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Larry Parsons

@lpars.bsky.social
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Retired journalist, cat man, Martin guitar picker, California native, hablo español

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1h
⚡️US sanctions court that seeks to arrest Putin, prompting backlash. The U.S. on Oct. 9 imposed severe financial sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2023.
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US sanctions court that seeks to arrest Putin, prompts backlash
In 2023, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Putin and another Russian official, Maria Lvova-Belova, for "unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federa...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
‘Medieval’ and ‘rather disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
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‘Medieval’ and ‘rather disturbing’: US plan to livestream execution elicits global condemnation
Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live * US politics live – latest updates The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan. The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be livestreamed on 3 December. Continue reading...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h
Is insider trading an official act? Asking for a Chief Justice.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 17h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h
its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6h
"republicans think guys like this need another tax break" is an easy line for dems to use
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 15h
I think what frightens me most is that the sheer volume of things to be horrified by has become its own kind of protection for the people responsible. Nothing has to be explained or resolved becuase a story or a scandal or a tragedy only has to survive until the next thing happens in five minutes.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h
It sounds like he's calling for a pogrom. Because he is.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 22h
Most people don't realize dumb is spelled with a B
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h
Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 games starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in bargaining with players.
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MLB proposes shortening regular season to 154 games in 2029, expanding Division Series to best-of-7
Major League Baseball proposed to shorten the regular season to 154 games from 162 games starting in 2029 and to expand the Division Series to best-of-seven in bargaining with players.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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CNN @cnn.com · 21h
A person was shot during an encounter with ICE agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source. cnn.it/4hUz2qD
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h
Again, the last public execution in the U.S. was in 1936. It's hard to wrap your head around what we're currently accelerating toward.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h
"They hit us bad. It was horrible. There were a lot of brave guys who stayed to fight there — and people at home don't know what happened. We had to abandon the base." -- Continued strong reporting from CBS News (not a typo) on US losses during the Iran war. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-at...
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"They hit us bad": Newly obtained footage, witness accounts detail Iran attack, and U.S. retreat, at major post in Kuwait
CBS News obtained new video from a person on the ground showing an Iranian attack on a U.S. base at the beginning of the war.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21h
For being a guy hung up on fighting jihadists, Hegseth really doesn't have a clue how actual jihadists think. This is the greatest gift he could give him.
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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 21h
This is genocidal rhetoric
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
Artificial Intelligence.
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Golden State @goldenstateorg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dan Morain spent time with Xavier Becerra's parents for a Sacramento Bee column he wrote in 2015. Steve Hilton's notion, Morain says, that Becerra is lying about his father being an immigrant "is itself a lie. Becerra’s story has not changed." MORE: www.golden-state.org/xavier-becer...
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/10/2026
At least 33 people were killed on Thursday when a Russian strike caused two public buses to catch fire in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said, marking the deadliest attack from a single strike this year. cnn.it/4jcQCID
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
⚠️ Just ten AI-related companies now account for a record 42% of US stock market capitalization. The question is whether the AI sector will behave more like the railroads (63%) or earlier dot com technology (41%).
The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter
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BREAKING: The "Al Big 10" now accounts for a record 42% of US stock market cap.
This includes Magnificent 7 stocks as well as Broadcom, SAVGO, AMD, SAMD, and Micron, SMU.
This figure has more than doubled since the 2022 bear market low.
By comparison, during the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble, the Technology, Media & Telecom (MT) sector peaked at 41%, while the Nifty Fifty peaked at 40% in the 1970s.
Furthermore, Japan's equity market bubble in the 1980s peaked at 44%.In the past, only railroad stocks have significantly exceeded this
concentration, accounting for 63% of US market cap at their highest point in the 1900s.
The dominance of Big Tech is extraordinary.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
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Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Men who want to live forever and hate being alive.
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Larry Parsons @lpars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It would be another bad idea and a another source of grift the Trump Families Robbers.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And now the Arizona Star reports: "Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation." The judge, a Trump appointee, cited news reports in his order. Journalism FTW! tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump said that U.S. officials did not believe that a Russian lab worker’s reported death, which has attracted global scrutiny, was linked to a bioweapon. Trump said Russian officials reassured that the situation was being contained.
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Trump says ‘we don’t think’ Russian plague case is a bioweapon
U.S. officials have asked Russia to provide more information about the lab worker’s reported death and the country’s elevated response.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Larry Parsons @lpars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More skilled, more educated, more motivated, who would’ve thought? No one with a brain, a good mother, and a CV longer than having rich parents, white skin and a set of oversized truck nuts.
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Larry Parsons @lpars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is this the ultimate double jeopardy scenario?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 07/10/2026
Team Trump is effectively saying it misappropriated $11.5 million in taxpayer money, but they're promising not to misuse any *additional* funds. That’s nice, but there’s still the matter of the money that the White House already (and illegally) took from us. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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White House rejects calls for reimbursements on publicly funded campaign ads
Democrats Team Trump’s gambit as the “theft of public resources,” which comes with the expectations that the money must be paid back.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026
⚡️ Russian attacks kill at least 24, injure more than 130 over past day, rescue efforts continue in Pryluky. Fourteen of those killed died when a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building in Pryluky, in Chernihiv Oblast.
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Russian attacks kill at least 24, injure more than 130 over past day, rescue efforts continue in Pryluky
Fourteen of those killed died when a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building in Pryluky, in Chernihiv Oblast.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, why did Ukraine invade Russia??
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Referring to whole groups of people as “garbage”. We used to call that racism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NYT: "Mr. Trump has a rambling style of off-the-cuff speaking, especially while holding forth at rallies..." NO. If you want to make excuses for him re LA and SD, you say that he is often incoherent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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What, Exactly, Did Trump Say About Iran Taking Out Los Angeles and San Diego? (Gift Article)
President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties. A White House official said he was taken out of context.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Copying someone else's homework never goes out of style for the stupidest amongst us. They wish they could draw they wish they could do math they wish they could code they wish they weren't uninteresting mediocre slobs, but that is who they are and will forever be.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lafeyette park is where he gassed protesters and stood with a bible. its one of the most accessible areas in dc and where ordinary people should be able to just walk. fuck this piece of fucking shit
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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