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Upside-down flag waving Hippie. Ran radio/TV stations. NV Broadcaster HOF. First licensed by the FCC in 1967. FoB since 2000. Didn't/won't work for Sinclair/Nexstar because fascism. Geriatric Hikikomori but now medically cleared for return to public life.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Kathleen S. Pearce, Atty @attyksolnerpearce.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here’s a handy reference.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For anyone wondering about the cozy relationship the Ellisons have with the President and his family and how that relationship is driving and economically profiting from this merger. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi
The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 01/09/2026
Jim Ruddle made his mark on Chicago as a respected broadcast newsman who, quite literally, sailed into the sunset after his last broadcast.
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Jim Ruddle, Chicago TV news anchor who sailed into the sunset, dies at 94
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
chicago.suntimes.com/graphics/wea... It's absolutely not OK. Chicago seems to be the only media region covering this story: Sun Times and WBEZ.
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12 nights without power in Gary, Indiana, ‘Why is this OK?’ | Chicago Sun-Times
With no power and a spotty generator, every day is a struggle for a family of seven as they approach two weeks without electricity in Northwest Indiana.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Let me be direct: I don’t believe you want CNN and CBS News to tell it straight down the middle — I believe you would turn them into OANN if that’s what it takes to get the movie studios you covet. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Proud to be on this list! www.stopthepresses.news/p/25-must-fo...
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25 must-follow people in pro-democracy media
One way to fight negativity is to lift up inspirational voices
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 05/08/2026
The National Review – the preeminent conservative magazine since 1955 — called it: President Donald Trump has done the “impeachable.”
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Top conservative magazine calls it: Trump should be impeached
The National Review – the preeminent conservative magazine since 1955 — called it: President Donald Trump has done the “impeachable.”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A group of Democratic lawmakers have asked the Pentagon’s watchdog to open an investigation after The Post revealed that 15 companies with investment from President Trump’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments and loans. | WaPo archive.ph/BxfWM
Eric and Donald Trump Jr. attend the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, in July. (Photo credit: Evan Vucci/Reuters)
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
MS NOW was the only network to see gains in total viewership and key demo (adults 25-54) viewership in both primetime and total day numbers.
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MS NOW Ratings Skyrocket as Fox News Hits Double Trouble
Plus, the latest numbers for CNN.
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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Disney, welcome to the resistance.
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ABC Launches On-Air Campaign Warning Viewers Of FCC Actions
ABC is warning viewers of the FCC's crackdown on The View and its unusual demand the network's stations seek early renewal of their broadcast licenses
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 21/06/2026
The Sunday series finale between the Chicago Cubs and the Toronto Blue Jays at Wrigley Field has been rescheduled to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 6.
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Chicago Cubs’ Father’s Day game rescheduled due to inclement weather
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The more I hear that Democrats are somehow at fault, the more I understand there are people that either failed Civics or never took a Civics class. VOTE!!!
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Workers, hiding behind a tarp to prevent the public from watching, remove Trump's name from the Kennedy Center: the first of many actions needed to try to erase the stain of his reign. Despite the efforts to hide, here's a remarkable photo from the AP. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Workers began removing Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in an overnight operation from behind a massive tarp after spending several hours constructing scaffolding to reach the president’s letters
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
In a nutshell.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
NBC: #RIP Gene Shalit, a film critic for NBC’s “TODAY” show for four decades who was instantly recognizable for his walrus mustache and fondness for lively wordplay, died Friday, his family said. Shalit “passed away peacefully today after 100 years of an amazing life,” his family told NBC News"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
PELLEY: “.. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent?” @nytimes.com $PSKY www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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RatingBook @ratingbook.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Not really sure what turbine-driven aircraft just buzzed the Las Vegas Valley, but I do hope the "Department of War" isn't using increasingly rare aviation assets for advertisements in some sports broadcast, with 6 figure fuel costs alone for this joyride: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=~29be38
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ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live
ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"A daily pill doubles the survival time of people with pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat forms of the condition, even after they have stopped responding to chemotherapy." www.newscientist.com/article/2528...
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'Transformative' pancreatic cancer drug doubles survival time
People with advanced pancreatic cancer taking an experimental daily pill lived nearly twice as long as those receiving chemotherapy infusions
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Augustinians had no website when Pope Leo XIV became their global leader in 2001 — so he taught himself web design and helped build one from scratch.
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The Graphic Designer Pope: Five New Surprising Revelations About Leo
From building websites to playing Bartók, Pope Leo XIV is reimagining the papacy one design at a time.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Right as always.
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RatingBook @ratingbook.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Group network affiliation agreements are going to be flying the next time Nexstar and Sinclair meet to discuss how to rid themselves of this decade-old, disinterment of long forgotten comedy club jokes that weren't funny back then. And I see MSNow & CNBC forced to run promos for this trash on CBS.
