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On Tuesday, movie directors, film buyers, and fans arrived in Seattle from all over the world for the six-day Tasveer Film Festival.

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Like South Asian films? If so, this is your week, Seattle

On Tuesday, movie directors, film buyers, and fans arrived in Seattle from all over the world for the six-day Tasveer Film Festival.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h

That would be Starlink. We're complicit in Musk's sabotage. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 9h

This week's column is about the misguided insistence on pretending that sports is some safe haven from reality outside of its stadiums, a neutral area where politics don't exist. Column @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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MLS’s political speech policy is untenable – just ask Austin FC fans

The protests around an anti-ICE T-shirt show that politics can never be separated from sports, especially now

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

Ukraine accuses Elon Musk’s SpaceX of throttling Starlink terminals aje.news/g2m54z

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14h

Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/10/2026

Anyone else think we’re headed for a massive data center bubble? We’re going to end up with a bunch of empty, useless data centers. 🇺🇸 US: 5,427 data centers 🇨🇳 China: 449 data centers The U.S. already has 46% of the world’s data centers. This is insanity.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Columbian’s Editorial Board urges voters to reject I-638, a measure the board sees as "mean-spirited and promoting an ugly double-standard" by applying to only girls and not boys. Read more: www.columbian.com/news/2026/oct/10/in-our-view-vote-no-on-initiative-638 Vote NO on I-638.

A cartoon by Bill Bramhall in The Columbian newspaper. The cartoon shows a group of young girls looking nervous while lined up in a school gymnasium under a sign reading “Girls Athletics.” At the front of the line, an adult with an elephant as a head and red hat is opening the waistband of the shorts of the girl at the front of the line and looking down her pants. A speech bubble above the elephant-man adult reads: “Just the part of small government checking for junk.”

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 12/10/2026

I'm a trans woman, my life is inherently political whether I want it to be or not, so I try to keep my social media presence as a fairly bummer-free zone. But if you live in Arizona, please vote in these midterms, 'cause I'm kinda terrified of what's on the ballot right now.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/10/2026

Site-blocking isn’t just theoretically dangerous. Italy’s system blocked hundreds of innocent websites. Spain’s swept up domains belonging to Greenpeace and Harvard. Now Congress wants to bring this to the U.S. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs

Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection

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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is genocidal rhetoric

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Deaf Crocodile @deafcrocodile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Next Friday and Saturday, October 16 and 17, Laemmle's NoHo 7 is hosting a late-night screening of LEGEND OF THE SACRED STONE. 10pm both nights, and Deaf Croc's Craig Rogers will be giving away DC swag! #deafcrocodile #laemmle #indietheater #localtheater #globalcinema #pili #wuxia #budaixi

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After 34 years taking their collection from 1,000 to over 150,000 movies, Scarecrow Video’s beloved longtime buyer Mark Steiner is calling it a career after having helped shape Seattle’s (and the world’s) largest physical media store📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Mark Steiner, longtime Scarecrow Video employee, is shown in the Seattle store Sept. 10, with shelves upon shelves of movies expanding out behind him that he helped to bring to the location over 34 years.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I-638 discriminates against girls and puts them at risk of harm. Over 100 WA pediatricians, family doctors and nurses say I-638’s new sex inspection requirements will force them to conduct medically unnecessary and potentially harmful tests on girls. Vote NO on I-638 when your ballot arrives.

A screenshot of a news article from KOMO News is on a pale orange background. The header image is a high school girls soccer team huddling on the field in sky blue uniforms. The article’s headline states: What’s at stake: voters to decide on girls’ sports issue this November. The excerpt from the article reads: "We're putting the burden on girls (who want to play sports) as a justification for this witch-hunt to find trans girls who want to play sports with their friends," she said. "It's really incredibly unfair." In fact, Hipp said she does not believe that this initiative is about girls' safety at all.“ A dark orange footer says “Vote No on I-638.”

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 07/10/2026

How is this okay? Multiple masked men in plain clothing shoving a woman into an unmarked white van. STOP THE KIDNAPPING.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.

