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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

David Ellison fired Michael DeLuca and Pamela Abdy, which is the whole point: Ellison is not only worse than Zaslav, he is so much worse that within a couple of years he will have people missing him.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The only good thing that ever came out of the Young Turks was What The Flick?!

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His family will be passing around one of his Bonus Buckets for donations.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Say what you will about David Zaslav but last year Warner Bros. gave us Sinners, One Battle After Another, Weapons, and Mickey 17. We will miss those days when the Paramount IP slop factory takes over.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SCOTUS declines to hear the appeal of Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, former president and CEO of Theranos and codefendant of Elizabeth Holmes. Interesting that Justice Thomas recused. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Philip telling Stan that he thought Stan's wife might be a Russian spy was unbelievably cruel and I go back and forth on whether Philip meant it that way.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I believe the industry term is a "beat sweetener"

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This article doesn't really describe a "scheme" as much as it just says "who's gonna stop him?"

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Voters' lives aren't what they want Voters give fascism a try Fascists screw everything up Voters kick fascists out Voters lives aren't what they want

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Virtually every single South American country (except good old Uruguay) has lurched hard to the right in the last few years. Venezuela we can say was U.S. hard power interference, but Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil... they all just chose this.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Imagine being a professional journalist, getting an answer from Justice Alito like this, and just accepting it. These words don't mean anything! It's like he was asked about Roe v. Wade and responded, "A setback of the heart bathes in sunlight" or "The body of mind sees the mountain top."

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These words don't mean anything. This is just gibberish, spoken by a dim-witted partisan hack who has been coddled by his political benefactors and who has never had to compete on merit in 76 years.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Field of Dreams. And it's even scarier as an adult.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Voters all over the world aren't exactly crazy about fascism, but they also refuse to really reject it, so it never really goes away.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I didn't know the extent to which David Ellison had already turned Paramount into a slop factory until I looked at their top grossing releases for 2026: Scream 7 Scary Movie PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie Heart of the Beast Primate The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants Jackass: Best and Last

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is why COVID was such an existential shock to the system for the median white voter. For the first time in their lives, they felt actual consequences.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If rational self-interest is the only rubric, then it was utterly insane for Germany for fight WW2, which led to far worse consequences for them than it did for Britain. If you're just anti-war, isn't that where you'd put your focus? Unless, like Tucker, your point is that Germany should have won.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If, under Tucker's argument - it was wrong for Britain to enter WW2 because they were a weaker country after the war than they were before it started - then it was an even worse idea for Germany to have started WW2. And yet, somehow, he never criticizes Germany for doing that.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MAGA influencer Craig Long, who was arrested in a human trafficking sting in Florida on April 22, was quietly given 12 months of probation in a hearing on August 19 that received no coverage whatsoever.

Memo of Sentence / Order of the Court showing that Craig Long pleaded no contest to Soliciting Another for Prostitution and being placed on probation for 12 months

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We will look back on 2025-26 as a golden era of Hollywood compared to what comes next.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How many voters are going to walk into the booth and think "Troy Jackson? Isn't he the nazi rapist guy?"

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe the NFL just isn't that hard?

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well the bombs didn't *all* land on nuclear powered drug factories. Don't forget the one that landed on a school and murdered 150 children.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Look, I know that John Wayne Gacy may have murdered 20 children, but have you seen his tight five clown bit?"

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every hour that every DOJ employee wastes whitewashing Watergate is an hour they are not prosecuting child molesters, fentanyl dealers, billion dollar fraudsters, hate crimes, and voter suppression.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Really enjoying the story arc this season of Kirk Herbstreit being an amoral psychopath.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Herschel Walker almost beat Raphael Warnock, not Jon Ossoff, but the point remains.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the many things going on here is that Republicans don't care about sports, they just want to *seem* like they know/care about sports because sports have the trappings of masculinity.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two spoiled, dumb manbabies who've been coddled and protected their entire lives because of their race, their gender, and their daddy's money, who never learned to think critically and never will.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Carl was about to get away with a million dollars and instead gets killed by Grimsrud because he argued about paying for half of a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, which had an MSRP of $11,000.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who doesn't remember when Walter Cronkite begged like a whipped dog for Richard Nixon not to put him on his enemies list.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I once had a male judge on a court of appeals ask me during oral argument if 4 men charged with a gang rape was "just a case of boys will be boys."

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's like Aaron Sorkin didn't understand that the reason The Social Network worked was that it not about Facebook, it was about what an angry, lonely, empty, vapid nerd Mark Zuckerberg was.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Se7en is a perfect film school final exam: you are given one line of dialogue - "If you kill him, he will win" - and have to write a script that gets you to that point.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Has there ever been a television show that did more damage to the brains of our elite media than The West Wing?

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Verlander was a unicorn who actually had two peaks: 2009-12 with Detroit and 2018-22 with Houston. Nobody has *two* peaks a decade apart.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dan Sullivan supports ICE executing innocent people in the streets, buuuuut on the other hand, Mary Peltola is sometimes rude to staff and uses curse words in text messages.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Two of the characters are of the type dear to Oscar Wilde's heart"

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Horror movie villains: 60s: psycho killers 70s: ghosts 80s: slashers 90s: slashers (self-aware) 00s: diseases 10s: trauma 20s: hallways

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sigh. Punk needs to be a heel, but they won't turn him because pro wrestling audiences have all gone into business for themselves and will cheer him no matter what and bury his opponents. So Punk wins yet again.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was 100% on Emma's side while watching it; the further I got from it, the more uncomfortable I felt about it.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Both things are true: Andrew Boutros set Sheri Mecklenburg up to fail by ordering her to bring charges he knew the law did not support, and she committed egregious misconduct before the grand jury. No good guys here except the grand jurors who said no.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah guys Mary Peltola is a bad person but she will also be a vote against James Ho's SCOTUS nomination and that's just where we are right now.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn, a Republican, sentenced to just 16 months in prison today after messaging an undercover police officer posing as a 17-year-old girl asking for nude pics and "rates" for sex acts. Prosecutors had asked for 5 years.

cbsnews.com

Ex-Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn sentenced to 16 months in federal child sex trafficking case

Former Republican Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty to attempted possession of child pornography following a 2025 child sex s...

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oscar voters who chose Shakespeare in Love as Best Picture remain unpunished.

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The indictment doesn't allege that the letter carrier had any intent to affect an election, and the government even admitted in its detention memo that he threw away the mail just so he could go home earlier.

But on June 3, 2026, SEEI threw away some of the mail, which he had been
entrusted to deliver, into a dumpster in a church parking lot. (See Exhibits 1-2). He later admitted in an interview that he threw away the mail because he wanted to “lighten his workload” so he could presumably go home earlier. The mail that SEEI threw away into

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The Once-ler @maledicta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Update: the 9th Circuit rejects an appeal by Alexander Smirnov, the GOP-promoted informant who pleaded guilty in 2024 to providing the FBI false information about the Bidens and Ukraine.

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov

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