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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We are so proud to make this announcement! None of this would've happened without the tireless work from our crew, editor @curtisippolito.bsky.social and all of the authors who contributed fantastic stories to bring awareness to this timely issue. #derringers2026 #crimefiction #climatechange

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Watching Smiley’s People on DVD from 1982 and here’s young Alan Rickman.

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Hey, here’s another book I liked. You might like it too. #BookSky #MondayRecs

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thanks to everyone who supports my ridiculously gifted kid, Scout. If you’re not subscribed to his Patreon, you missed his perfect description of Roland Emmerich’s STARGATE as “Erich von Däniken’s Lawrence of Arabia.”

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I found many of my absolute favorite short stories by reading @datlow.bsky.social anthologies. If her name’s on it, you should own it.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Just listened to the amazing Alternate Realities podcast from @zachmack.bsky.social. It’s an absorbing and affecting examination of the frustrations of dealing with conspiracy theorists. Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet one.npr.org/i/1254713697...

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🔊 Listen Now: Alternate Realities: A Strange Bet

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Chris Noto @chrisnoto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@honorszombie.bsky.social Scout Tafoya is making a movie! You did it, you beautiful people! ❤️❤️❤️

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YouTube video by Scout Tafoya

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Pete Dragovich @nerdofnoir.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

CITY OF INDUSTRY (1997, dir. JOHN IRVIN) video essay by @honorszombie.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IKJ...

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The Unloved - City of Industry

YouTube video by Scout Tafoya

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Remember how I've been in a fugue of exhaustion and manic depressive behavior for the last three years? Here's why. Please help me if you can. I am as desperate as a man has ever been, I swear to you. www.gofundme.com/f/help-scout...

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Donate to Help Scout Tafoya Bring His Film to Life, organized by Scout Tafoya

I am a filmmaker named Scout Tafoya and I am in a bind. I'm supposed to be makin… Scout Tafoya needs your support for Help Scout Tafoya Bring His Film to Life

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Colson Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. It’s the greatest New York novel in years. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

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Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy (after Crook Manifesto) with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his re...

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Do you think when these people rant about introspection, they’re actually terrified of their own consciences? They know what they’re up to is empty and meaningless but can’t stop the noises of disapproval from their own brains.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🧵Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal served with US troops in Afghanistan. He was evacuated to Texas for his safety by the Biden administration in 2021 following the withdrawal negotiated by Trump. He has been seeking asylum since. Trump's ICE detained him. A healthy 41 yo man, he died within a day.

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Afghan man who served alongside US forces dies after less than a day in ICE custody, family and advocates say | CNN Politics

An Afghan man who served alongside US special forces and fled his native country after its takeover by the Taliban died over the weekend shortly after being detained by immigration authorities, accord...

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anyone who thinks folks serving the government and not drawing a salary are being public-spirited should read more history. It was clear even in 1941 that businessmen "volunteering" service was a mask for other kinds of corruption.

Newspaper Clipping from Raleigh newspaper in 1941 describing corruption by men from industry working for the department of war and profiting from their positions while ostensibly serving for a "dollar a year."

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

No, I don’t need an AI summary of a five line email. Man, the amount of time I spend delving into menus on every app or device to turn off annoying new features nobody asked for.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

1947 in movies: Born To Kill, Robert Wise. “We're going in the same direction, you and I."

Movie poster: Born to Kill (1947). Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I'll be at the March 22nd LIT LUNCH at FINNBAR, sponsored by Frenchtown Bookshop. The lunches are prepared by bestselling cookbook author and former Chez Panisse head chef Cal Peternell. You can get tickets here: frenchtownbookshop.com/events/44068...

Poster for LIT LUNCH event at Finnbar on March 22 at 3:00pm, sponsored by Frenchtown Books. Author Dennis Tafoya will be discussing his book, DOPE THIEF, adapted by Peter Craig and Ridley Scott and currently streaming on APPLE+.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Did any of the fiction, TV or movies about machines getting violent and destroying humanity turn on the idea that crappy, malfunctioning AI would be pushed into terrible uses by people who were just trying to recoup their investment in subpar technology?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

KAVANAUGH STOP: (American political term) A Kavanaugh stop is a law enforcement practice in the United States in which federal agents can stop and detain a person based on their perceived ethnicity, spoken language, or occupation…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📸 Gordon Parks (1959)

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The most consistently delusional NYTimes device: Republicans (evangelicals, trump voters, etc) are reappraising their support for their party’s extreme agenda.

Headline in New York Times - Are Republicans Growing a Little Uneasy about the ICE Raids?

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Tough to say anything about this that Hannah Arendt didn’t already cover. Fascistic regimes rely on a repudiation of actual history in preference of ahistorical nationalist and racist myth and the politics of grievance.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A reminder that autocratic governments pretty much always end up at war with their own citizens. Their corruption worsens inequality and unrest. Their illegitimacy and xenophobia fuel paranoia and the search for enemies.

The Mothers of the Disappeared, or Madres de Plaza de Mayo, parents of young people disappeared by the government during Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ of the 70s and 80s.

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Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Next up on the old reading list @dennistafoya.bsky.social 's DOPE THIEF. It's been in my tbr pile a while, better time than ever to start. I don't have APPLE TV, so I haven't seen the show. One day I'll use the free trial & watch, but I want to read the book first before I watch it.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Note from a veteran police reporter: NAMING law officers who use lethal force under any and every circumstance IS NOT doxxing. It is journalism. Officers who invoke lethal force are ID'd publicly as a standard -- or were when we were a republic. Asdress, no. Name, rank, posting, etc. -- yes.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The ultimate irony is that people become refugees when their governments become corrupt, ethnic hatreds surge, infrastructure is underfunded and healthcare delivery systems break down. But I guess one way to stop immigration is to become the kind of country citizens flee.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

What’s wild about this is the damning headlines from places that voted solid red four years later.

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Kathryn Rushent 🌊🐱🍁 @krushent.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

All Americans, and the entire world, must remember. Robert Reich: The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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The most shameful day in American history

We will never forget, and we will not let the nation or the world forget.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

“Douthat’s punditry. . . particularly rankles when you notice how many of his arguments borrow the look-what-you-made-me-do rhetoric of domestic abusers and playground bullies. . . Douthat likes nothing more than telling his liberal readers that conservative extremism is in fact all their fault.”

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God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird

Ross Douthat’s usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

How many times have these reactionary assholes complained about the military getting sucked into nation building?

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

When you’ve taken down the Xmas decorations

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Most recent haircut. I know my hair texture has changed as I’ve gotten old, but didn’t expect that I’d end up all “Hero of Soviet Labor.”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2025

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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The Longest Suicide Note in American History

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

No matter how much you realize that everything in the culture isn’t aimed at you, isn’t there something still disconcerting about running across some huge star with millions of fans and dozens of IMDB credits and you have no fucking clue who they are?

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I saw Paul Dano opposite Ethan Hawke in True West and still think about how amazing that was. In his only outing on stage in Wait Until Dark, Tarantino was thoroughly panned.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Anyone have a good relationship with an entertainment/media reporter they trust? DM me.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

One of the big reasons DOPE THIEF got made was Ridley Scott and Scott Free signing on. I still think all the time about watching Alien for the first time, 70mm on a massive screen.

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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