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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Senegalese basketball player for Kentucky State University was detained on August 7 at an airport while traveling with her team and has been in ICE custody ever since, despite her removal order being rescinded by an immigration judge.
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whalefall hits theaters next Friday!
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wait for it . . .
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lot more pneumococcal ads than I would’ve expected as a 90s kid.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Chase Mitchell @chasemit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well *someone’s* kid clearly lost
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Never forget that Frank Oz believes the stress of dealing with Disney's initial, relentless attempts to buy his creations is what killed Jim Henson. "The Disney deal is probably what killed Jim. It made him sick," he told The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2021...
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Frank Oz on life as Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Yoda: ‘I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me’
He played some of the most memorable characters of all time on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street - then became a brilliant comedy director. What is he most proud of?
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest books
Was a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"?
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I reviewed Chuck Klosterman’s book on American football and couldn’t get past the dishonesty about the nature of the game to even accept his premise of its future www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The best part of any Hollywood memoir is when Cary Grant makes a cameo. #LifeInPieces #SallyField
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026
I may have added a half-star or whoever to LOVE OF MY LIFE for its deft closing credits needle drop of “Seven Wonders.” Hard to articulate how that song and its vibes sails the movie across the finish line, but it does. Plus bonus I’ve been listening to TANGO IN THE NIGHT a lot this week
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
“Why do people hate that I don’t want kids to be killed and starved?” — Ms. Rachel talks to Rolling Stone about the backlash she faced for supporting Palestine, recalling moments when she felt like everyone hated her. (www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...)
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore can sue Robert Kraft for Tortious Interference for economic harm and I hope he does. Discovery would be fun: "Which other stadium owners did you talk to?" and "We need all related emails, text messages and contracts between you and them and you and Sheeran and Sheeran's team."
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sheeran should have told the NFL owners to enjoy their empty stadiums and no concession sales. And also tell his fans that any customer service questions should go to the stadium hotlines.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is so grim. he’s TEN.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You've lost another strait? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Come on. The premise for a reboot of The Muppet Show is so simple: Oceans are now battlefields.
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Conan getting Peter Coyote to voice over a Ken Burns bit about Avengers End Game is why I’ll always love him
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s bananas that RuPaul’s Drag Race 18th season has aired and won Emmys, and is still unavailable on Paramount+
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mensik had a fan heckling him kicked out, funny to hear the entire arena chant "kick him out" #USOpen
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2026
this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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ceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026
I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the Minions covering Katelyn Tarver’s cover of Big Sean’s IDGAF could heal this country. www.instagram.com/reel/DZvZlfy...
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Katelyn Tarver on Instagram: "If you’re not streaming this on spotify/apple/amazon/youtube/etc etc etc then wtf ARE you doing??? No literally, what are you up to tell me in the comments 🫰"
43K likes, 712 comments - katelyntarver on June 18, 2026: "If you’re not streaming this on spotify/apple/amazon/youtube/etc etc etc then wtf ARE you doing??? No literally, what are you up to tell me i...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Boy, @albertburneko.bsky.social really hit this one out of the park. defector.com/what-do-i-do...
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What Do I Do About My Fragile Kid? | Defector
Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at minordilemmas@defector.com. This week, Al...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy smokes an unreal rendition of "I Will Always Love You" by Cynthia Erivo in Vancouver last night to honor Dolly Parton….incredible
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Light the @briancgrubb.bsky.social signal!
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m beginning to think that thinking that most fictional characters are idiots is just a sign of maturity. Nonfiction never was a question.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/08/2026
We did it! “The Nerd Reich” is a New York Times Instant Bestseller! My book debuts at #3 on the non-fiction list. Thanks to all who pre-ordered /bought the book—or requested it at the public library or promoted it on social. Without you, I’m just an unemployed guy with a laptop. But with you…
Image: Nerd Reich book cover, a New York Times Instant Bestseller
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth
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Smokey Cloud @smokeycloud.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The troop leader says you’re meeting your quota, Tim Curry!
Tim Curry as a Wilderness Girl in National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Went to a Mary Poppins themed restaurant last night. Super cauliflower cheese but the lobster was atrocious.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 11/08/2026
Big "We'll move out of New York if they elect the Muslim" loser energy here variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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David Ellison Says He’ll Pull Paramount Out of California Starting Oct. 1 if States Refuse to Negotiate Settlement in Antitrust Suit
David Ellison is prepared to start moving Paramount out of California as soon as Oct. 1 unless the state's attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settlement talks in the antitrust case seeking to bloc...
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ceej @ceej.online · 11/08/2026
lol sounds like axios spiked a story about the DNC’s preferred candidate from WI-03 being abusive to staff because DCCC lawyers got involved? I truly do not recommend knowing someone who is running for congress
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Jared 🗿🇵🇸 @b1gdamage.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is how listening to Depeche Mode feels
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The BabaDuke @supersloth.net · 06/08/2026
Interesting how people who want good things to happen keep winning and people who want things to stay exactly as they are, are mad about it
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 05/08/2026
Out-of-service equipment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly fire that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena in January 2025. What to know www.latimes.com/california/story/20… 
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Edison tower caused deadly Eaton fire that devastated Altadena, long-awaited investigation finds
Out-of-service utility infrastructure managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly conflagration in January 2025 that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena, according to firefighters' official investigation.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New King of the Hill season is good, they should do 24-episode ones again
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
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