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Larry Irving

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NYC Native/DC resident. Internet OG

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Blocking Trump’s Ban
A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets around 1 a.m. Thursday, but none were granted entry later that morning.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The great MEL BROOKS recounts how the antagonist of his 1974 classic BLAZING SADDLES ended up with a name conspicuously close to that of Hollywood screen siren Hedy Lamarr - and what Hedy did when she found out.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Edward Keegan: Chicagoland gets its first architecturally distinguished stadium in over a century www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Edward Keegan: Chicagoland gets its first architecturally distinguished stadium in over a century
Northwestern’s new Ryan Field is the most sophisticated sports facility in Chicago since Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Edward Keegan: Chicagoland gets its first architecturally distinguished stadium in over a century www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/19/c...
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Edward Keegan: Chicagoland gets its first architecturally distinguished stadium in over a century
Northwestern’s new Ryan Field is the most sophisticated sports facility in Chicago since Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It should never be forgotten MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests — ALL ON HORSEBACK.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vought's goals are a) to reduce scientific funding generally, and b) especially to universities. Political appointees within agencies can already block spending. This would centralize this power in the White House. By requiring unanimity, it would ensure far less money will be spent on science.
The proposed board would include Bhattacharya and Vought and would be required to reach unanimous decisions on grant awards, the officials said.

The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how the nation’s largest biomedical research agency distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We Remember.......🎸🎶
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/09/2026
Last week, a group of tech leaders called for putting guardrails on artificial intelligence. This week, these calls have been met by backlash from tech executives, lawmakers and President Trump, who liken those ringing the alarm to a doomsday cult. Listen to "The Daily."
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The Techno-Religion at the Center of the A.I. Debate
Are those calling to slow down the development of artificial intelligence in a “doomsday cult,” as some critics say? Our reporter explains.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/09/2026
This week, the EU offered associate membership to Canada. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen framed the news in how "Europe and Canada believe in democracy, that power does not belong to the strongest, richest and loudest, but to all of us.” She was talking about us. (Link below)
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/09/2026
The hike will likely make it even costlier to borrow for homes, autos and other purchases. But if you've been socking money away, you'll probably earn a bit more interest on your savings. to.pbs.org/4xUgLjP
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What the Fed rate hike likely means for you
Bad news for borrowers, good news for savers.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Data centres in Australia: your questions answered theconversation.com/data-centres...
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Data centres in Australia: your questions answered
From almost 350 questions, nine experts answer the most common ones you asked.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Latest in the Uncle Nearest Whiskey Saga: Federal Fraud Investigations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/d...
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The Latest in the Uncle Nearest Whiskey Saga: Federal Fraud Investigations
One of the few Black-owned operations in the spirits industry, the Tennessee distillery had grown rapidly before unraveling in recent years.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
www.cbsnews.com/projects/202...
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Essential American Songbook
What are the essential American songs? Ahead of the nation's 250th birthday, we asked that question to Sunday Morning's familiar faces, from performers to artists and writers to community leaders. The...
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’m here at the hottest nightlife place in all of DC: the reflecting pool, where everyone is talking about algae.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 12/05/2026
Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...
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Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry
Mamdani, who praised the importance of libraries, faced criticism for slashing library funding earlier this year.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Why China Is So Much Less Scared of A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
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Opinion | Why China Is So Much Less Scared of A.I.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What Do We Lose When ‘The Late Show’ Goes Away? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/a...
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What Do We Lose When ‘The Late Show’ Goes Away?
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
There it is. Any questions?
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Good Trouble Veteran @goodtroubleveteran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 25/04/2026
It’s funny having a dog and how when we meet other people with dogs out on walks, we always ask about the dog’s name but rarely introduce ourselves. I know many of the dogs in my neighborhood, rarely the name of the human. And when I intro myself, the human is always taken aback.
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𝙽𝚘𝚒𝚛 𝙷𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚎 🌁 @noirhippie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#retro 📺+
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iconic Photo
 NASA -- Artemis II crew
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We love @oliviadeano's cover of "You've Got A Friend"!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/04/2026
The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. wapo.st/4tCkcJB
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 10/04/2026
Large spiders the size of your palm are popping up across the U.S. Here's why you shouldn't be afraid
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Large spiders the size of your palm are popping up across the U.S. Here's why you shouldn't be afraid
Joro spiders have been spotted across the U.S., including in California, having ventured to the country via shipping containers from East Asia.
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Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...
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Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine
Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
❌👑 except...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Statement from Jasmine Crockett.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How Talarico Won Over Latino Voters to Win the Texas Democratic Senate Primary
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Patrick LaForge @palafo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
When they write the obituary of this once great institution, call it what it was: a murder-suicide. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I mean, he told me and I told people
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Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
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Larry Irving @lirv.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
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Opinion | ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him
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Mac William Bishop @macwbishop.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
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