

It often said that there is one map of Chicago, and, well

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pretty epic starscape at night. Our first big trip together was driving around all of Lake Michigan but we zagged to Houghton because we timed the trip for a meteor shower.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ok yeah this is it then, that makes more sense

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

www.aarongang.com www.jannagiacoppo.com www.gretchenkelley.com www.jeffkuryszphotography.com bravelux.com <- professional actors' go-to www.brianmcconkeyphotography.com www.collinquinnrice.com/photography www.letsdoshots.com www.AvivaSherman.com www.popiostumpf.com kylebondeson.com/actor-headsh...

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is child abuse masquerading as due process.

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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...

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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment

Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.

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Return of the Liv-ing Dead (1985) 🧠💀 @fixurheartordie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

me: it's starting to feel like fall john cena: i forgive vince mcmahon

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think I would die of embarrasment if I failed so badly at shoving my foot back into my sneaker without bothering to untie and retie the laces that I needed someone to run onto the football field and shove my heel into the shoe on national television. Also without untying and retying the shoe.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listen, if Ken Paxton wants to remind the whole nation that the GOP nominated a guy who give get out of jail free cards to rich paedos, let him. Run the adds in Iowa, Oklahoma, and Maine while you're at it.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes it's funny that Ken Paxton is running ads during a Bears/Jets game but it's even funnier that the content of the ads include soundbytes like "When missing person posters go up, Ken Paxton takes them down" as if he's hamburglering the flyers.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paxton had them run his ads in every state he owns a home

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like its bad that Polymarket is trying to throw its weight around in senate races.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 04/10/2026

"He reviewed what he knew about the Haitians in Springfield, which had mostly come from his mother, via a friend of hers who lived there, and had little good to say; Jack had seen a video she’d circulated purporting to show Haitians eating cats and dogs."

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Tyrone @thetyrone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Blackhawks trying to enter the Chicago sports conversation

static.klipy.com

Get That Cat Out Of The Way

ALT: Get That Cat Out Of The Way

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Big fan of Lou Mitchell's. I don't hate what Goddess serves.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My HBO is bundled with two other streaming services, ad free, for about 1/3 of what it would cost to subscribe to all three individually on their respective ad tiers. The minute that bundle gets rescinded, I'm dropping HBO post skydance merger.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah yes, it's always Matthew 5:29-30 until one of the eagles' hands are sinning, isn't it? Is there a Pauline epistle that says "as long as the sinner is a member of a band I like or donates to a political party I favor, the sin is forgiven?"

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who among them remembered "Lone Canoe"?

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, that's the argument I wish I was making because it's easier for you to rebut. The argument I am making is that the formula you're using to decide who gets a pass breaks down when you compare the same moral injury between someone you're willing to defend and someone nobody is willing to defend.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tonight the Chicago Tribune's theatre critic, who is also in charge of their atavistic editorial board, is reviewing a pre broadway tryout in Maine. Maine is not Chicago.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This kind of argument sounds a lot less convincing when you apply it to Jeffrey Epstein instead of Henley

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm reminded of the cafe in my neighborhood that sold to a rival cafe when the owners decided to retire. Rival cafe kept it barely running for a year and then shuttered it, and cooked up a scheme that guaranteed the next business to take over the space not run a cafe citing "too much competition."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The more I read on the specifics of the Paramount Warner merger the more I wonder how, even in times as corrupt as these, this deal managed to pass regulatory muster.

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Jon @arfmeasures.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TN GOV is likely going to Marsha Blackburn but with news like this, and 19% undecided, it's not inconceivable that the people of Tennessee decide to elect a governor who won't call in the National Guard to kill them extrajudicially.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another way I keep looking at his second term: it makes more sense if you think of it as sabotage.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think he wants to be impeached. I think the whole point was to divide us as much as possible and to chip away at the rule of law by doing flagrantly illegal things. He may be using the PAC as a personal piggy bank sure, but this one feels like he's using tax money because he knows its impeachable.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If someone's gotta mix metaphors, the least they could do is mix something appetizing.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In fairness, we all saw this coming. This week appears to be the sober sunday morning after last week's wild party.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man, I would feel so bad for the people of Ohio if they elect Ramaswamy. A lot of very vulnerable people, and a lot of people who don't realize how much they rely on state services, will have a bad time.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

LRT I would go so far to say that in 2026 having any sense of taste requires the kind of empathy and acknowledgement of the existence of other peoples' feelings and views that more commonly features in leftwing ideology, and the aesthetics of the right are more a product of tradition than invention.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/10/2026

there’s not as much of a throughline like there was with the international style or brutalism but that might be because people got mad at those

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/10/2026

starting to get a bit annoyed by the idea that the right has an aesthetic or a sense of beauty and the left doesn’t. democratic-run cities are constantly building new public buildings and parks, a lot of them are great, i’ve been writing about them for years

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was galled, though not surprised, that the guy running Vanity Fair thinks accountability is bad bc it’s unfriendly to those being held accountable. They should have to retreat “to their bunkers” for the distasteful things they say and do. Elon musk has killed many people! He should hide in shame!

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I come from a different angle; I like JOH’s work, especially his plays, and so I am already primed to appreciate his take here. Like @ninametz.bsky.social I am surprised Guidicci didn’t have a better response to this, because that is, in my view, the most important public facing part of his job.

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Mike Check @check1check2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A substantial amount of the movie's plot is out there already, its not hard to find and you don't have to go to any sketchy websites to see it. There's one particular consistently repeated leak that's dark, but more in the sense of "it's very dark you'd market a movie by pointing at that"

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