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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seattles Interim Chief of Police was outed for filing a frivolous complaint against a well-respected subordinate, based entirely on what a well-known local bigot, and rightwing influencer, Brandi Kruse said about them Nothing but silence from @mayor.seattle.gov publicola.com/2026/10/01/i...

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Interim Police Chief Based Complaint Against Detective on Right-Wing Characterization of Anti-Trans Initiative - PubliCola

In his interview with a city investigator, interim Chief Sayles said he still hadn’t read the initiative and appeared unfamiliar…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AOC understands this and I'm extremely excited to campaign for her because of it.

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Sean McKeown @sifuabs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Yorkers of Bluesky, you are her constituents, and can reach out to contact @governor.ny.gov here: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove... You can contact her office by phone between 9am and 5pm at: (518) 474-8390. If you are watching Michael Tracey doing this and seething, pick up the phone.

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Send a Message to the Governor

The official website of the 57th Governor of New York State, Kathy Hochul. Find information about the administration, issues, & news that affects you.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 01/10/2026

Sure looks to me like Bob Kettle knew for a year and a half that SPD had massively expanded its surveillance capabilities without a public vote and…just sat on that knowledge without doing anything about it. A massive scandal. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Retired WNBA player & Naismith College Player of the Year winner Kate Starbird says there are "dozens of reasons to vote against the anti-trans initiative (I-638)." When your ballot arrives in a few weeks, join Starbird and vote NO on I-638. #NoHateWAState

A photo of Kate Starbird fills the top half of the image. She has short brown hair and blue eyes and is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile. On top of the lower part of her photo, she is quoted in a red text box with white text that reads: “The ‘unintended consequences’ of I-638 will impact every girl playing sports in WA state.” Beneath her quote, she is credited: Kate Starbird, retired WNBA player & Naismith College Player of the Year Winner.

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: The Grand Illusion Cinema lives! The single-screen movie house that'd been in Seattle’s University District for more than 50 years before closing in January 2025 is coming home. It will be now taking over at the Varsity Theatre 📽️ My story @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

A photo taken outside the shuttered Varsity Theatre on September 22, 2026 with the marquee reading COMING SOON GRAND ILLUSION.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every child should be free to be themselves, learn and grow, and feel safe at school. But initiatives I-001 and I-638 are playing politics with our kids and threatening children’s safety. When your ballot arrives in a few weeks, vote NO on I-001 and I-638. #NoHateWAState

Three high school girls are standing on a reddish-brown school track, looking at the camera and smiling while holding signs that say No Hate in WA State: Vote No on I-001 & I-638.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"

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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 30/08/2026

Seattle renters, the envy of all? I think we still have more work to do, but I am so proud to have passed our rental junk fee ban with @cmdionnefoster.bsky.social to deliver a fair, transparent rental market for all next year. www.seattletimes.com/business/wa-...

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Why Seattle renters are suddenly the envy of all

Seattle recently took aim at rental fees, which can add hundreds of dollars to housing bills every month. Renters across the region now ask, what about us?

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.

Crop art with a whistle text says

I can't keep doing this
I have to keep doing this

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots

ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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kdrama news @kdramanews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Netflix releases official trailer for upcoming film #PossibleLove, directed by #LeeChangdong. youtu.be/DiPecAOKdnw?...

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Possible Love | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix K-Content

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 22/08/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed shiel legislation that criminalizes interference with transgender or repro healthcare while barring officials from aiding investigations by states where such care is illegal. newjerseymonitor.com/2026/08/20/s...

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Gov. Sherrill signs shield law aimed at protecting reproductive, transgender healthcare • New Jersey Monitor

The law aims to protect doctors performing reproductive and transgender health care, and their patients, from criminal and civil penalties.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Voters may soon have an opportunity to pursue that broader relief: In the upcoming midterms, Idahoans can cast a vote in favor of the Idaho Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a ballot initiative to restore abortion access in the state.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ICE just arrested Sisi Rose—a 33-year-old Indigenous U.S. citizen—for protesting their illegal detention of Native Americans outside their Sacramento office! Locking up First Nations people on their own stolen land is peak tyranny. End this lawless terror and free Sisi Rose now 🎥 916EyesOnICE

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