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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
With the EPA on life support, states take the lead: Vermont finally bans Parkinsons-causing paraquat www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Syngenta has been ginning up agnotology for years movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson’s fears
Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Paxton only returned the stolen pen after the courthouse security cameras showed he was the one who took it.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Ukraine brings the war home to the Muscovites. After years of telling his population, especially in Moscow, that Russia was marching inevitably on to victory, Putin has lost control of the narrative. Ukrainian UAVs penetrating Moscow air defenses will have that effect.
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Putin Has Lost Control of the Narrative
He can no longer insulate Moscow from the catastrophe he has created.
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RatingBook @ratingbook.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Well, with a POTUS who believes in 1000% price reductions on Rx, the GOP's math has been scrambled ever since "Operation Paperclip."
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RatingBook @ratingbook.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If I'm not mistaken, some of the early investors in Tesla donated CyberTrucks to Area 51 in Nevada (expressing great concern the trucks may be as fragile as the sledgehammered window) and Silicon Valley MAGAs have equipped Las Vegas Metro with battle-tested drones to surveil areas of concern to them
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Yer-ol’-pal-Unkledak🇨🇦 @unkledak.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Everyone talking about cancelling CBS over what they did to Colbert I’ve got a better idea get a list of advertisers for CBS in your area and text/Write/phone them and tell them you’ll be boycotting their products for advertising with CBS.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 23/05/2026
A U.S.-Israeli plot to overthrow Iran’s regime failed on Day 1, the New York Times reports. An airstrike meant to free former Iranian President Ahmadinejad nearly killed him. “It’s so incompetent - it’s so hubristic - that it’s hard to get your mind around it,” says @rhodesben.bsky.social. #Velshi
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Ben Rhodes: ‘We’ve now gone from tragedy to farce,’ on failed U.S.-Israeli Iran regime change plot
After killing the Ayatollah and other top officials in the early days of the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, President Trump openly mused about “someone from within” taking over the country. A fantastical report from the New York Times details an Israeli plot to install that “someone” – none other than Iran’s virulent anti-U.S., anti-Israel, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It’s a degree of incompetence that should be really, really alarming to people,” says Ben Rhodes, the former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.
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11th Hour with Ali Velshi @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A U.S.-Israeli plot to overthrow Iran’s regime failed on Day 1, the New York Times reports. An airstrike meant to free former Iranian President Ahmadinejad nearly killed him. “It’s so incompetent - it’s so hubristic - that it’s hard to get your mind around it,” says @rhodesben.bsky.social. #Velshi
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Ben Rhodes: ‘We’ve now gone from tragedy to farce,’ on failed U.S.-Israeli Iran regime change plot
After killing the Ayatollah and other top officials in the early days of the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, President Trump openly mused about “someone from within” taking over the country. A fantastical report from the New York Times details an Israeli plot to install that “someone” – none other than Iran’s virulent anti-U.S., anti-Israel, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It’s a degree of incompetence that should be really, really alarming to people,” says Ben Rhodes, the former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Brooke A Byers, the granddaughter of CBS founder William S Paley, writes that "CBS is increasingly unrecognizable for this child of network news. But I am particularly saddened by the loss of the CBS News Radio service." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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CBS News Radio ends today. It’s a major loss for the US
The decision by top editor Bari Weiss to end radio service represents another crack in the network that my grandfather, William S Paley, helped build
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 20/05/2026
Colbert just won April ratings at 11:35, averaging 2.81 million viewers and becoming the only network late night show to grow both total viewers and the key 18-49 demo month over month. Tune in Thursday as we say goodbye to a show that has helped keep us sane for the last 10 years.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 19/05/2026
This is the height of corruption. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“I simply know that when the government controls every word that is printed, every idea that is taught in school, history is no longer a record of the past but is a changeable thing, whatever is convenient to the government.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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RatingBook @ratingbook.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Nothing like trillionaires buying up massive chuncks of your sparsely populated, culturally rich counties while making natives feel like serfs kept silent and made to feel POOR. Let's place a second-home tax on those over 20 million AND a private jet tax for those for whom 1st Class isn't enough.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/05/2026
The Trump administration has "sought to assert its dominance against people, businesses and institutions that it viewed as enemies," says reporter Ned Parker, who just won a Pulitzer along with his colleagues at Reuters for documenting the campaign of retribution.
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Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker
A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the camp...
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The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 11/05/2026
In theory, Nevada law enforcement shouldn’t be allowed to fly their drones over your house without a warrant. So why are tens of thousands of flights a year crisscrossing the Las Vegas Valley? Read more: thenevadaindependent.com/article/vega...
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Vegas police are filling the sky with camera-equipped drones. Residents have little input. - The Nevada Independent
Though Nevada law protects homeowners from drone surveillance, Metro's Blue Sky drone program rarely needs a warrant to fly over private property.
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