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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let's see if we can get it into the teens! We know how much he likes teens.

Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today's truly Phantastic Phind... I've been wanting to read this for years, ever since seeing it highly praised by Leonard Wolf in his excellent 'Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature And Film'. This (beautiful) edition online, at least £40. £2.99!!

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Preparing a little something for October... Basil is still best, but I may as well have a crack at it before I pop. #EdgarAllanPoe

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ta. Zenocrate is a-dying (off stage) and he's not a happy tyrant.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Trying out my new mic... huge improvement I think. Dipping back into #Marlowe after Faustus. youtu.be/ZvOIhZZi-pc

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Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe, LAMENT FOR ZENOCRATE

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Pay what you can/choose - free entry and audience members can, if they wish, make a donation as they leave, traditionally by putting money in a bucket at the door.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As I'm currently constrained by Bühneschreck (the German word is actually Lampenfieber!), might people be interested in a free/'bucketed' READING of THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE? It would last about 75 mins, & I'd have someone read stage directions, so it wouldn't only be me droning on.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In 9 days, I will withdraw my votive obedience to Dionysus & offer it to Cadmus, as I swap the buskin for the pen. Come & see #DrFaustus make a far more drastic & diabolical choice. Huge thanks to #JanetDeVigne for the chance to bow out in 1 of my dream roles, by my beloved #ChristopherMarlowe.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Found today, £2. Online, £25! Had a '76 edition, which fell to bits, having been read, re-read & re-re-read. 20 years of reviews, from Olivier's Richard III (1944) to the premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1963). By the greatest theatre critic after Hazlitt & before John Peter. Invaluable.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NEW/UNREAL!! US Military Asks Troops to Pitch ‘Creative and Unconventional’ Ideas on How to Punish Iran: “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” So under Trump/Hegseth our military tactics are based on a suggestion box www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

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CENTCOM Asks Troops to Pitch ‘Creative and Unconventional’ Ideas on How to Punish Iran: Report

U.S. Central Command has appealed to troops to submit their own ideas on "creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran," according to a report.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026

NEW: DOJ has submitted unredacted Epstein Files for review in chambers by Judge Sullivan in the @katiephang.bsky.social case. DOJ contends it redacted victims' names, but check out their definition of "victim." 1/

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Great fun today filming the kickstarter video for #ForWeAreMany2, with #MeganTremethick, #MichaelBrewster, #PaulWilliamKelly & the gang at #BritishHorrorStudio. I picked up the magnifying glass & asked, "Does this do the #PeterCushing thing?" It does!

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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in new poll of Texas’ U.S. Senate race The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/28/t...

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Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in new Texas Senate poll

The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A fantastic interview. Mr S takes a wee while to warm up and clear the tubes, but then it just gets better and better. Wise, witty, astute, incredibly honest, self-mocking, endlessly insightful. I love this man. I once shook his hand, you know. youtu.be/PbggcecS-5Y?...

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Rod Steiger Career Retrospective | Legacy Collection | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation

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Gus Moyer (梅子超) @gusmoyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

1/2 State Delegate David Elliott Pritt, who was chosen as Assistant Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, was arrested after grooming an 8th grader. #Pedophile #RepublicanParty

West Virginia Republican politician charged for enticing a minor.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 27/07/2026

Springwatch icon, humanist, and probably the UK's best-loved birdwatcher, Bill Oddie, has died aged 85. Very sad. Thank you for a lifetime of helping us understand nature.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026

HUGE WIN IN KATIE PHANG’S EPSTEIN FILES LAWSUIT: Judge Emmet Sullivan is making the DOJ prove its case. Todd Blanche must now submit the unredacted Epstein Files documents for in-camera review along with evidence supporting the government’s redactions.

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ah, Faustus, now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!... #EdinburghFestivalFringe2026

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...

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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨 Yesterday Mitch McConnell’s office reached out, through an intermediary & asked Keith to delete this post naming the senior staff who run his Washington office. Public employees, public titles, paid by you. Keith said no. Here’s the record they’d rather you not sit with.👇 @keithedwards.bsky.social

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McConnell's Office Asked Me to Delete This. No.

Yesterday, McConnell’s office reached out — through an intermediary, of course — and asked me to delete this post naming the senior staff who run his Washington office.

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Thornus Animator @thornus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The current Epstein class

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16/07/2026

So what changed? The Senate passed the Epstein Transparency Act - unanimously. Now, some of those very same senators are lining up to confirm Todd Blanche — the same man who's been leading the Epstein cover-up. We deserve better.

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Keir Starmer goes just as he governed... lying. He said The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn was found to be institutionally anti-Semitic. It wasn't. This is an outright lie. #PMQs

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...

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E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump’s $5 million — plus interest

Despite the president’s repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll’s legal team this week.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review.
The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to
dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.
See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring
contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation
omitted).

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Mike Daviot @mikedaviot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Today's phantasic phinds... Berlioz is possibly my favourite composer, certainly in the top three. Two concert performance DVDs - a quid each! Online: Rediscovered, £22; Faust, £16. Happy little devil. 😈

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lindsey Graham on Gaza: "Just flatten it, like we flattened Tokyo and Berlin." Lindsey Graham on the Iran War: "We are going to make tons of money." Lindsey Graham on Renée Nicole Good: "She deserved what happened. She provoked ICE." As grandma used to say: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

When Trump claimed that he was sending the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One to England so that US service members could “tour the Aircraft,” everyone knew there was more to the story. Now there's a leak hunt and a quartet of subpoenas to the NYT... www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/p...

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Federal agents "on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects” Criminal grand jury subpoenas issued to @nytimes.com reporters who wrote about security concerns with Qatari Air Force One 🎁 article

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

RED FLAG: Trump's Justice Department has informed Michigan officials it intends to send election monitors to three cities in the state for the Aug. 4 primary.

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DOJ says it will send election monitors to 3 Michigan cities

The Detroit News obtained a copy of a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice to Chris Swope, Lansing's city clerk.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🔥 Ukrainian Fire Point drones just torched the Omsk oil refinery — Russia’s last undamaged one. That’s 1,600 miles deep into Russia. Putin’s “invincible” empire is getting absolutely cooked from farther away than most Russians have ever traveled. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

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